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NM-Sen: SUSA has Udall up by 25

post from Daily Kos on 16 May 2008 03:25:05 PM. © Daily Kos

SUSA. 5/12-14. MoE 2.3%

Pearce (R) 36 Udall (D) 60 Wilson (R) 35 Udall (D) 61

The undecideds in this poll are amazing, just 4% agasint Pearce and 3% against Wilson, an remarkably tiny margin six months before an election. Udall's appeal is practically universal:

Udall leads among both men and women, young and old, white and Hispanic, regardless of opponent. 1 in 4 Republicans cross over and vote Democrat; 1 in 10 Democrats cross over to vote Republican.

Udall is unopposed in NM's June 3 primary, while Pearce and Wilson duke it out. SUSA identified a subset of Republican likely voters in this poll. The race is within the margin of error of 4.8%, with Pearce leading 49-46. Again, there's just a 2% undecided. Pearce has gained 12 points since the Republican race was last polled by SUSA six months ago. Wilson has lost 10. Neither has been able to secure outgoing Sen. Domenici's endorsement, and won't before the primary. Pearce is calling himself the only "true conservative" in the race, while Wilson is tryng to pas herself off as a moderate, "common sense" Republican.

Which has brought the Club for Growth into the mix with a $200K ad buy attacking Wilson for supporting S-CHIP.

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So this should be fun. The NM Republicans appear to be on track to nominate the CfG's guy, the extremist who would be weakest against Udall. This one is looking very good for the Dems. Pajama Pete's long Congressional tenure is at an end, and it's looking more and more like Heather Wilson's is, too. Just the icing on the cake.

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Obama Slams Bush/McCain for Political Attack on
Foreign Soil

post from Crooks and Liars on 16 May 2008 03:20:48 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Steve Benen: Yesterday, the president, with not-so-subtle language, suggested to the Israeli Knesset that Barack Democrats are Chamberlain-like appeasers because Obama is willing to talk to Iran (just as Bush?s own Defense Secretary and Secretary of State have recommended). As it turns out, Obama had taken the day off from the campaign trail, but the [...]

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There’s steel in Obama’s response to
The Dividers

post from American Street on 16 May 2008 03:17:00 PM. © American Street

I’ve heard plenty of fear in partisan Democrats all year. Obama can’t outcampaign the best campaigners in the party in the past 30 years. He has. Then it was fear that he had fatal flaws because of people he’d socialized with or prayed with. Turns out those troublesome relationships are nothing more than speedbumps, not [...]

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A no brainer, right

post from TPMCafe on 16 May 2008 03:16:00 PM. © TPMCafe

Demos, a public advocacy organization, reports that the median student loan debt for students graduating from four-year public colleges and universities increased by an incredible 78 percent between 1993 and 2004. In 1993, less than half of college graduates left school in debt; in 2004, that percentage amounted to more than 58 percent. Demos reports that student debt has a long-term effect on household savings and wealth, with students who leave college in debt demonstrating median financial assets that are 28 percent lower than for students who did not graduate with debt. These disturbing numbers don't even tell the whole story--students are increasingly using their credit cards to finance their higher education, relying on their plastic to pay for not only living expenses and books, but also tuition.

The need for greater federal assistance in financing higher education could not be more clear and the government's failure to significantly invest in this area seems to be a symptom of our nation's broader lack of both a real economic competitiveness strategy and a plan to create middle-class financial stability. While higher education is being made increasingly inexpensive and accessible in many parts of the world, we are making it harder and more complicated for students to get a college degree. This one seems like a no-brainer. Why aren't we doing the right thing?

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Cafferty said McCain "has been at odds with his
own party for years" on immigration without noting his reversal on the issue

post from Media Matters for America on 16 May 2008 03:14:28 PM. © Media Matters for America

On the May 15 edition of CNN's The SituationRoom, commentator JackCafferty asserted that Sen. John McCain "has been at odds with his ownparty for years on issues like immigration, campaign finance reform, and globalwarming," without noting that McCain said on January 30 that he would nolonger support his own comprehensive immigration reform bill if it came up fora vote in the Senate. Additionally, McCain has reversed himself on the issue of border security;he now says that "we've got to secure[...]

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Bush Once Again Fails To ‘Jawbone’
King Abdullah At His Horse Ranch Into Increasing Oil Production

post from Think Progress on 16 May 2008 03:11:00 PM. © Think Progress

During the 2000 presidential campaign, President Bush criticized the Clinton administration for high fuel prices and said that as president, he would take a much tougher approach — “jawbone OPEC members to lower the price“:

What I think the president ought to do [when gas prices spike] is he ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say we expect you to open your spigots…And the president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price.

Last January, Bush went to Saudi Arabia to “jawbone” King Abdullah into increasing oil production in an effort to bring rising gas prices down in the United States. But perhaps because the jawboning session occurred in the comforts of the King’s horse ranch, the King declined Bush’s kind request.

Bush was back in Saudi Arabia today meeting with the King to make a second appeal for the oil-rich nation to increase its crude output. But again, instead of jawboning, Bush took the horse farm approach and failed once again:

The White House says Saudi Arabia’s leaders are making clear they see no reason to increase oil production until customers demand it.
President Bush was in the oil-rich country Friday to appeal to King Abdullah for greater production to help halt rising gas prices in the United States. […]
Bush was spending the day with Abdullah at his horse farm outside Riyadh, talking mostly out of public view over three tea services and two meals.

But Bush’s Saudi Arabia junkets are perhaps more symbolic than anything else. In fact, there’s evidence to suggest that even if the King had agreed to increase Saudi Arabia’s oil production, its effect on lowering gas prices in the U.S. would have been minimal to non-existent.

While “[n]obody has cracked the code” to the cause of high gas prices, there are other issues that contribute, such as a weak dollar. But seeing that the King of Saudi Arabia has little control of the dollar’s value, it seems Bush’s visits indicate his continued addiction to oil rather than any adherence to sound policy that helps Americans.

Brad Johnson breaks down other key components to high gas prices over at the Wonk Room.

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The Wire: Great Drama, Bad Message

post from Everyday Citizen on 16 May 2008 03:10:01 PM. © Everyday Citizen

If you didn't watch "The Wire" rent the DVD or watch it on HBO. It just ended its five-year run on[...]

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AFTERNOON INTERLUDE.

Mark Bittman explains what's wrong with what we eat. Along the way, he gives a capsule history of the American diet in the 20th century, compares cows to the atomic bomb, and stacks livestock to the moon. A fascinating lecture, and well worth your time.[...]

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Too Crazy For Fox. Too Crazy For McCain

Strangely enough John McCain is not inviting Michelle Malkin to participate in his weekly blogger calls. I blame a certain video.[...]

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Hilarious Behind-the-Scenes Look at O'Reilly's
Meltdown

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Most people have seen Bill O's rant online... here's a brilliant behind the scenes look. New footage shows O'Reilly's now legendary tantrum in an unbiased, spin-free light. Did he go overboard? Or was his producer at fault? You be the judge. look.

Wonder if CBS will try to pull this one too over copyright infringement.

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