By:
Kristi Eaton and Walter R. Mears
10/21/12 6:31 PM
George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way — and that he had done so.
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With the Vice-Presidential debate behind us, all that remains of the mano-a-mano matchups before Election Day are the final two presidential debates.
According to a Pew research poll, before the first presidential debate, 51 percent of respondents believed that President Barack Obama would win. Many of us were surprised at his dismal performance, but perhaps we shouldn’t have been.
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Over the past two weeks, suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has been distributing a flier to his supporters. On it is a series of bulleted sentiments, or “Points to convey in letters to the editor, supervisors and on-line media sites. Ideas to get started: choose, combine, re-phrase, embellish.”
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After Bill Clinton’s speech Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, the delegates cast their votes on behalf of each state. The woman who took the microphone to cast Arizona’s vote said that her state had produced some fabulous politicians from both parties.
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Since 1851, the holder of the America’s Cup trophy has lost only four times. The structure of the race requires challengers to compete against each other to determine who will go head to head with the champion. While teams exhaust themselves vying for a chance to race the incumbent, the team with the trophy need only worry about the final race.
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For every American conservative of a certain age, a primary memory is the evening of Nov. 4, 1980, when we knew Ronald Reagan, leader of the movement since 1966, derided by liberal elites and despised by the Republican establishment, won the presidency. So the desperate gamble of modern conservatism might pay off, conservatism had a chance, America had a chance. And then, a decade later — with the Cold War won and the economy revived — conservatism was vindicated, America was restored.
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As Occupy SF enters its second month, participants got a shot in the arm Wednesday evening from a man who has been on the other side of the aisle.Economist and activist Robert Reich showed up at Occupy SF’s Justin Herman Plaza camp to give the troops a pep talk, saying they are part of a movement that will change American society.
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Former Seattle transit chief Grace Crunican was named the new general manager of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District on Wednesday.The board voted 8 to 1 to award Crunican a $300,000 annual salary, with potential performance bonuses of $20,000 more. Her contract, which is for an indefinite length, has a one-year severance clause in the event of her firing.
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After a tumultuous four months without a fulltime leader, BART’s board is expected to name a new general manager today.Grace Crunican, former chief of the Seattle Department of Transportation and a deputy administrator of the Federal Transit Administration under President Bill Clinton, is expected to be named general manager in a special board meeting.
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San Francisco’s most famous holder of curious signs has a sponsorship deal with online entertainment website Laughing Squid, from which he nets about $600 monthly, he said. Chu, 51, firmly believes that of approximately 785.2 trillion galaxies in the universe, exactly 12 of them are “guilty.”Please explain about the 12 guilty galaxies. Why are they guilty? They are friends with Bill Clinton and embezzled my money from when I was a movie star.
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