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Economy and Foreclosures Make Latino Voters Moving Targets for Democrats
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyIn 2008, nearly 70 percent of Latino voters supported Barack Obama and helped Democrats expand their majorities in the House and Senate. But two years later, a new survey shows that Hispanic voters are far less motivated than most other Americans to go to the polls, a finding that could have a major impact on key races in California, Nevada, Texas and Florida, where Latinos make up between 15 and 20 percent of registered voters. Leslie Sanchez, president of the Impacto Group and author of "Los Republicanos: Why Hispanics and Republicans Need Each Other," said the the apathy among some Latinos ...
What Is Carly Fiorina's Religion?
By Stephanie Schorow - Politics DailyCarly Fiorina, the Tea Party-courting former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, is the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from California. She is running against three-term Democratic incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer. As part of a Politics Daily series providing background about the major candidates in the 2010 midterm elections, here are answers to some frequently asked questions about Fiorina's prepolitical life. What is Carly Fiorina's religion? In an interview with radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, she said that she was raised Episcopalian and that her husband is a Catholic. ...
Eight Lessons of the 2010 Midterms
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyExcept for a little clean-up duty in Louisiana and Hawaii, the rowdy and random 2010 midterm primary season concluded this week, with more upstarts and upsets. Now, the remaining general election candidates, not to mention the leaders of both major political parties, are trying to discern what in the world the voters are trying to tell them – or whether there even are any coherent messages to be gleaned in this grueling election season. The short answer is that voters are certainly trying to tell the political class a thing or two, but it's not always clear what voters are trying to ...
Washington in 60 Seconds: Sharron Angle Comes Courting Lobbyists
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyGood morning, fellow Capitolists! Have you missed your morning roundup of things you didn't know when you woke up? In honor of your fearless leaders' return to Capitol Hill next week and the barn-burning 2010 election season, we're relaunching "Washington in 60 Seconds" until the political season slows down, or until we tire of waking before dawn. Until then, here's what's cooking today in politics and in the Capitol: - Ms. Angle Going to Washington. After hammering Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as "the godfather of lobbyists" for taking more than $500,000 this cycle from corporations' ...
California's Tom Campbell: GOP Senate Candidate Who Defies Easy Labeling
By Patrick Dillon - Politics DailyIn an era of expedient political branding, California's Tom Campbell, a Republican candidate aiming to win Barbara Boxer's U.S. Senate seat, defies labeling. A free-market economist who advocates breaking up big banks, a social liberal with conservative views on immigration, an opponent of the nation's recently passed national health care legislation, he supports repealing the federal antitrust exemption for insurance companies. In polls, Campbell, 57, trails former Hewlett Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina for the nomination but, unlike Fiorina, leads Boxer in a hypothetical matchup. ...
Testy GOP, Heckler Confront Obama on Immigration, Energy, Gay Rights
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyPresident Obama says his meeting with Senate Republicans Tuesday was "warm and fuzzy" -- but he was kidding. By most accounts the private luncheon left both sides testy and accomplished little in the way of promoting bipartisanship. Obama talked about his let's-have-lunch date with Republicans later Tuesday during a fundraiser in California, where he had to deal with a heckler who complained that the president was not moving quickly enough to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" restriction on gays serving openly in the military. The repeal bill is expected to come up later this week in the ...
GOP Senate Primary in California is Tight While Boxer's Poll Numbers Improve
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyFormer Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina and former Rep. Tom Campbell are in a horserace for the GOP senate nomination in California, with Assemblyman Chuck DeVore doubling his third place showing since March, according to a Public Policy Institute of California poll conducted May 9-16. But three-term Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer has regained her footing against the Republican field. In the GOP primary contest, Fiorina polls 25 percent to Campbell's 23 percetn about the same as in the March poll, but DeVore, the choice of the Senate Conservatives Fund (which has backed Rand Paul ...
Sarah Palin Endorses Carly Fiorina for California Senate
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyRepublican Carly Fiorina scored a coup Thursday when Sarah Palin endorsed her for the GOP Senate nomination in California. In doing so, Palin bypassed state assemblyman Chuck DeVore, a favorite of conservatives such as Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina. In a statement circulated by Fiorina, Palin praised the former Hewlett-Packard CEO as a "commonsense conservative" with the potential to beat the longtime Democratic incumbent, Barbara Boxer. Palin said she is "a huge proponent" of contested primaries, but supports Fiorina "as she fights through a tough primary against a liberal member of the ...
Senate Ends Taxpayer-Funded Bank Bailouts
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe Senate made two significant changes to the Wall Street reform bill Wednesday, including a ban on using taxpayer money to salvage failing financial institutions. The amendments followed a breakthrough in negotiations between Democratic and Republican leaders. The first amendment came from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who proposed banning federal funds from being used to bail out large financial institutions. Boxer called her amendment "an ironclad assurance that if a failing Wall Street firm is liquidated, the cost of that liquidation must come either from selling off the firm's assets ...
Michelle Obama to Headline Democratic Fundraiser; Is Her Role Growing?
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst Lady Michelle Obama, after a thus-far cautious and non-risky tenure at the White House, on Friday debuts in her first political role since the presidential campaign -- headlining a Democratic National Committee fundraiser. Mrs. Obama will keynote the DNC's Women's Leadership Forum, speaking to a mostly female audience of about 500 people who donated from $250 to $5,000 to the DNC to attend the event. The forum, running through Saturday, also includes other top officials from the Obama White House and the DNC. ...
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