Losing an election by just a little can create a lot of temptation for a candidate to try again, figuring that an earlier start, a change in strategy or some other campaign tweak will produce a victory on the second try. That is why there typically are several rematch contests in each congressional election cycle.

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A decade ago, when my wife’s weathered Nissan was nearing the end of its natural life, we joked about setting the car free on the highway to find its way from Washington to North Carolina a route it followed countless times when we were interstate daters. A couple of years of that commute inspired a lot of musing about computerized cars that could drive themselves but alert the occupants when they needed to resume control and exit for gas. And, of course, these cars would know where the gas stations were and which had the best prices.

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Nate Silver [link:www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/obamas-agenda-difference-between.html|writes]:

[div class="excerpt"]There is, to say the least, a lot of jumping to conclusions about just which type of President Barack Obama is liable to be, by which I mean whether he’ll govern from the left …

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I wrote this story back in the early 1990’s. It was written after I went from being a family of two to a family of four over night, literally. Having a family increase like that meant there would have to be a lot of changes in our lifestyle and especially in our spending habits.

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I think back a lot into Joe Lieberman’s run against Ned Lamont. I was amazed at the number of power Democrats who came to his aid. I was amazed that even when he made up his own party to run against Lamont…many power Democrats still supported him instead of the Democratic nominee, Ned Lamont. Th…

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I love the weasel wording in the original… why doesn’t the article explain the ‘fishy’?

I know where some of those library funds came from… the Al Maktoum family and the Al Nahayan family in the UAE.

And, just why did they donate quite a lot to the library?

THEY LIKE AND RESPECT T…

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Do Real Haunted Mansions Hold Sway in Hollywood? Ghosts, believers contend, are the spirits of the dead who are unable or unwilling to find their way to the next plane of existence. Some spirits may not want to leave family members, others may have unfinished business. “In Hollywood, there are a lot of unsolved murders

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3:39 PM … More to be said on Georgia maybe. People have been asking us all night why Georgia hasn’t been called on our results map. The results map is keyed to the Associated Press results. So we actually don’t have direct control on when states get colored in. But we’ve been wondering the same [...]

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UPDATE: There’s already a lot of good discussion going on around this post in my public twine.I’ve been writing about a new trend that I call “interest networking” for a while now. But I wanted to…

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I have been thinking a lot about social networks lately, and why there are so many of them, and what will happen in that space. Today I had what I think is a “big realization” about this. Everyone,…

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