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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hoping against hope? Despite polls indicating big trouble in the midterms, the Democratic Party's national campaign committees out-raised and out-spent their Republican counterparts in August. The Democratic National Committee raised $10.9 million last month, compared to the $7.9 million collected by the rival Republican National Committee, the Washington Post reported. And the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (known on Capitol Hill as the D-Triple-C) bested the comparable GOP committees by $1.7 million, collecting $8.3 million for U.S. House candidates. It's worth noting that the ...
Republicans are hammering Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for comments he made to ABC News saying he bears no responsibility for Nevada's current economic crisis. "You know that I had nothing to do with the massive foreclosures here. You know that I had nothing to do with these unemployment figures," Reid told ABC's Jonathan Karl in an interview that airs on the network Tuesday. "In fact, I've worked hard to change them. My job is to create jobs. My opponent says that is not her job to create jobs. And I think that is really wrong. I think it is my job to create jobs and I've done my best. ...
(Sept. 1) -- Score another one for the mama grizzlies. Sarah Palin is among the many Alaskans celebrating tea party favorite Joe Miller's surprising primary victory over incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski on Tuesday. And why shouldn't she? After all, she was only Miller's highest-profile national endorsement. And the power of a Palin plug, while debatable, seems to have definitely worked out big this time. Here's Palin tweeting her enthusiasm for the Miller's victory following Murkowski's concession: .bbpBox22674487255 ...
Ken Buck started out as a long shot in Colorado's Republican race for the U.S. Senate. In fact, last August, it appeared Buck would exit the race to clear the field for former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton, the National Republican Senatorial Committee's chosen one. Ten months and lots of voter uprising later, Buck is the front runner in the Aug. 10 primary. A Denver Post weekend poll put him ahead of Norton 53 percent to 37 percent among likely GOP voters. Norton's staff issued its own poll Tuesday showing her ahead 39 percent to 33 percent, especially among women (the Denver Post's poll featured 57 ...
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