The Sound of the Crowd

Resolutions and troubling posts

While this blog was down, I made kind of a new year’s resolution that when it was back up, I would take the political posts down a notch. At least as far as the Democratic candidates are concerned, at least until we have an actual honest-to-God nominee. Until then, there’s going to be so many photo finishes, advances and reversals of fortune, that it hardly seems worth keeping track of. I mean, unless something truly unexpected happens, like Braun polling in the number two spot.

But some things I do want to comment on and bring to your attention. Check out these three related posts from our man Josh Marshall in the last couple of weeks…

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To my untrained eye, it certainly looks as though Dean–or someone on his campaign–may be engaging in “dirty tricks” worthy of the Republicans in Florida.

If not, someone is certainly trying to make it look that way. T’is a puzzlement…


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