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Unpopular in W.Va., Obama stars in governor's race ads
The TV ads aired so far in the West Virginia’s governor’s race have one thing in common: President Obama. The Republican Governors Association continues the trend with its new spot attacking the Democratic incumbent, Gov. Earl Ray Tombin. The...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Environmental Politics, Politics, Executive Branch, Environmental Issues
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Governors put off health care questions, for now
Millions of uninsured people might have to wait until after Election Day to find out if and how they can get coverage through President Obama’s health care law. More than two weeks after the Supreme Court gave the green light to Obama’s...
Tags: Politics, Personal Income, Executive Branch, Medicaid, Bob McDonnell
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W.Va. weighing Medicaid options
Expanding Medicaid might help more West Virginians with their heart disease, diabetes and other chronic ailments that are prevalent in the state. But the health care program is already a budgetary burden that threatens to outstrip available state...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Finance, Earl Ray Tomblin, Executive Branch, Obesity
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Maloney renews challenge to Tomblin for W.Va. governor's seat
Associated PressRepublican Bill Maloney said Thursday he’s ready to finish what he started last year, win the Republican primary in May and then defeat incumbent Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin in the race for West Virginia governor. The Morgantown businessman came...Tags: Earl Ray Tomblin, Politics, U.S. Senate, Executive Branch, Joe Manchin III
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GOP moves to plug technology gap with Democrats
WASHINGTON (AP) — Embarrassed by how the last presidential election exposed their yesteryear technology, Republicans are turning to a younger generation of tech-savvy social media experts and software designers to improve communications with voters,...
Tags: eHarmony, Politics, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 2012 U.S. Presidential Election, Washington, DC
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GOP governors take a pragmatic turn
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Republican governors who worked to thwart much of President Barack Obama's first-term agenda are shifting gears and softening their rhetoric now that his run was extended for four more years and they're facing their own re-...
Tags: John Kasich, Bobby Jindal, Executive Branch, NBC (tv network), Medicaid
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As DGA run ends, O'Malley likely to stay on national stage
President Barack Obama no longer needs Gov. Martin O'Malley as a top campaign surrogate, and the Democratic Governors Association is set to elect someone else as its chairman on Monday when the group meets in Los Angeles. But neither development is...
Tags: John McCain, Executive Branch, NBC (tv network), ABC (tv network), Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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Wednesday Morning Coffee: State university faculty frustrated on contract talks.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're running a little late this morning, so we'll just dive right into a quick round- up of the day's political headlines. Think of this of the ADHD version of Capitol Ideas, which already has...... -
El futuro habla espanol (The future speaks Spanish)
WASHINGTON -- The new year has begun with an avalanche of Republican retrospectives: What went wrong? What must the GOP do? In attempting to navigate my own thoughts, I keep bumping into advice my father gave me a long time ago: "Learn Spanish. You will...
Tags: Bobby Jindal, Family, Politics, U.S. Senate, Executive Branch
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GOP governors walk balance beam on health law
ATLANTA (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who made a fortune as a health care executive, long opposed President Barack Obama's remake of the health insurance market. After the Democratic president won re-election, the Republican governor softened...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, National Government, Bobby Jindal, Executive Branch, Medicaid
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Romney inadvertently shows why he lost
Defeated presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who helped do himself in with his closed-door characterization of nearly half of all Americans as content to live off federal handouts, wasted no time doubling down on the theory. He did so in a conference call...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Richard Nixon, Bobby Jindal, Politics, Executive Branch
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Corbett named to RGA leadership team.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekThis one comes courtesy of our pals at Early Returns at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Just in time for the Republican Governors Association's meeting in Sin City, Gov. Tom Corbett has been tapped for an eight-member executive committee, the group...
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Dec 31, 2012
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