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| OK, what are we expecting for black turnout? ASK THIS Reporters and editors shouldn’t be waiting for Election Day to report Republican efforts to suppress the black vote or the Democrats’ drive for a high turnout. They should also ask the pollsters a question or two. 
Financial risk, operational risk | Reporters, can you get the facts and run them by us one more time? ASK THIS Wick Sloane, MBA and all, has some basic questions about the current financial crisis. Like, for example, does anyone know how close we may be to finding our checking accounts inaccessible?
Letter to a county official | A blogger in Texas has questions about voting ASK THIS Linda Wallace wrote a letter to a Harris County official out of concern `that large numbers of citizens will go to the polls on Nov. 4th and discover they can’t vote.’
Minding Georgia | Why is the U.S. being so provocative toward Russia? ASK THIS Does anyone really think that expanding NATO into Eastern Europe is going to bring out the best in Russia? A former CIA station chief says there's a lot more to the Georgian conflict than meets the eye.
Deja vu | Don’t buy the bailout hype ASK THIS| September 267, 2008 David Cay Johnston writes that the administration has scared the markets and some key legislative leaders -- but it has not laid out a coherent, specific and compelling need for its enormous $700 billion bailout proposal. He poses several tough, key questions that remain unanswered.
The 2008 financial crisis | How much will the Paulson package cost, and where’s the money coming from? ASK THIS| September 264, 2008 Martin Lobel notes that under Treasury secretary Henry M. Paulson’s proposal, all key decisions would be made by him or his designees and would not be reviewable. Shouldn’t that raise some questions?
A second-day story | What’s the impact of the meltdown in your state? ASK THIS Wall Street sold an enormous amount of doubtful derivatives to state pension funds. What happens now?
Election 2008 | Questions for McCain and Obama on the economic carnage ASK THIS The candidates talk about protecting the middle class; how would they follow up? Would they, for example, continue to let multinational corporations shift their profits to tax havens abroad? Keep taxing income from labor at a higher rate than income from capital? Eliminate corporate subsidies?
The war in Iraq | Has the 'surge' brought us any closer to 'victory'? ASK THIS Author Peter Galbraith marvels at the conventional wisdom in Washington that the 'surge' has worked. For a variety of reasons, violence is down. But if 'victory' is a secular, democratic and pro-Western Iraq, then the 'surge' hasn't gotten us any closer at all.
Election 2008 | Questions for Obama and McCain on health care ASK THIS Reporters should get down to basics with the candidates: Ask what they would do to hold down costs in the existing system and how they would promote illness prevention programs.
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