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Alright! Here we go again! Ha! Here is the list of songs I looked at to choose songs for the diary: en.wikipedia.org/… Santana, featuring Chad Kroeger, at number 98: Great! In case you did not notice, Santana worked with a few other bands around this...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Sun Oct 29, 2023 at 10:39 AM PDT
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A couple of weeks ago, the disgraced and indicted Donald Trump sat down for an interview on “Meet the Press,” which was recorded on the eve of the United Auto Workers strike against the big ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Sep 26, 2023 at 08:45 AM PDT
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UPDATE: Wednesday, Jul 5, 2023 · 7:02:51 PM +00:00 · Dem Velshi https://open.spotify.com/episode/2CazUip8bK5pAmRZjc53Ed Here is a link to the discussion. It doesn't appear to be able to be played here. I apologize. It's about 12 minutes in. Thank very...
by Dem
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on Tue Jul 04, 2023 at 10:44 AM PDT
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In times of crisis Americans turn to the Democratic Party for leadership. It was true in 1917 and the events that brought us into WWI. It was true in 1932, in the Great Depression, and 1942 as the United States entered WWII. As the Great Recession...
by Keith Newman
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on Fri Jan 20, 2023 at 04:18 AM PST
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Before the midterms, I had never seen a more united front among our democratic coalition. If we had three more Democratic senators, we could have capped Insulin at $35. We even got Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to pass historic legislation. We can do...
by wisliberal
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on Mon Aug 08, 2022 at 04:42 PM PDT
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Steve Schmidt, a longtime Republican campaign operative (and one of the sane ones), just unleashed a bombshell, secrets he has carried for years about McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. I’m not sure what the rules here are about linking to competing...
by mt41w
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on Sun May 08, 2022 at 04:45 PM PDT
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Here is the list of all of the polls listed for 538 since October 17 : . 5 , 6 , 6 , 5 , 7 , 5 , -1 , ...
by Dem
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on Sun Nov 01, 2020 at 08:21 AM PST
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Voter suppression is real and it is awful. Republicans make it as difficult as they possibly can for people to vote. We all know this. However, there is this theory going around that Hillary Clinton lost because there were millions and millions...
by Dem
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on Thu Oct 15, 2020 at 06:01 PM PDT
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Senate Democrats are looking like winners in Arizona, Colorado, Maine, and North Carolina. Their leads are so large at this point that it’s hard to see, absent scandal, how they won’t win. Democrats are also looking good in the next tier of races, tied...
by kos
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on Tue Jun 09, 2020 at 11:01 AM PDT
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There have been a lot of commentators in the past few days comparing the present mess to 1968, when there was rioting in the streets of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, and general unrest over the Vietnam War. Those are valid...
by Dan K
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on Mon Jun 01, 2020 at 12:47 PM PDT
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Forty-eight states and Washington, D.C., have winner-take-all presidential contests. Whoever wins the state gets all of its electoral votes. The exceptions are Maine and Nebraska—both of which apportion an electoral vote to the winner of each of their...
by kos
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on Tue Apr 07, 2020 at 07:15 AM PDT
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This is part three of a ten-part economic essay. I’ll publish one scene (chapter) a day. Scene 2: It’s a Wonderful Life about the state of the US economy on the eve of the coronavirus pandemic was published on Kos on March 17, 2020. Each scene is...
by Kent Moorhead
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on Wed Mar 18, 2020 at 12:11 PM PDT
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Former Obama adviser Jason Furman, former chairman of the council of economic advisers, says the current stock market crash is more like 1929 than 2008. He lays the procedures that given the political will, will mitigate the damage. The current Stock...
by Egberto Willies
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on Fri Mar 13, 2020 at 09:17 AM PDT
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A ticking time bomb was planted in the economy back in 2008. Because the Wall Street perps who caused the 2008 crash designed the response to the crash, the seeds were planted for a repeat performance. Talking heads on the financial networks are trying...
by hankg
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on Wed Mar 11, 2020 at 11:00 AM PDT
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So lets first state the obvious: Donald Trump is a danger to not just America, but modern civilization and general civility as we know it. When I head into the voting booth this November, I will undoubtedly cast a vote for Team Blue. However, an...
by JoeyTwoTone
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on Sun Mar 08, 2020 at 10:22 AM PDT
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Via my Facebook feed and various political sites I read, I’ve keep hearing three things that are definitely true. The first is that if we nominate Joe Biden, we have already handed the election to Trump. The second is that if we nominate Bernie...
by carp
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on Tue Mar 03, 2020 at 01:32 PM PST
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Democrats, working to expand the 2020 presidential map for Democratic candidates, on Tuesday rolled out a new list of targeted states, and there are some big ones on there. In addition to traditional battleground states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,...
by Laura Clawson
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on Tue Feb 25, 2020 at 11:27 AM PST
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I love following the polls. They make you feel like you might be able to see into the future. But they can also be misleading. People here and elsewhere have been trying to use the polls to guess who the 2020 Democratic nominee is. At various points...
by FellowTraveler
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on Wed Dec 04, 2019 at 09:46 PM PST
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It’s now November 2019, a year away from Election Day, a few months away from the Iowa Caucuses. Back in the 2008 cycle, this is how the polls were looking at this point: AP/Ipsos poll Nov 5-7, 2007: Clinton 45%, Obama 22% (Clinton +23%) CNN poll Nov...
by Rob in Vermont
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on Sun Nov 10, 2019 at 12:15 PM PST
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Last week in my inaugural “Reading Camelot” series post I listed the memoirs of Obama administration staff. This week we raise awareness on another book, focusing on a specific aspect of Obama’s Camelot, John Kerry’s tenure as Secretary of State.
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by Swedescott
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on Tue Jul 16, 2019 at 12:55 PM PDT
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