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First, conservative Republican former state House Speaker Marco Rubio handed Charlie Crist embarrassment after embarrassment by obliterating Crist in numerous straw polls across Florida, confirming that Florida's conservative Republican base overwhelmingly prefers Rubio to Crist as their nominee, no...

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The man who beat non-Democrat Joe Lieberman in the 2006 Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut urges you to stand with the man who will beat non-Democrat Arlen Specter in the 2010 Democratic Senate primary in Pennsylvania.

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Who is Republican Richard Burr? Let these vignettes inform you.

1) Richard Burr Voted Against Giving Rape Victims Their Day in Court

Senator Al Franken of Minnesota proposed an amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill that would withhold defense...

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By never referring to his criminal act of soliciting prostitutes (only vaguely calling it a "very serious sin") and by only facing pre-screened audiences who will never ask him tough questions, Hookerlover David Vitter was hoping that people would...

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Conservative columnist George Will thinks that conservative Republican former state House Speaker Marco Rubio will pull off an upset and defeat Charlie Crist in the 2010 GOP Senate primary:

In January 2011, one Floridian will leave for the U.S....

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Nearly a month-and-a-half ago, 70-year-old Republican Rep. Mike Castle said the following:

I have a responsibility, primarily to the Republican Party of Delaware, to make it relatively soon. And relatively means in the next month or so.

So what is...

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One of recent Republican Arlen Specter's weak but frequent lines of attack against Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak is that Congressman Sestak has missed handfuls of votes in the House. Now, given the hundreds of procedural and substantive votes, most Representatives...

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If the NRSC had its druthers, the establishment candidate for the Republicans in the upcoming special election for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts would be a former statewide elected official (former Gov. Mitt Romney, former Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, former Gov. Paul...

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About two weeks ago, I wrote a post entitled "FL-Sen: Marco Rubio Crushing Charlie Crist Among Florida Republican Grassroots." I went through seven Republican County Committees in Florida that have either censured Gov. Charlie Crist, come very close to censuring...

Right now, beginning at 5pm Eastern Time, Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak will hold a liveblog session for about an hour at Senate Guru.

Congressman Sestak will take your questions, discuss health care reform and the President's address last night, and give us an update on his primary campaign against...

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This is what Nebraska's Democratic Senator, Ben Nelson, said on Sunday morning regarding the public option and a possible "trigger" mechanism:

Well I think he [Obama] has to say that if there's going to be a public option, it has...

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The most telling polling item I have seen in 2009 regarding the 2010 Republican Senate primary between Gov. Charlie Crist and conservative former state House Speaker Marco Rubio is the following tidbit from a late-June Mason-Dixon poll:

Among Republican...

With the 2010 Senate races in Ohio and Kentucky featuring two of the most competitive Democratic primaries of the cycle, in two of the key Senate battleground states, Senate Guru contacted the Democratic primaries' major candidates -- in Ohio, Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher and Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer...

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Hookerlover David Vitter is having a pretty rough week. And the week didn't even feature the sleaziness of soliciting prostitutes and cheating on his wife and children or the cowardice of turning constituents away from a town hall event...

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Y'all remember John Ensign, right? He's the Republican U.S. Senator from Nevada who recently announced that he cheated on his wife with an aide. But he's not resigning - despite the fact that he called on President Clinton to resign...

Congressman Joe Sestak has been an unwavering voice for real health care reform. Check out his latest diary on Daily Kos:

We have to bring health care costs down, while covering all Americans. To do this, all Americans need access to preventive care, and all health insurance providers...

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Two Democratic former state legislators, Tom Fiegen and Bob Krause, are working on 2010 Senate bids to face Republican deather Chuck "pull the plug on grandma" Grassley. Despite Grassley's increasingly Looney Tunes demeanor, he does have just over...

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There are two current Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives who are presently running for seats in the U.S. Senate, Missouri's Roy Blunt and Illinois' Mark Kirk. Both have been telling easy-to-debunk lies in the health care debate.

First,...

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Remember last week how Republican Hookerlover David Vitter talked tough regarding "angry mobs" appearing at elected officials' town hall events:

This and any other angry mob is welcome to my town hall meetings whenever you want to come.

Of...

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"Birther" has entered the parlance as someone who doubts or flat-out denies President Obama's natural born citizenship. It turns out that a sizable chunk of southern Republicans are birthers.

Public Policy Polling tested North Carolina voters to find out how...