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What's in a name?
The competitive nature of southwestern Indiana's 8th Congressional District has led pundits and political observers to call it "The Bloody 8th." We're starting to think north-central Indiana's 2nd District also deserves a nickname, albeit a less gruesome...
Tags: Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Army, Washington, DC, Joe Donnelly, Politics
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Forbes also interested in Seapower chairmanship
Yesterday I wrote that U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Westmoreland County, was interested in the chairing the Seapower and Projection Forces subcomittee of the House Armed Services, a panel with oversight of military shipbuilding and the nation's naval...Tags: Newport News Shipbuilding, Manufacturing and Engineering, Hampton Roads, Shipbuilding, Buck McKeon
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A national left turn?
Politically, it was a status quo election. Democrats held on to the White House and their majority in the U.S. Senate in Tuesday's voting. Republicans preserved their majority in the House and increased by one their hold on the majority of state...Tags: Joe Walsh, Same-Sex Marriage, Voting, Abortion Issue, Mia Love
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Democrats maintain control of Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats secured a majority in the Senate on Tuesday, snatching Republican-held seats in Massachusetts and Indiana and turning back fierce, expensive challenges in Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin and Connecticut to maintain the...
Tags: Primaries, Mitt Romney, Richard Lugar, Tommy Thompson, Amy Klobuchar
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Democrats Hold onto Narrow Majority in U.S. Senate
Los Angeles TimesWASHINGTON -- Democrats retained a narrow majority in the Senate on Tuesday, but Republicans kept their grip on the House, delivering another divided, and highly polarized, Congress. The balance of power was likely to shift by no more than a seat or two,...Tags: Wisconsin State Legislature, Primaries, Voting, Mitt Romney, Richard Lugar
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Dems fight for continued Senate control
WASHINGTON (AP) — Majority Democrats fought Republicans for control of the Senate on Tuesday after a bitter campaign marked by roughly $1 billion in outside spending in competitive races from Virginia to Montana. Republican Sen. Scott Brown, who...
Tags: Primaries, Mitt Romney, Richard Lugar, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Republican Party
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Election Blog: Akin campaign preparing for election night events
jkaplan@kspr.comHello from Chesterfield! KSPR's Jonah Kaplan here in this St. Louis suburb at Rep. Todd Akin's campaign headquarters. It's pretty quiet here thus far, but the scene will surely light up later on this evening. Campaign staffers are busy inflating hundreds...Tags: Republican Party, Polls, Claire McCaskill, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan
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Survey USA polling released days before the election
news@ky3.comSPRINGFIELD, Mo. --Survey USA has released its final polling numbers before the November 6 election. In an election for United States Senator from Missouri, incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill leads at the wire, having assembled a coalition that should...Tags: Jay Nixon, Claire McCaskill, Mitt Romney, Voting, Libertarian Party
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Presidential politics and abortion
Susan Reimer's column abut the Republican platform on abortion again shows her expertise in setting up a straw man and then knocking him down ("Presidential election or abortion referendum?" Aug. 27). The Republican platform comprises about 45 pages...Tags: Democratic Party, Republican Party, Mitt Romney, Abortion Issue, Social Issues
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Mother of Senator Claire McCaskill dies
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The mother of Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill has died. McCaskill's campaign said that 84-year-old Betty Anne Ward McCaskill died Monday at her home in St. Louis. The Democratic senator had said Saturday that her mother...
Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Claire McCaskill, Elections, Politics
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October surprise: Learning what Republicans really think about rape
Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, the Tea Party usurper who took down Sen. Richard Lugar in the Republican primary, created the biggest political buzz last week by uttering the following sentence in a televised debate: "I think even when life...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Mitt Romney, Parties and Movements, Abortion Issue, Richard Lugar
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Big bird, BS and birth control
WASHINGTON -- We shouldn't be talking about this silliness -- Big Bird, "bull -- er," or a girl's "first time." We should be talking about The Issues, we keep telling ourselves. But in the waning days of the presidential campaign, these are the issues --...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Class Conflict, Roman Catholicism, Girls (tv program), Birth Control
Nov 11, 2012
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Nov 7, 2012
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Nov 7, 2012
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Nov 6, 2012
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Nov 6, 2012
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Nov 4, 2012
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Sep 2, 2012
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Oct 29, 2012
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Oct 30, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Oct 29, 2012
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
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