MoveRed.org sent out a press release late yesterday afternoon highlighting a video posted to Facebook by the UW’s Young Democrats. The video features members of the YD leadership team, including Max Wagner and Alex Lark, talking in what seems to be a satirical way about race, religion and terrorism.
But in this sensistive media environment, and in […]

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By Will Mari, SeattlePoliticore.org
The youth vote and “Obamamania” seem to be one and the same. 
Young Democrats are fired up about Sen. Barack Obama’s  twin, if somewhat vague, messages of hope and change in a way not seen since Democratic Sen. Eugene McCarthy ran as a populist insurgent in the 1968 presidential election.  
But what about […]

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Sen. John McCain today discussed new tax plans, including a suspension of gas taxes, in a speech strategically delivered on the deadline date for filing tax returns.
He called for Congress to suspend the 18.4 cent federal gas tax and 24.4 cent diesel tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day, when summer travelers feel the pain […]

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It’s not secret that the “youthquake” will be critical to this fall’s presidential election. Democrats have been reaching out aggressively to voters between the ages of 18-30. “Obamamania” is not an accident: the DNC has dialed into the passion and organizational skills of young voters in caucus state after caucus state.
Meanwhile, the GOP seems to […]

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As noted by the P-I’s Joel Connelly (at the very bottom of his column on the Reichert-Burner race), there’s at least one other congressional race in Washington state that might be fairly close this fall:
Democrats hold most offices in Washington, but are hungry for more.
Picking off Reichert is their top priority. By contrast, just one […]

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The hubbub surrounding the upcoming (May 1) release of liberal author Cliff Schecter’s book on John McCain has drudged up, so to speak, his subject’s legendary temper. In this story from the U.S. News and World Report, Liz Hollaron highlights some of recent developments on a front that could hurt McCain in the fall. 
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Democratic Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia has now apologize for comments made early in the week that seemed to disparage Sen. John McCain’s Vietnam War record. According to a story in today’s New York Times.
On Monday, Rockefeller …
… told The Charleston Gazette that Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, could not relate […]

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Want to know what Sen. Barack Obama is up to? If you keep track of his Twitter, you know that he “[t]alked with Communications Workers of America about getting America back to work” and you can follow a link to see his full speech.
What is Twitter, you ask?
Twitter is a service for friends, family, […]

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Oscar Tillman, the head of the Phoenix branch of the NAACP and decades-long leader of Arizona’s black community, says he’s never spoken to or seen Arizona Sen. John McCain.
According to Politico:

John McCain, said Tillman, “has pretty well zero relationship with the African-American community that I know of.”
“I don’t recall him ever attending any function […]

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(image from World magazine)
As ABC News’ Jake Tapper reports, some members of the GOP’s social conservative base are calling for Sen. John McCain to not pick former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney.
Beginning today in a newspaper ad in Prescott, Ariz., where Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., ended his week-long biographical tour, a group of social conservatives has […]

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