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Study: Virginity Pledges Don’t Work

Confirming what many have been saying for years, a new survey finds that teenagers who pledge to forgo sexual activity until marriage were just as likely to engage in premarital sex as those who do not. Adolescents who take the pledge are also less likely than their peers to use birth control or condoms when [...]

Michigan and Ohio: Swing States No More?

Another good point made by TWI’s Daphne Eviatar and Josh Marshall, who sums it up well. From TPM:
Senate Republicans are following this course for three key reasons — first is payback against a major industrial union; second is payback against states like Michigan and Ohio who have been moving away from the GOP; third is [...]

McCain’s Change and Corporate Media

I appear as a guest on Peter B. Collins‘ radio show — which is fun because it has live callers. It’s like talking to blog commenters, if commenters were more supportive. (Kidding! Sort of.)
Anyway, in a segment on Friday, a caller raised big questions about how Republicans can possibly seize the change mantle, if that [...]

Obama Aims at Economy in Flint Today

CHICAGO, IL — On the first official day of the general election homestretch, Sen. Barack Obama is rushing to address the latest economic news, as the government bails out the mortgage giants. He is probably also looking to counter The St. Paul Bounce — which is powering the Republican ticket’s largest national lead in eight [...]

Clintonite Wolfson Touts Obama (Even without Campaign Job)

When I ran into Howard Wolfson, the former message czar for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign, at the Democratic National Convention last week, I asked him why he wasn’t working on the Obama campaign. He said he hadn’t been asked. Sen. Barack Obama’s aides would have been wise to tap Wolfson. He is not only [...]