Friday, August 14, 2009

Top Stories: 8/14/09

Politico explores why the Obama town hall meetings might be a lot more calm than those for Congressional Democrats.

Adlai Stevenson III uses the Huffington Post to endorse Dan Hynes in the 2010 Illinois gubernatorial race.

Renard Sexton at FiveThirtyEight.com previews the upcoming August 20th election in Afghanistan.

And former President Bill Clinton defends his 1990s LGBT policies at the Netroots Nation conference in Pittsburg as a gay rights advocate screams at him.



Also - check out the new item under "What We're Looking At": The Redistricting Game. It's supposed to demonstrate the evils of gerrymandering, but really it's just fun to play.

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