Today, Quayle is remembered as a disaster. But, during the campaign, his supporters believed that media skepticism of Quayle had rallied ordinary Americans to his side. Dukakis "looks down on his fellow Americans.
TITLE: "Don't Know Much."
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IT almost seems like a gag worthy of "Borat": A smooth-talking rookie senator with an exotic name passes himself off as the incumbent American president to credulous foreigners.
A week can be a very long time in politics as everyone knows, but at least it gives leaders the chance to neatly backtrack on, or revise what they've previously said.
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Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.
[S]urveys show that increased schooling doesn't correspond to a higher aptitude for civics. To put this bluntly: Americans today are no better informed about politics than their grade-school educated grandparents.
McCain's online campaign urging his supporters to flood newsgroups and websites with pro-McCain and anti-Obama messages has reared its ugly head at Newsvine.
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Fishermen from France and Italy rioting around the EU headquarters in Brussels. They were protesting against EU legislation that forbids national governments to compensate their income losses due to increasingly higher fuel prices by means of VAT relief.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday rejected allegations from a former White House spokesman who says the Bush administration misled the American public into going to war with Iraq.
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While cities are hot spots for global warming, people living in them turn out to be greener than their country cousins.
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Kudos to Mr. Keith Olbermann for compiling the majority of this list. *Updated hourly*
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-By Warner Todd Huston
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What's Up with Those Crazy Superdelegates?
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While 15% of Republican leaning voters would prefer Clinton as the Democratic nominee because they believe that McCain would have better chances to beat her, just 7% would prefer Obama as candidate for the same reason.
This is not a call for her to abandon her campaign, quite the contrary, she is by all means entitled to fight until the last vote is tallied, and one also expects Obama, well resourced and organised, to wage the strongest campaign he can in every state.
Chris Mathews embarrassed an Obama supporter last night by asking him to name Obama's legislative accomplishments–something the supporter couldn't do. All you need to remember is 890 vs. 20.
Hillary Clinton's team thought it was being very clever using some sleeping children in her Red Telephone advert to awaken feelings of insecurity around Barack Obama's inexperience.
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The rising consciousness of change was palpable in Australia yesterday. The queues at the voting office, voters' teeshirts stating `let's save our planet' or `drop cliffs not bombs', made it clear change was in the air.
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1. Net Neutrality (aka Future of the Internet) 2. Halliburton alleged to have sold nuclear secrets to Iran. 3. Oceans of the world in extreme danger 4. Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US 5. High-Tech Genocide in Congo
They've got the gear, but they're just not getting into Web 2.0. A study released Sunday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that while 73% of Americans are online and well over half own a cell phone and a computer, only 8% are deep users of Web 2.0 features.
Economic integration schemes have a powerful impact on growth in developing nations, reports Gerald McDermott, Lazlo Bruszt and Vanesa Sanchez in a paper "International Integration Regimes as Development Programs: A Comparison of EU and NAFTA Accession Processes" for Knowledg …
French president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy plans to waste no time pushing through a weighty package of pro-market, anti-crime reforms — but the first battle is winning a majority in parliament in new elections next month.
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Yes, these are the same servers which hold the FIVE MILLION supposedly "lost" emails.
This time, a more substantial reason to discuss "getting stuck in Iraq" (regrettably, perhaps, for some White House and GOP figures who have been busy the past 24 hours to make that the key topic of the last week before the elections):
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