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Florida's leaders believed that if they could just drain the swamp, they could turn a peninsular wasteland into a recreational, agricultural and residential paradise. They failed catastrophically. In 1928, a hurricane blasted Lake Okeechobee, killing some 2,000 pioneers that their promises had drawn to the Everglades...
...true, but why in the name of Youngstown would one ever say it? All that sort of talk does is invite Ohio voters to look elsewhere for an alternative to a candidate they are already a little uncertain about. To say nothing of Ohio Democrats, who did not exactly swamp Obama with votes in the March 4 primary (he won exactly 5 of the state's 88 counties.) I wonder how many days of clean-up visits those remarks added to Plouffe's plan to contest the Buckeye state - or whether his comments could prove to be a self-fulfilling...
...week that Obama may come close to raising close to $100 million in June, a political fund-raising threshold virtually without precedent. If Obama's donors can maintain that pace, they may be able to raise as much as $300 million for the fall campaign, a tally that would swamp McCain's more limited campaign treasury of $75 million. In past elections, Hispanics have not voted in numbers equal to their proportion of the population. But in places where Hispanic votes are found and can make a difference, $300 million could go a very long way toward encouraging them...
...final episode, not surprisingly, became a national phenomenon, and we join the rest of the nation and the host of last-episode partiers in saying farewell. Farewell to the helicopters, clarion call of the wounded, which open each show. Farewell to the Swamp, home of Hawkeye’s infamous still, which kept the camp in high spirits. Farewell to the mess tent, the only place in camp that refused to patronize. Farewell to the most recent additions to the cast. To Colonel Potter who saw the war as a Zane Grey western. To Charles Emerson Winchester III, Harvard?...
...Democratic win in November. Ward leaders like old Mike Stack of the 58th up in Somerton, where my parents moved us to, still boast of the fact that Jack Kennedy was elected by guys like them. Philadelphia gave Kennedy a 330,000-vote plurality in 1960, enough to swamp the rest of the state. Back then, Pennsylvania had as many electoral votes as California, a state Kennedy lost to native son Richard Nixon...