Posts Tagged ‘democratic’

Democrat Challenges Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts

Saturday, May 26th, 2012

Marisa DeFranco is a step away from getting on the primary ballot to challenge Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic front-runner.

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Edwards jury still out

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

The jury in former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' corruption trial enters its fourth day of deliberations Wednesday.

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Edwards jury still out

Walker and Barrett Nearly Tied

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

New Democratic poll shows tight race ahead.

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Walker and Barrett Nearly Tied

Deliberations to resume in Edwards trial

Monday, May 21st, 2012

The jury in the corruption trial of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards reconvenes for deliberations Monday.

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Former Fla. Rep Enters Senate Race

Friday, May 18th, 2012

To oust the state’s only Democratic official.

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Former Fla. Rep Enters Senate Race

Al Gore Has ‘Serious Girlfriend’

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Hot and heavy with a Democratic donor.

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Al Gore Has ‘Serious Girlfriend’

Jurors to get John Edwards case

Friday, May 18th, 2012

The jury will begin deciding the fate of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards Friday, a day after closing arguments concluded in the corruption trial.

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Closing arguments set in Edwards trial

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

Closing arguments are set for Thursday in the corruption trial of John Edwards, after his defense team rested its case without calling the former Democratic presidential candidate's ex-mistress to testify.

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Romney’s air kiss to Bill Clinton

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Mitt Romney was against Bill Clinton before he was for him. There was Romney, campaigning Tuesday in Iowa , praising the nation’s previous Democratic president and casting him as far superior to the current incumbent. Read full article > >

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John Edwards doesn’t take stand

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

The defense team for John Edwards rested its case Wednesday without calling the former Democratic presidential candidate's ex-mistress to testify at his corruption trial.

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John Edwards doesn’t take stand

Obama bid raises $44m in April

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

US President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party raise a combined $43.6m in April, down from a total of $53m a month earlier.

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Scott Brown pushes Elizabeth Warren on Native American issue

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) is calling on Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren , his Democratic challenger, to release all her past job applications and personnel records in order to settle her Native American heritage. Read full article > >

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Divider in chief

Friday, May 4th, 2012

“The pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states.” — Barack Obama, rising star, 2004 Democratic convention Poor Solicitor General Donald Verrilli. Once again he’s been pilloried for fumbling a historic Supreme Court case. First shredded for his “train wreck” defense of Obamacare’s individual mandate, he is now blamed for the defenestration in oral argument of Obama’s challenge to the Arizona immigration law. Read full article > >

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Close Race in Wisconsin Recall

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

Barrett leading in Democratic primary.

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‘It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With The New Politics of Extremism’ by Thomas E. Mann and Norman…

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Reading this book is a little like quaffing a double espresso on an empty stomach — it’s a jolt. For this reader it was a welcome jolt. Others will find it less palatable. Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein have been Washington fixtures for three decades. They are two of the brightest, best informed and most scholarly students of our politics. They started out together as graduate students of political science at the University of Michigan, and decades ago took up residence at the Brookings Institution (Mann) and the American Enterprise Institute (Ornstein). Both have cultivated Democratic and Republican senators and House members to help them figure out the workings of the legislative branch. They acknowledge holding liberal views themselves, but throughout their careers they have tried to uphold a scholarly, non-partisan standard. Republicans once took them as seriously as Democrats did. Read full article > >

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‘It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With The New Politics of Extremism’ by Thomas E. Mann and Norman…