Opinion: Clinton, McCain, Obama, Romney help mark The Ticket’s 1st birthday

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The Ticket celebrated its 1st birthday this week.

As we noted on the actual day, June 11, it’s been an eventful year that began with front-runners who ended in the rear. We wanted The Ticket to be a virtually round-the-clock, coast-to-coast operation with unpredictable items written in surprising ways.

We wish you could have been at our party. An amazing time. Hillary Clinton was there. A new pantsuit. Barack Obama was hitting everyone up for more money. Mitt Romney was handing it out. Rudy Giuliani was taking some to cover his debts.

John Edwards was hedging on his plans. Fred Thompson was supposed to attend, but he overslept after another long two-hour campaign day. John McCain called for a 100-year party.

And Rep. Ron Paul, the millionaire with his money in precious metals, was warning everyone about an impending financial crisis if we don’t dump the Fed. And Al Gore couldn’t decide if he wasn’t coming or not.

We’ve published some 2,300 items, received nearly 47,000 reader comments and more than 11.5 million page views in this last year. We’re now ranked in the world’s top 140 blogs and we thank you for that.

We look forward to thousands more items and comments and millions more readers through this historic election and way beyond.

As a gesture of our generosity here on The Ticket, we wanted everyone to have a piece of our cake. So here you go. Dig in. Enjoy. Thanks again.

-- Andrew Malcolm and Don Frederick

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