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...Liberal bloggers and their readers helped to swing the Connecticut Democratic Senate primary to anti-war candidate Ned Lamont, raising expectations that the midterms would turn this new generation of online activists into kingmakers. Yet in the midst of a Democratic wave, the netroots candidates failed to sweep, causing some pundits to claim that the netroots' influence continues to be overstated: "The Netroots Election? Not So Fast," editorialized The Nation. When Rick Perlstein tried, in The New Republic, to claim the election as a netroots triumph, Ryan Lizza replied in the magazine's blog that in addition to having...
...Realize that our domestic principles are still sound politics and sound policy, if we actually adhere to them. For example, in early November the Republican polling firm OnMessage Inc. found that in swing districts with Republican incumbents, likely voters trusted Democrats more than Republicans to “reduce the the deficit,” “cut taxes for the middle class,” and “keep government spending under control.” It seems that, at least in part, Democrats were elected as a protest against Republicans’ failure to live...
Donated by the athletics department and the Friends of Harvard Golf in fall 2005, the Full Swing Golf LS Golf 3 plunks top notch golf courses and practice facilities into cyberspace, with the help of a projection screen and a little patch of Astroturf. The simulator’s 688 sensors calculate the speed, size, and angle of every golf ball hit, in real time. Virtual duffers can customize their playing experience by adjusting wind speed, green hardness, sky type, and crowd volume...
...Brooks' next picture was The Canary Murder Case, in which she played the Canary. As in A Girl in Every Port, she a showgirl floating above the crowd, this time on a swing - an object for men to look up at and covet. Her contract with Paramount was coming to an end, so she skitted off to Berlin to play Lulu in Pandora...
...hardly swing a cat by the tail in that town without hitting a pharmaceutical lobbyist,” Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, told the Associated Press last year...