Tag / 2009
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TGIH: 2009
If there’s one thing I learned when a cold kept me in this New Year’s Eve, it’s that people really love to reflect on the same events each year. Well, that and having all three seasons of Arrested Development on DVD is much better than any New Year’s Party. Besides that, though, I can tell…
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The Importance of Gubernatorial Elections
Recently, New Jersey and Virginia played host to the only two gubernatorial elections of 2009. Some pundits believe that these elections were a referendum of Barack Obama while others argued the results were simply following historical trends. The assumption that the gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey were a referendum of Barack Obama was…
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Election '09: Mostly for the Media
News networks obsess over elections. E-Day, Super Tuesday, Decision Day, Countdown to November, Countdown to the Primary, Countdown to February 5th, Countdown to Whatever. Why the fixation? Because elections are fun. They’re a competition. It’s CNN’s chance to act like ESPN; they get to guess and predict, they get to declare a winner and a…