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Candidates Aren’t Who We Are

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Like the 243 other political super-junkies on the planet, I spent virtually the entire last day of May 2008 glued to C-SPAN’s coverage of the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee.
I won’t comment now on the outcome. It was, in the end, pretty predictable and as fair as it could be. I’m much more interested in […]