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Palin Not Welcome in Northern Wisconsin

Palin Not Welcome in Northern Wisconsin

Going west on Ashland, WI Main Street passing all sort of businesses including shoe stores, movie theaters and even bank there isn’t a “Country First” McCain/Palin support sign to be seen. If you walk further down, stand in front or to the side of “Huhn Rx Drug” (non chain Pharmacy), look up three stories up and there are two small McCain/Palin signs.  The others “Country First” signs are scattered throughout lawns of the small town; if you count the signs you will not need two hands.  On main street between two clothing stores is an Obama Headquarters, while there isn’t any McCain...

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Palin Tax Problems

Contributing editor Lee A. Sheppard of Tax Analysts, the nonprofit publisher of Tax Notes and other print and online publications, raises the thorny question in “Palin’s Reimbursement Problem” in this week’s Tax Notes. Did Sheppard find a problem with Palin’s return? “Darn right we found a problem,” she writes with her typical flair, “and we’re going to speak directly to the American people about it.” “In 2007,” she writes, “Sarah Palin received $60,441 in reimbursements from the state of Alaska for travel expenses and per diems for days she worked outside the state capital. All of these items were...

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What small-town America thinks of Sarah Palin | Salon News

There can be no doubt that the addition of Sarah Palin to the Republican ticket dramatically altered the presidential race, inspiring a once wary conservative evangelical base to get behind John McCain, and giving new momentum to his campaign. But how is Palin playing in towns across the American heartland? In the weeks since the Republicans held their national convention, small-town coffee shops, laundromats and bars have been buzzing with talk about the “pitbull with lipstick” and her sudden rise to national prominence. In dozens of interviews across battleground states in the Midwest and Mountain West, where I’ve been...

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McCain Doesn’t Buy American

In an interview a few weeks ago with a Detroit TV station, John McCain said, “I’ve bought American literally all my life, and I’m proud.” It turns out that John McCain wasn’t being straight with the people of Detroit-in fact, John McCain owns 13 cars, including a foreign made Lexus, a Volkswagen, and a Honda Sedan-on top of the Toyota Prius that he bragged about buying just last year. People are free to buy any kind of car they want-that isn’t the issue here. What is the issue is that the American auto industry, and American voters, deserve a...

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Former GOP senator :: Palin a ‘cocky wacko’

Former GOP senator :: Palin a ‘cocky wacko’

Former Rhode Island Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee has called vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin a “cocky wacko” and said her selection as John McCain’s running mate has energized supporters of Democrat Barack Obama. Chafee left the Republican Party last year after losing his bid for re-election and now supports Obama. He told an audience Tuesday at the New America Foundation in Washington that the Alaska governor has revived a “lackluster McCain candidacy.” “They’ve just thrown this firestorm, this tornado, into the whole presidential election,” Chafee said in response to an audience member’s question about whether the Obama campaign should...

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