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...First, to test the hypothesis, I checked the Democrat segments to see what kind of political sites they visit and the top sites included: Barackobama.com, smikrkingchimp.com and crooksandliars.com. Check. The same exercise on the other side of the aisle surfaced sites such as townhall.com and JohnMcCain.com. Satisfied that the system works, I probed deeper to see if I could tell different political affiliations based on what users do online - where they shop, how they play and their brand preferences. Some of the answers were intuitive, some counter...
...most surprising finding was the religious sites visited by each group. Online data appears to challenge the concept of the religious right. When applied to the religious category, the Democrat types indicated high percentages for Christian Websites - specifically bible study sites - while red staters were most likely to visit Catholic sites, such as Catholic Answers, along with the expected skew towards family values focused sites...
...Bush Administration's shift in U.S. troop strength echoes what many Democrats have been calling for since the Iraq war began. "We're paying a terrible price for diverting our forces and resources to Iraq from Afghanistan," says Senator Joseph Biden, the Delaware Democrat and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. And it could get worse: if the Taliban insurgency prevails, Zinni and others fear that Pakistan, Afghanistan's nuclear-armed neighbor, could descend into chaos and NATO itself could collapse...
...said that this has become more apparent as Obama has faced off with rival Democrat Hillary Clinton in a series of nationally televised debates...
...Wouldn't it be nice if time on the job and tickets punched translated neatly into superior performance? Then finding great Presidents would be a simple matter of weighing résumés. Take a Democrat like Bill Richardson - experienced in Congress, in the Cabinet, as a diplomat and governor - and have him run against Republican Tom Ridge, a former soldier, governor and Director of Homeland Security, with the winner chosen by a blue-ribbon commission of all-purpose elders. The Danforth-Mitchell commission, perhaps, or O'Connor-Albright. But it has never worked that way, which...