November Elections

Obama's Quandry: Bashing Blundering Banks While Courting Wall Street Cash

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's response to JPMorgan Chase's spectacular trading failure underscores a persistent tension in his presidency -- ...

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Barney Frank Lays Into House Republican On Jobs, Wall Street Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.13.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) lit into Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Sunday, when both appeared on ABC's "This Week." The show sta...

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Feinstein Defends Obama on Gay Marriage: 'What's Wrong With People Being Happy?'

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.13.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) defended President Barack Obama on Sunday from Republican charges that he has "flip-flopped" by speakin...

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Thune Won't 'Foreclose Options' On Being Romney's Vice President

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.13.2012

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WASHINGTON -- When asked Sunday whether he would accept an invitation to run as vice president on the ticket with presumptive GOP presidential nominee...

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Bank Of America Meeting Gets Protestors Warmed Up For Democratic National Convention

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.09.2012

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Dozens of good-government groups, Occupy Wall Street contingents, environmental activists, struggling homeowners and institutional investors are desce...

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Bank of America Targeted By Protesters And Investors As SEC Weighs Political Spending Rule

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.07.2012

WASHINGTON -- As the Securities and Exchange Commission considers requiring corporations to disclose their political spending to shareholders, a coali...

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Congress Revolts On Obama Plan That Would Ban 'Buy American'

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.03.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A group of 68 House Democrats and one Republican sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Thursday urging him to reconsider an element...

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Bank of America Protest Draws Preemptive Crackdown

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.02.2012

The city of Charlotte, N.C., has announced broad restrictions on protests planned for a May 9 Bank of America shareholders meeting, citing safety conc...

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New Orleans Tries to Hold on to Its Mail Plant During USPS Cuts

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.28.2012

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Plans to move regional, mail-processing activities from Loyola Avenue in downtown New Orleans to Baton Rouge are not a done deal, according to the U.S. Postal Service and union spokesmen last week.

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WATCH: HuffPost Super Tuesday Video Stream Features Seamus Romney

Posted 03.07.2012

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HuffPost ran a nearly six-hour live video stream covering the Republican Super Tuesday presidential primaries, and the results were . . . fun! Armed w...

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Dems Get Pummeled By Small Business Polls

Posted 05.25.2011

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Two new polls released this week show that small business owners are not happy with Democrats. The Discover Small Business Watch -- a survey of 750 b...

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Obama: GOP Will Undo Financial Reform

Politico | Abby Phillip | Posted 05.25.2011

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In his weekly Saturday address, President Obama warned that if Republicans take control of Congress this November, they would repeal consumer protecti...

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What Does Joe the Plumber Want?

Hussain Abdul-Hussain | Posted 05.25.2011

Amidst the Tea Party and GOP's purposeful vagueness, they have found it best to stick with the populist theme of Joe the Plumber, first invented by the McCain-Palin campaign in 2008.

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Cancer, Basil Marceaux and Tennessee's "Goober"natorial Spectacle

Molly Secours | Posted 05.25.2011

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The comic relief that was provided by Marceux these past few weeks distracted from the fact that there were few substantive differences between any of the candidates.

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GOP Releases Election Blueprints, Incumbent Hit List For November

Politico | Alex Isenstadt | Posted 05.25.2011

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The GOP blueprint for winning control of the House is rapidly coming into focus, with the National Republican Congressional Committee readying a $22 m...

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"Fighting Extremism" Should Be Theme for Fall Campaign

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Here are just a few of the mainstream truths Democrats could advance, while also noting what extremism has wrought: an economy that has failed the middle class, and an atmosphere of fear and loathing that has paralyzed needed actions.

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Voter Volatility Reaches Historic Highs During Election 'Year Of Fear'

The Wall Street Journal | Gerald F. Seib | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's becoming increasingly clear that Americans aren't simply in the midst of hard times. They are in the midst of one of the most volatile political ...

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Henry Waxman: If 'Most Difficult Democrats' Get Ousted In November That Wouldn't Be So Bad

The Hill | Russell Berman and Molly K. Hooper | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) believes the November elections will likely weed out some of "most difficult Democrats" that leadership lawmakers have de...

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GOP Willing To Rely On 'Party Of No' Reputation For Midterm Elections

The Washington Post | Perry Bacon Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Republicans say polls suggest that they can oppose all of these initiatives by casting them into a broader critique of Democrats increasing the size o...

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American Crossroads GPS, New Rove Group, Has Dems Questioning Obama's Political Operations

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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News that two former top Bush strategists have formed a spinoff organization to dig up dirt on Congressional Democrats before the 2010 elections has r...

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Democrats' Election Hopes May Hinge On Frustrated, Independent Voters

AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEDIA, Pa. — Democrat Joe Sestak – a son of the Philadelphia suburbs – needs the independent voters in his backyard as he campaigns ...

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Eric Cantor Says Republicans Could Take Back The House In November: Will They Really?

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) hopped on the GOP-could-take-control-of-the-House bandwagon on Monday -- a prediction offered by none other th...

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One Big Thing Congress Can Do to Improve the Economy Before Election Day

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

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The last thing Democrats can afford is to go into Election Day with is an economy that is actually losing jobs once again. That is exactly what may happen if Congress does not pass state fiscal relief and extend unemployment benefits.

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Gulf Oil Spill Leaks Into Elections Nationwide

The New York Times | Damien Cave | Posted 05.25.2011

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Candidates from coast to coast -- and many states in between -- are redirecting their campaigns in an emotional, frantic effort to turn the oil spill ...

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Evidence Arizona Immigration Law May Be Fatal Mistake for GOP

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

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If a surge of anti-Republican Hispanic voters destroys the careers of enough politicians who thought that pandering to anti-immigrant fear was good politics, the whole political narrative about immigration reform will change.

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