Tag: vote
group name: progresspolitics
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August 09, 2007 12:43 AM EDT --
Needless to say Election 2008 is fast approaching... Many of my fellow Gatherites know that I am on the Ron Paul for President bus, but I am having a bit of trouble digesting this latest nugget of.... . . .
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February 10, 2008 08:28 PM EST --
After yesterday no one knows better than I how powerful a party delegate is when it comes to the final selection of a candidate. There are a series of caucuses that lead up to the Democratic Party's . . .
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April 10, 2009 11:05 AM EDT --
I posted last week on some dirty tricks that the repugs played in the local election. These elections are supposed to be "non-partisan", but the repugs go out of their . . .
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August 30, 2009 07:55 PM EDT --
This weekend, there was a lot to cause me to reflect on our (society’s) view of government and politicians.
I grew up in a different world, were government was very, very important in people’s . . .
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October 29, 2008 02:19 PM EDT --
I admit, that title doesn't seem to make sense, but hear me out. Like many Americans, I am displeased with both alternatives in the presidential election (and in my local congressional race . . .
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September 28, 2007 08:06 PM EDT --
Last night there was yet another Presidential debate.
PBS sponsored a Republican Presidential Primary debate hosted by Tavis Smiley (Black Entertainment Television host and . . .
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December 08, 2007 07:14 PM EST --
Hillary Clinton US Senate
There is a lot of talk about candidates running on their records, and then their votes are sometimes mentioned.
Here is another part of the . . .
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April 21, 2008 11:01 PM EDT --
Gather readers, I guarantee you that you will not find an anti-Obama nut who is nuttier than Loren Davis. Let me introduce you.
Loren Davis has gotten some attention for being the source cited, . . .
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September 09, 2008 10:01 PM EDT --
I am not Sarah Palin - for which I thank ALL the Gods - but I am a pretty ferocious campaigner for what I believe is right and good in this life and Senators Obama and Biden fall into that category . . .
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June 09, 2008 11:25 AM EDT --
Back in April, when McCain finally released his 2006 tax reports, he also came clean about receiving a tax free "pension" from the Navy. Now, when most people hear the word "pension", . . .
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January 30, 2008 04:16 PM EST --
If I were looking for Gather points I might have posted this question in a more controversial way, but I am beginning to think that somebody needs to tell society-at-large what we women REALLY want. . . .
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August 06, 2008 01:21 AM EDT --
If you didn't see the Paris Hilton ad , you've got to see it!
Specially her part about the "old white dude". This clip comes from MSNBC.
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October 29, 2008 11:01 PM EDT --
My darling daughter called just before Obama's half hour infomercial.
"I hope he says everything right..." she almost whispered as her voice trailed off.
"Of course, he . . .
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September 04, 2009 10:29 PM EDT --
For a long time until about the end of the Vietnam War, this country had a draft. As a teenager required to register for the draft by law. You could be pulled into the Army at anytime with no legal . . .
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June 13, 2008 04:37 PM EDT --
Whether you agreed with him or not, it will be hard not to remember Tim Russert. Today in the middle of recording a segment in the job he loved the most. Russert was in what is known as a tracking . . .
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October 26, 2008 05:31 PM EDT --
Perhaps I admire Senator Obama because I am so unlike him in so many ways. First of all, I am a white girl who grew up in New England thinking Italian and Jewish people were practically another . . .
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October 30, 2008 02:37 PM EDT --
If there is any lesson that we have been taught over the last eight years, it's that the people need to be prepared to confront their leaders when they engage in corrupt abuse of power. For that . . .
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September 05, 2009 10:51 PM EDT --
As some of you know, I have written a couple of light posts about what goes on in small town and rural area coffee shops. But it’s important for people to know the dark side of this too.
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April 21, 2008 01:01 PM EDT --
This quiz is in the Chicago Tribune :
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-obama-quiz,0,6847264,post.triviaquiz
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May 31, 2008 06:54 PM EDT --
Between the words of Reverend Wright(which I think he was well within his boundaries to say) and the rantings of Father Pfleger(who shows mysogny at its worst, but most clear). Senator Obama has made . . .
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