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Pelosi Will Run for House Minority Leader: Instant Reactions
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 5) -- Following a brief deliberation period, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that she will run for the House minority leadership position. While Democrats appear to be split on Pelosi's future as a party leader, the California representative says that she has no regrets about her party's performance -- aka "shellacking" -- earlier this week in the midterm elections. Naturally, Pelosi tweeted the announcement: .bbpBox594181965750272 {background:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/106260336/tweetback3.jpg) #ffffff;padding:20px;} ...
Opinion: The Election's Over, but the Fun's Just Beginning
By Will Durst - AOL News(Nov. 5) -- First things first. This is a post election wrap-up. Not a post-apocalyptic wrap-up. Yeah, the GOP did well. After a change in administrations, the minority party won a bunch of House seats in the following midterm election. Ho hum. Whoop-ti-do. BFD. In itself, this is about as unusual as a piquant odor emanating from the Dumpster behind a fish market. Happened to Reagan: 27 seats in '82. To George H.W. Bush: 31 seats in 1990. Clinton: 54 seats in 1994. Would have happened to George W. Bush if 9/11 hadn't gone down the year before. It's a natural contraction. Democracy's labor ...
Opinion: 9 Takeaways From the Election
By Michael Cohen - AOL News
(Nov. 3) -- So in case you hadn't heard, there was an election last night in America -- here are some of the big takeaways. Republicans Won't Shake Up Washington Last night was a political tsunami, but don't expect things to change overnight in Washington. The GOP ran a brilliant campaign that channeled voter anger. But now the hard part begins. Republicans talked about cutting spending but found it easier to identify the programs they wanted to protect than those they would cut. They railed against growing budget red ink but want to blow a $700 billion hole in the budget by extending the ...
Where to Vote, No Matter Where You Are
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 2) -- Election Day is finally here. So don't just wander aimlessly around town looking for a polling station. Find your voting location on any of these websites, compliments of Surge Desk: Google Maps Voter Information Vote411.org: Polling Place Finder YourF***ingPollingPlace.com (Disclaimer: You are only old enough for the language on this website if you are old enough to vote.) Once you've voted, check out these sites for live updates. Politics Daily 2010 Elections Results The New York Times Election Center Intrade Political Stock Market And to get you in the mood to ...
Let's Just Settle This Election With Knives
By Barry Weintraub - AOL News(Oct. 29) -- The tension between right and left is so tense, you could cut it with a knife. With that in mind, AOL Weird News consulted the world's greatest knife thrower for some answers. David Adamovich, better known as "The Great Throwdini," has broken 25 Guinness World Records, including one for tossing 144 knives around a human target in one minute. He's an ordained minister and a trained chef, and he recently unveiled the "Veiled Wheel of Death," in which he chucks knives at a woman spinning on a revolving table that's obscured behind a paper curtain. Adamovich has also used his ...
Joe Manchin Guns Down 'Cap and Trade' Bill in New Campaign Ad
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News
(Oct 11) -- Joe Manchin, West Virginia's governor and a Senate candidate, is taking aim at the notion that he's just another Democratic candidate running at a time when Democrats are not doing so well. In his latest campaign advertisement for the 2010 Senate race, Manchin gets decked out in full hunting gear for a back-country excursion to vent some frustrations against the Washington status quo -- specifically cap and trade. See the video for yourself: While he didn't exactly obliterate the cap-and-trade bill as he had hoped, Surge Desk nevertheless commends Manchin on his excellent ...
Meg Whitman Gives Her Campaign Another $15M, Sets Spending Record
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 15) -- Money may not be able to buy you love, but if you spend enough, it might be able to buy enough affection to secure a vote or two. After loaning her campaign another $15 million on Tuesday, California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman made history. The latest cash infusion from her own bank account means that she has now funneled $119 million of her own cash into her contest with Democrat Jerry Brown, setting a record for the most money that a candidate has ever personally ponied up in an attempt to attain public office, the Los Angeles Times reported. Sponsored ...
Obama Takes on his GOP Critics in Labor Day Speech
By Carla Baranauckas - Politics DailyIn a Labor Day speech in Milwaukee that sounded more like a campaign stump speech than a holiday greeting, President Barack Obama delivered a message that was the political equivalent of "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore." Kicking off what has traditionally been considered the official fall campaign season, Obama said: "Some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time, they're not always happy with me. They talk about me like a dog. That's not in my prepared remarks, but it's true." From a stage at the Summerfest grounds in ...
New GOP Group Plans to Spend Millions This Fall
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (June 26) -- In a campaign season of anti-establishment ferment, some of the Republican Party's best-known insiders are building an ambitious fundraising machine for the fall elections and beyond. They started with a bang in April, cashing a $1 million check from a Texas oil magnate. After a quiet May, friends and foes are watching to see if the new organization's core group, American Crossroads, can reach its goal of raising $52 million by November. Karl Rove, who was President George W. Bush's top political strategist, and Ed Gillespie, a former Republican Party chairman and ...
GOP Senate Hopeful Caught Making Fun of Boxer
By not in system - AOL News(June 9) -- Carly Fiorina won big in Tuesday's California Senate primary and wasted no time making her first gaffe of the general election -- getting caught on an open mic making fun of her opponent Sen. Barbara Boxer's hairstyle. ...
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