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October 18, 2004

Politics of economics

des femmes has a list of women blogging where economic reality meets the political road. (Thanks to bopnews for the link.)

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March 10, 2004

Outsourcing pays!

The Daily Mislead compares the top US outsourcing companies with the top contributors to the Republican Party and comes up with disturbing correlations.

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February 24, 2004

Fannie and Freddie

Mitch has a column at Red Herring alerting us to the Bush administration's opening shovel-loads in its undermining of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Yes, I'm confused by the issue also. That's why I'm recommending Mitch's column...

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February 19, 2004

Marshall on Net fund raising

Josh Marshall reports on the success Democrat Ben Chandler had - winning the first Republican seat in a special election since 1991 - raising $100,000 on a $2,000 investment in blog ads. Says Josh:

...direct-mail, for whatever reason, just works with folks who are apt to give money to Republican campaigns. And it just doesn't with Dems, or at least not nearly as well. It's a different demographic....But the Internet does seem to work for Democrats. That was clear in the spectacular early success of the Dean campaign and now you're seeing it in smaller ways in individual House races. That doesn't mean that it won't work equally well for Republicans; we just don't know yet...

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