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One certain forecast in U.S.
poll dispute: more acrimony ahead
Reuters, by Patricia Zengerle
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Posted By:JoniTx, 9/28/2012 5:34:58 PM
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| It has become the new battle cry for Republicans: All the polls showing Mitt Romney trailing by big margins are just wrong because pollsters are interviewing too many Democrats. Surveys showing President Barack Obama leading nationally by 5 to 7 points, and even more in swing states, have come under fire from the Romney campaign and conservatives who accuse polling companies of misjudging their data at best, (Snip) While pollsters say the Republicans are griping because they are losing, the kernel of the conservatives' complaints - that pollsters frequently survey more Democrats than Republicans - is true.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
hammondb3, 9/28/2012 5:54:51 PM (No. 8896928)
NO! They are NOT interviewing too many Democrats. That is the freaking problem. They are pumping up the number of blacks, democrats, Hispanics and college kids to CREATE more Democrats.
It is NOT oversampling of Democrats that is the problem. It is that there are not ENOUGH Democrats to make the pollsters happy, so they take the democrat number and add anywhere from 4 to 12 per cent more.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
AltaD, 9/28/2012 5:57:21 PM (No. 8896936)
The real problem is that there are too many darn polls. We don't need daily polls from multiple mainstream media "news" outlets. And who pays for all these polls?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Starlady, 9/28/2012 6:35:35 PM (No. 8897013)
Polls at this point in the election are taken only to influence behavior. The media wants to depress the opposition day after day so they give up and don't vote. The polls that will mean anything will be just before the election so polling firms can retain their credibility for the next election.
I refuse to believe the polls at this point. I will place my faith on the electorate from 2010 still chomping at the bit to give our dictator the boot. Nothing has changed to make the citizens like Obama any better than they did in 2010.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
nathan92083, 9/28/2012 6:37:13 PM (No. 8897020)
Look, the fact that the (mainstream) media keeps (2nd or 3rd story i have seen this week)reporting on this is very good news. Due to Drudge, Lucianne, Breitbart, and other sources of online media and social media- they are being FORCED to address this issue. Of course they point out the "myth" of what the Conservatives are saying and then try and convince the reader that there is no bias in the polls. They are playing defense on this issue, and that means they are losing.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DaddyO, 9/28/2012 7:21:53 PM (No. 8897083)
Why doesn't Reuters interview president Kerry and ask him how it felt to be elected from all the polling done in 2004.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
curious1, 9/28/2012 7:54:18 PM (No. 8897126)
#5, who cares? If they get out of hand shoot them. Communists are a national threat.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Indee1, 9/28/2012 8:49:42 PM (No. 8897222)
I drove to work today (50 min drive) was checking out the yard signs. There was 1 Obama sign and 28 Mitts signs. I live in northeast Ohio, high democratic area, even the yards with a lot of local dems signs had no Obama signs.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
country boy, 9/29/2012 3:52:33 AM (No. 8897733)
#8, I don't even know where you can get Mitt yard signs. I ordered 4 from Romney's web site over a month ago. Nothing. E-mailed them 5 times. Nothing. Every time they call (2X/week) I complain that I don't have my yard signs. Nothing.
Hopefully that means that Mitt is already over the top, but I'd prefer to get the yard signs that I paid for.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
GMartin, 9/29/2012 12:03:21 PM (No. 8898402)
Reuters' Patricia Zengerle claims the poll bias is "random" and based on "voter registers".
However, except for Gallup, every poll on the RCP average is of LV's, likely voters, not random people or registered voters, but part of a deliberate "model".
And you know what other poll is of Likely Voters: Reuters/Ipsos' own!
They think you are stupid.
That this is the best explanation Reuters can offer proves the polls are unreliable.
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Obama to Press: ´You Guys All
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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An interesting moment from today´s quick Oval Office press availability with President Obama: PRESIDENT OBAMA: Okay. Q Mr. President, why has the red line been crossed --PRESIDENT OBAMA: You guys all have the same question? Q Yes. Q You know that they are -- PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hold on a second, miss. One at a time. What we have right now is an intelligence assessment. And as I said, knowing that potentially chemical weapons have been used inside of Syria doesn’t tell us when they were used, how they were used. Obtaining confirmation and strong evidence, all of those things
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Rock the Vote party starts
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dinner weekend
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The weekend of festivities surrounding the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner got off to a rocking start Thursday, as Neuprofile and FinePoint PR teamed up with Rock the Vote for “The Spin Room” party. A sea of little black dresses and suits and ties packed the swank Heist lounge in downtown Washington at the kickoff to the annual action-packed social event weekend.As a D.J. pumped Britney Spears tunes, the crowd of D.C. movers and shakers sipped jalapeno-infused tequila and sported red, white and blue wristwatches given out as party favors. Rock the Vote staffers could be seen handing out
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Hitler´s food taster tells
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Associated Press, by Staff
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BERLIN— They were feasts of sublime asparagus — laced with fear. And for more than half a century, Margot Woelk kept her secret hidden from the world, even from her husband. Then, a few months after her 95th birthday, she revealed the truth about her wartime role: Adolf Hitler´s food taster. Woelk, then in her mid-twenties, spent two and a half years as one of 15 young women who sampled Hitler´s food to make sure it wasn´t poisoned before it was served to the Nazi leader in his "Wolf´s Lair," the heavily guarded command center
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Obama: ‘Planned Parenthood
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Washington Examiner [DC], by Charlie Spiering
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/26/2013 12:41:16 PM
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During a speech this morning at the Planned Parenthood gala, President Obama vowed he would never allow Republicans to cut taxpayer funds for the abortion provider. “If there’s one thing the past few years have shown is that Planned Parenthood isn’t going anywhere,” Obama said as the crowd cheered. “It’s not going anywhere today, It’s not going anywhere tomorrow.” Obama was wildly received by the audience when he entered the room - the first sitting president to address the nation’s largest abortion provider. “Everybody sit down,” Obama said sheepishly. “You’re making me blush.”
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Flooding reveals: Safe-deposit
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Chicago Tribune, by Lisa Black
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After flooding filled the basement vault of a Northfield bank, William Hielscher arrived to inventory the contents of his mother´s safe-deposit box — one of a few hundred that had been exposed to floodwaters several days earlier. Chase bank employees led him past a security guard, behind a floor-to-ceiling plastic curtain and down some stairs into a humid, rank-smelling room. There, workers wearing disposable gloves gingerly drained dirty water from his safe-deposit box, then photographed the contents under the watchful eye of bank employees. Hielscher, a lawyer, described the ordeal as more emotional than expected as he looked at
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Scarborough Hits Back At Fox
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Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar
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Joe Scarborough is a gun control advocate who considers himself the sane type of conservative — a point he makes clear on a nearly daily basis. Last night, Fox News host Sean Hannity, alongside guest Brent Bozell, spent a segment criticizing Scarborough for both his gun stance and self-professed conservatism. This morning, Scarborough acknowledged the critics in a rather characteristic way. Earlier in the discussion, Scarborough followed up on the scolding he gave Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (N-ND) for her “pathetic” vote against expanded background checks. After getting off air, he recalled with an amused laugh,
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Sir Winston Churchill to be featured
on British banknote in 2016
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United Press International, by Staff
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LONDON- Former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill will be featured on a British banknote set to begin circulation in 2016, the Bank of England said. A portrait of Churchill, adapted from a Dec. 30, 1941, photograph taken by Yousuf Karsh, and his famous declaration "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" will be featured on the five-pound banknote, the BBC reported Friday. Churchill will replace social reformer Elizabeth Fry on the banknote. Bank of England Gov. Sir Mervyn King announced the new banknote from Churchill´s former home of Chartwell, in Westerham, Kent.
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Country legend George Jones dies
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Houston Chronicle, by Andrew Dansby
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/26/2013 10:38:27 AM
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With a quicksilver warble that captured the devastation of bad love George Jones defined country music like no other singer in the 20th century. Jones´ voice was instantly identifiable, a fluid and expressive thing that famously prompted Frank Sinatra to call him "the second best singer in America." Jones lived as hard as the songs he sang, a dedicated drinker and tempestuous partner who was married four times, finally finding redemption and lasting love in his final decades. The Saratoga native - who cut his teeth in Beaumont and cut his earliest singles in Houston - died Friday.
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´Lone wolf´ terrorists get what
they want in global spotlight
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Los Angeles Times, by Carol J. Williams
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If late bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev attacked the Boston Marathon with an aim to draw attention to Muslim suffering in Chechnya, his ancestral homeland, he succeeded. Or if, as alleged by some who knew him, he was angered by U.S. military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, those grievances have been widely aired, analyzed and discussed in every facet. Tsarnaev’s name and that of his younger brother, Dzhokhar, have dominated headlines for more than a week, elevating the young men and whatever political motives they might have had to worldwide notoriety. Counter-terrorism experts warn that intense media attention to the violent acts
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The day Bush’s dog almost got away
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Judy Kurtz
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Being a White House photographer is a tough gig full of long, labor-intensive hours. But an even harder job? Being on “Barney patrol.” Eric Draper, who served as the official chief White House photographer under former President George W. Bush, recalls one time at the then-commander in chief’s Texas ranch when he was put in charge of the presidential pooch by Bush himself. “Barney is Barney. You cannot put a leash on him or tell him what to do,” Draper says of the late Scottish Terrier. “I followed Barney probably about a mile away from the ranch
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Lawmakers to eye welfare records
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Boston Herald, by Chris Cassidy, O’Ryan Johnson*
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The Patrick administration is still keeping the welfare records of the slain marathon bombing mastermind under wraps — after agreeing, under political and public pressure, to release the information only to a House oversight committee where it will remain a secret. Gov. Deval Patrick’s top spokesperson said last night there is an “exception in the law” that allows the welfare records to be shown to state legislators, but that’s where the transparency ends. “The Legislature is not allowed to share it,” said Jesse Mermell, the governor’s director of communications.
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Patrick administration refuses to
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Boston Herald, by Chris Cassidy*
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The Patrick administration clamped down the lid yesterday on Herald requests for details of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s government benefits, citing the dead terror mastermind’s right to privacy. Across the board, state agencies flatly refused to provide information about the taxpayer-funded lifestyle for the 26-year-old man and his brother and accused accomplice Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. On EBT card status or spending, state welfare spokesman Alec Loftus would only say Tamerlan Tsarnaev, his wife and 3-year-old daughter received benefits that ended in 2012. He declined further comment.
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Obama to Largest Abortion
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President Obama ended his address to the largest abortion provider in the U.S., Planned Parenthood, by saying, "God bless you." "As long as we´ve got to fight to make sure women have access to quality, affordable health care, and as long as we´ve got to fight to protect a woman´s right to make her own choices about her own health, I want you to know that you´ve also got a president who´s going to be right there with you, fighting every step of the way," said Obama. "Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you."
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The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage
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Time Magazine, by Jeffrey Kluger
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him. But the brain that was home to his angry mind remains, and in this case that may mean something. Tsarnaev was an amateur boxer who won the New England Golden Gloves competition as recently as 2009 and 2010. That speaks to a young man with a healthy sense
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Now officials claim Boston
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Associated Press & Daily Mail (UK), by Staff
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Two unnamed U.S. officials have told the Associated Press that the surviving suspect in the Boston bombings was unarmed when police captured him hiding inside a boat in a neighborhood back yard. The report contradicts the Boston police department´s own account of Dzhokar Tsarnaev´s capture on Friday - after commissioner Ed Davies described a firefight between him and officers before the terror suspect was captured. The New York Times also said an M4 rifle had been found on the boat - another claim contradicted by the latest revelations. Officers had originally said they had exchanged gunfire
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Bombing Suspect Immediately
Stopped Talking After
Being Read His Miranda Rights
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Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/25/2013 7:46:45 AM
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Since the Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was captured, there’s been quite a debate over his Miranda rights and how to treat him — given that he’s a United States citizen. An Associated Press report out this morning is sure to add fuel to the fire. As soon as he was read his Miranda rights, it says, Tsarnaev stopped talking. The report notes that Tsarnaev was read his rights 16 hours after his interrogation had began. Then, he fell silent: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev immediately stopped talking after a magistrate judge and a representative from the U.S. Attorney’s office entered his
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GOP Pollster Frank Luntz:
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Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell
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Progressive publication Mother Jones has revealed yet another secretly-recorded video of a Republican saying something newsworthy. This time, it’s of GOP pollster and frequent Fox News analyst Frank Luntz remarking that Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and other right-wing talk radio hosts are “problematic” for the Republican Party’s efforts to reach out to other demographics and to fight the polarization of politics. The video was recorded on an iPhone while Luntz delivered a College Republicans-sponsored speech at the University of Pennsylvania earlier this week. Most of his speech reportedly consisted of his thoughts on how words matter — for
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Obama's Hubris Problem
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Politico, by Keith Koffler
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/26/2013 6:20:27 AM
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Tuesday morning, a peculiar announcement trickled out of the White House press office: President Barack Obama would be holding a moment of silence for the victims of the Boston bombings. At the White House. By himself. No press or other intruders allowed. That Obama assumed Americans would want an iconic photo of him privately mourning the victims of the bombings was emblematic of a kind of hubris that has enveloped the president and his White House as the president commences his second term.
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College’s husky dog logo
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Daily Caller, by Robby Soave
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/26/2013 12:21:39 PM
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The new logo for the University of Connecticut’s sports teams is a terrifying husky dog that calls to mind images of sexual assault, says one student. The new logo was unveiled last week, receiving mixed-to-negative reviews from UConn fans who preferred the older, cuter husky dog. But one student went much further, criticizing the new, meaner logo for being a pro-rape symbol. In an open letter to UC President Susan Herbst, self-described feminist student Carolyn Luby wrote that the redesigned team logo will intimidate women and empower rape culture. UConn basketball coach Geno Auriemma said the logo
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Congress, Fearing ´Brain Drain,´
Seeks to Opt Out of Participating
in Obamacare´s Exchanges
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Forbes, by Avik Roy
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/25/2013 1:59:47 PM
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As Obamacare was winding its way through the Senate in 2009, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) slipped in an amendment requiring that members of Congress, and their staff, enroll in Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges. The idea was simple: that if Congress was going to impose Obamacare upon the country, it should have to experience what it is imposing firsthand. But now, word comes that Congress is quietly seeking to rescind that provision of the law, because members fear that staffers who face higher insurance costs will leave the Hill. The news has sparked outrage
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Sins Of The Fourth Estate (Part I)
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Irish Examiner USA, by Alicia Colon
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Posted By: toledo- 4/25/2013 6:33:30 AM
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The one clear thing that came out of last week´s chaotic activity in Boston, Massachusetts is that real reporters were missing. For that matter, they´ve been missing since last year´s attack in Benghazi. From Benghazi, the Gosnell abortion trial, gun control debates, immigration and then the Boston Marathon bombings, television news reporting has become positively painful to watch. The First Amendment to the Constitution grants freedom of the press but this was supposed to endow it with a responsibility to be the people´s watchdog. The modern Fourth Estate represented by the mainstream media has made a mockery of this privilege.
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´GOP´ Pollster Frank Luntz
Denounced Limbaugh, Levin
as ´Problematic´ for GOP Future
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Newsbusters, by Tim Graham
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/25/2013 7:39:06 AM
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The leftists at Mother Jones are brandishing another secret tape. Pollster Frank Luntz, denounced as too conservative by liberals when he turns up on liberal networks, told a group of college students at the University of Pennsylvania this week that Rush Limbaugh and right-wing talk radio are "problematic" for the GOP and that he and Mark Levin were “killing” Marco Rubio for his immigration proposals. Democrats have “got every other source of news on their side. And so that is a lot of what´s driving it. If you take—Marco Rubio´s getting his ass kicked. Who´s
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Bush’s legacy keeps getting worse
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Washington Post, by Eugene Robinson
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/25/2013 10:47:05 PM
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In retrospect, George W. Bush’s legacy doesn’t look as bad as it did when he left office. It looks worse. I join the nation in congratulating Bush on the opening of his presidential library in Dallas. Like many people, I find it much easier to honor, respect and even like the man — now that he’s no longer in the White House. But anyone tempted to get sentimental should remember the actual record of the man who called himself The Decider. Begin with the indelible stain that one of his worst decisions left on our country’s honor: torture.
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