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    Pundits: Everyone Likes Bill Clinton Again; Joe Biden Holds His OwnThis was a setting these two aging, white, male Washington insiders hadn’t found themselves in before.
    By Dan Amira
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    Angry, Awesome John McCain Is Back!In an interview with ‘Time,’ the Republican candidate reveals the rage seething beneath his new, carefully scripted exterior.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    John Kerry Finds His Voice in Time to Share Dem Spotlight With Bill ClintonWith effective, incendiary speeches, Clinton and Kerry stoke the Dem flames and warm up the convention for Obama’s address tonight.
    By Chris Rovzar
  4. in other news
    Cop Takes Down Peace Protester With Baton in DenverA young woman gets violently swatted during a demonstration at the Democratic National Convention.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    And the Award for the Scariest Denver-Area Hotel Goes To…If you’re IMPORTANT, you get to stay at the Sheraton or the Ritz. Otherwise, you just might be sleeping next door to a wannabe Obama assassin.
    By Jada Yuan
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    Nina Garcia Judges Convention Fashion: Michelle Obama ‘Stunning’; Hillary ‘Orange, of All Colors?’The ‘Project Runway’ judge weighs in on the outfits of the former First Lady and the potential future one.
    By Blythe Sheldon
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    Hillary Still Winking at Her SupportersClinton looked at the huge crowd in attendance and said, “If I’d known I had this many delegates…” The audience whooped knowingly.
    By Joe Hagan
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    Heilemann: Why the Democrats Are Failing in DenverMark Penn’s still causing trouble in Hillaryland, and the Democrats aren’t effectively framing McCain in negative terms.
    By John Heilemann
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    Denver Dispatch: Will.I.Am on McCain, Muse‘And, you know what, I would like to overcome that kind of stuff. That’s beyond inspirational. That’s triumph. He is an inspiring guy.’
    By Jada Yuan
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    To Many, Hillary Clinton Left Much UnsaidThere was nothing about Obama’s readiness to be president, and almost nothing about him on a personal level.
    By Dan Amira
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    Denver Dispatch: Meet Your Hilariously Inept DNC ProtesterNo one, including those who were watching the action, could articulate what last night’s protest was about in the first place.
    By Jada Yuan
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    Joe Biden’s Middle Name Is RobinetteHm. Joseph Robinette Biden. Doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as Barack Hussein Obama.
    By Dan Amira
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    Denver Dispatch: Waldman on the Hierarchy of DNC AccessThe single topic of conversation that seems to consume the attention of a fair number of the 50,000 people here is the search for credentials.
    By Ayelet Waldman
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    Jon Stewart: It’s Not McCain and Obama’s Lack of Humor, It’s the Media’sWho cares if the candidates can’t tell what is funny and what is not. That’s our job!
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Michelle Obama Not Scary in the Least Last NightBy most accounts, she knocked her speech out of the park.
    By Dan Amira
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    Denver Dispatch: Barry Levinson Sees Massive Conspiracy Against Celebs‘It’s been my experience that 90 percent of writers, directors, and actors are basically middle-class people who had talent.’
    By Jada Yuan
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    John McCain’s ‘Rebuttal’ to Madonna’s Concert Videos Makes Our Heads ExplodeJohn McCain, the presidential candidate who thinks that Obama has no political weight because he is a ‘celebrity,’ sees fit to respond to vague criticism from a sensationalist pop star.
    By Chris Rovzar
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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
  33. 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
  36. 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
  49. it happened this week
    Falling DollarsEverything that happened last week, in case you weren’t paying attention.
    By Mark Adams
  50. 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.
  51. photo op
    Barack Obama Hopes for a Michael Phelps Bump, TooWe tease Obama for his sexy beach shots.
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