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    Denver Dispatch: Ayelet Waldman on Being an Obama DelegateI’m an Obama delegate for the state of California, having won a somewhat intense election battle of my own to get here.
    By Ayelet Waldman
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    Denver Dispatch: Kathleen Sebelius Tears Up Dance Floor at Wild PartyDo some states party harder than others? Judging from the Friends of New Orleans DNC benefit last night, yes.
    By Jada Yuan
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    Okay, This Election Is Basically OverBarack Obama receives a crucial endorsement.
    By Jessica Pressler
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    Denver Dispatch: RZA on Coming Around to Obama, and Why McCain Might Be Like Rambo‘It’s like in every nation and every race, you have some people that are born as a prince because of the natural way they are.’
    By Jada Yuan
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    Yup, We’re Still Talking About the ClintonsIt’s safe to say this will probably never, ever end.
    By Dan Amira
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    How Biden May Head Off Latent Obama BacklashPoll numbers at the opening of the Democratic convention show that Biden was more than a shrewd pick; he may have been a necessary pick.
    By Peter Keating
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    Denver Dispatch: Nudie Bars, Hospitals Prepare for DNCDriving around Denver, it’s rare to pass a business that isn’t trying to capitalize on the sudden swell in population by offering convention specials.
    By Jada Yuan
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    Mayoral Hopefuls Getting Uneasy About Bloomberg’s Third-Term TalkIn Denver, a handful of city politicians are still in a New York state of mind.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Obama Picks Biden As Running MateAnd he totally woke people all over the country up at 3 a.m. to tell them about it.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Paterson: A Third Bloomberg Term Is ‘a Great Idea’The day the mayor made headlines for arguing that City Council could make a change on term-limit rules, he gets a boost from a powerful ally.
    By Alec Appelbaum
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    Enough With the Damn Obama-Veep Speculation AlreadySeriously. How many headlines are there on this topic today? Can’t we just wait 24 hours and find out? What happened to the good old-fashioned element of surprise?
    By Chris Rovzar
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    ‘Houses’ Gaffe Spiraling Into All-Out WarMakes those days of endless squabbles over health-care mandates seem quaint.
    By Dan Amira
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    Team Obama Hit the Ground Running With McCain ‘Houses’ GaffeWhen McCain slipped up and couldn’t remember how many houses he owns (four to seven, actually), the Democratic nominee and his minions immediately began using it to their advantage.
    By Dan Amira
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    The Insider’s Guide to Election PollsDon’t believe the pundits! Why that five-point lead for McCain doesn’t mean much, the Verizon Effect could be crucial, and you should ignore the exit polls on November 4.
    By Nate Silver
  16. in other news
    Guess Which Voice Coming Out of Matt Damon’s Mouth Is Cindy McCain and Which Is Michelle Obama?Both potential First Ladies contributed voice-overs to a kooky new ‘ONE Campaign’ ad. Can you pick out when they chime in?
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Could Caroline Kennedy Finally Convince Brits That Americans, Too, Have Class?A London paper reports that Kennedy is eyeing the job of ambassador to Great Britain if Obama wins the presidency.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Joe Lieberman Momentarily at the Center of the Political UniverseThe jowly senator from Connecticut finds himself at the center of two campaign firestorms.
    By Dan Amira
  19. in other news
    State Assemblyman to Intern: I Want to ‘See Your Ducks’Salacious (and slightly confusing) e-mails between Buffalo legislator Sam Hoyt and a 19-year-old intern have us sniggering over our English Breakfast tea.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Governor Awesome Spills More Truths, Earns More of Our LoveDavid Paterson admits he has feelings, talks back to the bullies in Albany.
    By Jessica Pressler
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    Will McCain’s Surrogates Bring Up Barack Obama’s Destitute Kenyan Brother?Italian ‘Vanity Fair’ recently tracked down the candidate’s youngest half-brother outside of Nairobi, and learned that he lives on less than a dollar a month and sometimes has to fight for his own safety. Who wants to chat that up on Fox News?
    By Chris Rovzar
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    GOP Confirms: Joe Lieberman to Speak at Republican National ConventionBut will this really affect independent voters?
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Voters Souring on Obama As Never BeforeHis momentum has vanished, the race has drawn to a dead heat, and Republicans are, maybe for the first time, showing some real optimism.
    By Dan Amira
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    Paterson Gets Albany Budget Cuts, But Not As Many As HopedHaving forced the State Legislature to reconvene over economic issues, the governor made progress — but critics argue it wasn’t nearly enough.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Bloomberg Wants to Turn NYC Into Windy CityEver walked to work in the winter on the far West Side and battled that insane breeze off the Hudson? Soon enough, that wind could be working for you!
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Heilemann: McCain’s Pro-Choice V.P. BluffThe alarm bells started ringing last week in the rightmost corners of Republican Nation, when John McCain suggested to ‘The Weekly Standard’ that the door was still open to the possibility of his naming Tom Ridge as his running mate.
    By John Heilemann
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    Bloomberg: Tired of McCain and Obama’s Energy ‘Pandering’At a clean energy summit in Las Vegas, Hizzoner takes aim at the presidential candidates.
    By Alec Appelbaum
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    Is Obama Planning a Veepstakes Shocker This Week?After endless rumination and media speculation, Barack Obama’s decision on a running mate is nigh. Nigh! Just how nigh, nobody is quite sure.
    By Dan Amira
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    Who Won the Showdown at Saddleback?Pastor Rick was able to summon sides of the candidates we can’t usually see in standard debates.
    By Dan Amira
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    Mario Cuomo Helped Investment Firm Being Probed by Son AndrewThe State Attorney General can’t be pleased his dad is hooking up a firm that he suspects is getting too much help from politicians.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Is Hillary Softening Up — Literally — For the Convention?The ‘Daily News’ claims she’s had a ‘dermafiller’ injected into her face. We look at the photo evidence, and aren’t so sure.
    By Chris Rovzar
  32. it happened this week
    Falling DollarsEverything that happened last week, in case you weren’t paying attention.
    By Mark Adams
  33. in other news
    Kevin Powell Wants Anika Noni Rose to Be His Congressional First LadyThe former ‘Real World’ star and aspiring congressman wants us to let you — and the ‘Dreamgirls’ star — know that he has a crush.
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    Barack Obama Hopes for a Michael Phelps Bump, TooWe tease Obama for his sexy beach shots.
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    Obama Agrees to Roll-Call Vote for Clinton. Does That Make Him a Sissy?There’s disagreement over Obama’s decision to accede to Clinton’s wishes.
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    The Real Reason McCain’s Age Might MatterSince Joe Lieberman has taken to calling Barack Obama a “young man,” isn’t it time to finally ask: Is John McCain too old to be president?
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    Obama’s Emergency Campaign-Plane Landing Much Scarier Than We Originally ThoughtWhen the pilot starts telling the control tower how many “souls” there are onboard, you really know there’s a problem.
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    Jerome Corsi’s Anti-Obama Book Makes James Frey Look Like PlutarchBut guess what? It’s a best seller.
  39. intel
    Guess Which ‘Overboard’ Floozy Is Rielle HunterWe’ve cut together the brief appearances of the girls who might be John Edwards’s mistress in the Goldie Hawn–Kurt Russell flick ‘Overboard.’
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    Cindy McCain Will Put Herself in Harm’s Way to Make You Feel WelcomeIf that’s not a qualification for First Ladyship, we don’t know what is.
  41. in other news
    Al Franken’s ‘New York City Problem’Is having New York City in his past a political handicap for the would-be senator? Or is it something else?
  42. in other news
    This Thing With Rielle Hunter’s Baby Daddy Is Just WeirdHow did married Edwards aide Andrew Young possibly think his story would fly?
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    Like That Creepy Kid From High School, Marty Markowitz Thinks That His 800 Facebook Friends Will Give Him Social DominanceThe ‘Times’ discovers Marty Markowitz’s not-so-secret strategy for victory in the upcoming mayoral campaign.
  44. in other news
    John Edwards Confessed Infidelity in Installments, Says FriendLike a favorite bedtime story or a soap opera!
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    ‘Republicans for Obama’: Three Members and CountingWhether Obama’s crossover group can create a real movement, or if it becomes simply a poor man’s Joe Lieberman, remains to be seen.
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    Songs About Obama Are Music to His EarsThe candidates reveal their favorite songs; and we read too much into it.
  47. intel
    Rielle Hunter’s Cabal of Crazy: A RosterTo sum up: Everyone involved in this whole Edwards-affair mess is probably crazy, almost certainly lying, and definitely should keep his or her mouth shut. Here are the bit players you need to know.
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    What We Can Learn From the Clinton MemosMuch of the revelations from the memos aren’t exactly new, but some of the details can be fascinating, allowing us to look into the thoughts, nay, the very souls, of Team Clinton.
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    The Bitchiest Moments From the Clinton-Campaign MemosWe collect our favorite lines from the memos revealed by ‘The Atlantic’ yesterday.
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    Paterson Takes Aim at Medicaid in His Proposed $1 Billion Spending CutsPublic-school funding is safe so far, according to Paterson, but big cuts in discretionary funding, local government aid, and health care are on the horizon.
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    Russia, Georgia Helpfully Provide National-Security Test for CandidatesThere may be no winners in war, but who’s coming out on top in this political test?
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