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Monthly Archives: October 2008

The American Quilt

Spent some time at the Durham-Orange Quliters show at American Tobacco in Durham. Pretty amazing show. Walking past the hundreds of works, this one jumped [...]
October 19, 2008 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, Dispatches | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Beat the press

Ran into Joe Killian the other day while attending the wonderful ConvergeSouth conference. Joe was knocked down while interviewing Obama supporters at the Palin rally [...]
October 19, 2008 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, Media, Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Research 2000: Obama still up in NC

The latest look at the NC races from Research 2000 shows Obama with a small lead and Hagan and Perdue up narrowly. Via DailyKos: The [...]
October 19, 2008 | Posted in: 2008 Elections | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Time travel

A friend of mine just got back from Colonial Williamsburg where he witnessed the Virginia House of Burgesses debate independence. “Whats new,” he asked. “We’re [...]
October 14, 2008 | Posted in: Current Events | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

The Smiths say Gobama

In my email this am along with a nice picture of Dean: There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is [...]
October 13, 2008 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, Misc | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Bloodbath

Update: Not talking about the market here. That’s a meltdown — although Thursday has been termed a bloodbath. Original post: I rather hate the term [...]
October 10, 2008 | Posted in: 2008 Elections | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Crisis made easy

If you don’t read The Big Picture you’re missing something. Ordinarily, it’s a great blog for drilling deeper into economic trends. These days, it’s essential [...]
October 9, 2008 | Posted in: Economy | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

NYT: Swing state purging of the rolls appears to be illegal

Here’s a lovely graphic to go with this story about the voter roll purges going on in six swing states. Tens of thousands of eligible [...]
October 9, 2008 | Posted in: 2008 Elections | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink