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Like A Fly Stuck In Amber

9 hours ago ago from The Whig

Rasmussen Reports: Tea Party Candidate Now Comes In Last On Three-Way Generic Ballot A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of likely voters finds that in a three-way congressional contest with a Tea Party candidate on the ballot, the Democrat earns 36% support. The GOP candidate comes in second with 25% of the vote, while the Tea Party candidate picks up 17%. Twenty-three percent (23%) are undecided. In early December, the ...

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SINGLE-WING FORMATION

23 hours ago ago from papadablogger

Gore Vidal has probably been misquoted more times than anyone since Jesus. Nevertheless, and no matter how he said it exactly, it was Vidal’s opinion that the United States has only one political party, and that that party has two right wings. One wing may be less right than the other, but still both swing and flap from the same side. Thus the Vidal quote (or misquote) – “We have a one-party system with two right wings.” Actually, we have a ...

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Three Republican U.S. Senate Candidates Meet For First Time On Same Stage; Four Candidates For Governor, Too

4 hours ago ago from Capitol Watch

CANTON - The three Republican U.S. Senate candidates met for the first time on the same stage Tuesday night, and they largely avoided the harsh clashes that have recently characterized the increasingly nasty race. The candidates momentarily seemed uncertain where to sit on the stage at Canton High School, and wrestling entrepreneur Linda McMahon said she had the chance to be "a rose between two thorns'' if she sat between her two main ...

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Republicans take aim at open seat in Terre Haute

20 hours ago ago from Hendricks County GOP

Rep. Vern Tincher, a Terre Haute Democrat, announced yesterday that he will not seek reelection, resulting in an open seat that is a top target for Republicans in 2010.  The problem for Democrats is that it seems to have caught them by surprise. Since redistricting in 2001, House District 46 has been highly competitive, especially in midterm elections.  Tincher lost in 2002 to Republican Brooks LaPlante, only to regain the seat in 2004 ...

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Specter wins Pa. party backing | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/07/2010

23 hours ago ago from Mark Rauterkus & Running Mates ponder current events

Specter wins Pa. party backing | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/07/2010 : "When U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter switched from a Republican to a Democrat last year, some Democratic loyalists in Pennsylvania said hell would freeze over before they'd embrace an old foe they had been battling in statewide elections for 30 years. Yesterday, amid the deep freeze and howling winds of the worst winter storm in years, the Democratic State Committee met in a ...

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Thomas Frank: Washington's 'Deficit of Trust'

10 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal

BY THOMAS FRANK What a difference a year has made for conservatism. By the end of 2008, the wars and scandals of the George W. Bush years had turned the public against the Republican Party. The financial crisis had invalidated central assumptions of neoclassical economics and even the hottest of culture-war conflicts was cooling off. But somehow the right's single greatest idea the essential villainy of government came through the ...

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