Happy New Year: Iowa GOP To Set Caucus Date For Jan 3rd
A Republican official tells CBS News that Iowa Republicans will schedule their caucuses for Thursday, January 3, 2008. The Iowa Republican State Commi...
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Mitt And Rudy Spending More Than They Are Raising
New York Times | MICHAEL COOPER and ARON PILHOFER | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics
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Two of the leading Republican presidential candidates spent more than they raised this summer, according to campaign finance reports filed yesterday, ...
Clinton Reports $35 Million In The Bank, Edging Obama's $32 Million
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics
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Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton ended September with more money in the bank than rival Barack Obama, holding $35 million cash on hand for the presiden...
To His Dismay, Ron Paul Becoming Magnet For White Supremacists
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics
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Through no fault of his own, Rep. Ron Paul's anti-globalist, anti-government campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has become a magnet i...
McCain To Participate In December Univision Forum
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics
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Senator John McCain has announced that he will participate in a Spanish-language presidential candidates' forum on Univision. The event on the Spanis...
Why 2008 will be a Perfect Storm for Republicans
Mark Green | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics
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Pro-war and anti-growth, anti-minorities, anti-children. Not a good way to run for election. And variety of other realities combine to dig Republicans into an even deeper hole.
New Hampshire Asks: Where's Fred?
AP | Phillip Elliott | Posted 10.14.2007 | Politics
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Mitt Romney was in Michigan, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada and then went back to Michigan. Rudy Giuliani visited Florida, Michigan, South Carolina, Ala...
GOP Exodus
AP | David Espo | Posted 10.14.2007 | Politics
Rep. David Hobson, a nine-term Republican from Ohio, announced plans to retire Sunday, the 12th member of his party to do so since the beginning of th...
Larry Craig Ethics Complaint Backfires On GOP
AP | Charles Babington | Posted 10.12.2007 | Politics
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Larry who? Now that scandal-tinged Idaho Sen. Larry Craig has reneged on a pledge to resign this fall, his fellow Republican senators act as though t...
Grading on a curve
David Roberts | Posted 10.11.2007 | Politics
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grist.orgAll the action and excitement around climate change policy seems to have lulled Chris Mooney into a false sense of security about the current...
To Fight New Spying Bill, House Republicans Try Doublespeak
Michael Roston | Posted 10.11.2007 | Politics
The Republicans have decided to take a page out of the progressive playbook. In the days to come, watch for them to argue that the Democratic legislation will harm civil liberties.
It's the Economy, Stupid
Bob Burnett | Posted 10.09.2007 | Business
Whether Americans view the U.S. economy as getting better or worse depends upon where their position in the economic pecking order.
Bar Set Low For Thompson Debate Expectations
Politico.com | Roger Simon | Posted 10.08.2007 | Home
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All he has to do is not fall asleep. All he has to do is not throw up. All he has to do is not drool. Has there ever been a major presidential c...
Craig To Be Inducted In Idaho Hall Of Fame
AP via ABC News | Posted 10.07.2007 | Home
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Sen. Larry Craig has been chosen for induction into the Idaho Hall of Fame, despite his well-publicized arrest and guilty plea in an airport sex sting...
Religious Conservatives Take A Back Seat In '08 Elections
The New York Times | LAURIE GOODSTEIN | Posted 10.06.2007 | Home
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AFTER the 2004 elections, religious conservatives were riding high. Newly anointed by pundits as "values voters" -- a more flattering label than "reli...
Thompson's Southern Strategy Could Backfire In Iowa, NH
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In South Carolina, the former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson's campaign is fond of pointing out their boss' Southern-fried heritage. "I think first of ...
Va. Congresswoman Dies After Battle With Breast Cancer
AP | LARRY O'DELL | Posted 10.06.2007 | Home
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U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Davis, a Republican who represented southeastern Virginia for seven years, died Saturday morning after a two-year battle with breast ...
Boy Band Guru, Alleged Pedophile, Is a GOP Donor
Pachacutec | Posted 10.06.2007 | Politics
Before he hit the beaches of Bali to scout for new talent, Open Secrets documents $16,100.00 given exclusively to Republicans between 1997 and 2003. Hoo, boy.
Rush Passed his Drug Test!
Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.05.2007 | Politics
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Republicans must be so proud. The man they want to commend on the floor of the House has finally, after 18 months on probation for being a druggie, passed his drug test.
Giuliani In '94: "Absolutely Astounding That The NRA Continues To Have Influence In Areas In Which They Make No Sense At All"
New York Times | Michael Powell | Posted 10.04.2007 | Home
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So what should a mayor do? Just let constituents call his weekly radio program on WABC -- the one called "Live From City Hall ... With Rudy Giuliani" ...
Craig In Reversal Won't Resign
NY Times | CARL HULSE | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics
Senator Larry E. Craig of Idaho, defying the wishes of many in his own Republican Party, said Thursday that he would remain in the Senate through next...
Rush Limbaugh Joins Ahmadinejad in GOP Heaven
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics
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Republican heaven is a special place, even more than normal heaven. Imagine a world with no homosexuals and where Americans can stay forever fighting in Iraq.
More Than His Grandfather's Son: Understanding Clarence Thomas
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.03.2007 | Politics
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For the thin-skinned Thomas race has always lurked close to the surface -- often too close. And it's intimately, but falsely, intertwined with the debate over conservative ideology.
Republicans Move To Protect Conservative Talk Radio
The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 10.03.2007 | Media
House Republicans are threatening to launch a discharge petition on legislation that would ensure the future prosperity of conservative radio talk-sho...
Jewish Group Gives Cover To McCain
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 10.02.2007 | Politics
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Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has been taking a lot of flak for his recent observation to BeliefNet that America was founded as a Christian nation and that ...
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