Mitt Romney

Super Tuesday Shaking Out

Well, it's gonna be a late night.

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Super Tuesday: Top Guns

All right, I'll be back with more serious stuff later, but this is my fun video take on the Republican match-up. Enjoy. How's your Super Tuesday? Duper enough for ya?

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OPEN THREAD: Talk about Super Tuesday 2008

Call it Super Tuesday, Super Duper Tuesday, Tsunami Tuesday, whatever, today is America's first-ever national primary with the power to finger a front-runner in each party, the result of scheduling 24 state primaries in a single day.

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Earn Our Votes '08: Let's research and report what candidates really say about reproductive health

BlogHer Voter Manifesto

Topic: Health Care
Question: What is your position on requiring all major private, Medicaid, or federal health insurance plans cover birth control?

Read all 12 questions

Some questions won't wait.

As I've reported recently, BlogHer continues to invite presidential candidates to respond to a request by women in this community to answer 12 policy questions we developed in a voter manifesto. Thus far, no candidate has accepted. We'll keep trying.

While our invitation to the candidates remains open, our questions are too important to wait. BlogHer's political team thinks it's time to get answers to our questions whether or not the candidates will accept our invitation. Think of it as a watchdog project, where the majority of voters (women) from all political persuasions (you know you are) work together at a nonpartisan site (BlogHer) to report back how -- and whether -- the candidates are earning our votes by addressing the issues. Together, we can figure out what they're saying on the campaign trail every day.

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McCain and Hillary in Florida

Hillary wins the off-limits Florida primary, and claims victory at a party carried by all the news networks because nothing else was happening at the time she won. Good press for her, and I imagine she'll argue that the delegates in that state and Michigan should be seated for her, as she's hinted at. This is why I wish the candidates had defied the DNC and campaigned, because this end-around business, through which both Obama and Hillary ignore the voters of these states but the delegates are still seated, is the worst of both worlds.

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Spin Doctoring Spirituality - Religious Prejudice and Politics 2008

Politics is making a mess on the religious landscape. The tangling of issues and religion are getting so complex that it takes more than an industrial strength de-tangler to sort them out. The stakes are high in this new political battleground. Rumors are flying, innuendos are being whispered and dirty tricks are being played. All in the name of "faith". Spin doctors have found another piece of turf to pollute, based on the discovery that the religious Christian right (30% of Bush's support system) was largely undecided in this race.

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