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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Posts Tagged FiveThirtyEight.com

Specter Reconsidering His Position on OLC Nominee Dawn Johnsen

By | 10.22.09 | 10:24 pm

Earlier this year when Arlen Specter was still a Republican, the Pennsylvania senator was among the harshest critics of Dawn Johnsen, the Indiana University law professor who is President Obama’s pick to head the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.

The OLC is the office that housed such More…

McCain’s Iowa Upset Hope Fading

By | 10.27.08 | 2:45 pm

The Huffington Post flags this story from The Times of London, which examines the state of the presidential race in Iowa, where Sen. John McCain clings to the hope of pulling off an upset.

The Times caught up with a pair of African-American canvassers leaving McCain’s Midwest More…