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SEP 26 2007

The presidential candidates revealed

The true nature of a political promise: With no platform to judge, on what other basis could voters make a decision when casting a ballot? Reading between the lines: Scrutinizing the frontrunners. Word for word, the presidential candidates revealed. Lie Detectors: FactCheck.org, the St. Petersburg Times, and the Washington Post smoke out the political BS. A look at how numbers are used by political campaigns, often improperly, and how two Web sites are seeking to monitor and correct political number games. The Heckler Hall of Fame: A look at how presidential candidates face their challengers. Bill Clinton invented the Sister Souljah moment. Is having one still a political requirement or more a political cliche? Glenn Greenwald on David Brooks and the deceitful tactics of the Beltway pundit: The only real goal of the Beltway pundit is to depict Washington orthodoxies as popular among "most Americans," even when they are not.

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