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March 13, 2009 - 12:38 pm
NEWS FEED: Politico

DNC attacks, elevates Sanford

By Ben Smith

The DNC takes its second pop at South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.

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March 13, 2009 - 05:47 am
NEWS FEED: Politico

Dems tweak GOP on budget

By Politico Staff

DNC launches a 'Party of No" clock counting time since Obama announced his budget.

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February 8, 2009 - 10:03 pm
NEWS FEED: New York Observer

After Daschle, No Obvious Choices for Obama

By Steve Kornacki

In the wake of Tom Daschle's implosion, media speculation on Barack Obama's next nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services has focused mainly on four names. Three of them are (fairly) logical candidates for the job. One is not.

The name that doesn't belong is Howard Dean's. The former DNC chairman remains a beloved figure among his party's grassroots and his background as a physician and as a governor who pursued health care reform in his state would seem to make him a decent HHS selection. Plus, he'd bring an outsize profile to the job, one equal to the massive task - overseeing the administration's efforts to deliver universal health insurance - that will come with the HHS perch.  read more »

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January 21, 2009 - 08:44 pm
NEWS FEED: Red State

Dem Congressman advocates lying about election date

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The Democrats are always accusing Republicans of passing out fliers saying that the date of an election has moved. Of course, there is never any evidence linking these to Republicans, but that doesn’t stop the Democrats.

But here’s a Democrat, new Virginia Congressman Gerry Connelly, actually advocating telling Republicans the wrong date of the special election to fill his spot on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors:

Gerry Connelley is a Tim Kaine Democrat. Kaine, who started as DNC Chair today, endorsed Connelly in the Democratic primary for VA-11, and that is widely attributed in pushing Connelly over the top.

Is this how Virginia Democrats and the DNC run campaigns?

H/T Not Larry Sabato.

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January 21, 2009 - 07:05 pm
NEWS FEED: Red State

Obama Gets His $3,500 Blackberry

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Ambinder points out that Barack Obama will get his fancy-shmancy Blackberry:

President Barack Obama is going to get his blackberry.

On Monday, a government agency that the Obama administration — but that is probably the National Security Agency — added to a standard blackberry a super-encryption package…. and Obama WILL be able to use it … still for routine and personal messages.

It’s not clear whether he yet has the device.

With few exceptions, government Blackberries aren’t designed for encryption that protects messages above the “SECRET” status, so it’s not clear whether Obama is getting something new and special. The exception: the Sectera Edge from General Dynamics, which allows for TOP SECRET voice conversations…

The messages, like other White House communications, will kept from the public for the duration of his presidency, if not longer.

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January 21, 2009 - 05:55 pm
NEWS FEED: Daily Kos

RIP 50-state strategy

By kos

Bowers:

In short, the DNC will be moving away from the long-term, decentralized, fifty-state strategy of Howard Dean's tenure, and toward serving as a short-term, centralized re-election effort for President Obama in 2012.  It will continue the move away from paid media ushered in by Howard Dean, maintain or increase the amount of resource expenditures in most states, and the number of states it targets will be a broader effort than the narrow focus we saw in 2001-2004 (but more narrow than 2005-2008). However, it will return to the traditional role of the DNC as a supplement for the sitting President's re-election campaign, rather than as the long-term, localized institution building operation that is was from 2005-2008.

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January 16, 2009 - 04:00 am
NEWS FEED: Red State

MO-Sen: Rounding Up the Potential Candidates

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Brilliant state roundup. Fronted by Erick. But don’t forget to put the state in the tags or it won’t show up on the state blogs.

Pardon the formatting issues.  I wrote this on my personal WordPress site and it would take too long to fix where the pictures are. Thanks to Caleb for getting this fixed for me.  He is the man.

With the announcement from Missouri’s Senior Senator Kit Bond, there is going to be something that hasn’t happened in Missouri for a very long time: a race for an open Senate seat in Missouri.  This has sparked some major interest, both here in Missouri and nationally as everyone starts to watch the jockeying for who will be the junior Senator.

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Sun, 04/20/2008 - 12:44

Dean to superdelegates: Do as I say, not as I do

By James W. Pindell, Politicker.com Editor

DENVER -- Late last week Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean demanded that undecided superdelegates make up their minds soon on whether to support Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton for president.

His intended message: voters in late states should have the final say in who will become the Democratic presidential nominee and not a group of party insider.

But in truth Dean's message was "do what I say, not as I do".

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