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Eye on Williamson
17 hours ago ago from Southern Shift
Eye on Williamson Keeping An Eye On Williamson County, Texas 12.14.09 Two on Texas politics Posted in 2010 Primary , Around The State , Election 2010 , Elections , Redistricting at 5:54 pm by wcnews Kinky drops run for Governor, will run for Agriculture Commissioner .as a Democrat. Hank Gilbert welcomes him to the race : Democratic Agriculture Commissioner Candidate Hank Gilbert (D-Whitehouse) on Monday welcomed ...
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16 hours ago ago from HolyCoast.com
Marc Ambinder takes a look at the surge of Democrat House members who are retiring or likely to retire, and why: Stipulating here for a moment: the NET number of Democratic congressional retirements is -1, which is not necessarily predictive of a wave in the distance. Of the nearly two dozen Democrats and Republicans who've decided to step down, Republicans are in a good position to pick up about seven seats -- Democrats are in a position to ...
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18 hours ago ago from God's Own Party?
This is a perfect lead in to engaging ALL of you. I will continue to write until I have wiped the print lines off my fingers on this keyboard from tapping the keys. But it is time to put out a Call to Action ! We must all participate in this resistance to preserve the separation of church & state. And there is not one iota of doubt that we can do this. The key? Let's take their playbook and run with it! With a codicil clearly we do NOT have ...
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20 hours ago ago from Publicola
When you mapped out R-71's winning election result numbers , we wrote: There is an island of support (60 to 69 percent yes) floating in a sea of waning support north of Issaquah, in the Sammamish Plateau. This is good news for Democrats. This is the state’s 5th legislative district (currently represented in Olympia by three Republicans). As the Microsoft suburbs expand into the 5th District, it’s clearly getting more liberal, which ...
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20 hours ago ago from Brian Griffiths
The left has decided to examine Governor Ehrlich's chances of unseating Martin O'Malley next year, and Adam Pagnucco decided to start his analysis with the most meaningless statistic in all of politics: voter registration data. Overall, the Democrats have an absolute majority (at 56.9%) and outnumber Republicans by better than two-to-one. But the total numbers mask the geographic domination of the Democrats and the regional isolation of the ...
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House Democrats lose fourth member to retirement
11 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Politics
House Democrats got a jolt Monday when a fourth lawmaker in a matter of weeks announced his retirement, leaving party officials and strategists fearful that they represent the leading edge of a wave of departures that could leave the Democrats vulnerable to significant losses in the 2010 midterm elections . This Story The most recent retirement came when Rep. Bart Gordon (Tenn.) decided not to seek a 14th term. While ...
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18 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
"and [Lieberman] will at last be only a minor annoyance" --Casablanca, 1942, paraphrase shown. Time to get on with it. Just as the President has done all in his power to get countries like Iran to engage as a full partner with the rest of the world, but has been rebuffed, Harry Reid has done a remarkable job (and I am no Harry Reid fan) of keeping the fingers in the dike of healthcare reform (HCR) to get it to this point. The Senate ...
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