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It's about time, Charlie!
Obama wins North Carolina
by kos
Thu Nov 06, 2008 at 09:52:18 AM PST
AP has called it, making it Obama 364, McCain 162, with Missouri and a single Nebraska EV still undecided (McCain leads both by the narrowest of margins with provisional and other outstanding ballots still being counted).
Congratulations North Carolina. You look great in Blue.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Democrat Kay Hagan now holds a six-point lead over incumbent Republican Senator Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the Tar Heel State shows Hagan with 52% of the vote and Dole with 46%. Three weeks ago, Hagan held a five-point advantage.
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Greetings from Princeton, NJ, where it's........snowing. -
Lords reject 42-day detention
British Lords Reject Plan to Lengthen Detentions
Published: October 13, 2008
LONDON - After nearly 12 hours of debate over two days, the House of Lords overwhelmingly rejected a Labor Government proposal on Monday evening that would have allowed the authorities to hold terrorism suspects for 42 days without being charged.
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Blood in the water in North Carolina
Republican Sen. Liddy Dole may be a goner, and John McCain is in trouble in a state the GOP hasn't lost since 1976. What happened?
By Mike Madden
Oct. 13, 2008 |
Elizabeth Dole stood on the track at Lowe's Motor Speedway Saturday night, a few minutes before NASCAR's Bank of America 500 got started, and looked up ( Read more... ) -
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McCain pulling out of Michigan
John McCain is pulling out of Michigan, according to two Republicans, a stunning move a month away from Election Day that indicates the difficulty Republicans are having in finding blue states to put in play.
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Marc Raeff dies
Dammit. He was probably the greatest authority on 18th century Russia, and he certainly influenced me, especially his biography of Michael Speransky, the 19th century Russian statesman, and his writings on the Russian imperial bureaucracy and nobility.
Marc Raeff, Russian History Scholar, Dies at 85
Published: September 28, 2008
Marc Raeff, a Russian ( Read more... )
