1992
Posted at 10:39am on Jun. 10, 2008 Deja Vu All Over Again
By streiff
I'm not a doom and gloomer like some of my colleagues. At this point I have more faith in reading the entrails of a goat than I do either on polls or Intrade futures. But I am very worried.
I'm worried for two reasons. First, I don't believe a lot of people are taking Obama seriously -- they think we have dodged the bullet now that Hillary Clinton no longer actively campaigning. Secondly, I've seen this before.
I haven't technically slipped into geezerhood but I've been around, as an adult, for a while. My first presidential vote was for Jimmy Carter. But this isn't about my bad judgment as a college student. This is about 1992.
Read on.
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Posted at 10:36am on Dec. 10, 2007 Thoughts on the year 1992
By Neil Stevens
This won't be the usual kind of in-depth diary that I'm accustomed to writing, but I need to get this off my chest, I apologize in advance.
I think most of us know about the latest Huckabaloo: Someone (possibly associated with the Romney campaign) dug up a questionnaire Mike Huckabee filled out for a Senate run in 1992, in which he expressed support for a quarantine of AIDS patients. This is supposed to be a big deal because of a couple of points:
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