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Hispanics Are Likely to Play Larger Role in Next Elections
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyWith historic victories in the midterm elections, Hispanics flexed their growing political muscle, helping elect -- and defeat -- well-known top-tier candidates in places like California and Nevada, New Mexico and Florida. At the same time, a new political profile of Hispanic Republican leaders emerged, giving a clear and loud warning to the Democratic Party that the Latino vote is not a monolithic bloc that the party could continue to take for granted. Now, with the changes brought about by the 2010 congressional reapportionment, Hispanics are likely to play a larger role in national ...
Joe Miller Files for Injunction to Keep Fat Lady From Singing
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 18) -- The Alaska Senate race is heading back to court. An attorney for tea party candidate Joe Miller asked a federal judge today to halt the certification of Lisa Murkowski as the victor. Miller's challenge will once again focus on state rules over how a write-in candidate's name can appear on a ballot. If past court action is any indication, however, Miller could face even more disappointment. On Nov. 10 an Alaska federal judge rejected Miller's request to halt the counting of write-in ballots, and in October, the Alaska Supreme Court dealt Miller a blow by ruling that even ...
Lisa Murkowski Leading Joe Miller by Nearly 2,000 Votes (and Counting)
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 16) -- Is the handwriting on the wall? Sen. Lisa Murkowski appears poised to become only the second Senate candidate in U.S. history to mount a successful write-in campaign. At last check, Murkowski now leads tea party rival Joe Miller by more than 1,700 votes with approximately 8,000 write-in ballots left to count, the Anchorage Daily News reported. With 92,164 votes, Murkowski overtook Miller's 90,458 during Monday's counting. So far, 97 percent of all write-in ballots have been credited to Murkowski, but Miller's campaign continues to argue that they can challenge enough ballots to ...
Judson Phillips: Mitch McConnell Should 'Grow a Pair'
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 4) -- Not sure Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is going to appreciate being told what to do, especially this: Tennessee attorney and tea party leader Judson Phillips thinks McConnell should "grow a pair," according to a blog post from the Tea Party Nation website. How charming. The Tea Party Nation, a for-profit organization based in Nashville, first generated major attention for its $549-per-ticket national tea party convention featuring key-note speaker Sarah Palin. (Speaking of Sarah Palin, check out this video of the "Mama Grizzly" taking a shot at the president's ...
Today in Voter Fraud: Minnesota Showdown Over 'Please ID Me' Buttons
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Nov. 2) -- An act of civil disobedience meant to curb voter fraud or a wanton display of voter intimidation? That's the question facing a group calling itself Minnesota Majority, which is sending just over 10,000 people to monitor polling stations across that state today in an aggressive campaign to fight what organizers claim is a widespread problem of voter fraud. While monitoring and even contesting the eligibility of some voters is entirely legal, Minnesota Majority is directing its members to wear "Please ID Me" buttons in violation of a federal judge's orders, the blog Talking Points ...
You Said It: The Tea Party [VIDEO]
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Tea Party Candidate's Graphic Anti-Abortion Ad Banned on YouTube, but Not TV
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 21) -- An anti-abortion ad by Washington, D.C., tea party candidate Missy Smith has achieved an unlikely distinction of being banned on YouTube while still being allowed -- actually, constitutionally protected -- on local television. The ad, which features extremely graphic pictures of aborted late-term fetuses, was deemed by YouTube to violate the site's policy on posting "shocking or disgusting content," ABC News reported. But television stations in the D.C. area will run the spot along with a warning to viewers about its graphic content. After noting that she had had two ...
Counting on Independent Voters? Careful What You Wish For
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40 Alaska Republicans Tell Joe Miller to Start Answering Questions
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Oct. 20) -- No further questions? Forty members of the Alaska Republican Party have signed their names to a letter urging tea party candidate Joe Miller, who is running as the GOP nominee for Senate in that state, to begin answering questions about his own background and qualifications for office, the Anchorage Daily News reports. "It is unacceptable -- and certainly not a winning strategy -- to explicitly refuse to answer reasonable questions about oneself, and to disrespect the Alaska public and the press' right to do so before the questions have even been asked," the letter, which was ...
Christine O'Donnell Supporters Decry Debate Coverage
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Oct. 20) -- What did she say, and what did she mean? In the wake of tea party candidate Christine O'Donnell's comments on the First Amendment in a debate with her Democratic rival, Chris Coons, numerous media outlets (including this one) ran stories about O'Donnell's apparent lack of knowledge about the establishment clause of the First Amendment. Very quickly, however, other media sources, such as Rush Limbaugh, forcefully argued that O'Donnell was correct in that the literal words "separation of church and state" do not appear in the U.S. Constitution. "What she was talking about was ...
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