With 2009 now in the rear-view mirror, the weekly tracking poll offered to the readers of Daily Kos allows for an interesting graphical look at the political winds of the year that was. One thing becomes evident almost immediately: the pivotal month of the year in the realm of politics was the month...
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2009: Tracking The Year In Politics
Exits, 2009

There's a sad tradition of looking back at the end of the year to see the toll that time has taken of our friends and heroes. We may never had met some of those we most admired, may never have stood in the same place with them. But we shared time with them. Shared...
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Election Night 2009: The Post-Game Show
Well, the off-year elections are now, for all intents and purposes, all over but the shouting. Except for a handful of recounts (I did see a Virginia House of Delegates race that had a 16-vote margin with 100% of precincts reporting), the 2009 election cycle is now in the books. Of course, there...
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The Unofficial Daily Kos Election Night 2009 Viewers Guide
As it does every year, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November brings us to an Election Night in America. The off-year elections tend to be the most limited in terms of the menu, with a night that is primarily comprised of local and county races from coast to coast. That...
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Election Night 2009: A Viewer’s Guide
We are now roughly forty-eight hours away from the polls being open from coast-to-coast in what has been a tumultuous and fairly darned interesting off-year election cycle. Presented below is a little bit of a clip-and-save synopsis of some of the major races that will be ultimately decided when the polls close on Tuesday....
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Cypress Hill Smoke Out 2009

Cypress Hill lädt zum Smoke Out 2009
zweitägiges Festival - 23./24. Oktober
San Manuel, San Bernardino, CA
Hosted by: Cheech and Chong
Mit:
Slipknot, deftones, Cypress Hill, sublime, pennywise, Methodman and Redman, Bad Brains,
Goodie Mob Reunion, Geto Bops Reunion, Breal, Mix Master Mike, Kottonmouth Kings, Living Legends, Hieroglyphics, Knaan with J Period, The DEvin Dude, Dj Muggs, Dirty Heards,...
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What The Elections of 2009 Will Tell Us About 2010
Over the summer, it was pretty hard to miss the less-than-stellar polling numbers for Democrats in gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey. And while those numbers have moderated somewhat (particularly in the Garden State), it has also been pretty hard to miss right wing crowing that the races amounted to a "bellwether" of...
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Pandemic Influenza: 2009 H1N1 And The Peak of The Second Wave?
From the Free Dictionary: pan·dem·ic (pn-dmk) adj. Widespread; general. Medicine Epidemic over a wide geographic area and affecting a large proportion of the population: pandemic influenza. June 11, 2009, Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization: On the basis of available evidence, and...
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Top 10 Lists of 2009 Google Searches Dominated by Democrats, But not Obama
Filed under: Emily's PostGoogle on Tuesday released the top searches within the United States for 2009; the results are surprising and interesting. The top Google searches for senators show that people are more interested in reading about Democrats than Republicans -- only Chuck Grassley of Iowa at No. 9 made the list for...
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It’s Official: 2009 Was Record Year For Lobbying, Despite Recession
The final reports are in and we can now officially say that 2009 was the most profitable year ever for the lobbying industry. The nonpartisan...
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