I am in a small minority of people resident in Ireland who pay as much attention to the editorial page of the New York Times as that of the Irish Times, Daily Mail, and the Indo. C’est la vie.
Still, it’s painful to read David Brooks these days. A smart guy who realised a few [...]

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For those of you following the American elections anywhere near as compulsively as I am - ***RTÉ/TV3/Newstalk PRODUCER/RESEARCHER ALERT*** here’s a website you’ll need to check regularly between now and November: FiveThirtyEight.com. It’s to 2008 what RealClearPolitics was to 2004. And makes the latter by comparison seem sad and amateurish.
Pollster.com has also been invaluable.
FiveThirtyEight [...]

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Well, one worrying thing about Obama. His new on the road spokeswoman, Linda Douglass, formerly of the nonpartisan National Journal magazine, brought hope to a lot of Obama supporters that she would be an experienced, sure-fire, safe pair of hands on the trail. She’d be able to bat away questions about any more pastor eruptions. [...]

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Good session last night on Rachel English’s Late Debate on RTÉ Radio 1…though not much of a chance to get a dialogue going with Niall O’Dowd, who really needed to be asked how much Kool Aid he’d already quaffed in the Clinton bunker. Niall Stanage, who’s been doing some really good stuff at the New [...]

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The Associated Press moved its story at 1407 hrs EST, 1907 hrs Irish Time. I found out from the NPR Twitter feed on Twadget.
It’s a good day.
For those who are interested, I’ll be on RTÉ’s Late Debate presented by Rachel English tonight at 11, along with Margaret E Ward, Niall Stanage and Niall O’Dowd. [...]

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Today is the Day of Jubilee. It’s over. (Probably.)
Matt Drudge went first. Then Tim Russert, Chuck Todd, then Pat Buchanan and Karl Rove. Then Politico’s Ben Smith.
Clinton has cancelled her public schedule for today.
Ben Smith gets to the deep logic of why the race is over. By withstanding six weeks of Freak [...]

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I mean, The Speech was awesome, even one for the ages, but…seriously? (I stopped bidding at $20.)

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RTÉ Belfast reporter Michael Fisher nabbed a nice exclusive, as he caught up with Samantha Power after she gave a lecture at Queens University, after she split from the Obama campaign. She supposedly resigned, but as we wrote earlier and the NY Observer picked up from us (hi Niall Stanage), Samantha Power seemed pretty clear [...]

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Samantha Power is half right. Hillary isn’t a monster. But she is displaying the unkillable quality of something far worse:

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Cross-posted from Telegraph Brassneck:
Samantha Power, the Irish-born foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama and self-proclaimed “genocide chick”, expects she’ll get the “guillotine” from the Obama campaign today after calling Hillary Clinton “a monster”, she told an interviewer on state-owned RTÉ radio in Dublin this morning.

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