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Morning News Roundup: Countdown Edition
Early voting in Florida is just one example of how busy election day will be … voting started Monday in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, and voting officials are already calling for more machines to help ease long lines. “We’ve never had this kind of crowd on the first day,” an election spokesperson told the Miami Herald.
Barack Obama [...]
Morning News Roundup: The Last Gasp Edition
Something kooky could still happen … The second presidential debate airs tonight, and the town-hall style is designed to keep the candidates on their toes. John Dickerson, Slate’s political correspondent,cautions John McCain and Barack Obama to watch out for “Ponytail Guy,” an audience member who scolds the candidates about the tone of the campaign. The [...]
Daily News Round Up: Everybody Is So Cranky In The Morning
On Morning Edition today, John McCain said that he “respectfully disagrees” with factcheck.org over an ad his campaign ran earlier this month about Obama’s “Comprehensive Sex-Ed for Kindergartners” bill. I don’t even know what to say about that.
His campaign also kicked Maureen Dowd off their planes, prompting her to say, “I didn’t think John McCain [...]
Daily News Round-Up: Ice for Your Bloody Mary
Good morning, party people! It’s probably not quite time to tune up the violins, à la the Titanic, but if we haven’t actually hit an economic iceberg, we’re in awfully cold water.
AIG has (seriously, thankfully, even for those of us without any actual “investments” or “money in the bank”) been floated a lifesaver by New [...]
Morning Slop: Daily News Round Up
Lehmen Brothers looks like the latest victim in the mortgage crisis hit-and-run on Wall Street. The venerable firm announced this morning it would be selling pieces of what’s left after an 80 percent share price drop this year (cough *$6.5B* cough) has gutted its liquidity.
It’s mid-week Fashion Week, kids! And, as always, there is [...]
The empire strikes back
Did you catch Countdown last night?
Clear blue skies in New York City today, about the first time we’ve seen the atmosphere in about two weeks, makes it especially easy to see through what many experts have been hawking as “news” lately.
Sen. Barack Obama is still for ending the Iraq war, despite week long statements from [...]
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