Notes in the margin

CNN.com recently published the article, Want to work for Obama? Get ready to spill all. In a sidebar, they also posted a PDF of the questionnaire the transition team is sending to every Cabinet and “other high-ranking positions”.
The PDF is an optical scan of a printed questionnaire. Other than being posted on the CNN site [...]

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BLDGBLOG: Minor Landscapes and the Geography of American Political Campaigns

“Press This”/Block Quotes are a kind of blogging cop out, but I’m busy with work stuffs right now. Laura K forwarded this to me last night, it is well worth the read.

I simply want to point out that political campaigning in the United States seems almost deliberately to take place in a landscape that no [...]

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4.0%

Four point ‘oh’ percent.

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It’s getting hot in here

Democratic criticism, conservative Republican opposition, quotes I’d rather not be reading right now.
“I understand speed is important, but I’m far more interested in whether or not we get this right.” — Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.
“I believe if the credit markets are not functioning, that jobs will be lost, that our credit rate will rise, [...]

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3.2%

Three point two percent

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