Well That Biden Choice Sure Worked Out Well For Obamma…

Posted by bruni on September 07, 2008

Ok, well not exactly:

"An by Gallup Poll Managing Editor Jeff Jones shows that recent presidential campaigns have enjoyed a small (though short-lived) bounce from the running mate announcement. This includes a four percentage point bounce for John Kerry in 2004 after selecting John Edwards, a 5-point bounce for Al Gore in 2000 with his announcement of Joe Lieberman, and a 3-point bounce for George W. Bush in 2000 upon choosing Dick Cheney. Bob Dole received an extraordinary 9-point bounce in 1996 after bringing Jack Kemp onto his ticket."
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Here’s a sign of real progress in Iraq (news article on sectarianism)

Posted by bruni on August 26, 2008

Posted on Sun, Aug. 03, 2008
Iraqis no longer ask, ‘Are you Sunni or Shiite?’
Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: August 04, 2008 10:42:29 AM

BAGHDAD — For years, when she approached Iraqi Army checkpoints and produced an identification card for soldiers to study for clues about her sect, Nadia Hashim used a simple formula to signal the mostly Shiite Muslim force that she, too, is a Shiite.
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Iraq oil bonanza flows to tune of $80 billion

Posted by bruni on August 19, 2008

The oil boom will give Iraq a surplus of nearly $80 billion (42 billion) by the end of this year, a US agency has concluded, raising the political pressure for a cut in American spending to help the country to recover.

High oil prices will soon give the Iraqi Government a pot of $79 billion in unspent funds, the US’s Government Accountability Office (GAO) projects in a new report to Congress. It adds that nearly $10 billion has been sitting in a US bank in New York because the Iraqi Government has been so slow in spending funds on reconstruction.
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