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Obama vs. McCain - Follow the 2008 Presidential Election with daily updates on North Coast Blog!

Insane Drug War - Jay Tierney's column highlight's another sad case involving minimum sentences and the War on Drugs. It's another example of prosecutorial discretion getting out of control.

Freedom to play poker!
- Many Americans are upset that the Congress snuck restrictions on online wagering into law in 2006 before the elections. Now there is an effort to legalize some forms of online gambling, particularly games of skill such as poker.

Politics

A Republican quits his party.


2008 Presidential Candidates:

Barack Obama
Barack is back from vacation and he seems ready to fight back.

John McCain
McCain has been able to narrow Obama's lead in the polls with his own "kitchen sink" strategy, but his own numbers are not going up. Meanwhile, he is destroying his moderate image..

Ron Paul
What a breath of fresh air! Paul proves that there are some small-government conservatives left in this country. He didn't get the GOP nomination, but he'll be conducting a shadow convention in Minnesota during the GOP convention.


Issues

The voters have a clear choice in this election between Obama and McCain, as they couldn't be more different on most issues. Hopefully we can rise about all the negative politics to have a real debate about policy.

Energy Independence
Both candidates and most Americans believe we need to free ourselves from our addition to foreign oil. Of course, the candidates have very different approaches to the problem.

 

In the News

The national polls are tightening a little, and as expected the media is in a tizzy over the prospects of a tight race.

Of course, everyone is also waiting for the VP announcements. Barack Obama has picked Joe Biden, while McCain's pick is anyone's guess.


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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it..." -  Mark Twain

"Mr. Bush's central problem is not that he was lying about Iraq, but that he was overzealous and self-deluded. He surrounded himself with like-minded ideologues, and they all told one another that Saddam was a mortal threat to us. They deceived themselves along with the public — a more common problem in government than flat-out lying."
- Nicholas Kristof 

"From foreign to economic to social policy, Bush's record is a lesson in the limits and perils of conviction. He's too confident to consult a map. He's too strong to heed warnings and too steady to turn the wheel when the road bends. He's too certain to admit error, even after plowing through ditches and telephone poles. He's too preoccupied with principle to understand that principle isn't enough. Watching the stars instead of the road, he has wrecked the budget and the war on terror. Now he's heading for the Constitution. It's time to pull him over and take away the keys." - William Saletan (3/4/04)