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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!LAS VEGAS -- Republican Sen. John Ensign of Nevada, damaged politically and facing a Senate ethics investigation over an extramarital affair, said Monday he won't seek re-election next year. Ensign, who is under investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee, said he decided last week against seeking a third term because he was worried about the effect of an "exceptionally ugly" campaign on his family. "I'm putting them first, instead of my career," Ensign said. In recent months, Ensign had been adamant that he would seek re-election. He said Monday it was difficult to give up the job he ...
Google on Tuesday released the top searches within the United States for 2009; the results are surprising and interesting. The top Google searches for senators show that people are more interested in reading about Democrats than Republicans -- only Chuck Grassley of Iowa at No. 9 made the list for the GOP. And it also shows that people are doing more searches for senators with key roles in legislation than for senators caught up in scandals. No surprise, Ted Kennedy tops the Senate Google searches, as he died this year. Second on the Senate list is Nelson, but the Google people don't tell us ...
Yes, believe it or not, there is good news these days for Republicans. For one thing, their 2012 presidential prospects are imploding in 2009 instead of 2011. For another, if they are so inclined, there's still plenty of time to rebrand the GOP as less judgmental about other people's personal lives. Just a day after Nevada Sen. John Ensign apologized to his colleagues for his extramarital affair with a married aide, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford stuns us with the news that he has been having an extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina. From a party perspective, this casts quite a ...
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