Ben Smith's Blogs
Ben Smith's Blogs
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Hoffman blames Acorn, lacks evidence
The Watertown Daily Times, its skepticism obvious, finds conservative Doug Hoffman getting no backup from local Republicans: With his
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Abortion in the Reid bill
Patrick O'Connor explains a provision that's provoked relief on the abortion rights side and attacks from anti-abortion groups: The b
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Palin to visit Fort Hood
Sarah Palin will visit Fort Hood, Texas, site of the recent shootings. Palin last night released the second half of her book tour sch
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The Palin campaign
My story tonight: If Sarah Palin were running for president, this is where she’d come: The outskirts of a second city in the co
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Perino nominated for broadcasting panel
President Barack Obama has appointed his predecessor's press secretary, Dana Perino, to the a Republican seat on the Broadcasting Board of Governors
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Remainders: Grand Rapids
Indies shift away from the Democrats. Sargent doesn't quite buy the DNC's response. Charlie Crist is not a hap
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Palin defends 'truth' of book
Sarah Palin arrived in her bus Grand Rapids just now to a screaming crowd, and emerged with some distinctly political talking points.
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KBH explains Senate call
Hutchison explains, in a robocall to Texas voters, that she's staying in the Senate not as a hedge, but because of the imperative of fighting health
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McCain goes rogue
I wondered yesterday how long it would take for McCain to stray from his effort not to engage Sarah Palin's criticism of his campaign and, implicitl
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Meeting Mark
CNN reports on Obama's meeting with his younger half-brother, who lives in China.
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EEOC nominee disavows marriage statement
A nominee for the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission has asked that her name be taken off a statement calling for broadening the definition o
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AKPD goes to Kiev
Ken Vogel and I report: In Kiev and Kharkiv and other cities in Ukraine, American political consultants who worked against one anothe
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The line in Grand Rapids
They've now been in line long enough to see Sarah Palin that they're reading in the Grand Rapids Press about themselves, standing in line.
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'Flocking to Israel'
So is this End Times talk? Or just random chatter and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and week
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Sullivan's quest
Andrew Sullivan continues on his lonely obsession the circumstances of the birth of Trig Palin, and has temporarily stopped blogging to conduct a cl
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SEIU Memo: 'Unions,' 'Employers,' out; 'Workers,' 'Corporations' in
A source who opposes the Employee Free Choice Act sends over a revealing internal SEIU memo that made its way into the hands of the opposition, and
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Women's groups silent, torn on Palin 'sexism' claim
Sarah Palin's complaint that Newsweek's cover image this week was "sexist" and "a wee bit degrading" has drawn a notably muted r
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Good for Oprah
The Palin show gave Oprah her biggest audience in two years.
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DNC circulates Palin memo; 'God Bless'
The Democratic National Committee has been, for days emailing reporters gleefully about Sarah Palin's media blitz, feeding the flames of what offici
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Lining up in Grand Rapids
The Freep reports that some 500 people had lined up, chanting "Sarah, Sarah," before 5:00 a.m. outside the Grand Rapids bookstore where sh
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