Posts Tagged ‘new-hampshire’
Within one day after President Obama was sworn in for his second term, Harry Reid was putting in motion the vote to eliminate most filibusters. Here is the list of the Senators that think this is such a good idea they chose to co-sponsor it: Sen Baldwin, Tammy [WI] – 1/22/2013 Sen Begich, Mark [AK] [...]
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February 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment
Just got the numbers for the Medicaid add-on from the stimulus package. I don’t deal with Medicaid directly, but it indirectly affects what I do in a large way. As such, I was interested in the numbers. However, the bigger picture bugged me more than the dollars I was assigned to look at. In essence, [...]
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Posted in Entitlement Programs, Ethics, Health Care Debate, National Politics, Politics | 1 Comment »
January 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment
Dennis Kucinich, who came in pretty much dead last with less than 2% of the vote in New Hampshire, is demanding a recount. Kucinich alluded to online reports alleging disparities around the state between hand-counted ballots, which tended to favor Sen. Barack Obama, and machine-counted ones that tended to favor Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. He [...]
Tags: clinton, Conspiracy Theories, kucinich, new-hampshire, obama, paul, recount, The Media
Posted in Conspiracy Theories, The Media | 1 Comment »
Lost in the debates last night, as well as the sports all over the networks, is the fact there was yet another caucus. Mitt Romney won Wyoming. This barely merited a blurb on Fox and not much more than that anywhere else. Unlike Iowa, this one wasn’t close. Romney got 67% of the vote, Thompson [...]
Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, caucus, ed-muskie, estes-kefauver, hunter, new-hampshire, paul-tsongas, romney, thompson, wyoming
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A lot is being made of the Iowa and New Hampshire caucuses. Now we’re facing “crunch time“. Let’s look at a little history, shall we? Here’s Iowa’s history of caucus voting: Democrats January 19, 2004 – John Kerry (38%), John Edwards (32%), Howard Dean (18%), Richard Gephardt (11%) and Dennis Kucinich (1%) January 24, 2000 [...]
Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, iowa, new-hampshire, primary
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race | 14 Comments »