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Google sends over some interesting stats on the most searched/watched political content of the cycle:
UPDATE: Barack Obama has corrected the record since this post was originally published. On the Michael Baisden radio show Monday afternoon, the president admitted to misspeaking: “And you know, it’s interesting right now, there was a — I had a conversation with a Hispanic radio outlet, Univision. . . .” the president said. “And I [...]
This morning on TIME.com I have a look at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s fight for his political life in what is sure one of the wackiest races in what has been a weird and wonderful midterm election — certainly the most interesting I have covered. Interestingly, John Ralston, the desert guru of Nevada politics, [...]
My professional conflicts aside, if you haven’t read Newsweek recently, you should pick it up. Transition has, ironically, been good for the magazine. There seems to be more reporting, more interesting takes, a bit more of an excited, carefree attitude. Eve Conant had a great piece last week about Marijuana and the GOP. A couple [...]
So says former Florida Governor Jeb Bush to the WSJ: “The only privilege that I was born with was to be a citizen of the greatest nation in human history,” he tells a breakfast crowd of supporters at the Original Pancake House in Palm Beach Gardens. “What makes America great is that anyone from anywhere [...]
The Republican Party is likely to win a major victory tomorrow. But I’m not sure how big it will be. A cause for uncertainty is the nature of modern polling. Too many polls are done on the cheap, robotically, these days–and, as Michael Blumentual points out here, more than a few of them don’t call [...]
I think Jon Stewart’s final plea for sanity at Saturday’s rally was among, well, the sanest statements of the political year. Keith Olbermann didn’t like it. Message to Keith, in language he should understand: You, sirrrr, have gotten a bit too full of yourself. You’re not a charlatan like Glenn Beck, but you do go on…and [...]
Ted Sorensen, a speechwriter, strategist and adviser to President John F. Kennedy, died yesterday at 82. His nephew, Swampland’s own Adam Sorensen, penned a moving remembrance that is well worth a read.
