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GOP congressional leader 'super PAC' joins cash war
Washington BureauEven as presidential candidates and congressional committees leak word of their traditional fundraising efforts, Republican leaders Thursday announced formation of a new "super PAC" effort that can raise unlimited amounts from well-heeled donors to back...Tags: Republican Party, Elections, Tea Party Movement, Parties and Movements, Orrin Hatch
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Obama campaign raises $70 million in third quarter
Campaign fundraising tallies continued to dribble out Thursday, with President Obama's effort announcing a $70-million haul in the third quarter and party committees releasing their latest totals.
Obama's campaign easily exceeded its $55-million goal,...Tags: Rick Perry, Republican Party, Elections, Orrin Hatch, George W. Bush
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McManus: Obama in the Occupy Wall Street camp
If you're one of the thousands of demonstrators sleeping in parks, carrying signs and banging on drums to protest Wall Street's hammerlock on American politics, President Obama wants you to know he feels your pain.
"I understand the frustrations that are...Tags: David Axelrod, Elections, Republican Party, Demonstration, Lyndon B. Johnson
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STOCK Act: Insider trading bill clears the House
The GOP-led House passed a tamer version of a sweeping ethics bill that would ban lawmakers' insider trading for personal gain, setting up a showdown with the Senate, which approved a stricter version.
The legislation is the most ambitious effort in...Tags: Elections, Republican Party, Insider Trading, Values, Chuck Grassley
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'Super PACs' are showing their power
Political committees unfettered by donation limits are dominating the last weeks of the presidential nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, funding aggressive attack campaigns that are swamping the efforts of the candidates themselves.
In Ohio,...Tags: Elections, Brad Sherman, John Murray, Theodore Roosevelt, Howard L Berman
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McManus: The political angle of the debt-ceiling debate
It's not hard to see what a compromise solution on the debt ceiling would look like. It's just hard to see how we get there from here before the Treasury begins running out of money Aug. 2.
Republican House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and Democratic...Tags: Republican Party, Elections, Social Security, Health, John Boehner
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Obama's biggest challenge: Jobs
The central question facing Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign is this: Can the president persuade voters to let him keep his job when so many of them have lost theirs?
Last week, after another run of bad economic news, the president and his staff...Tags: Labor Markets, Elections, Republican Party, Labor Day, Employment
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McCain compares Bachmann to Sen. Obama, compares President Obama to Muhammad Ali
Top of the TicketJohn McCain also praised former president Bill Clinton as being 'the most adroit politician I’ve ever encountered'... -
Donald Trump says the Republicans are 'terrible, terrible, frightened negotiators'
Top of the TicketDonald Trump has issues with Paul Ryan and other Republicans who he says had President Obama down but keep letting him up... -
Government: The tax trap for Democrats
Opinion L.A.Reports that President Obama and House GOP leaders were closing in on a deficit-cutting deal Thursday that wouldn't necessarily increase tax revenues led Democrats to erupt like Mount Vesuvius, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) told The Washington Post. That'... -
Government: Where's the Obama plan (that we leaked)?
Opinion L.A.House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) drew a rousing ovation from his troops on the House floor Friday when he accused President Obama of having no plan for cutting spending. How soon they forget. Less than three weeks ago, Boehner's second in command,... -
Will Obama keep his job in 2012? [Most commented]
Opinion L.A.President Obama is trying to remain optimistic, but things aren't looking great. The decrease in the unemployment rate to 9.1% from 9.2% isn't much of a decrease; no president since Franklin Roosevelt has been reelected with a jobless rate that......
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