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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Here we go. Sarah's running in 2012. No, not that Sarah -- we're talking about former Missouri Treasurer Sarah Steelman, a Republican who announced Wednesday she's in the race to unseat Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) two years from now. Steelman, a bit of a maverick herself, irked GOP leaders in 2008 when she opposed former Rep. Kenny Hulshof in a hard-fought Republican gubernatorial primary, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Hulshof won, but his resources were depleted and he lost the general election to the Democrat Jay Nixon, the current governor. Steelman, who also served in the ...
Emboldened by dramatic Republican gains in Tuesday's election, President Obama's would-be rivals in 2012 are edging toward coming-out parties for a campaign that should be well under way by next spring. ...
Challenges to President Obama's new health care law are going to surge right along with the Republican surges in Congress, state legislatures and governor's mansions. It's unclear, however, how many of the challenges will be symbolic and how many will survive court cases or the legislative process. ...
(Oct. 22) -- With some deliberately crude animation and a kitschy soundtrack, Sean Bielat is bringing new meaning to the phrase "dancing around the issues." The Republic challenger for Barney Frank's Massachusetts 4th Congressional District seat recently released a risky campaign advertisement featuring the 70-year-old Frank strutting his stuff on the dance floor. Although Bielat realizes that the ad may backfire for his campaign, he's willing to take the risk on the basis that "at least it's not boring." This is certainly true. And without further ado, Surge Desk presents the Barney ...
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A ballot issue that would legalize possession of small amounts of marijuana and also permit growing pot at private residences picked up some powerful opposition Saturday. ...
President Obama blasted the House Republicans' "Pledge to America" on Saturday, calling it the same old "worn out philosophy" of tax breaks for billionaires, cutting slack for Wall Street and other special interests, and letting the middle class "fend for itself. ...
The president may have been sunning himself on Martha's Vineyard, but the White House was pumping out his weekly radio address. ...
Today, Professor Noble Shizintzski explores the meaning of the word "midterminate." Click play below to watch, and click here for more Words of Wisdom. ...
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