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Gabby Giffords and Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Power of Friendship
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyAs everybody pulls for Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords to fully recover from the bullet wound to her head, it's no accident that Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was there with Giffords for two milestones. She was in the hospital room in Tucson when Giffords opened her eyes for the first time, and early this week, Wasserman Schultz was in Houston, where Giffords is undergoing rehabilitation, when she spoke for the first time, asking for toast along with her oatmeal. Their friendship is not political, it's personal, and Wasserman Schultz spent Sunday and Monday in Houston with Giffords, ...
Giffords Called for Moderation in E-Mail on Eve of Shooting
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe evening before she was shot at a political rally, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords wrote an e-mail about the need to tone down the rhetoric in American politics. In a note to Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, a Republican who had just been appointed director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics, Giffords offered her congratulations and asked Grayson, whom she had befriended at a conference years before, for help in stemming partisan vitriol. Susan Walsh, AP Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., wrote an e-mail to a Kentucky Republican on the evening before she was shot, ...
Midterm Elections 2010: Ugly Campaigns, Scared Incumbents and Angry Voters
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyFor more than half a century, the reigning ethos in Washington was neatly articulated in the succinct wisdom of Speaker Sam Rayburn, words imparted to freshmen members of Congress when they first arrived in the nation's capital: "If you want to get along, go along." A sprawling congressional office building is named after the former speaker from Texas, and in January some of the new members of the congressional class chosen Tuesday by voters will set up shop in the Rayburn House Office Building. Some of them, however, will know in their hearts that they got here on the strength of a ...
Flawed Candidates Make 2010 the Year of Living Dangerously
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyI'm betting both parties would love to restart this campaign season and call do-overs on more than a few primaries. Maybe the choices weren't ideal, but in some very high-stakes races, the candidates who won are showing why they probably shouldn't have. This phenomenon can be found coast to coast and points in between: Connecticut, South Carolina and Florida, Kentucky, Illinois and California. In some cases, the outcome of the general-election contests is unlikely to change even with a deeply flawed winner. But in others, we're talking about real impact inside and outside a state. ...
Rand Paul's Challenge: Holding on to the Republican Vote
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySecretary of State Trey Grayson, who was trounced in Kentucky's GOP senate primary by Tea Party favorite Rand Paul, said during the campaign, "Democrats are salivating to run against a guy who can be portrayed as anti-farmer, anti-teacher and anti-Kentucky." Polling during the primary race gives some support to that view. But what also might work against Paul is that while Grayson, the candidate of his party's establishment, mustered only 35 percent of the vote, that may represent a chunk of Republicans that will bail out on Paul, given the fact that there was no love lost between the two ...
Rand Paul Credits Tea Party for GOP Senate Nomination in Kentucky
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyIntroducing her husband, Rand Paul, at the final rally of his insurgent primary campaign for the Kentucky GOP Senate nomination, Kelley Paul declared: "When Rand said last year that he wanted to run, I wasn't too enthusiastic at first. And one of the ways he talked me into it was telling me that he had less than a 10 percent chance of actually winning." Her reminiscence prompted a burst of laughter from the hometown crowd in Bowling Green. But, actually, the tote board among Kentucky political insiders would have put the odds even lower that the 47-year-old eye surgeon (and the son of 2008 ...
Will Rand Paul Hand the Tea Party Movement Its Biggest Victory Ever?
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyLOUISVILLE – Riding high in the polls, Rand Paul – the insurgent Senate candidate who has upended the Kentucky GOP primary and the son of libertarian firebrand Ron Paul – offered a preview of his anticipated triumphant message Tuesday night. "This has enormous implications for the power and the impact of the Tea Party movement," he declared. "If we win Tuesday, it will be the biggest victory for a Tea Party candidate in the country...It will show that the Tea Party can elect somebody." These words were delivered not on a campaign stage surrounded by sign-waving supporters, ...
Tuesday Primary Election Results: Will the Incumbents Survive?
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyEditor's note: As the first primary Super Tuesday approaches, we've asked Politics Daily writers around the country for their latest perspective on what to expect in the various races. As results become available, we'll update the various sections with results and further analysis, so be sure to check back as the returns come in. Update, May 18: Jill Lawrence reports here on Rand Paul's victory in Kentucky and the latest in the Arlen Specter and Blanche Lincoln races. Jill Lawrence: Will Arlen Specter Be the Next Victim of Anti-Incumbent Fever? Pennsylvanians will send the nation signals ...
Rand Paul Headed for an Easy Victory in Kentucky, Latest Poll Says
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyFueled by the number of Republicans who are unhappy with the direction of the party, insurgent Rand Paul appears headed to an easy victory over Secretary of State Trey Grayson in Tuesday's Kentucky primary contest for the GOP senate nomination, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted May 15-16. Paul leads Grayson by 52 percent to 34 percent with three other candidates splitting 7 percent and 7 percent undecided. Sixty percent of likely Republican primary voters view Paul favorably compared to 42 percent for Grayson. Fifty-eight percent say Paul's ideology is about right ...
Rand Paul Appears Headed for Victory in Tuesday's Kentucky Senate Primary
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAs next week's Kentucky senate primary nears, Rand Paul continues to hold a double digit lead over Secretary of State Trey Grayson in the GOP race while, on the Democratic side, Lt. Gov. Dan Mongiardo and Attorney General Jack Conway are almost evenly tied, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted May 9-11. Paul, the insurgent favorite of conservative and Tea Party activists, leads Grayson, who has spent his political career working up through the party ranks, by 49 percent to 33 percent with three other candidates splitting 7 percent and 11 percent undecided. Paul leads Grayson by 18 points ...
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