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Mitt Romney in New Hampshire: Lots of Buzz but No Announcement -- Yet
By Tom Diemer
It falls short of any campaign launch, but Mitt Romney's appearance at a Republican dinner in New Hampshire Saturday created plenty of political buzz over the weekend. Romney, who served as governor of neighboring Massachusetts between 2003 and 2007, finished a close second to Sen. John McCain in ...
There He Goes Again: Mike Huckabee Scolds Natalie Portman
By Politics Daily Staff
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is having himself quite a week. After suggesting that President Obama is anti-British because he grew up in Kenya (wrong!), Huckabee picked on Academy Award-winning actress Natalie Portman for supposedly bragging about having a child out of wedlock. In an ...
Ohio's Sherrod Brown Tells Senate: Hitler and Stalin Busted Unions Too
By Tom DiemerNot that he's making any comparison with current events, mind you, but Sen. Sherrod Brown reminded his fellow lawmakers this week that Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin had little tolerance for unions. Neither did Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, Brown (D-Ohio) told the Senate on Thursday. "These autocrats in ...
Obama, Jeb Bush to Join in Education Reform Event at Florida School
By Tom Diemer
They aren't exactly school chums, but President Obama and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush plan to share a stage and also their goals for education reform Friday at an event in Miami. The White House said the president will talk about "how winning the future in education will require investments that ...
Bobby Jindal Under Scrutiny Over Corporate Donations to Wife's Foundation
By Politics Daily Staff
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal isn't on anyone's short list of prospective Republican presidential candidates, but the young Southern governor could make an attractive running mate for one of the hopefuls. But first he may have to answer some questions about a charitable foundation set up by his wife, ...
Ohio Senate Limits Public Union Rights; Bill Goes Beyond Wisconsin Proposal
By Tom Diemer
An Ohio bill cutting more deeply into the public employee bargaining rights than similar legislation in Wisconsin narrowly passed the state senate and looks like a good bet to clear the House of Representatives in Columbus. Shouts of "shame" echoed through statehouse corridors Wednesday after the ...
Newt Gingrich Inching Toward Presidential Dance?
By Tom Diemer
Will he or won't he? Amid conflicting reports, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich planned to take at least a small step this week toward a Republican presidential candidacy in 2012. Gingrich is expected to announce his intent to form a presidential exploratory committee during a visit Thursday to ...
Polls Conflict on Public's View of Bargaining Rights for Government Workers
By Bruce Drake
A new poll about the public's view of efforts to limit the collective bargaining rights of public employees -- going on in states like Wisconsin and Ohio -- has a distinctly different result than a New York Times/CBS News poll that found 60 percent of Americans somewhat or strongly opposed taking ...
Fox News Talker Mike Huckabee Insists Obama Grew Up in Kenya
By Tom Diemer
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who is flirting with another presidential campaign, asserted on a New York radio program Monday that President Obama grew up in the African country of Kenya, the homeland of his father. Obama's childhood was spent in Hawaii and Indonesia. There is no evidence ...
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty Gets Fired Up -- Courts Tea Party
By Tom Diemer
In a bid to win favor with grassroots conservatives, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty gets fired up in a new video released Tuesday by his political operation. He praises the hard-line tea party movement as "part of the energy, the passion, the call for change" that has helped revive the ...
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