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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has not-so-privately been floating the idea of running for president as an independent. With the two races still fairly muddled, I thought it might be interesting to look at the circumstances that might facilitate him jumping in.
The first condition would seem to require at least one candidate with fairly high [...]

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Isn’t it a little strange that people are essentially writing Rudy off because he has not won in the first three states, even though they always knew that he wouldn’t win early? In fact, it seems like his strategy is more or less playing out as planned, other than the fact that Ron Paul keeps [...]

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Just as I was readying to write a post about how Senator Clinton is getting some unfair press over race, I found an anonymous quote from one of her aides that sickened me, but I’ll get to that in a moment. Since the New Hampshire primary there has been a bit of a whispering campaign–in [...]

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Hillary says she does not want to be compared to Bush and company, but her rhetoric soundly strangely like Dick Cheney a few days ago. On the very same day that she spontaneously nearly came to tears (a strategist couldn’t have written it any better) and she also implied that electing Obama was inviting Al [...]

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A little more than a year ago I was working on a get out the vote effort in the Philadelphia. As we were going around the neighborhood I mentioned to a van full of young people that Hillary Clinton was the 2008 version of Howard Dean. The outrage around me was palpable. One person informed [...]

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Looking at the range of candidates, it is interesting to guess who would be most beneficial for China. Off the top we can knock Kucinich off their list of top choices. He is highly protectionist, and would do everything possible to limit trade with China while giving Beijing headaches about their human rights abuses. Of [...]

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Dear Mayor Bloomberg,
Recently I noticed that you were in China, for what, I am not entirely clear. It looks like you will not be running for president, what with you getting chummy with Mr. Obama and all. So clearly you do not need to burnish your foreign affairs credentials. It’s nice and all that you [...]

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I’m a few days late with this, but there was a very interesting and extremely substantive Democratic presidential debate last week on NPR. They spent more than a half hour discussing China, so I think this is particularly relevant for us. The China part starts about 34 minutes in, so you can skip ahead if [...]

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I guess the internets here are causing problems with Itunes or something, because there are a few podcasts that won’t download: Bill Simmons Report, Real Time, This American Life, and Face the Nation. So I’ve been looking for some more good ones, as the first three are probably among my five favorites. Can anyone out [...]

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Dan from over at China Law Blog has been pushing people to vote for his blog in the ABA ‘best of’ race harder than a Chinese arms dealer in Sudan. And since a who’s who of bloggers have already succumbed to his ‘charms’ I’ll give you the link here. It’s a very good blog [...]

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