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Friday, March 21, 2008

The Morning News

posted by on March 21 at 8:30 AM

posted by news intern Chris Kissel

Talks in Cyprus: Leaders on the divided island agree to sit down with each other for the first time in more than a year.

Spying on Spitzer: Justice Department admits to following and eavesdropping on Eliot Spitzer during investigation.

Spying on Obama: State Department admits contractors peeked at Barack Obama’s passport file on three separate occasions.

Pelosi in Tibet: Speaker of the House speaks out against Chinese oppression during visit.

Richardson to endorse Obama: Calls him a “one-in-a-lifetime leader.”

Poll-mania: According to Franklin & Marshall College Poll, one in five Democratic supporters would vote for McCain if their candidate fails to win the party nomination.

Convention woes: Denver low on money, mayor points to protracted nomination battle.

Mystery men
: Investigators can’t figure out the identity of a man charged with stealing the Social Security numbers.

MRSA men: Sixty-five superbug cases at the King County Jail.

Comeuppance
: White Center businessman charged with swindling $600,000 out of 96-year-old Alzheimer’s patient.

Nuclear mess
: Shoddy Hanford cleanup puts state government on the brink of suing the Feds.


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Meanwhile, Rasmussen says that 45% of African Americans would choose McCain over Clinton. Of course, Obama is not doing well among white voters either (36%).

Posted by McCain/Crist '08! | March 21, 2008 8:41 AM
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Posted by McCain/Crist '08! | March 21, 2008 8:42 AM
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Posted by hunh? | March 21, 2008 9:41 AM
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If we could get this thing decided soon, a lot (though not all)of the Democrats angry enough to say that now will probably be wooed back by November. August will likely be too late. A fight that gets dirty drives voter turnout down, and that hurts Democrats a lot more than Republicans. I know there's some sentiment that "the Republicans will fling mud anyway" but we don't need to do their dirty work for them. Flinging mud ourselves, in addition to causing us to lose votes from where the mud sticks, also drives away voters (like me) who are disgusted by the people willing to shovel it. We need to offset what they're doing by standing together. We can't control what the campaigns themselves decide to do, but we can remember to keep the discourse positive ourselves. All of us need to put the anger and resentment and fears already stirred up aside and spend more time talking about why our preferred candidate is awesome, instead of why the other one stinks.

Posted by Beguine | March 21, 2008 9:44 AM

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