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Friendly reference
Tweet Share on Facebook March 14, 2006 Comment (1)There's a nice mention of me in David Keene's column in The Hill, and he is kind enough to remember an incident I had forgotten. Keene thinks we may be looking at another 1994 again, with Democrats recapturing control of the House; I think that's possible, but still less likely than not. I'll keep watching for signs that I'm wrong.
In the meantime, thanks, David.
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Economic class-warfare politics
Tweet Share on Facebook March 14, 2006 CommentIn a thoughtful column, E. J. Dionne addresses the claims that rich elitists tend to vote Democratic. It's true, he admits, in the relatively rich states, most of which John Kerry carried in 2004. But, citing and crediting a paper by political scientists, he points out that in relatively poor states, and especially in the South, there is a big divide between high-income voters, who vote heavily Republican, and lower-income voters, who are split, with lower-income blacks voting heavily Democratic and lower-income whites voting Republican but by smaller margins than high-income whites. All true, and a reasonably fair analysis.
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Plamegate
Tweet Share on Facebook March 14, 2006 Comment"Plame's identity, if truly a secret, was thinly veiled," reads the headline on a story by John Crewdson in Saturday's Chicago Tribune.
