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Government and Elections Articles

Article:	Sayonara, Sarah	View Article
Published:	11/7/2008 by Common Dreams	View Comments (1)
Submitted by:	Picka 58 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: And so we bid farewell to Sarah Palin. How I'll miss her daily presence in my life! The mooseburgers, the wolf hunts, the kids named after bays and sports and trees and airplanes and who did not seem to go to school at all, the winks and blinks, the cute Alaska accent, the witch-hunting pastor and those great little flared jackets, especially the gray stripey one. People say she was a dingbat, but that is just sexist.

Article:	Palin Didn't Know Africa Was A Continent, Says Fox News Reporter	View Article
Published:	11/5/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 58 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Now that the 2008 election is over, reporters are spilling all the juciest, and previously off the record, gossip from the campaign trail. Perhaps one of the most astounding and previously unknown tidbits about Sarah Palin has to do with her already dubious grasp of geography. According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, she "didn't understand that Africa was a continent".

Article:	Eagleburger Blisters Palin: "Of Course" She's Not Ready	View Article
Published:	10/31/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 66 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: A former Republican Secretary of State and one of John McCain's most prominent supporters offered a stunningly frank and remarkably bleak assessment of Sarah Palin's capacity to handle the presidency should such a scenario arise. Lawrence Eagleburger, who served as Secretary of State under George H.W. Bush said on Thursday that the Alaska governor is not only unprepared to take over the job on a moment's notice but, even after some time in office, would only amount to an "adequate" commander in

Article:	Drinking the ACORN Kool-Aid: How Cries of Voter Fraud Cover Up GOP Elections Theft	View Article
Published:	10/28/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 69 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: While the Republicans had the distracted media searching for links between Obama and ACORN, RNC operatives were busily completing one of the most massive voter suppression and purging efforts in American history, stealing hundreds of thousands of Democratic votes across the embattled swing states and striving to arrange chaos and endless lines at the voting booths next week.

Article:	"Palin a Whack Job", Top McCain Advisor Says	View Article
Published:	10/28/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 69 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: One of John McCain's advisers recently called his running mate Sarah Palin a "diva" after she went off-script at a rally, and suggested she was looking after her own political future over the current campaign. Now another adviser ups the ante in a conversation with the Politico's Playbook, labeling Palin a "whack job."

Article:	Obama's Redistribution 'Bombshell'	View Article
Published:	10/27/2008 by Washington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 69 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & Taxes

Article Details: Obama says pretty much the opposite of what the McCain camp says he said. Contrary to the spin put on his remarks by McCain economics adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin, he does not express "regret" that the Supreme Court has not been more "radical." Nor does he describe the Court's refusal to take up economic redistribution questions as a "tragedy." He uses the word "tragedy" to refer not to the Supreme Court, but to the civil rights movement:

Article:	GOP Senator Slams McCain Robo Call	View Article
Published:	10/27/2008 by ABC News	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 66 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Embattled Republican Sen. Susan Collins is calling on Sen. John McCain to stop paying for automated phone calls which describe Sen. Barack Obama as having "worked closely" with "domestic terrorist Bill Ayers." "These kind of tactics have no place in Maine politics," said Collins spokesman Kevin Kelley. "Sen. Collins urges the McCain campaign to stop these calls immediately."

Article:	Colorado Secretary of State Sued for Illegal Purge of Voters	View Article
Published:	10/25/2008 by Advancement Project	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 70 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Advancement Project, a national voter protection organization, and others filed a lawsuit on behalf of Colorado Common Cause, Mi Familia Vota, a non-partisan civic engagement campaign, and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) against Colorado Secretary of State, Mike Coffman, to challenge an illegal purges and cancellation practices that apparently have removed between 16,000 and 30,000 voters from Colorado’s rolls.

Article:	Lieberman on Palin: "Thank God She's Not Gonna Have To Be President From Day One"	View Article
Published:	10/25/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 72 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Sen. Joe Lieberman on Friday skirted a question on whether vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is ready from day one to be president, saying "thank God" she won't have to be. Lieberman, who has helped prep the Alaska governor on foreign policy issues, said his pal and GOP presidential nominee, John McCain, is in good health.

Article:	Palin Versus McCain's Other VP Hopefuls	View Article
Published:	10/25/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 72 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: The blame game over John McCain's increasingly bleak presidential fortunes started in earnest this past week, with anonymous campaign insiders leaking sometimes withering indictments of strategy and personnel. Emerging from the circular firing squad is a consistent theme: Sarah Palin's allies appear irritated over the handling of her candidacy while McCain insiders have come to view the Alaska Governor as remarkably self-serving.