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The new blog
The Seattle Times has a new political blog. Politics Northwest will be written by the Times political team.I hope you all will become regular readers and commenters and help maintain the (mostly) civil tone we've had here. This is the last thing I'll...
5 views | aggregated: 9 weeks 11 hours ago
topics: political, politics
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Please stay tuned
I have stepped away from the blog as I figure out what I'll be doing in my final weeks at the Times. I hope by Tuesday I'll be able to tell you what the future is for the Times political blog. There'll be some changes, for sure. But I'm confident the...
5 views | aggregated: 10 weeks 3 days ago
topics: political, politics
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The McCain speech
What did you think about John McCain's speech? It seems that the talk last week about whether McCain would do as well as Obama pretty much morphed by tonight into comparisons between tonight's speech and the one delivered last night by running mate S...
5 views | aggregated: 10 weeks 6 days ago
topics: obama, republican
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Palin sets high bar for McCain
Watching Sarah Palin on TV last night it sure seemed like she had won over the Republican faithful. And this morning the AP reports that she has done in five days what John McCain has never been able to do fire up the Republican Party's conservat...
4 views | aggregated: 11 weeks 11 hours ago
topics: conservative, republican
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McKenna: Rossi needs McCain to win here
Attorney General Rob McKenna is in St. Paul for the Republican National Convention. According to Bryan Bissell at politickerwa, McKenna told delegates that for gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi to win this November, John McCain and Sarah Palin need ...
5 views | aggregated: 11 weeks 1 day ago
topics: attorney-general, candidate, republican, republicans
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Songs to save the farm
The top-two primary last month was only the latest election initiative from the Washington State Grange. The old blanket primary was the group's work, too. That was in 1934 when the agricultural group teamed with organized labor to push through an in...
1 views | aggregated: 11 weeks 1 day ago
topics: election, primary
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America gettting close-up view of Alaska politics
There is a lot of chatter in the trans-continental Internet Tubes this morning about the Alaskan Independence Party and what role Gov. Sarah Palin has played with the group. The party is described as an Alaskan secessionist movement and sure comes of...
10 views | aggregated: 11 weeks 2 days ago
topics: government, politics
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Gustav hits as far north as St. Paul
The Republican National Convention will open as scheduled today. But it appears it'll be a far different sort of convention than originally planned. From Politico:Convention planners said for the first time that they expect McCain to accept the nomin...
7 views | aggregated: 11 weeks 3 days ago
topics: nomination, obama, republican
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The Obama speech
There will be much written tonight, tomorrow and in a long time to come about the speech Barack Obama just delivered in Denver. He delivered the speech flawlessly, and it was as tough as it was specific. What did you think, though? Did Obama make a b...
5 views | aggregated: 11 weeks 6 days ago
topics: clinton, obama, republicans
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Rossi makes play for Obama supporters
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi will air TV commercials tonight specially produced to appeal to viewers of Democrat Barack Obama's acceptance of his party's presidential nomination. In the 30 second spot, which will run only tonight, Ro...
15 views | aggregated: 12 weeks 3 hours ago
topics: campaign, candidate, christine-gregoire, democrat, democrats
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