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7051 [lbo-talk] Polls -- rank: 1000

On Nov 11, 2008, at 8:35 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > 'm too lazy to figure this out myself, but I heard something to the > effect that the overall turnout this time was no big deal, just that > there > were more Dems but fewer Repubs. <http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/election_turnout_08.pdf > Much-hyped Turnout Record Fails to Materialize Convenience Voting Fails to Boost Balloting Contact: Curtis Gans, 202-885-6295, 703-304-1283, 540-822-5292, gans at america ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 17:53:09 PST 2008

7052 [lbo-talk] Grover the archivist -- rank: 1000

<http://atr.org/content/html/2008/nov/111008pr-changegov_missingpolicydetails.html > Obama's Change.gov "Agenda" Section Stripped of Details As of 4:00 PM today, Change.gov website is missing policy details WASHINGTON, D.C. Today Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) noted that the policy details for President-elect Barack Obama's agenda are now missing from the Change.gov website. Last week, Obama's policy proposals were available to the public on an assortment of issues but as ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 12:35:17 PST 2008

7053 [lbo-talk] Krugman on why the stimulus should be $600bn minimum -- rank: 1000

On Nov 11, 2008, at 3:25 PM, John Thornton wrote: > I have long suspected that this hard to pin down rate is the > "natural" rate since it is of course "unnatural" for labor to make > demands of capital. > At least as far as capitalists are concerned. Or, as Keynes said of the "natural" rate of interest, it's the one that preserves the status quo, "and we have no predominant interest in the status quo as such." Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 12:32:39 PST 2008

7054 [lbo-talk] strange bedfellows -- rank: 1000

[from The Note - will someone ask Andy Stern what he hopes to gain by associating with this gang?] Pressure to move, on healthcare: "Four leading advocacy groups representing business, labor and retirees are starting a campaign today to press Barack Obama to enact comprehensive healthcare reform, upping the pressure on the president-elect to tackle the issue quickly after he takes office," Noam M. Levey reports in the Los Angeles Times. "In a letter to Obama, the Business Ro ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 12:28:13 PST 2008

7055 [lbo-talk] Teixeira on the election -- rank: 1000

<http://takingnote.tcf.org/2008/11/digging-into-th.html> Digging into the 2008 Exit Polls by Ruy Teixeira The 2008 exit polls are full of fascinating data and I'll be delving into them for months to come (especially once the NEP archives the data and I can conduct my own analyses on the raw data). But even a basic analysis of the publicly available data yields some very interesting findings, which I outline below. 1. First, a few words on how well the Democrats did with the white wor ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 12:23:47 PST 2008

7056 [lbo-talk] Joe the Bomber -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen] AMNESTY FOR LIEBERMAN, as Politico's Glenn Thrush calls it in today's 'Huddle.' President-elect Obama is warning Democrats against 'grudges' against Sen. Joseph Lieberman, who caucuses with Ds but campaigned for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Many on Capitol Hill had assumed he would be kicked out of the caucus Whether or not he'll keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee is another matter.

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 12:09:01 PST 2008

7057 [lbo-talk] legitimation triumph! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/november_2008/number_of_black_voters_who_view_society_fair_and_decent_nearly_doubles_after_election > or <http://tinyurl.com/5jt62m> Number of Black Voters Who View Society Fair and Decent Nearly Doubles After Election Day Two days after Barack Obama became the first African-American to be voted into the White House, the percentage of black voters who view American society as fair and decent jumped 18 po ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 12:06:58 PST 2008

7058 [lbo-talk] Goldman: underwrite, then short -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - November 11, 2008 <http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-goldman11-2008nov11,0,4172569,full.story > Goldman Sachs urged bets against California bonds it helped sell The Wall Street titan's activities could have harmed taxpayers, officials say. By Sharona Coutts, Marc Lifsher and Michael A. Hiltzik Goldman, Sachs & Co. urged some of its big clients to place investment bets against California bonds this year despite having collected millions of dollars in fees to h ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 12:02:40 PST 2008

7059 [lbo-talk] Southern wad, shot -- rank: 1000

On Nov 11, 2008, at 123 PM, Shane Taylor wrote > I posted the Times piece because it seems to be more data in favor > of Thomas Schaller's larger argument (Doug interviewed him a while > back). I don't think this guarantees party dominance. I simply think > it suggests that a long-running strategy for winning has run out. Share of white vote for McCain Alabama 88% Mississippi 88% Louisiana 84% Georgia 76% South Carolina 73% Texas 73% Oklahoma 71% Arkansas 68% North Carolina 64% Tenne ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 11:53:35 PST 2008

7060 [lbo-talk] Krugman on why the stimulus should be $600bn minimum -- rank: 1000

On Nov 11, 2008, at 1:23 PM, John Thornton wrote: > While I do like Krugman I hate the "natural" rate of employment. Nothing "natural" about it. But there probably is some rate - hard to name exactly - that divides the situation where labor has the upper hand from where capital does. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 11:42:24 PST 2008

7061 [lbo-talk] Best and Brightest? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 11, 2008, at 1:09 PM, John S Costello wrote: > Why would Hillary Clinton, who is a Senator, want to accept an > ambassadorship to some hellhole, or indeed any Cabinet-level position > that might be deemed a demotion? She could stay a Senator, even run > for a Senate leadership position -- that's a perfectly powerful and > visible job right there Yup. She can get re-elected in NYS as long as she wants to. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 11:38:51 PST 2008

7062 [lbo-talk] Liza Featherstone: can green consumerism survive the slump? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/after-fad/2008/11/11/organic-panic> Organic Panic How green consumerism will survive the recession. By Liza Featherstone Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 1:46pm Not long ago, it seemed every entrepreneur was hawking an earth- friendly product, each more indulgently costly than the last: $99 hemp yoga pants; coffee that, we were assured, harmed no birds in its production; and pesticide-free milk from local cows, $5 a quart but, as my breathless com ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 11:34:00 PST 2008

7063 [lbo-talk] is Villaraigosa a hack? -- rank: 1000

[LA'nos - is he this bad?] <http://gawker.com/5082448/dont-let-this-man-advise-obama> ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA, POLITICS, CALIFORNIA, SCANDAL, SEX, AFFAIRS... Don't Let This Man Advise Obama Antonio Villaraigosa, the first Latino Mayor of Los Angeles, is a Democratic party darling. Lots of observers think he has a nice career ahead of him in California state politics or maybe even national office. He shows up on TV a lot, delivered the Spanish-language response to the 2006 State of the Uni ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 10 18:27:38 PST 2008

7064 [lbo-talk] Salt -- rank: 1000

On Nov 10, 2008, at 7:49 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > A friend in Ann Arbor found a book published in the 1790s, a poem in > well writtten hexameters, that gave the history of the world in > terms of > shitting. (E.g. the early Romans ate rough food and scattered huge > hard > turds around Rome, which scared invaders away. And there's the tremendous little book by Dominique Laporte called The History of Shit. <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3835 ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 10 17:52:19 PST 2008

7065 [lbo-talk] Indonesia executes Bali bombers -- rank: 1000

On Nov 10, 2008, at 4:54 PM, uvj at vsnl.com wrote: > Sunday, November 09, 2008 > > Indonesia executes Bali bombers > http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2008/11/200811934148895961.html No kidding. Don't you think we've heard this elsewhere?

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