Members of the Socialist Party lined the tree-shaded walkway that guided tens of thousands of self-dubbed progressives and union members of all stripes to the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Passing out a newspaper with the headline, “Tax The Rich, End The Wars,” one eager party member More…
Tea Party Express, the California-based organization famous for propelling Nevada’s Sharron Angle — and later Alaska’s Joe Miller and Delaware’s Christine O’Donnell — over entrenched Republicans to capture the GOP Senate nominations in their respective states, has announced another cross-country bus tour and series of campaign rallies that will More…
The Nevada Democratic Party filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission on Wednesday against the state’s Senate GOP candidate Sharron Angle and her onetime primary competitor Danny Tarkanian. The complaint alleges that Tarkanian violated FEC rules by campaigning for Angle and running a political committee against Senate Majority More…
In the wake of the Palin endorsement in Delaware, another subplot is brewing. The Delaware GOP, which is backing Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) for the Republican Senate nomination, has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission that accuses Tea Party Express and their chosen candidate, Christine O’Donnell, of More…
On late Tuesday, a Sarah Palin “retweet” with favorable words for Delaware GOP Senate primary candidate Christine O’Donnell provoked a controversy: was a retweet the same as a tweet? More importantly, did it count as an endorsement? O’Donnell, for her part, stayed coy: “No, that’s a retweet. That’s a, More…
After Tea Party candidate Joe Miller’s shocking upset over Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) in Alaska’s Republican Senate primary, the media’s attention shifted quickly to an unlikely location — the politically staid state of Delaware. Seemingly overnight, the press discovered Christine O’Donnell, the perennial (and unsuccessful) far-right candidate challenging longtime More…
The Tea Party Express, feeling their oats after propelling Joe Miller to a (likely) victory over Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) in Alaska, is now preparing to raise and spend some big bucks on behalf of outsider Tea Party affiliated candidate Christine O’Donnell in her long shot Senate bid against More…
Republicans have been thrilled that Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) is looking like a shoo-in for a Senate seat in the traditionally blue state of Delaware. Which explains why they’re reacting with such hostility to the announcement by Tea Party Express that the group is backing his challenger, Christine O’Donnell More…
The ballots are still being tallied in Alaska — at last count, Joe Miller remains in the lead over Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in the GOP primary by a mere 1,660 votes — but in the meantime everyone is asking the same question: where did Miller come from?
Sarah Palin expands the English language.
The FEC hits Joe Biden with a $219,000 fine for accepting illegal campaign donations.
The acting director of national intelligence responds to The Washington Post’s allegations about the intelligence community’s lack of coordination.
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