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AFSCME's at it again

The New York Sun's Josh Gerstein reports that the pro-Clinton union AFSCME has launched its anti-Obama website at http://dontleavemeout.com. AFSCME has been in the news lately for distributing fliers in Iowa faulting Sen. Barack Obama's health care plan for leaving...

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December 28, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (8)

SEIU, Wouldn’t Want To Be You

More questions are being raised today about the relationship between the presidential campaign of former Sen. John Edwards, D-NC, and a third-party group supposed to completely independent from the campaign. An October 8 e-mail distributed among members of Service Employee...

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December 27, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (9)

Rudy Changes The Subject

Moving on from the subject of his health to yours, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani will launch his first national TV ad tomorrow, an ad featuring TIME Magainze's 2001 Man of the Year discussing terrorism and invoking the Sept....

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December 27, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (8)

Hunting Huckabee

We went out to Osceolo, Iowa, today where Mike Huckabee was hunting pheasant. This Republican race gets curioser and curioser. Watch the WEBCAST STORY HERE... or the World News version HERE...or read our DOT-COM STORY HERE. What do you think...

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December 26, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (6)

'Amnesty' Push Polls Against Huckabee Tonight

The conservative group opposing illegal immigration (and more moderate attempts to solve the problem), Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, is coming to Iowa tonight to spread the word that Rudy Giuliani, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and -- perhaps most important...

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December 26, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (91)

AFSCME, But That Doesn't Mean I'll Tell You

Political Punch has gotten its hands on yet another Iowa mailer being sent by a pro-Clinton union that attacks Obama and makes it look like the attack is coming from Edwards. You can see the mailer HERE. The outside of...

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December 26, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (4)

Mitt Fits

The New Hampshire Union Leader -- the biggest paper in the Granite State, where Mitt Romney and John McCain look to be neck and neck -- endorsed McCain a couple weeks ago. But just in case Romney didn't get the...

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December 26, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (4)

Crunch time

Eight days until the Iowa caucus. Eight candidates (as of now) with plausible paths to the White House. Six of the eight fly to Iowa today -- Clinton, Edwards, Obama, Huckabee, McCain, and Thompson. Second-tier candidates (poll-wise) abound and hope...

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December 26, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (7)

Last-minute Xmas stories -- video

'tis the day before Christmas...all the candidates have gone home... So I sat down and wrote up this GMA poem. * Live from the frozen tundra of Des Moines, a Democratic fact check * And a live report from Council...

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December 24, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (2)

More on That Anti-Romney Iowa TV ad

As we reported on the blog yesterday, a group calling itself American Right to Life Action, is running TV ads against Mitt Romney here in Iowa on the Fox News Channel. In Tuftonboro, N.H., Romney said about the ad, from...

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December 23, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (27)