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Joe Solmonese: California Dreaming: Homophobia will not Determine this Election
Here he goes again. With nothing else left in the right wing's tired play book, former presidential aspirant Gary Bauer is hoping you'll believe that Election-year hate-mongering will make a difference in November's contest between pro... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
Know Your Power
Expect to see a lot more of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the coming weeks. Pelosi's first book, Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters , "comes out at the end of this month, allowing the Speaker to hit the book promotion trail... Full Article At Political Wire
Prop 8
Obama explicitly comes out against the proposed California marriage ban. Full text of his letter here. He needs to reiterate this often and hard on the ... Full Article At The Daily Dish
Latino Obama Backers Respond to McCain Ad
L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa, California Rep. Becerra issue statements promoting Obama in response to Spanish-language McCain radio ad. Read them here. Becerra: “Senator ... Full Article At Time - The Page
GOP Rep: Bush "Should Stay Home" During Republican Convention
As the GOP Convention approaches, some in the party are already worrying about how to handle the presence of President Bush at the event, the ... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
Bush Official Who Just Resigned To Aid Obama
Jason Burnett has made a lot of news lately, criticizing the Bush administration for rejecting California's request for a federal waiver that would have allowed the state to enforce greenhouse gas restrictions. Burnett, until recently the associate... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
Frank Rich: Wall-E For President
SO much for a July Fourth week spent in idyllic celebration of our country's birthday. This year's festivities were marked instead by a Debate -- childish, not constitutional -- over who is and isn't patriotic. The fireworks were sparked... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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McCain and Obama Differ on Same-Sex Marriage Initiative
Barack Obama and John McCain are at odds over a California ballot initiative that would amend the state’s ... Full Article At The New York Times - Politics
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McCain taps Bush-Cheney '04 vet to run 'day to day' operations
Steve Schmidt, one of the "rapid responders" at Bush-Cheney '04 headquarters and the manager of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's successful re-Election campaign in ... Full Article At USA Today - On Politics
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Controversial Newsom to Run for Calif. Governor
San Francisco's mayor is considering running for governor of California. The president of the California Voter Foundation discusses Newsome... Full Article At NPR - Election 2008
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Expanded gay rights becomes bigger campaign issue
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has announced his opposition to a November ballot measure that would ban same-sex marriage in ... Full Article At Houston Chronicle - Politics
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Cry If You Want To: Presidents Not Wanted at the Party?
Certain GOP members think it might be best for everyone if Bush just doesn’t go to the GOP Convention. Damn, that’... Full Article At The Moderate Voice
The Freeway Blogger strikes again
Yeah! Who doesn't love the FreewayBlogger ? The innovative guerrilla political activist puts bold statements in front of a captive audience. His latest foray into "messaging" on Global Warming went up over I-80 Eastbound in Berkeley, ... Full Article At Pam's House Blend
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Meet McCain's Tepid Supporters
Washington -- Danielle Wibeto might be John McCain's worst nightmare. A 23-year old pro-life Christian, Wibeto travels around the country promoting a children's book--Justice Loves Babies... Full Article At The New Republic
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McCain’s New Field General Takes Charge
With his announcement Wednesday that former top Bush adviser Steve Schmidt will run his day-to-day campaign operations, Sen. John McCain has given Schmidt “a battlefield promotion to commanding general at a moment when his campaign needed another... Full Article At Washington Wire (Wall Street Journal)
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On This Week , Huffington confronted Hewitt about Ohio State-USC football game comment
During a panel discussion on the June 29 edition of ABC's This Week, Hugh Hewitt claimed that his comment that the upcoming September 13 football game between Ohio State University and the University of Southern ... Full Article At Media Matters for America
Obama Rejects CA Gay Marriage Ban
Obama says he’s opposed to a California ballot measure to ban same-sex marriage. The ... Full Article At Time - The Page
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Gosh, those McCains are just so forgetful!
Whoops! Looks like Good Ol' Reg'lar Guy John McCain has "forgotten" to pay his bills yet again! When you're poor, it can be hard to pay the bills. When you're rich, it's hard to keep track of all the bills that need paying... Full Article At Daily Kos
L.A. Weekly: McCain is 'thinking small' with LGBT demonization strategy
There's an excellent article by Patrick Range McDonald on LA Weekly's LA Daily Blog, " Queer Town: McCain Plays Small Ball in California ." It hits on a lot of what we've been discussing on the Blend regarding the open contempt McCain... Full Article At Pam's House Blend
McCain struggles when asked about the price of gas
Substantively, a story like this one is fairly low on the priority list. Politically, a story like this one can cause a candidate a bit of a headache. John McCain kind of stepped in it the other day, here in ... Full Article At The Carpetbagger Report