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ANALYSIS: Register’s Fallon Endorsement May Be Boswell’s Price For Not Debating

By John Deeth 5/27/08

It seems like a surprise on the surface, but the Des Moines Register endorsed Ed Fallon Tuesday in the 3rd Congressional District, over incumbent Leonard Boswell.

Why alienate an incumbent who, according to all public polls, is likely to win re-nomination by a two to one margin? Let me help you think like journalists.

Fallon Wasn’t Iowa’s Only Nader Democrat

By John Deeth 4/25/08

Incumbent Leonard Boswell is hammering his 3rd Congressional District Democratic primary challenger, Ed Fallon, over Fallon’s endorsement of Ralph Nader in the 2000 presidential election, charging that Fallon “helped elect George W. Bush.” The appeal is powerful to the party activists who vote in primaries. In the post-Florida era, Democrats consider a 2000 vote for [...]

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