There is also no word on a massive push for local police forces who toil with low wages and antiquated equipment - the so-called quick response team of the Maharashtra police, for example, has not fired a single shot in the past year because of the lack of ammunition.

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Recall how in 2007, the "Paulbots" were everywhere: running up the numbers on every online poll they could find, generating one-day fundraising records in a desperate bid for national attention (they coined the word "money-bomb"), and creating massive amounts of voter-generated media on his behalf.

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And the word is, as I said, the Blue Dogs started right after the 1994 election, where there was a massive party change in Washington, and the Blue Dogs started to choke so hard on where the national party was going that they turned blue.

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