Opinion Columns
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Upstart candidate gives lesson about assumptionsOct 16, 2008 11:00 pm - The candidate spoke rather disparagingly of the qualifications of some of the candidates from the other party. One was dismissed as a store clerk. That was on Wednesday ...
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A view from the streets of a swing stateOct 15, 2008 11:00 pm - UPPER DUBLIN, Pa. - Last April, on the eve of the Pennsylvania primary, voters in this Philadelphia suburb were finding plenty of fault with both Barack Obama and John M...
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Tales from the trail 3 weeks before Election DayOct 12, 2008 11:00 pm - COLUMBIA, Mo. - More than 170 years have passed since Huck Finn floated down the Mississippi River, propelled by Mark Twain's pen. Since then, there have been 37 U.S. pr...
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Next president won't have a honeymoonOct 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The good news for Barack Obama is that the calamities in the financial world may have created an insuperable barrier to John McCain's White House ambitions. The bad news...
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McCain is right to question Obama's tiesOct 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Convicted felon Tony Rezko. Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. And the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It is hard to think of any presidential candidate before Barack ...
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Is this really the best McCain can do?Oct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Time was, the Baltimore Orioles manager was Earl Weaver, an irascible, Napoleonic figure who, when cranky, would shout at an umpire, "Are you going to get any better or ...
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It's not the race but the campaign that bears watching nowOct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - It is impossible at this point to imagine an election campaign without public polling. Polls have become as much a part of the process as fouls are to an NBA basketball ...
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Chicago cop's story reveals heart of departmentOct 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Daily Herald: "Violent crime on the rise in Chicago." ABC 7: "Third Chicago policeman killed since July." With nerve-rattling news headlines like those, who would ever w...
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Debate puts end to battle of the sexesOct 05, 2008 11:00 pm - So this is what they mean by the soft bigotry of low expectations. The long drumbeat that led to the vice presidential debate suggested it would be a matchup between an ...
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Cool, collected scores after costly fumbleOct 05, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Krauthammer's Hail Mary Rule: You get only two per game. John McCain, unfortunately, has already thrown three. The first was his bet on the surge, a deep pa...