04.17.2008 12:57 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Democrats vying to be the party’s candidate for Attorney General will meet next week for a debate in Kirksville.
The forum, Thursday at 7p.m.., is being hosted by the Truman State Democrats, and will be on the campus of the…

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04.16.2008 11:29 pm
I admit to taking a bit longer for this than I had hoped (had another story to file).
It’s easy to bag on debates and moderators and formats. That said, I’ve been reading reviews of the showdown between Sens. Hillary…

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04.16.2008 9:04 pm
Last question: How does each candidate convince super delegates that he/she is the one?
Hillary Clinton won this coin flip, and goes first:
“Were going to make everybody feel like they’re part of the American family again.” She is really…

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04.16.2008 8:40 pm
In a moment of seeming straight-forwardness, both are just ticking off what they would do and not running off (at the mouth). It’s clear that the moderators are trying to move this along. Time is ticking.
Hillary Clinton:
- “We will investigate these…

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04.16.2008 8:33 pm
Charlie Gibson just noted that both Sens. Clinton and Obama have been pretty pro-gun control in the past, and yet they’ve backed off that on the campaign trail, saying they support the 2nd Amendment, etc.
Clinton says she understands what…

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04.16.2008 8:21 pm
Charlie Gibson tried to go to commercial break, but both Sens. Clinton and Obama have kept him going.
Clinton and Obama have sparred a little bit over whether each is considering lifting the cap on payroll taxes; Clinton says nope.…

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04.16.2008 8:09 pm
Sen. Hillary Clinton says she will absolutely let the Bush tax cuts lapse. She says she doesn’t believe that will hurt the economy, even if it’s still flailing. And she wants $100 billion in tax cuts for lower-income folks on…

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04.16.2008 7:53 pm
So I’m a bit behind here (got called away to other news). But I’ll be monitoring the rest of the debate between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Right now we’re in a commercial break. I can’t help but think of…

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04.02.2008 12:11 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
When Washington University announced last year that NBC newsman Tim Russert would be the commencement speaker, the school’s paper bemoaned the pick as hackneyed and mundane.
The choice, Student Life editors wrote in 2007, represents “another selection in a disappointing trend”…

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02.23.2008 4:44 am
These will be sparse for a couple weeks, but here’s a quickie:
The biggest political traffic out there in new media land has been post-debate fallout. Friday, too, we learned of the ever tightening nature of the contest between Sens. Barack Obama and…

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