Posted on May 17th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
I’ve been doing a lot of driving in recent weeks, back and forth from the north eastern tip of Maine to the Massachusetts/New Hampshire border, and I have one more trip scheduled for the end of this week. Sadly, I have noticed as I have been logging a lot of miles on my frequent trips [...]
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Filed under: Big Oil, Economic News, Economy, Gas Prices, In The News, Maine, Massachusetts, Pamela Leavey, Recession
Posted on May 13th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
As a wholesale supplier of natural bath and body products to small retailers, I wasn’t at all surprised to read the news this morning that “Retail sales fell for a second straight month in April.”
The Commerce Department said Wednesday that retail sales fell 0.4 percent last month, much worse than the flat reading economists expected. [...]
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Filed under: Consumers, Democrats, Economic News, Economy, In The News, John Kerry, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Recession, Sen. Ted Kennedy, Small Business
Posted on October 21st, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
George Stephanopoulos, ABC’s Chief Washington corespondent, reports from his brand new blog, George’s Bottom Line, that McCain has pulled out of Wisconsin and New Hampshere. The real news in this report is New Hampshire. Last week he was campaigning in New Hampshire. While McCain has not pulled out of Colorado, ad buyers report no new [...]
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Filed under: ABC News, Election '08, General Election, In The News, John McCain '08, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
According to Congress Daily, 9 of 12 targeted Republicans running in the most competitive U.S. Senate races this fall “are either skipping the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., or have not decided whether to attend.”
Among those who will not attend: Ted Stevens of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Bob Schaffer of Colorado.
Six others [...]
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Filed under: Conservatives, Election '08, In The News, John McCain '08, Politics, Presidential Election, RNC, Republicans, Senate, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on January 20th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
If you’re your curious about what it takes to pull off a win as Hillary Clinton did in a heavily contested state like Nevada, go read Zach Exley on the HuffPo. Zach’s got an impressive resume and knows a little about the game. His post provides some insight into Hillary Clinton’s field campaign in Nevada, [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on January 16th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
My first thought on tonight’s debate is that all of our candidates were great. The format being more of a round-table worked very well after the rough and tumble bitter infighting that has plagued our front-runners in recent days.
Barack Obama admitted that he, ““not only in hindsight, but going forward,” regretted that members of his staff had [...]
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Posted on January 10th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Still trying to figure out what happened in New Hampshire? Check out Cenk Uygur (Young Turks) on “The Hillary Effect”:
Tags: Democrats, Election '08, Hillary Clinton '08, In The Blogosphere, In The News, John Kerry, New Hampshire, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Primaries, State & Local Politics
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Posted on January 10th, 2008 by Todd Mitchell
This is getting ridiculous, the idea that voters told pollsters (anonymously) they would vote for Barack Obama, an African-American, for president, only to turn racist once they went into the voting booth (anonymously) and pulled the lever for a white woman instead.
Also known as the “Bradley Effect”, this phenomenon says that white voters will lie [...]
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Posted on January 10th, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
I have a long day ahead of me (it’s a work night) and a lot of things to take care of, today, so let’s just jump in, shall we?
(I do have a lot on my mind, so if you are curious, please feel free to stop by my personal blog I’m Jus’ A Lil’ Dizzy)
Oh, [...]
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Posted on January 10th, 2008 by Walter Brasch
Add pundits, pollsters, and the press to the list of losers in the New Hampshire primary.
They weren’t on the ballot. They didn’t vote. And they didn’t get it right.
For the Democrats, Sen. Barack Obama, fresh from victory in Iowa, was supposed to cruise into a double digit win in the Granite State. Sen. Hillary Clinton, [...]
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