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Arlen Specter: No Escape for a Political Houdini
By not in system - AOL News(May 18) -- Arlen Specter's Senate career began in the flush of the Reagan Revolution and will come to a close in the Tea Party era. Over those 30 years, he has been a Republican and a Democrat, a relentless interrogator of prospective judges and justices, a force for medical research, a champion earmarker for his state, and an accidental feminist indirectly responsible for an influx of women into the upper chamber. Specter, who lost Tuesday to Rep. Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania's Democratic Senate primary, is 80 years old, twice a survivor of cancer, and twice a survivor of such close political ...
It's Joe Sestak Against Specter, Obama and Biden in Pennsylvania Senate Race
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyCHAMBERSBURG, Pa. – When the White House asked Rep. Joe Sestak to go on TV last summer to defend its planned shutdown of the Guantánamo Bay prison, he was happy to do it. During his appearance, he told me with a big laugh, national Democrats sent out a blast e-mail signed by Vice President Joe Biden. The gist: "Arlen Specter is our guy." The story nicely captures Sestak's journey from prize Senate recruit to skunk at the garden party. Top Democrats finally succeeded last spring in persuading Sestak, a retired three-star admiral from the Philadelphia suburbs, to take on Specter, a ...
Videos of the Week: Ron Paul is Back!
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyWelcome to Videos of the Week Sneak Peek! Today, I will be posting the video that I shot in Philadelphia at the Hillary Clinton celebration, then I'll update Sunday with the rest of the VOTW. It was a big week for me. I covered the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, and spent the rest of the week milking that for all it was worth. One of our readers, Michelle G, dubbed me a "speckled puppy." John from Philadelphia invited me, via the comments section, to meet some of his pals, but I just saw the comment yesterday. Sorry, John, I would have totally been there. Email me, and we'll arrange it for ...
Voters and Media Polls Apart
By Faye Anderson - Politics DailyThe mainstream media have largely abandoned their traditional role as watchdogs of our democracy. Instead, they play gotcha politics and focus on the horserace, the poll of the day, gaffes and misstatements.The history-making Democratic nomination race has generated record voter turnout in state after state. But only some of the votes have been counted. In Maricopa County, Ariz., for instance, National Public Radio reports that half of the 52,000 provisional ballots cast in the presidential primary were thrown out. Similarly, in the New Mexico Democratic caucuses, 50 percent of the provisional ...
Sounds of Philadelphia: Dems Debate
By Faye Anderson - Politics DailyAfter a two-month hiatus, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama faced off in the City of Brotherly Love, home of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.Clinton has likened herself to Rocky Balboa who trained on the museum's steps. In tonight's debate, she took repeated jabs at Obama:I don't believe that my grandfather or my father, or the many people whom I have had the privilege of knowing and meeting across Pennsylvania over many years, cling to religion when Washington is not listening to them. I think that is a fundamental, sort of, misunderstanding of the role of religion and faith in times that are ...
Obama Lacks Street Cred in Philly
By Faye Anderson - Politics DailyPhiladelphia is known for its cheesesteak. Philly candidates have a cheesy way of promoting civic participation: Political operatives are paid street money to "knock and drag" voters to the polls. The Los Angeles Times reports this low-tech voter mobilization tactic is at odds with Barack Obama's promise of a "different kind of politics" and his high-tech campaign:Fourteen months into a campaign that has the feel of a movement, Sen. Barack Obama has collided with the gritty political traditions of Philadelphia, where ward bosses love their candidates, but also expect them to pay up.The dispute ...
Sir Elton Shows Clinton Some Love
By Faye Anderson - Politics DailySir Elton John thinks Hillary Clinton is not getting a fair chance in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. At a Radio City Music Hall fundraiser, Sir Elton proclaimed:I've always been a Hillary supporter. There is no one more qualified to lead America. I'm amazed by the misogynistic attitudes of some of the people in this country. And I say to hell with them... I love you Hillary. I'll be there for you.To be sure, there's not much love for Clinton in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love. But statewide, white voters in Pennsylvania have embraced Clinton. A new Time magazine ...
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