Democratic Primaries

DeFazio Defeats 24-Year-Old Challenger

The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.16.2012

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Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) on Tuesday coasted to an easy win, predictably crushing his 24-year-old opponent Matthew Robinson, the son of DeFazio's on...

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Lucia Graves

Pot Advocates Celebrate Big Victory In Oregon

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.16.2012

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Pro-pot groups have reason to celebrate: Ellen Rosenblum, a retired appellate court judge who's been vocal in her support for Oregon's medical marijua...

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Lucia Graves

Top Democrat Faces Father, Son Election Challengers

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.16.2012

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Rep. Peter DeFazio, a top Democrat on powerful transportation and natural resources congressional subcommittees, faces challenges from two members of ...

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Lucia Graves

PAYBACK: Progressive Groups Target Turncoat State House Democrats For Defeat

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Liberal advocacy groups are aggressively targeting Democratic state lawmakers who've sided with Republicans to block action on President...

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Oregon Progressives Aim To Unseat Controversial Dem

The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.14.2012

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Progressives in Oregon's 48th district campaigned door-to-door over the weekend in an effort to unseat controversial Democrat and five-term incumbent ...

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Bigoted White Democrats Are Bigger Danger to President Obama Than Romney

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.08.2012

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

A racial outburst in New York City, a Democratic Party bastion, points to a danger that could damage Obama's presidential drive in 2008. That's the absolute refusal of some otherwise rock-solid white Democrats to back him.

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Why Occupy Can't -- and Shouldn't -- Become the Progressive Tea Party

Max Berger | Posted 05.04.2012

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Max Berger

If Occupy tried to start a left Tea Party, we would be following in the footsteps of several progressive movement efforts that came up short.

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Michigan Primary: Anybody's Vote, Anybody's Guess

Olga Bonfiglio | Posted 04.28.2012

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Olga Bonfiglio

Many Michigan Democrats are planning to vote for Santorum Tuesday because they believe a match up between him and Obama would deliver a sure win to the Dems in November. Others refuse to play this game...

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Progressive Prescription for a GOP White House -- Challenge President Obama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.23.2011

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Trying to get a Democrat to launch a primary challenge against Obama is not simply progressive parlor rhetoric about what Obama should or should not be doing. This is a prescription for a GOP White House.

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Knock Off the 'Run Hillary Run' Chatter

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.11.2011

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

This has become a virtual ritual. Just about every month, or more like after each new fresh crisis that President Obama has to ward off, the chant begins: "Run Hillary Run."

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GOP Would Love Nader's Fantasy of a Party Challenge to Obama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.08.2011

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Ralph Nader is as predictable as the sun rising in the Sahara in July. He wasted no time in jumping all over President Obama following the debt ceiling deal.

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Forget Obama, Draft Hillary

Sandy Goodman | Posted 09.26.2011

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Sandy Goodman

Bernie Sanders says President Obama is so weak in his dealings with Republicans that he should be forced to face opposition in next year's Democratic primaries. He didn't name another candidate, but I'd like to suggest one: Hillary Clinton.

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Witches' Brew: Media's Deliberate Misuse of Polling Data Changes Elections

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Abrams

Will the media's reporting of polls that exclude the young voter, but never acknowledging it, reduce those voters' enthusiasm for voting?

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Hold Your Noses and Vote the Bottom of the Ticket to Send A Real Message This Primary Season

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brian Ross

If people cast their ballots only for local measures, that would send a whopping-loud message to the folks in state and national races that you've tuned them out, but that you still believe in the political process.

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Sowing the Seeds of Race, Reaping the Whirlwind of Racism

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reese Schonfeld

The Obama Administration seems to have no overall strategy in dealing with racial issues at a time when accusations of racism flow from both sides of the political aisle.

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Will The Youth Vote Trump Tea Party In Midterm Elections?

Bakari Kitwana | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bakari Kitwana

One of the most important unasked questions this midterm election year is this: "Will the youth vote be a factor in 2010?" Given the actual impact of ...

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Artur Davis Faces Off Against Ron Sparks In Alabama Democratic Primary

AP | PHILLIP RAWLS | Posted 05.25.2011

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A congressman seeking to become Alabama's first black governor lost Tuesday to a white Democratic primary opponent who had ga...

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The Democratic Party's Democracy Problem

Daniel Denvir | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daniel Denvir

Barack Obama is trying to lock in primary candidates in Pennsylvania and New York who, ahem, were never even elected to the position in question: Democratic nominee for the United States Senate.

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From Iowa to Inauguration: A Retrospective on the Precariousness of Primary Politics

Maegan Carberry | Posted 05.25.2011

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Maegan Carberry

To remind people of the absurdity that dictates who makes the most important decisions on earth, this week I am publishing my emails from the time I spent in Iowa last winter while making a video about the caucus process.

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E-Voting Machine Produces Out-Of-Whack Result. D'oh!!!

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Diane Tucker

"Voters shouldn't worry," said Michelle Schafer of Sequoia Voting Machines. "We're in much better shape than in 2000 and 2004. Poll workers and election officials are better educated. New guidelines are in place..."

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Vetting Joe Biden: My Conversation With His Classmate

Cristina Chang | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cristina Chang

When Joe was a teenager his friends laughed at his stated ambition to be president, but they knew he was determined to make a career of helping people.

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Winning to Change or Changing to Win: Obama and the Progressive Dilemma

Marshall Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Grossman

Those of us who want real change must hold with one hand to the absolute necessity of an Obama victory and with the other to the possibility that pragmatic cynicism may be precisely not the road to achieve victory.

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Hillary's 2012 End Game

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Diane Francis

This week will be great fun to watch because the delegate arithmetic simply doesn't work after Tuesday. Then, the real Hillary will be revealed in one of two scenarios.

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Puerto Rico Primary: Clinton Wins

AP | DAVID ESPO and JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hillary Rodham Clinton won a lopsided, but largely symbolic victory Sunday in Puerto Rico's presidential primary, the fi...

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Clinton expects superdelegates to decide next week

AP | MATT GOURAS | Posted 05.25.2011

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HELENA, Mont. — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she expects uncommitted superdelegates to begin making the choice that will decide her marath...

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