America's Missing Cukes!
Plus--Mike Huckakis for President?
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Why did a Republican almost win a special Congressional election in a strongly Democratic Massachusetts district? Kos and Josh Marshall seem baffled. Chris Cilizza has one possible answer [E.A.]:
Ogonowski did gain real traction by casting Tsongas as the de facto incumbent and running as an outsider to the political process. He also found fertile ground by calling for a crackdown on illegal immigration and decrying Tsongas' support for a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants as amnesty.
With that campaign strategy, Ogonowski may have provided Republicans a blueprint to follow in contested races next year.
Somebody tell Mark Penn. ... See also Barone. ... [Thanks to reader S.M.. Partially via The Corner] 10:21 P.M.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
New McClatchy tip sheet? Hard to believe this story isn't a hoax or from The Onion, I agree. [via Insta] 3:23 P.M.
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Yes, It Was All Bill's Fault, Part II: Paul Starr in The American Prospect, chastising those who argue that it Hillary Clinton was behind the White House's political misjudgements in the health care fight of 1994:
According to recurrent accounts -- most recently in Carl Bernstein's shoddily researched biography A Woman in Charge -- it was supposedly Hillary's secretiveness and rigidity that led to fatal decisions about the White House health plan and political strategy. Careful reporting after the failure of the health plan showed these charges were false.
Sally Bedell Smiths new Bill & Hillary book, as summarized by Slate's Juliet Lapidos:
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