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Scott Brown and the Palin Path: Will He Choose Brassy or Boring?
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Sarah Palin Serves Tea Party Delegates Red Meat and Certainty
My Left Breast Put Fancy TSA Scanner to the Test
From a Grass Roots Tea Party, a PAC Blooms
At Nashville Tea Party: Saving the Country, Waiting for Palin
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Insurgent Debra Medina Shakes Up GOP Governor Race in Texas
By Bruce Drake
Following a series of elections where conservative activists, Tea Partiers, disgruntled independents and energized Republicans have shaken things up, a political neophyte in Texas is riding that same kind of wave and may affect the outcome of the race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. Debra ...
Pennsylvania Must Hold Special Election to Replace John Murtha
By David SessionsAccording to state law, Pennsylvania must hold a special election to replace the late Rep. John Murtha, Politico reports. After Murtha's vacancy has been officially declared, Gov. Ed Rendell has 10 days to call a special election, which can take place no more than 60 days later. The likely date is ...
Palin Holds Door Open to Presidential Run, Slams Obama
By Bruce Drake
Sarah Palin said Sunday she would run for President if she believed it was "the right thing to do" for the country and her family, and tore into President Obama for acting like he believed Americans should "shut up" and accept his policies Asked on Fox News Sunday "why wouldn't you run for ...
Kelly Ayotte Leads Paul Hodes in New Hampshire Senate Race
By Bruce DrakeNew Hampshire's Republican Attorney General Kelly Ayotte is leading Democratic Rep. Paul Hodes in the race to fill the seat of GOP Sen. Judd Gregg who is not seeking re-election, according to a Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll conducted Feb. 1-3. Hodes leads the other two Republicans hoping to run ...
Cuomo Challenge to Paterson Wouldn't Be Racially Divisive
By Bruce DrakeBack in 2002, Andrew Cuomo, now New York's attorney general, provoked anger among black leaders when he challenged former Comptroller Carl McCall, the first African-American to win a statewide job, for the Democratic nomination for governor. But if Gov. David Paterson, also an African-American, goes ...
Perry Slightly Increases His Lead Over Hutchison in Texas Governor Race
By Bruce DrakeTexas Gov. Rick Perry is leading Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison by 44 percent to 29 percent in the race for their party's gubernatorial nomination, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Feb. 1. In January, Perry had led 43 percent to 33 percent. Former Wharton County Republican chair Debra ...
Moran Slightly Widens Lead Over Tiahrt in Race for Kansas GOP Senate Nod
By Bruce DrakeRep. Jerry Moran is leading Rep. Todd Tiahrt for the GOP nomination to succeed Kansas Republican Sen. Sam Brownback, besting him 40 percent to 33 percent with 27 percent undecided, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted Jan. 29-31. The margin of error is 4.4 points. Brownback is running for ...
Republican Mike Cox Is Frontrunner in Michigan Governor Race
By Bruce DrakeMike Cox, Michigan's Republican attorney general, has emerged as the favorite for now in the race to succeed term-limited Gov. Janet Granholm, according to an EPIC-MRA poll conducted Jan. 24-26. Cox leads nine-term Rep. Pete Hoekstra 32 percent to 25 percent in a GOP primary contest with Oakland ...
Sandra O'Connor's Choice: What Her Missing Supreme Court Vote Means to Women and America
By Jill Lawrence
"Gosh, I step away for a couple of years and there's no telling what's going to happen," former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor joked recently in a speech at Georgetown University. ...
Brown Leads Whitman in California Governor Match-Up
By Bruce DrakeFormer eBay CEO Meg Whitman is far outdistancing state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner for the GOP nomination for governor in California, but she trails state Attorney General (and former governor) Jerry Brown in a general election match-up, according to a Public Policy Institute of California ...
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