Ben Smith's Blogs
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Mentioning the Dalai Lama
Another bright spot for worried human rights advocates: Obama pushed for China to resume talks with the Dalai Lama during his joint presser today.
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Palin criticizes Newsweek cover
Palin keeps hitting out at critics: The choice of photo for the cover of this week's Newsweek is unfortunate. When it comes to Sarah
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On Oprah, a contradiction
From the authors of a new Palin bio: In a segment of her interview with Oprah Winfrey, which was posted online but did not air on tel
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Remainders: Effigy
MSNBC hits Obama. Malek explains her. The Chambers plans to pay for a climate study. Paterson trails ev
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Minn. Dems sue T-Paw
A politically helpful confrontation for Tim Pawlenty: The Minnesota House decided to tell a judge that Gov. Tim Pawlenty violated the
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The Nixon bow
It's been noted that before Obama, President Nixon bowed
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Cory Booker in Newark
When Cory Booker was elected mayor of Newark, there was a general perception that -- for all his talent and his political strength -- being
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Democrat out at News Corp.
The Democratic political operative who was Rupert Murdoch's political right-hand man is departing after 11 years, the Times reported today. <
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Rozen: 'Unprecedented' was a talking point
Laura Rozen reports that Secretary Clinton wasn't entirely to blame for the most recent messaging fumble in the Middle East: Clinton
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Alaska Democrats target Palin
The Alaska Democratic Party, evidently taking the insitutional lead in attacking Sarah Palin, just launched SarahWatch.org, a harsh website devoted
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DNC on health care offense
The committee says it's going up with radio spots (sample here) in the districts of 32 targeted Republicans. A sample script:
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Bestselling Plouffe
A publishing industry source tells me David Plouffe's campaign memoir, "The Audacity to Win," continues to sell extremely well, with over
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Playing the race card on 'Going Rogue'
Max Blumenthal goes after Sarah Palin's co-author, Lynn Vincent, in a broadside that focuses largely on her 2006 collaboration with a conservative b
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Palin sells books for the RGA
Perhaps the only element of the Republican establishment with which Sarah Palin appears to have had a copasetic relationship is the Republican Gover
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Paul group attacks health care legislation
A reader sends over an ad, which aired in Nebraska, pushing Ben Nelson to oppose health care reform. The spot is paid
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Michigan first
Sarah Palin's first book tour stop is this Wednesday, in Grand Rapids, which Mark Hemingway reasonably notes is better seen as a political choice th
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Not yelling 'stop'
A small media insight: One reason you hear so much about Sarah Palin is that she drives a lot of traffic. (The other reason, at least here, is that
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Pricing abortion coverage
Liberal blogger Mark Kleiman gets at something that neither side in the abortion debate -- conducted mostly from 30,000 feet -- particularly wants t
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Palin attacks Levi
So much for the high road. This is a recognizable Palin move: She knows what she's supposed to say, says it, then dives into the fray
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An Obama tribute...from Rubio?
Mario Rubio's campaign openly knocks off an Obama campaign ad. Only Charlie Crist is the one now being cast as out of touch. Obama's
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