New to politics a year ago, I entered the fray with only a passing familiarity with the candidates various policy proposals.  Despite my indifference and apathy at the time, Barack Obama's commitment to good government policies -- specifically campaign finance reform, government transparency and ethics reform -- drew me into the campaign, and eventually into Democratic politics for good.

Well, once again I'm rooting for the reformer-underdog.  Still, despite the overwhelming weight of New York's establishment machine bearing down on Paul Newell campaign, I'm more convinced than ever that Obama-style bottom-up Change is precisely what NY state so desperately needs.

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Hillary's team is doing a bang up job of "drawing sharper contrasts" in their latest Facthub posting.  Brace yourselves for some devastating news here ladies and gents, in just one single blogposting is contained the lie that will tear victory from Obama's overambitious, inexperienced, formerly-muslim fingertips.