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by Josh Kalven
10:01am
Tue Oct 7, 2008
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How Single Payer Health Care Pays For Itself

Health Care

The threat of large spending increases normally extinguishes any talk of expanded health coverage. In the wake of the financial system’s speculative collapse, Barack Obama told reporters that he would have to delay initiatives promised on the campaign trail. But international ...

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by Josh Kalven
9:11am
Tue Oct 7, 2008
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Sauerberg Says Senators Have No "Impact" On Reproductive Choice

Dick Durbin

WTTW's Chicago Tonight hosted a debate between Sen. Dick Durbin and GOP challenger Steve Sauerberg last night.  When the topic turned to social issues, Sauerberg focused primarily on his "personal involvement in crisis pregnancy centers."  But not before dropping ...

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by Josh Kalven
8:42am
Tue Oct 7, 2008
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Roll Call/Survey USA Poll Shows Seals Ahead By Eight

IL-10

A new poll released late yesterday by Roll Call and conducted by Survey USA (FiveThirtyEight's second highest rated pollster) found Democrat Dan Seals leading GOP Rep. Mark Kirk by eight points in the 10th Congressional District, 52-44 percent.  From the write-up (...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
5:48pm
Mon Oct 6, 2008
1 comment

Lake Co. Board Of Elections Plans To Wait On Federal Ruling (UPDATED: Federal Hearing Moved Up)

Indiana

Here's the latest info on the early voting dispute in Lake County, IN. 

As I already reported, a circuit court judge ruled this morning that the Lake County, IN board of elections could commence early voting at three satellite polling places located in the Gary, Hammond...

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by Adam Doster
5:16pm
Mon Oct 6, 2008
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What Would High-Speed Rail Look Like?

Congress

Following the excellent news last week that both the House and Senate passed an authorization to expand high-speed passenger rail service, the Tribune's Jon Hilkevitch ponders what a boost in funds could do in the Midwest:

The ambitious project proposed for the ...

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by Josh Kalven
4:43pm
Mon Oct 6, 2008

"Willie" Ayers?

Barack Obama

Watching MSNBC this morning, I happened to notice that they repeatedly referred to Bill Ayers as "Willie" in their on-screen text:

Willie, huh?  I grew up in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood.  I know the Ayers-Dorhn family quite well.  And I can't ...

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by Josh Kalven
2:08pm
Mon Oct 6, 2008

Judge Rules That Lake Co. Satellite Voting Can Commence

Civil liberties

On Saturday, I laid out the basis for the voters' rights battle brewing in Lake County, IN.  Essentially, the GOP apparatus there is trying to block efforts to open up early voting centers in three populous, minority-rich cities on the northern edge of the county -- Gary, ...

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by Josh Kalven
1:13pm
Mon Oct 6, 2008
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Mark Kirk Appears On NBC 5's City Desk

Dan Seals

In an episode that filmed last week and aired yesterday morning, GOP Rep. Mark Kirk and Democratic challenger Dan Seals appeared separately on NBC 5's City Desk.  Host Carol Marin immediately asked Kirk why he refused to directly debate Seals on the program.  Kirk first tried ...

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by Adam Doster
12:05pm
Mon Oct 6, 2008

WaPo: Dems' Registration Advantage Huge

White House '08

While smaller outfits have
been collecting information about the Democrats' increasing voter
registration advantage in the nation's swing states, the story hasn't
caught a ton of attention in the mainstream media. But today, the Washington Post printed the most ...