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WTO, 10 years later

I got my first taste and only taste of tear gas ten years ago today. I was an 18 year old college freshman at the University of Washington. It was a typical November day in Seattle, about 50 degrees and drizzling. Around 10 in the morning I was walking to my calculus class through red [...]
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The rich in 08

Voted a lot like the 04 map. If Washington, Delaware, Minnesota, and New Mexico flopped. The poor on the other hand, voted 48-2 D.  Five Thirty Eight takes a look
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10 days left

I remember …  … 3 am, the first tuesday of November in 2000. Florida was called for Bush the second time, and declared the winner … the next 30 days of recount madness. Lots of maneuvering and court decisions that I didn’t understand. I was a freshman in college, I knew it wasn’t going our way, and [...]
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