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Could Gabrielle Giffords Run for Jon Kyl's Senate Seat?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsThe Democratic nomination to replace Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl could face a "significant delay," as major Arizona Democrats continue to monitor the recovery of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Talking Points Memo reports. According to the report, Giffords, who could be entitled to the right of first refusal, "had long been viewed as a top-tier candidate to either challenge Kyl or run for an open seat, before the events in January." A former member of the House and acting Senate minority whip, Kyl announced today that he will not seek re-election for a fourth term in the Senate. Of course, ...
Democrat in Arizona Senate Race Denies Plagiarism
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PHOENIX (Sept. 30) -- The Democrat who is challenging Republican John McCain in Arizona's U.S. Senate race on Thursday denied allegations that his 2005 doctoral dissertation contains sentences plagiarized from other researchers. Rodney Glassman's 246-page research paper on teaching children about agriculture contains at least five identical or nearly identical sentences from earlier works by other authors, without footnotes or direct attribution to those works. At the end of Glassman's dissertation, there are general citations of the authors' research in a section that lists reference ...
John McCain Protester Tackled [VIDEO]
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(Sept. 27) -- John McCain has had some close calls in his political career so far, but his latest was probably a bit too close for comfort. The former maverick and current Arizona senator was physically confronted by a protester at the conclusion of a televised debate with the challengers to his seat in the upcoming midterm elections (Democrat Rodney Glassman, Green Party candidate Jerry Joslyn and Libertarian candidate David Nolan). Described as a peace activist and bearing a sign, the protester strode toward McCain on his way out of the KTVK television studios in Phoenix before McCain's ...
Woman Protesting John McCain Is Tackled by Security
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA protester shouting and waving a sign got close to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) Sunday night -- a little too close. The woman, chanting loudly, stepped in front of McCain after his televised debate with Democrat Rodney Glassman and was promptly tackled to the ground by a member of the senator's security team. The scuffle was caught on video by a television crew. Even while wrestling with the guard on the ground, the woman continued yelling to the camera. She was among a group of peace activists demonstrating against McCain's stance on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Watch video of the ...
Immigration Dominates Arizona Senate Candidates' Debate
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PHOENIX (Sept. 26) - Republican Sen. John McCain framed the porousness of America's borders as both a national security concern and a human rights issue Sunday in the only scheduled general election debate in Arizona's U.S. Senate race. McCain noted politicians in Mexico have been targeted by the cartels that are smuggling drugs into the United States and that hundreds of illegal immigrants die in the desert every year trying to sneak into the country. "The brutality and the human rights abuses are beyond horrendous," McCain said. Darryl Webb, AP Sen John McCain greets Libertarian Senate ...
Sarah Palin's Tuesday Picks Come Out on Top, Mostly
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailySarah Palin's busy primary endorsement season came to a mostly winning end Tuesday, most notably with victories by two of her "mama grizzlies": Christine O'Donnell, who prevailed in Delaware's GOP Senate primary, and Kelly Ayotte, who narrowly defeated Ovide Lamontagne in the New Hampshire GOP race for Senate. By Facebook, via Twitter, the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate has handed out endorsements, well, right and righter this election season. She stood up for U.S. Sen. John McCain, who put her in the spotlight as his running mate. And she spurned home state ...
Rodney Glassman vs. John McCain: A David and Goliath Senate Fight in Arizona
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyPHOENIX -- Rodney Glassman, the Democrat who will face Republican Sen. John McCain this fall, is a big believer in credentials. He's punched every imaginable ticket and then some. Bachelor's degree, master's in business administration, master's in public administration, Ph.D. in arid land resource sciences, law degree. Business consultant, retirement planning counselor, JAG lawyer in the Air Force reserve. Legislative aide to a congressman. Tucson vice mayor and city council member. Spanish speaker. Founder and president of the Glassman Foundation, a charity for underprivileged children. And ...
Establishment Candidates, Insurgents Both Score in Tuesday's Primaries
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyTuesday's primary lineup, featuring high profile elections in Florida, Arizona, and Alaska -- and lesser contests in Vermont and Oklahoma -- was billed as a test to see whether the political establishment of either party could hold its own in this summer of Americans' discontent. The verdict, especially after the votes were counted in Florida, was not clear-cut. And in Alaska, the picture was even murkier. With 429 out of 438 precincts reporting, Republican challenger and Tea Party fave Joe Miller held a narrow 2,000-vote lead over incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Miller had been endorsed by ...
John McCain Wins GOP Primary in Arizona
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyHe may not be a maverick any more but John McCain is a political survivor, winning the Republican Senate primary in Arizona over former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, whose Tea Party-fueled campaign started strong but sputtered down the stretch. The Associated Press reported McCain the winner late Tuesday with 60 percent of the vote to Hayworth's 30. The senator, who turns 74 on Sunday, moves a step closer to securing a fifth term. He'll be heavily favored over the Democrat in November. As late as Monday, despite trailing by 20 points in some polls, Hayworth predicted "one of the greatest upsets in ...
Why John McCain is Poised to Beat Back the Anti-Incumbent Mood
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyBarring J.D. Hayworth's prediction that he'll score "the greatest upset in American political history," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) appears poised to defy the anti-incumbent mood and win re-election on Tuesday. In my estimation, there are seven reasons why McCain is poised to win this year, when other establishment Republicans are not: 1. McCain was the Republican presidential nominee just two years ago. People rally around the party's standard bearer, and there must be a psychological disincentive to rejecting the man you voted for in 2008 for president. More than that, though, being a ...
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