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PA-Sen: New Polls Show a Toss-Up
If you average out the new polls from today, with less than a week to go in the Senate primary in Pennsylvania, the race is basically tied. The tracking poll from the Allentown Morning Call and...
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PA-Sen: Specter’s Troubles Are About His Character
Chris Bowers makes a solid point about Arlen Specter, which is probably what Democrats in the state are thinking at this point, too: Last night on Hardball, Arlen Specter said that he knew his days in...
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Specter Says “Re-Elected” Video Taken Out Of Context: Then He Takes It Out Of...
Arlen Specter’s campaign is hopping mad that an ad run by his opponent Joe Sestak was taken out of context. The now-famous clip shows Specter telling reporters “My change in party will enable me to be...
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Primary Wins Signal New Phase Of 2010 Election
Just a quick word on the primaries last night, because most of what needed to be said has been said, and it all happened while I was watching the astonishing crumbling of financial reform (more on that...
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The Tempest Over the Sestak Job Offer
What the continuing story over Joe Sestak receiving an undefined “job offer” from the Obama White House shows is that the right wing still has the ability to turn whatever they want into a front-page...
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Sestak Opposes Any Benefit Cuts to Social Security
Joe Sestak is in a tough race in Pennsylvania for US Senate, with the Club for Growth’s Pat Toomey, a former derivatives trader, in a small but measurable lead. Lately Sestak has been going after...
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Durbin on Tax Cuts, Deficit – No Deficit Reduction Until Unemployment Rate...
If the defense authorization bill stalls out today, as expected, the Senate could move directly to taxes. Dick Durbin vowed that the Senate would work on the Obama tax plan in this work period, and he...
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Senate Visibility Helped Democrats; House Invisibility Hurt Them
We’re seeing some interesting races in the US Senate. Alexi Giannoulias is up by about 100,000 votes in Illinois with half the vote in. Joe Sestak is up by a similar amount with half the vote in....
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Another Republican Gets Tripped Up on Rape and Abortion
The specter of Todd Akin, which has hovered around the GOP for a full week, has struck again. This time, Tom Smith, a first-time candidate for US Senate in Pennsylvania, who will probably lose his race...
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Akin: McCaskill Not “Ladylike” in Debate
As the Republican establishment returns to the fold in the Missouri Senate race, it’s worth reminding everyone that one of the major problems with Todd Akin is the simple fact that he’s Todd Akin. It’s...
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