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Bush leaving office more unpopular than Nixon — CNN Deputy Political Director — WASHINGTON DC (CNN) — On the day that President-elect Barack Obama is visiting the White House, a new national poll suggests that the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the most unpopular …
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Gallup: 68% ‘favorable rating’ for Obama — President-elect Barack Obama comes away from Election Day with a 68% “favorable rating,” the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows. That's up from 62% who said they think favorably of him just before the election. The poll numbers were released just moments ago.

Obama and Bush: A Contrast in Popularity
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Eisenstadt the source for Sarah Palin Africa leak... and proud of it. — By now you've all heard the Fox News report last week that “unnamed” former McCain advisers leaked that Sarah Palin was confused about whether Africa was a continent, and which countries were in NAFTA.
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The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XXI: “Correcting The Record” — Just to get back to her looniness. A classic quote from the KTUU interview: … Proven? Where? And where in the MSM did anyone report that Trig was not her biological son? All I did was ask questions - and never received any proof of anything.


Palin reflects on her run — The defeat, the future and the critics are all addressed — Gov. Sarah Palin blames the Bush administration for the failure of the McCain-Palin ticket, thinks people need to move on from the so-called “Troopergate” controversy and has no regrets about state per diem …

Obama Wants Lieberman To Remain In Democratic Caucus — President-elect Barack Obama has informed party officials that he wants Joe Lieberman to continue caucusing with the Democrats in the 111th Congress, Senate aides tell the Huffington Post. — Obama's decision could tie the hands …
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Franken's Odds of Winning Recount May Be Long — or Short — Votes counted in Minnesota's senate race: 2,833,089 — Votes separating Norm Coleman and Al Franken: 221 — Determining a candidate's odds of winning a recount is a function of three parameters.
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Minnesota Ripe for Election Fraud — Minnesota is becoming to 2008 politics what Florida was in 2000 or Washington State in 2006 — a real mess. The outcome will determine whether Democrats get 58 members of the U.S. Senate, giving them an effective filibuster-proof vote on many issues.


Dean Prepares To Step Down As DNC Chair — After four years at the helm of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean is preparing to relinquish his chairmanship. — Dean, who has been serving in the post since 2005, has said in the past that he would serve only one term …
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Dean to Step Down as DNC Chair — Former Vermont governor Howard Dean, who rose to national prominence during a failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, will not seek a second term as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, clearing the way for a loyalist …


As Transfer of Power Begins, Obamas Visit White House — WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, were welcomed at the White House shortly before 2 p.m. Eastern time by the current occupant, President George W. Bush, a man with whom he expressed a sea of differences during the just-ended election campaign.
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MSNBC Extends Keith Olbermann's Contract — Keith Olbermann, the anchor of “Countdown” on MSNBC. (NBC) — Keith Olbermann, the anchor of “Countdown,” will remain at MSNBC through the next presidential election season, the cable news channel announced Monday afternoon.
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CNN RELIABLE SOURCES — Did Media Hype Obama? ; McCain v. Palin — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice-over): The history and the hype. Did some journalists get carried away during Barack Obama's election victory?

Terry McAuliffe officially signals potential Governor's campaign — RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe filed papers Monday necessary to run for governor in Virginia next year. — McAuliffe established his campaign committee, Friends of Terry McAuliffe …
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EXCLUSIVE: Agenda disappears from Obama Web site — Over the weekend President-elect Barack Obama scrubbed Change.gov, his transition Web site, deleting most of what had been a massive agenda copied directly from his campaign Web site. — Gone are the promises on how an Obama administration …

White House to Establish Office of Urban Policy — The intense back-stabbing amongst Democrats for top jobs in the Obama administration assumes there are a fixed number of jobs worth having. But it's looking likely that some extremely choice, even consequential, jobs are going to be created by the new administration.


Why the rich voted for Obama against their own economic interest. — For several years, I've been writing about Bushenfreude, the phenomenon of angry yuppies who've hugely benefited from President Bush's tax cuts funding angry, populist Democratic campaigns.


Obama plans US terror trials to replace Guantanamo — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON - President-elect Obama's advisers are crafting plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and prosecute terrorism suspects in the U.S., a plan that the Bush administration …

Pentagon board says cuts essential — Tells Obama to slash large weapons programs — WASHINGTON - A senior Pentagon advisory group, in a series of bluntly worded briefings, is warning President-elect Barack Obama that the Defense Department's current budget is “not sustainable,” …

Keeping Gates? — I totally understand the anger, hurt and pain now roiling the gay community and our families, especially in California. But it's important to keep our heads. — Tolerant and inclusive Mormons should not be forgotten; the Mormon tradition of church-state separation should not be forgotten either.
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The Polls Show That Reaganism Is Not Dead — Barack Obama won the White House by campaigning against an unpopular incumbent in a time of economic anxiety and lingering foreign policy concerns. He offered voters an upbeat message, praised the nation as a land of opportunity …
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