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	<title>Scrutiny Hooligans &#187; Presidential Race</title>
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		<title>Oh No.</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/01/21/oh-no/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/01/21/oh-no/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have time for a proper post about this, but here&#8217;s the skinny from MSNBC:
In a landmark ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down laws that banned corporations from using their own money to support or oppose candidates for public office.
By 5-4 vote, the court overturned federal laws, in effect for decades, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liveblogging the Dawning of a New Era</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2009/01/20/liveblogging-the-dawning-of-a-new-era/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2009/01/20/liveblogging-the-dawning-of-a-new-era/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arratik</dc:creator>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Scrutiny Hooligans Year In Review</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/12/30/scrutiny-hooligans-year-in-review/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/12/30/scrutiny-hooligans-year-in-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scrutiny Hooligans had a great year in 2008, averaging over 12,000 unique visitors per month and with a roof-blowing 26,000+ in October.  The commenter community is consistently witty, thoughtful, and informative.  This blog has helped to educate, advocate, and empower Ashevillains of all political stripes while providing a forum unavailable anywhere else.
Before we [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>The General Election in Six Minutes, Nine Seconds</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/12/18/the-general-election-in-six-minutes-nine-seconds/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/12/18/the-general-election-in-six-minutes-nine-seconds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Monday Stuff You&#8217;re About To Know</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/12/08/monday-stuff-youre-about-to-know/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/12/08/monday-stuff-youre-about-to-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[{Picture taken by a cat.  Story here.}
Happy Monday, Hooligans.  I hope y&#8217;all had a wonderful weekend in this bracing weather.  Mine was full of citrus, parties, Rock Band, disc golf, and more. The week&#8217;s back at us, and it&#8217;s a couple of weeks before we can go into Holiday Mode. Here are [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Asheville Arts, Developers, and Voters</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/12/04/asheville-arts-developers-and-voters/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/12/04/asheville-arts-developers-and-voters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the bloggui&#8217;s got me, take these excellent links and do with them what you will:
Diane Ruggiero, Asheville&#8217;s Superintendent of Cultural Arts, has started blogging at ARTSBLOG.  From her inaugural post:
&#8220;I think I am the only “bureaucrat” (notice the lower-case “b”) guest blogger. As I blog, I hope to share an alternate point of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Open Thread &#8211; Checking Out</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/07/friday-open-thread-checking-out/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/07/friday-open-thread-checking-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NC Governor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to do a little work this morning then abscond to the mountains of Virginia for three days of internet-free R&#38;R.  Riding ATVs, shooting guns, drinking moonshine, and howling at the moon &#8211; just like a real American.
I haven&#8217;t had the energy or inclination to do some big wrap-up or analysis of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Picks Up Another One</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/06/obama-picks-up-another-one/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/06/obama-picks-up-another-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Presidential Race]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obama got Nebraska&#8217;s last Elector.  They split the electors in that state.
355 365.
Sorry no link, I got a call from a dependable source to let me know.
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		<title>Barack Obama Wins North Carolina</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/06/barack-obama-wins-north-carolina/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/06/barack-obama-wins-north-carolina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Presidential Race]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well Hell Yes We Did:
2,123,334 &#8211; Obama
2,109,281 &#8211; McCain
To everyone who cast a ballot, you brought NC into the blue for the first time in a generation, and you put Barack Obama over the magic number of 350 electoral votes, making this election an honest-to-God landslide.
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		<title>Indeed.</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/05/indeed/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/05/indeed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arratik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Presidential Race]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
(image by David Erik Nelson &#8211; h/t dj empirical)
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		<title>Congratulations, President-Elect Obama!</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/04/congratulations-president-elect-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/04/congratulations-president-elect-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arratik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Presidential Race]]></category>

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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>1,000 words</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/04/1000-words/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/04/1000-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arratik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Presidential Race]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Captured by our pal bobaloo this afternoon in the parking lot of North Buncombe Elementary School (click to embiggen):

Yep.
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Scrutiny Hooligans&#8217; Asheville-Buncombe Voter Guide</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/03/scrutiny-hooligans-asheville-buncombe-voter-guide/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/03/scrutiny-hooligans-asheville-buncombe-voter-guide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carl Mumpower]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Scrutiny Hooligans&#8217; Asheville &#8211; Buncombe Voter Guide click here!
One more posting for the last-minute shoppers.  Send the link to your slack friends who couldn&#8217;t get it together be among the 48% of registered voters who already cast a ballot in early voting.
For Scrutiny Hooligans&#8217; Asheville &#8211; Buncombe Voter Guide click here!
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		<title>Got a revolution, got to revolution&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/01/got-a-revolution-got-to-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/01/got-a-revolution-got-to-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arratik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Action]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(c/p from somewhere else)

&#8220;We are volunteers of America&#8221; &#8211; Jefferson Airplane
This pic was snapped on my crappy cell phone camera at the Obama field office on Merrimon Ave. this morning. I worked the phones for a couple of hours &#8211; mostly disconnected or wrong numbers on the lists that I was given, but I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicken Shit</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/01/chicken-shit/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/01/chicken-shit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Presidential Race]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your Republican Minority Leader, John Boehner, campaigning for John McCain in Miami, Ohio refers to Obama&#8217;s votes of &#8220;present&#8221; in the Illinois State Senate, which were 3% of his total votes while serving there:
&#8220;In Congress, we have a red button, a green button and a yellow button, alright. Green means &#8216;yes,&#8217; red means &#8216;no,&#8217; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Halloween</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/10/31/happy-halloween/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/10/31/happy-halloween/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Gibson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Presidential Race]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A freehand pumpkin carving seen in my neighborhood. If you&#8217;ve noted any other interesting crossovers between the election and all hallow&#8217;s eve, you can put them in the comments.
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Charge Yer Cell</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/10/31/charge-yer-cell/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/10/31/charge-yer-cell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential Race]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=6305</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Really&#8230; If I run into any of you and you haven&#8217;t thrown some hours into volunteering for someone, I&#8217;m going to wonder what could possibly ever motivate you to do anything.
WEST ASHEVILLE PHONEBANKING HQs (Phone Bank)
Alright West Ashevillians! We have a spot for you to come and phonebank during the critical last four days of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Subliminable?</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/10/30/subliminable/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/10/30/subliminable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arratik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Misc.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This doesn&#8217;t happen by accident. (via Hanlon&#8217;s Razor):


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		<title>Last Chances</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/10/29/last-chances/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/10/29/last-chances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are 173,823 registered voters in Buncombe County.  That&#8217;s 9% more than there were in January of this year due to the tireless efforts of volunteers.   As of 3pm today these were the numbers in Buncombe County:

Just under a third of Buncombe&#8217;s registered voters have gone to the polls.  39% of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Voted For Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/10/29/wednesday-reading-hysterical/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/10/29/wednesday-reading-hysterical/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local goodness:

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