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Richard Lugar: GOP Can't Just Be the Party of 'No'
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Shakh Aivazov, AP Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind. (Nov. 15) -- The substantial gains this November present Republicans with enormous opportunities and, correspondingly, great responsibilities to an electorate demanding substantial changes in public policy from a Congress that will be responsive to its concerns. Many analysts attribute the strong Republican trend to the visible anger of millions of Americans. Among some in Democratic leadership and the media, "anger" is shorthand for dismissing the scope and legitimacy of frustration -- which found expression in the tea party movement -- with the ...
Opinion: 4 Lessons About Voting from the 2010 Elections
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 15) -- Ten years after Bush v. Gore and the spectacle of the nation's most important political contest going into overtime, the country's voting experience this Nov. 2 highlights the changes America has seen since 2000. Here are some key lessons we have learned about election reform -- looking back and forward: New machines aren't the only answer. In the immediate aftermath of the 2000 election, the prime targets for criticism were the machines -- specifically, the punch card ballots whose hanging, swinging and dimpled chads were a source of legal and popular fascination. The Help ...
Which Party Values the Votes of African-Americans?
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyThis is the perfect time for the Republican Party to make good on its claim that it wants to recapture the loyalty of African-American voters. Yes -- recapture all those lost Lincoln Republicans put off and run off by the 1960's and 1970's antics of the architects and beneficiaries of the Southern strategy. In the midterm election campaign, some African Americans grumbled that the Democratic Party's appeal to a voting base that is disproportionately hurting came late and with a whiff of desperation. Black newspaper editors and reporters wondered what the point was in voting for Democrats ...
Chris Christie's Star Turn Raises National Prospects, Nearly $9 Million for GOP
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe unlikely emergence of Chris Christie proves once again that you can never tell who is going to take off in the public imagination. The New Jersey governor not only rocked on the 2010 campaign trail, he quickly became a regular on short lists of Republican presidential prospects. A year ago, the new Republican governor to watch was the one who prevailed in the only other gubernatorial race of 2009, Bob McDonnell of Virginia. The even-tempered, perfectly coiffed McDonnell ran a textbook campaign, won by 17 percentage points and was chosen to give the televised GOP response to President ...
Murkowski Claims 98 Percent of Write-In Ballots in Alaska Senate Race
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 11) -- It doesn't matter if you spell her name "Merkowski," "Murkowsky" or "Murcowski," Alaskan write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski is feeling good about her chances to return to the Senate. Murkowski claimed 98 percent of the write-in ballots counted Wednesday when the Alaska Division of Elections began the five-day process of counting upward of 90,000 write-in ballots for a race that may produce the first successful Senate write-in campaign since 1954. "So far things look really good for us," Murkowski campaign manager Kevin Sweeney told the Anchorage Daily News. Murkowski's early ...
Poll: Americans Less Enthusiastic About Midterm Outcome Than Past Political Turnovers
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyWhile Republicans steamrolled to a big victory in the House and made significant gains in the Senate in last week's election, there is less enthusiasm this year for the GOP win and its plans for the future than there was for the Democrats' takeover of Congress in 2006 and the Republican capture of the House in 1994, according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted Nov. 4-7. Forty-eight percent of Americans describe themselves as happy about the Republican victory compared to 34 percent who are not. By contrast, in 2006, 60 percent were happy about the Democrats' success compared to 24 ...
GOP Leaders Look to Oust RNC Chairman Michael Steele
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 10) -- Some thanks this is. After a sweeping Republican victory at the polls last week -- which saw gains in the House, Senate and state legislatures -- GOP leaders nonetheless are trying to oust their leader, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. "His critics say Mr. Steele has performed poorly at the helm," reports The New York Times. "They argue that his fund-raising was lackluster and point to comments he made that at times proved distracting and were at odds with Republican orthodoxy, as when he said the war in Afghanistan was 'not something the United States had ...
$65 Million Spent on Election Ads Targeting Nancy Pelosi
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe GOP, its candidates and related groups spent a whopping $65 million on ads against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the 2010 election cycle -- the most money spent targeting a congressional leader in 14 years. The sum, spent from Jan. 1 through last week's election, paid for 161,203 ads that went after Pelosi, according to a new analysis for CNN by Campaign Media Analysis Group. "Not since 1996 and Newt Gingrich has a speaker been the target of so many elections ads...[that] put Pelosi front and center in the midterms," said CMAG president Evan Tracey. It was part of a coordinated ...
Alaska Senate: Joe Miller 'Cautiously Optimistic' as Absentee and Write-in Count Begins
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyJoe Miller, the Republican candidate for Alaska Senate, said Tuesday he is "cautiously optimistic" that a count of 30,500 absentee ballots, followed by a hand tally of write-in votes, will vault him ahead of Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the state's extraordinary three-way contest. Counting began Tuesday, a week after the midterm election. Miller finished second on election night with 34 percent of the vote, cheering Murkowski supporters who assume she got most of the write-in ballots that topped the field with 41 percent. The write-ins -- tallied on election night without identifying actual names ...
Obama's Standing Takes a Big Hit in Swing States Compared to 2008
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyOne of the things that stood out in the weekly round-up of President Obama's poll ratings by state that Poll Watch compiled up until the elections was how poorly Obama's job approval or favorability numbers looked compared to his winning margins in many states in 2008. A Public Policy Polling analysis of surveys it did in six states just before Election Day shows the same kind of result, although it does offer some glimmer of hope for Obama's re-election chances in 2012. PPP says that when Obama is matched against a generic Republican opponent in the six states, his margin for re-election ...
Murkowski Claims 98 Percent of Write-In Ballots in Alaska Senate Race
Steven HofferAfter day one of ballot counting, the incumbent has claimed 98 percent of the write-in votes against tea party candidate Joe Miller to maintain her Alaska Senate seat.
GOP Leaders Look to Oust RNC Chairman Michael Steele
Paul WachterThere's a behind-the-scenes campaign in the GOP to oust RNC Chairman Michael Steele.
Conn. Governor's Race Finally Over as Foley Concedes
J. RichardAfter taking the weekend to examine election results, Republican Tom Foley has conceded the race to Democrat Dannel Malloy.
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