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EPA Sets unacceptable Standards--WaPo article

Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 01:37:44 PM PDT

The Washington Post reports:

The Environmental Protection Agency has decided to lower the allowable amount of smog-forming ozone in the air to 75 parts per billion, a level significantly higher than what the agency's scientific advisers urged for this key component of unhealthy air pollution, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

The Story in the Pennsylvania Polls

Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 08:37:24 AM PDT

So I'm sure many of you have noticed this, but I haven't seen anything on it at dailykos, so here goes.  I'm at work, so this will be necessarily brief.  

Over at Real Clear Politics, Pennsylvania Head-to-Head numbers, Senator Clinton is still well ahead in her race against Senator Obama.  
However, the same exact polling organizations that have her a minimum of six points ahead of Obama have Obama beating McCain in the state (Obama +2% average), and Clinton losing to him (average McCain +.3%).

Clinton Hired a Goth Band? Rally Can't Fill Seats.

Thu Feb 21, 2008 at 11:26:12 AM PDT

From Dana Milbank at the Washington Post:

On Tuesday night, Obama had packed in a capacity crowd of more than 18,000 at the Toyota Center in Houston, home of the National Basketball Association's Houston Rockets. But when Clinton emerged to speak at the 6,800-seat Dodge Arena here -- home of a minor-league hockey team -- rows and rows of empty blue seats awaited.

Organizers had pulled out all the stops: a two-dozen-piece mariachi band, Mexican dancers, a cowboy-cowgirl dancing act, a goth rock band, even a guy throwing out T-shirts and shouting "Who's excited?" But it was no use. In the top row of the arena, Jose G. Bustos, wearing a Clinton T-shirt and sticker, had Section 120 to himself. He surveyed the crowd. "We were expecting a little more," he said.

(Entire article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
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