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7321 [lbo-talk] waiting for the quantitative to turn into the qualitative -- rank: 1000

Gallup Daily: Obama Not Yet Pulling Away The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update on Democratic voters presidential nomination preferences finds Barack Obama (48%) and Hillary Clinton (46%) still closely matched after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries. <http://www.gallup.com/poll/107176/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Yet-Pulling- Away.aspx>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 9 10:27:26 PDT 2008

7322 [lbo-talk] Moyers to feature union-busters! -- rank: 1000

Bill Moyers Journal to Feature California Nurses Association/ National Nurses Organizing Committee Tonight in Friday, May 9th Episode National Nurses Movement is Leading Proponent for Single-Payer Healthcare Reforms Medicare for All Turning their camera on the fastest-growing union in America and the nation s largest union of RNs Bill Moyers Journal will feature the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee s fight for guaranteed, single-payer healthcare in an epis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 9 10:12:28 PDT 2008

7323 [lbo-talk] so much for the new coalition... -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > quantitative change mutates into a qualitative leap Latest average of the national polls from RCP, vs. McCain: Obama +2.7 Clinton +3.9 Really, what is your evidence for this quantitative leap? I mean more than a feeling?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 9 09:36:20 PDT 2008

7324 [lbo-talk] so much for the new coalition... -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > As always, good summary of issues by Marvin. To this, I'd just add > that if the Obama coalition is -- as somebody wrote recently -- the > "same" as that of Kerry, in the sense that the groups that supported > Kerry appear to have about the same relative weights in Obama's > coalition (something I'm not so sure of, in both positive and negative > ways), the fact is that the absolute numbers are staggeringly > diffe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 9 09:23:58 PDT 2008

7325 [lbo-talk] reading list -- rank: 1000

[a friend who teaches at NYU writes...] So in the front of my office at NYU is a large bin to collect books to send to the victims of the genocide in Darfur. I looked through it today. There are all sorts of things, from murder novels to children's books, etc. Here is a sampling: Killing Time Let's Join In! How Are We To Live? Making A Spectacle Gandhi On Non-Violence Supreme Injustice Roberts' Rules Of Order Death In a Strange Country Martha Stewart's Entertaining At Home I am sure the victi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 9 08:12:17 PDT 2008

7326 [lbo-talk] so much for the new coalition... -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2008, at 9:51 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > To H. Clinton's continuing dismay, the "insurgency" started within > elite circles. Indeed, it was the funds initially provided by those > Dolce wearing, Gulfstream G550 flying 'guerrillas' that made it > possible for Sen. Obama to get his stylish message out to the rank and > file. Millions liked what they saw and heard. That's nice. Mazal Tov > to all who 'hope'. But let's not put the nozzle before the warhead: ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 9 08:00:23 PDT 2008

7327 [lbo-talk] reverse Bradley effect -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/pubs/832/the-race-factor-redux> The Race Factor Redux by Anthony G. Greenwald, professor of psychology, University of Washington and Bethany Albertson, assistant professor of political science, University of WashingtonMay 8, 2008 As this year's primaries and caucuses have progressed, we have been analyzing polling data to see if race still plays a role in American politics. Our research suggests that race is, indeed, still a significant factor in determining el ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 9 06:34:21 PDT 2008

7328 [lbo-talk] more Rep funders go Dem -- rank: 1000

[not the first time this has been reported - via Mike Allen] Bloomberg News, 'Bush Business Donors Shunning McCain for Democratic Candidates,' By Jonathan D. Salant: 'Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, is struggling to attract money from some of the same industries that helped bankroll President George W. Bush's record-setting fundraising. Employees from the securities, construction, pharmaceutical and energy industries, who accounted for about a tenth of Bush's money ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 9 05:01:02 PDT 2008

7329 [lbo-talk] taxation on labour or capital? -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2008, at 12:33 AM, Bill Bartlett wrote: > So you concede that the logic does hold, to the extent that wages are > reduced by competition to the minimum necessary cost of > (re)production of labour? That "necessary cost" is rather plastic. In the U.S. and Australia, it includes pretty good food and housing, not bugs and mud huts. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 9 04:58:20 PDT 2008

7330 [lbo-talk] Coates on music -- rank: 1000

On May 8, 2008, at 7:29 PM, shag wrote: > ISTR, Doug, that you read Lawrence Otis Graham's _Our Kind of People_. Not yet. It's on the list. I'm now reading 740 Park - rich people/ real estate porn! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 8 18:11:23 PDT 2008

7331 [lbo-talk] Adolph responds -- rank: 1000

On May 8, 2008, at 5:29 PM, shag wrote: > civil society conservatism is what it is. Speaking of which, one more piece, posted without comment, from the current Nation. Oh, ok, I can't resist a comment: since when does a board stuffed with people from BP, UBS, and Sidley Austin give you street cred? The elite liberalism of The Nation's Progressive Era roots are showing. Doug ---- The Nation May 19, 2008 <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080519/berman> Obama Under the Weather by ARI B ...

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Date:	Thu May 8 14:42:32 PDT 2008

7332 [lbo-talk] Adolph responds -- rank: 1000

[here's what Adolph Reed writes in reaction to Michael Pollak's claim that he was exaggerating.] I'm basing it partly on the speech he gave in Houston a few months ago, where he went on -- to a black audience -- about how "we" need to stop feeding our kids Popeye's chicken for breakfast, be better parents, etc etc. He's made less flamboyant versions of that move repeatedly, including in his 2004 Dem Convention speech. I suspect the defensive response is something like well it's t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 8 14:05:13 PDT 2008

7333 [lbo-talk] Coates on music -- rank: 1000

[Radiohead!!] <http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1093705,00.html> Aug. 14, 2005 Black Guy, White Music By Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates In the spring of 2004, I quit hip-hop. It wasn't the first time. Our relationship was stormy from the start. Hip-hop was my first literature, and it was Rakim, not Fitzgerald, who first made me consider writing. Still, all that macho blathering was a weird match for me, a kid with the self-esteem of an earthworm. So every few years, I'd bemoan the stat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 8 14:03:21 PDT 2008

7334 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed's latest -- rank: 1000

On May 8, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Cousin Pookie likes this shtick more than anyone else. It's not a > class > divide in the black community. Listen to the Ta-Nehisi interview. Actually, Cousin Pookie would be the one to ask about this, not Ta- Nehisi, except that Cousin Pookie doesn't exist, esp in Obama's family. This is what Adolph told me for quoting in the LBO piece: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Obama.html> > Obama already when he talks "bla ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 8 13:54:02 PDT 2008

7335 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed's latest -- rank: 1000

On May 8, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: >> If he becomes president, let's reconvene in 2 years for an "I told >> you >> so moment." > > What will that consist of, exactly? Specifically this part of your previous post, which you didn't quote: that the Cousin Pookie ploy was meant to promote "...his ability to pass stru[c]tural programs to help the ghetto." That's the part that is not going to happen. And you know that, so why say it? > Y ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 8 13:38:30 PDT 2008