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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Elaine Marshall, current North Carolina secretary of state, is the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from North Carolina. She is running against Republican incumbent Richard M. Burr. As part of a Politics Daily series providing background about the major candidates in the 2010 midterm elections, here are answers to some frequently asked questions about Marshall's life. What is Elaine Marshall's religion? Marshall is a Methodist. Where does Elaine Marshall worship? Marshall is a member of the Divine Street United Methodist Church in Dunn, according to her campaign bio. Was Elaine ...
(Sept. 15) -- President Barack Obama will reportedly nominate Elizabeth Warren to serve as a special adviser in helping establish the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The news that Warren has been tapped for what appears to be just a temporary oversight position has placated some liberals but angered many others, who have called for her full appointment as the head of the new agency. Meanwhile, conservatives remain enraged that she's getting any position at all, perceiving her to be far left of the mainstream. But who is Warren, exactly, and why has her appointment been so ...
(Aug. 24) -- Stop me if you've heard this one. There was once a writer of the finest caliber who was also very handsome. This writer was tasked with covering the story of a Catholic college student who urinated on a Methodist church. When the student was caught by police, he told them, "I'm Catholic." This is a pretty funny topic, the writer thought to himself. Church. Pee. That's funny. The writer used a well-known, funny religious joke to set up the piece. It was a total riot. But this joke did not fly with his editors, who explained that we report news on a site with a demographic ...
Marc Mezvinsky, 31, will marry Chelsea Clinton, 29, the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the summer of 2010. In this wedding, certain to be one of the social events of the season, the bride is more famous than the groom. But he also comes from a political family, one that is also no stranger to wrongdoing and controversy -- and he, too, has a strong-willed and well-known mother. Mezvinsky also has a successful Wall Street career. He currently works at the hedge fund G3 Capital and previously was an investment banker at the behemoth ...
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