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Tory cuts: will Cameron follow Bloomberg's example in New York?The Tories may be getting into a "New York state of mind", as the song has it. The Cameroon links with the Mayor of that great city, Michael Bloomberg, and his team, are extremely close and his cuts programme to deal with recession is now being looked at closely by members of David Came... |
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GA-Sen: Zell Miller for Chambliss, Bill Clinton for Jim MartinIf you can judge a candidate by the company (s)he keeps, score one for Georgia's Democratic Senate candidate Jim Martin. And note that the latest surrogate for Martin's opponent, incumbent Senator Saxby Chambliss, is a figure possibly even more reviled by national Democrats than Chambliss himself; ... |
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Feeling sorry for Sarah PalinI'M having moments of weakness, almost feeling sorry for Sarah Palin. As some of her allies have made clear, she feels she was badly handled by the McCain campaign. After the careful, secretive preparation for her knock-out speech at the Republican convention went so well, a poor decision was ...... |
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North Dakota back in the gamePublic Affairs Instite for the Fargo Forum. McCain (R) 43 Obama (D) 45 Among voters who rank the economy as their top concern, 49 percent favor Obama, while 38 percent back McCain. The economy was far and away the most important national issue among voters, according to the poll, even though... |
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Volatile MarketsAt first glance you might think this was a graph of the last week or so of the DJIA or perhaps the ups and downs of the housing bubble. In fact it's the McCain-president contract at Intrade over the course of the last month. For most of the summer, there was roughly a twenty point -- o... |
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McCain to WashingtonI'm a 'the show must go on' guy. I didn't like that McCain cancelled the first day of the Republican convention. So I don't see why we can't have a presidential debate even in the midst of this crisis. On the other hand, my preferences aside, there's the politics of McCain's move, which may work ... |


