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Via my good friend Jim Vicevich, let’s see if we can hear the dog whistle in this clip from ABC’s election coverage. George Stephanopoulos runs through the generic ballot numbers in the final WaPo/ABC poll and sees a nine-point flip from registered to likely voters, for a final 4-point Republican lead. Diane Sawyer then suggests how easily that, er, some folks could change the elections: “A few busloads of people can change a Congressional elections.” Check out the video here.

It's a good bet right now that Barack Obama will be a one-term president. The enthusiasm that once shielded this hyphenated American has dissipated. His supporters, although still numerous, have discovered that he lacks Bill Clinton's centrist instincts, and even his charm. The anti-Bush mania that swept the country from 2006-09 finally burned itself out. It's always possible that the Republicans will nominate a dud. That has happened so often that it should even be considered likely. Not since 1980 has there been an outstanding GOP candidate. But at this stage it's too difficult to predict the 2012 nominee, so...

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Day denies evading condolences over AIDS rumour CTV.ca News Staff The Conservative Party's foreign affairs critic, Stockwell Day, is denying accusations that he refused to send condolences for Arafat's death because of rumours that the former Palestinian leader died of AIDS. "Some of you have asked why I have not released a statement of condolence or sympathy," Day said in an e-mail to party colleagues obtained by The Canadian Press. "As you know, there are two sides to the Arafat story. You pick." The e-mail attached an article by conservative commentator David Frum in Frontpage Magazine that looks at Arafat's...

I'm going to start with a communication of support of this young Marine, to the Commandant of the Marine Corps himself. Then, President Bush and my Senator/Congressman.They are going to hear from me and I have all friggin day to do it. I am so livid about this that words cannot describe. As a former Marine myself, this young "Leather" was doing what he was trained to do, adapting to unreasonable circumstances (enemy tricks) and he did exactly what I would have done and what has always been done with a fanatical enemy. If authorities hang this Marine out to...

What a sad day! Poor Dan Rather, ancient news reader, victimized by a false "source."This is a time for all true Americans to band together to make sure that Dan does not again fall prey to the vicious kind of siurce who offers false, forged documents designed to destroy Rather's reputation as an old, biased, mediocre news reader for a failing "news" department on a traditional ultra-left wing, non-cable, program. Rather, drooling down the front of his shirt, was duped by an evildoer who preyed on Rather's ultra-left wing bises and hatred of Bush and all things non-socialist. We must...