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Rust Belt redistricting could bolster GOP majority in 2012
Freshman Rep. Mark Critz (D) managed to survive Tuesday’s Republican onslaught in Pennsylvania, a tidal wave that swept out five of his Democratic colleagues from the state’s House delegation, flipped a U.S. Senate seat and handed full control of the state government to the GOP. Critz, who took the seat More…
Political Pile-Up Slows Tea Party Movement in Its Top State
Colorado has seen a significant political turnaround in the last two years. In 2008, 54 percent of the state’s population voted for Barack Obama; since then, it has become the Tea Party movement’s leading bastion. But Colorado Tea Partiers are having a bad day today. Politicians favorable to More…
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Alvin Greene’s candidacy feeds into perceptions that South Carolina has become the “car wreck on the American political highway.”
A battle looms over whether to repeal the Bush-era tax cuts …
… And both parties appear likely to use the tax cuts as a More…
With Capito Out, 11 Vie to Be Manchin’s Republican Challenger
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito’s (R) announcement Wednesday that she would not run in West Virginia’s special election to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D) left her party without its best chance at a competitive race against the likely Democratic nominee, Gov. Joe Manchin. Still, her exit from More…
Sotomayor Supporter Alexander to Vote ‘No’ on Kagan; Collins a ‘Yes’
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) announced today that he will vote against Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan when she comes up for a vote by the full Senate the week of Aug. 2.
Alexander is the 21st Republican senator to publicly oppose Kagan, so it’s not a surprise in that respect. More…
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At least 40 members of the House have joined Michelle Bachman’s (R-Minn.) Tea Party Caucus.
More wealthy candidates are running self-financed — yet populist — campaigns this year.
China institutes a cap-and-trade plan, even as the U.S. Senate abandons the idea.
While former Rep. More…
Who in the House Crossed the Aisle for the Unemployment Extension Vote?
Yesterday’s final Senate vote on the unemployment benefits extension bill saw two Republicans and one Democrat vote with the majority of members of the other party, bringing the vote to 60-40 in favor of the bill. When the House voted on the bill today, 31 Republicans voted with More…
Lt. Dan Choi Discharged Under ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Newsweek reports that Lt. Dan Choi, a highly visible figure in the debate over repealing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, has become a victim of that very law. Choi’s commander in the New York Army National Guard informed him this morning that he has been officially discharged.
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One year after the “Beer Summit,” Democrats are once again on the defensive on race.
Jerry Brown (D) on Meg Whitman (R): I’ve “overseen thousands of businesses. … She ran her … her website.”
Some of the most controversial candidates in the country are winning their More…
CREW Calls Three Florida Senate Candidates ‘Crooked’
The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington apparently thinks the race for Florida’s open U.S. Senate seat is corrupt all around. Yesterday it listed the three top candidates in the race — Gov. Charlie Crist (I), Rep. Kendrick Meek (D) and former state House Speaker More…
