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Local News | State News | National/World News Published: December 01. 2008 12:01AM Specter says he will be ready for 2010 race WASHINGTON -- Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., says he's ready for a tough re-election race in 2010,

...Meanwhile, I think it would shatter the GOP for a generation — and I would still be for it! The Democrats could, with Republican help, use that year to plot a ginormous overhaul of the tax code, closing loopholes, simplifying it, even raising tax rates, and...

...On the other side of the aisle, eight Democrats think Craddick’s a great guy. So if everybody votes as expected, the cross-party math shows Craddick clinging to an edge as thin as one vote. No, no, no, no. Add those 11 to the "64 strong" Democrats, and you...

...their kids, then they should vote for the party that is pro-family, anti-abortion, and for traditional values. That's the Republican Party. A vote for Democrats is a vote for people who want a perverted culture for your children. 8) One of the important reasons...

Palin stumps for senator in Georgia runoff 120108 STATE 1 The Associated Press Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss enlisted Sarah Palin to rally conservatives while Democratic challenger Jim Martin pushed to activate black voters, as they grappled for

... Sponsors of a county bill that would ban soliciting money, selling items and advertising in the right-of-way of state roads in the county agreed to amend the bill to safeguard political sign-waving, a right protected under the Constitution, according to a...

...of yet is where NDP Leader Jack Layton - or other New Democrats - would sit around the cabinet table. Just who leads the Liberal party, and becomes prime minister, also remained far from resolved early Monday. The Liberals were split into four camps on...

Martin planned to campaign with prominent Georgia Democrats, including U.S. Rep. John Lewis, as he sought to rekindle the strong showing by African American voters in the general election that President-elect Barack Obama sparked. Neither Chambliss

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...Social Democrats and conservative People's Party have announced their ministers in the new coalition cabinet, which will be sworn in by President Heinz Fischer next week. New vice chancellor Josef Proell of the People's Party is to become finance minister...

...has been declared the winner after all votes were counted and certified today. Tim Burke, chairman of the Hamilton County Democratic Party, said that Coates, the Democrat, was trailing Groppe, the Republican incumbent, by about 3,000 votes after the unofficial...

...working with only one Republican in town — the governor. "Post-partisan was the governor plus the Democrats," said Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine. "He threw away the opportunity to work with us and establish a good working relationship in 2007 by not even...

A recount of votes in Iowa Senate District 10 has given incumbent Democrat Jeff Danielson a 22-vote win over Republican challenger Walt Rogers. The Democrats now officially hold a 32-18 advantage in the state Senate. Thanks. Your comment is awaiting

... It will be a heady time when Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) takes over the House Energy and Commerce Committee next year. At that point, the fabled west-side Los Angeles Waxman-Berman machine will control the world. Waxman, from his committee, will have jurisdi...

...the change that progressives continue to think they might someday get from the party. In a speech delivered at the National Press Club last week Hoyer declared obliviously: "For the first time in decades, we are a true national majority party – and if we want...

...Charles Schumer is stepping down as chairman of the Senate Democrats campaign committee, after two elections in which he helped the party win at least 13 new seats and a new majority. When Schumer took the reins of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee...

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... Democrats do not see the Constitution as a limit on their actions. In fact, Democrats don’t see any rules or laws as limits on what they think they can do. They imagine that they can do anything they want no matter what the law says. Democrats are essenti...

CHICAGO (CBS 5 / AP) ― With the economy in crisis, President-elect Barack Obama urged the new Congress to pass a quick economic stimulus bill, pledged help for the troubled auto industry and blessed the Bush administration's bailout of the

...someone who is running for the second highest office in the United States be able to tell this ... The Pew Research Center released a package of valuable information yesterday showing gains in identification with the Democratic Party among all voters. What...

...Just got back from Woodbridge, I'd carpooled there with more than a dozen Arlington Young Democrats to help close out canvassing in Prince William County. Canvass organizers reported having so many volunteers that each group was only given about 15 houses...

Counting down to Election Day, Barack Obama appears within reach of becoming the nation's first black president as the epic campaign draws to a close against a backdrop of economic crisis and lingering war. John McCain, the battle-scarred warrior,

...Powell and economic giant Warren Buffett. Move On.org will run its own ads showing McCain struggling to hold on to his state. Arizona's crimson has turned purple on several electoral maps, and some political analysts have moved it from the McCain column to...

WASHINGTON -- Counting down to Election Day, Barack Obama appears within reach of becoming the nation's first black president as the epic campaign draws to a close against a backdrop of economic crisis and lingering war. John McCain, the battle-scarred

...at Claremont McKenna College. Historically, big losses have been followed by recovery for Republicans: after Barry Goldwater's landslide defeat in 1964, Republicans gained Congressional seats and Ronald Reagan captured the California governorship in 1966;...

electorate by appealing to African-Americans and young voters is meeting with success. People want to participate in making history, so the Democratic vote will be high." SACRAMENTO — When the state's political landscape settles after Tuesday's

...attempts to reclaim the seat. But it is Mr. Altmire who has the advantages of incumbency and money this time around. Rep. Chris Carney, not Mr. Murtha or Mr. Kanjorski, was once seen as the Democrats most vulnerable. Mr. Carney's 10th District, on the state's...

...when Obama was clearly ahead in every poll by double digits. "This race is still not a slam-dunk for Barack Obama," says Pennsylvania Democrat Mark Singel, a former lieutenant governor and acting governor. Pennsylvania voters move pretty dramatically in the...

...to retire or seek other political office this year, including five-term Virginian John Warner and six-term New Mexican Pete Domenici, whereas the Democrats had no retirements. Then last week, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, Ted Stevens of Alaska,...