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JOTR pollster: 4 of 5 for Obama

Posted on November 30, 2008 by admin

JOTR pollster: 4 of 5 for Obama 10/24/08 [donation] By Joel Thurtell I checked in with my chief pollster yesterday (Thursay, October 24, 2008) and she told me the results of her latest survey of likely voters in this year’s … Continue reading →

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Still Senator Hothead

Posted on November 30, 2008 by admin

Still Senator Hothead 10/16/08 [donation] By Joel Thurtell After watching the Obama-McCain debate last night (Wednesday, October 15. 2008), I went to bed with a very different impression of the last of these skirmishes than the take I got the … Continue reading →

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Tainted by my t-shirt?

Posted on October 5, 2008 by admin

 By Joel Thurtell I’m sitting here in my t-shirt wondering if this shred of cotton is somehow polluting everything I write because it has a photo of Barack Obama. Is it possible that unseen biases are creeping into my head … Continue reading →

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Norman, me & the “siege” of Chicago, Part II

Posted on August 28, 2008 by admin

By Joel Thurtell It makes me sad when I think about those two classmates, Tom “Tex” Ford and Lloyd Slack, who were killed in Vietnam. Around the second grade, Tom Ford’s family moved to Texas. When they came back to … Continue reading →

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Huntin fer Osamy

Posted on July 22, 2008 by admin

By Luke Warm Guest Writer [donation] Hey! Did I say Obama, nutcase? Negatory, good buddy. I did not. I done writ OSAMY. As in Al Qaidee. I’m not no John McCain, see, tryin to get our next Chief Executative assasserated … Continue reading →

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Election coverage then and, well, then again

Posted on January 9, 2008 by admin

I thought this would not be about the Future of Newspapers. I was looking at the Detroit Free Press headline today, Jan. 9, 2007, that would have us readers believe that “Clinton, McCain win in night of comebacks” with the … Continue reading →

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