Published: June 8, 2010
Analysis: Can Democrats avoid the summer curse?
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Rarely has the American electorate been so angry, unhappy and ready to throw the bums out. According to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll, voter antipathy toward Washington is rising and anti-incumbent sentiment is at an all-time high: Only 29% of Americans say they’re inclined to back their House representatives come November. As voters head [...]
Published: June 8, 2010
Lincoln faces test as voters choose fall matchups
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WASHINGTON – Democrat Blanche Lincoln battled to survive union opposition and an anti-incumbent tide that’s already drowned two fellow senators, and political outsiders from coast to coast tested their strength Tuesday on the busiest day of an unpredictable primary season.
With polls showing a sullen electorate, there was no shortage of subplots as voters in nearly [...]
Published: June 3, 2010
In oil spill shadow, Obama pledges energy bill push
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PITTSBURGH (Reuters) –
President Barack Obama pledged on Wednesday to find Senate support for a bill to overhaul U.S. energy policy and called for an end to oil company tax breaks in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico spill.
Obama, in remarks at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, also predicted that a May jobs report to [...]
Published: June 3, 2010
Romanoff Confirms White House Cited Potential Jobs
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The Colorado Democrat who is trying to oust incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet in that state’s hotly contested primary has confirmed that a top White House official effectively dangled three administration posts in an attempt to deter him from seeking the [...]
Published: June 3, 2010
Rod Blagojevich’s day in court arrives
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By DANIEL LIBIT, Chicago News Cooperative
CHICAGO — It was all such a glorious pretrial. Nineteen months of attempts to delay ended Wednesday for Rod Blagojevich, who goes on trial beginning Thursday for, among other things, allegedly trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama when he became president.
On Wednesday morning, Judge James [...]
Published: June 1, 2010
Al and Tipper Gore, married 40 years, to separate
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, are separating after 40 years of marriage that included a White House run when their sunny relationship offered a counterpoint to President Bill Clinton’s philandering.
According to an e-mail circulated among the couple’s associates on Tuesday, the Gores said it was “a mutual and [...]
Published: June 1, 2010
Stories that could rock the summer
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On the eve of the summer campaign doldrums, the narrative for the midterm elections seems well-established: Big losses are in store for Democrats in November, incumbents of all stripes ought to be looking over their shoulders and the political establishments in both parties are out of favor.
Yet as fixed as those story lines might seem [...]
Published: June 1, 2010
Ill. Sen. hopeful questioned about military claim
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – On a weekend dedicated to honoring military service, Illinois Senate candidate Mark Kirk found himself on the defensive over his past claims that he was named the U.S. Navy’s intelligence officer of the year, an award he never won.
For years, Kirk and his staff have said he was officer of the year. [...]
Published: May 27, 2010
Congress to vote on military gay ban
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WASHINGTON – Congress is headed toward landmark votes on whether to allow gays to serve openly in the military.
The House was expected to vote as early as Thursday on a proposal by Rep. Patrick Murphy, a Pennsylvania Democrat who served in the Iraq war, that would repeal the 1993 law known as “don’t ask, don’t [...]
Published: May 27, 2010
WH pulling out all the stops to defend oil spill handling to media
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The White House, continuing its effort to push back against negative media coverage of the government’s handling of the oil spill, held an on-the-record meeting Wednesday between incident commander Thad Allen and several influential political columnists.
Among those on hand in the Roosevelt Room meeting were the Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne and Eugene Robinson, the Wall [...]
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