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From The Archives -- Candidate Speech Series: Mike Gravel

[ Posted Wednesday, June 8th, 2011 – 12:00 UTC ]

[Program Note: While I'm on vacation, I thought it would be fun to jump back about four years here. Because the 2012 presidential campaign is not going to be very interesting on the Democratic side, we're going to take a look back at when it was a real race, last time around. For [...]

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From The Archives -- Candidate Speech Series: Dennis Kucinich

[ Posted Tuesday, June 7th, 2011 – 12:00 UTC ]

[Program Note: While I'm on vacation, I thought it would be fun to jump back about four years here. Because the 2012 presidential campaign is not going to be very interesting on the Democratic side, we're going to take a look back at when it was a real race, last time around. For [...]

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From The Archives -- Candidate Speech Series: Hillary Clinton

[ Posted Monday, June 6th, 2011 – 12:00 UTC ]

[Program Note: While I'm on vacation, I thought it would be fun to jump back about four years here. Because the 2012 presidential campaign is not going to be very interesting on the Democratic side, we're going to take a look back at when it was a real race, last time around. For [...]

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From The Archives -- Candidate Speech Series: Bill Richardson

[ Posted Friday, June 3rd, 2011 – 12:00 UTC ]

[Program Note: While I'm on vacation, I thought it would be fun to jump back about four years here. Because the 2012 presidential campaign is not going to be very interesting on the Democratic side, we're going to take a look back at when it was a real race, last time around. For [...]

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From The Archives -- Candidate Speech Series: Barack Obama

[ Posted Thursday, June 2nd, 2011 – 12:00 UTC ]

[Program Note: While I'm on vacation, I thought it would be fun to jump back about four years here. Because the 2012 presidential campaign is not going to be very interesting on the Democratic side, we're going to take a look back at when it was a real race, last time around. For [...]

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From The Archives -- Candidate Speech Series: John Edwards

[ Posted Wednesday, June 1st, 2011 – 12:00 UTC ]

[Program Note: While I'm on vacation, I thought it would be fun to jump back about four years here. Because the 2012 presidential campaign is not going to be very interesting on the Democratic side, we're going to take a look back at when it was a real race, last time around. For [...]

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From The Archives -- Candidate Speech Series: Joe Biden

[ Posted Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 – 12:00 UTC ]

[Program Note: While I'm on vacation, I thought it would be fun to jump back about four years here. Because the 2012 presidential campaign is not going to be very interesting on the Democratic side, we're going to take a look back at when it was a real race, last time around. For [...]

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From The Archives -- Candidate Speech Series: Chris Dodd

[ Posted Monday, May 30th, 2011 – 12:00 UTC ]

[Program Note: While I'm on vacation, I thought it would be fun to jump back about four years here. Because the 2012 presidential campaign is not going to be very interesting on the Democratic side, we're going to take a look back at when it was a real race, last time around. For [...]

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Beginning The End Of America's Longest War

[ Posted Monday, May 9th, 2011 – 17:12 UTC ]

In roughly two months, President Barack Obama is going to announce the beginning of the end of America's longest war. He could not have known, when he initially set this summer for the beginning of the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, that the timing would work out so perfectly. With Osama Bin Laden now dead, it's going to be a lot easier to begin pulling out of Afghanistan. The only question left to ask is how fast this drawdown will be accomplished.

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Trump Mania

[ Posted Monday, April 25th, 2011 – 16:57 UTC ]

Most intelligent political analysts' reaction (right, left, and center) to the news that Donald Trump may be considering a run for the presidency could be summed up as some version of: "You have got to be kidding me." Followed quickly by: "This is going to be so much fun!" But the real punchline to this joke of a candidacy was actually on the punditocracy, when Trump's poll numbers took off and soon put him either in the lead or very close to it for the Republican nomination. Republican voters, it seems, aren't following the punditocracy's lead on "The Donald."

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