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Democrats Focus on Opponents’ Shady Financial Dealings

By | 09.27.10 | 9:00 am

Democrats are launching fierce negative advertising campaigns against Republicans across the country, noted Sunday’s New York Times, but not all party officials are convinced about the wisdom of taking the low road. And because a number of GOP candidates have entered from fields outside politics, opposition research outfits are More…

Looking for Lott’s Revenge, GOP Aims at Reid Gaffe

By | 01.11.10 | 12:21 am

Moments before midnight on Friday, Marc Ambinder blogged at The Atlantic about some of the “juiciest revelations” in “Game Change,” a behind-the-scenes book on the 2008 presidential campaign by journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. According to the authors, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was More…

Was Specter Joking?

By | 05.05.09 | 5:49 pm

Mark Halperin is really pushing Sen. Arlen Specter’s (D-Pa.) comment that he wants the Minnesota Supreme Court to “do justice and declare Norm Coleman the winner,” but in the context of The New York Times Magazine interview it comes from, it sounds an awful lot like a … More…