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Isaac's impact on the GOP
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Hurricane Isaac may have spared Tampa its most severe hit, but the Republican National Convention taking place there nevertheless has been left with a clean-up job regarding the Grand Old Party itself. With all but the ceremonial acceptance...Tags: Abortion, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Hurricane Isaac (2012), Tea Party Movement
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Republican woes with women
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney needed that ludicrous outburst about "legitimate rape" from Republican Senate nominee Todd Akin like he needed a hole in the head. The gaffe may turn out to be another pothole in Romney's already uphill road to narrow President...Tags: Abortion, Barack Obama, Feminism, Republican Party, Joe Biden
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That's Joe Biden
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- To no one's surprise, Vice President Joe Biden said what was on his mind the other day down in Danville, Va. To no one's surprise either, the Mitt Romney campaign pounced on this notoriously free-speaking politician like a feline on catnip....Tags: Scranton, Paul Ryan, Barack Obama, Slavery, Joe Biden
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Muzzle Mitt on taxes now?
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- For all the media clamor for Mitt Romney to come clean on his past tax returns, maybe his campaign advisers would be better off just advising him to keep quiet on the matter, before he gaffes again. Romney's supposedly clarifying remark...Tags: Barack Obama, Federal Election Commission, Republican Party, Joe Biden, Elections
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Mitt finds love in the GOP
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In picking Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney has finally found a way to get the Republican Party to love him. Now all he has to do is find acceptance in the rest of the country. His choice of Ryan assured in one stroke that the...Tags: Political Candidates, John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, Republican Party, Joe Biden
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Campaign on cruise control
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In the wake of the furor over the Supreme Court's salvation of President Obama's health care act, the presidential campaign seems now to have settled down to the old partisan argument: The Republicans like to call it class warfare, while the...Tags: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Republican Party, Religion and Belief, George W. Bush
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The sham battle for the black vote
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In a conspicuous exercise in futility, Mitt Romney went to Houston the other day to tell delegates to the convention of the antiquatedly named National Association for the Advancement of Colored People why they should vote for him rather...Tags: Barack Obama, Voting, Republican Party, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Joe Biden
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Romney's no-brainer
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- The late Casey Stengel, peering down the dugout bench of the hapless New York Mets in 1964, allegedly asked: "Can't anybody here play this game?" It's a question Mitt Romney should be asking right now about his own stalled presidential...Tags: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Republican Party, Joe Biden, Elections
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George McGovern at 90
Being a losing presidential candidate is like what Mr. Dooley said about vice presidents: "It isn't a crime exactly. You can't be sint to jail f'r it, but it's kind iv a disgrace. It's like writin' anonymous letters." So it has been, unfairly, for former...
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Showing off the GOP
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In the long lull before the Republican National Convention in Tampa in late August, party leaders and strategists for Mitt Romney are calculating how they can put their collective best foot forward. This year, it will not be easy. The usual...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, George W. Bush
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Obama's timid talk a weak response to Aurora shooting
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- As Eliza Doolittle put it in "My Fair Lady": "Words, words words, I'm so sick of words!" Once again, in the wake of the latest shooting spree in Colorado, presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney ran a race to the microphones...Tags: Barack Obama, Dianne Feinstein, Joe Biden, Elections, Mitt Romney
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Tax cut kabuki
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In the slow waltz on Capitol Hill over extending or dropping the Bush tax cuts due to expire at year's end, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid one-upped the House Republicans this week. He slipped through the Senate the Democratic plan to...Tags: Finance, Elections, Democratic Party, Labor Markets, Parties and Movements
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Jul 20, 2012
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Jul 22, 2012
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