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Higdon Wins Special State Senate Election
10 hours ago ago from 89.3 WFPL
Republican Rep. Jimmy Higdon of Lebanon won a decisive victory in Tuesday's special election in a central Kentucky senatorial district. If, as many political pundits claimed, the Senate race was a referendum on expanded gambling, then the electorate wants the issue decided through a constitutional amendment. That’s the position Republican Rep. Jimmy Higdon took in his campaign against Democrat Jodie Haydon, who supported slots at horse ...
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21 hours ago ago from Ballot Box
posted by Josh Goodman Today, the political world receives a pre-Christmas, pre-Hanukkah gift in the form of a splendid special election for state senate in Kentucky. The race comes with major consequences for Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear and his top legislative priority, expanded gambling at racetracks. The election will test the relative significance of a national political environment that favors Republicans and a state political ...
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4 hours ago ago from Bergen New Jersey
I hope you've been enjoying my posts lately. I thought I might do something different today and rustle up a few bits of info from around the WWW. These are some of the news items and blog posts that have been popular over the last few weeks. Leave me your thoughts. Tenafly official accused of theft The former president of the Registrars Association of New Jersey who holds the position of registrar of vital statistics for the borough of ...
Related contentWarning to GOP: Embrace Tea Baggers Or Die
22 hours ago ago from Home
Now, I am not one to think that Rasmussen is the most neutral of polling outlets. In my opinion, they skew things to the right to drive their agenda and when it is not working, they actually release honest results. They took forever last year to finally show their polls breaking to Obama , when it was clear, well to me at least, that Obama was going to win comfortably. Anyway, a recent Rasmussen poll showed the fictious Tea Bagger Party ...
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6 hours ago ago from Ed Driscoll
As Jonah Goldberg writes, building on themes he explored in-depth in his must-read Liberal Fascism , O ne of the great frustrations of the libertarian-minded Right is how Republicans got stuck being the party of big business' : This identification allows self-described progressive Democrats to run against big business when they are in fact in bed with the fat cats. For instance, the standard line from the Democrats is that the ...
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Sen. Brown wins Mass. Senate Republican primary
12 hours ago ago from FanHouse
BOSTON -State Sen. Scott Brown has won the Republican nomination in the race to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. Brown defeated businessman and attorney Jack E. Robinson in a primary marked by low turnout. The 50-year-old Brown is a veteran legislator and lieutenant colonel in the Army National Guard who has also gained local notoriety as a former Cosmopolitan centerfold model and the father of an "American Idol" contestant. He faces an ...
Related contentSen. Reid: No Apologies - Washington Wire - WSJ
14 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
By Naftali Bendavid Harry Reid is not sorry. The Senate majority leader angered Republicans this week when he compared people opposed to Democrats health care plan with those who stood in the way of ending slavery. Asked by reporters Tuesday afternoon how he responded to Republicans demands that he apologize for those comments, the Nevada Democrat was unrepentant. At pivotal points in American history, tactics of distortion and delay ...
Related contentAdele Stan: Collapse of the GOP? Tea Party Beats Grand Old Party in Poll
15 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Establishment Republicans, take notice. The Tea Party is about to steal your thunder. According to a poll by Rasmussen Reports , likely voters in the 2010 congressional elections would rather cast a ballot for a candidate bearing the Tea Party brand than one on the Republican line. In a national survey of likely voters, Rasmussen asked respondents to choose their favored political party for the congressional contests in what pollsters ...
Related contentGeoffrey R. Stone: The Republican Struggle for "Ascendency"
18 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
They scorned "any idea of moderation" and greeted with contempt any effort "to understand a question from all sides." Their primary goal was "to acquire power" by frustrating those in authority at every turn. If the President "made a reasonable speech," they "took every precaution to see that it had no practical effect." Although "professing to serve the public interest," they in fact "were seeking to win" power "for themselves." In "their ...
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