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Dems fight for continued Senate control
WASHINGTON (AP) — Majority Democrats fought Republicans for control of the Senate on Tuesday after a bitter campaign marked by roughly $1 billion in outside spending in competitive races from Virginia to Montana. Republican Sen. Scott Brown, who...
Tags: Politics, Parties and Movements, Robert P. Casey, Jr., U.S. Senate, Richard Lugar
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Election Blog: Akin campaign preparing for election night events
jkaplan@kspr.comHello from Chesterfield! KSPR's Jonah Kaplan here in this St. Louis suburb at Rep. Todd Akin's campaign headquarters. It's pretty quiet here thus far, but the scene will surely light up later on this evening. Campaign staffers are busy inflating hundreds...Tags: Politics, Sarah Steelman, Polls, Elections, Claire McCaskill
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Controversies dim GOP hopes to take over Senate
CNNEven before a second Republican Senate candidate tripped over incendiary comments about rape, GOP leaders in Washington knew that their once promising chances of winning control of the Senate had diminished. Whether Richard Mourdock of Indiana can move...Tags: Politics, Parties and Movements, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Government, Richard Lugar
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Survey USA polling released days before the election
news@ky3.comSPRINGFIELD, Mo. --Survey USA has released its final polling numbers before the November 6 election. In an election for United States Senator from Missouri, incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill leads at the wire, having assembled a coalition that should...Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Jay Nixon, Elections, Libertarian Party
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Presidential politics and abortion
Susan Reimer's column abut the Republican platform on abortion again shows her expertise in setting up a straw man and then knocking him down ("Presidential election or abortion referendum?" Aug. 27). The Republican platform comprises about 45 pages...Tags: Politics, Democratic Party, Parties and Movements, Abortion, Social Issues
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Mother of Senator Claire McCaskill dies
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The mother of Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill has died. McCaskill's campaign said that 84-year-old Betty Anne Ward McCaskill died Monday at her home in St. Louis. The Democratic senator had said Saturday that her mother...
Tags: Politics, Health Insurance Cost, Elections, Claire McCaskill
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October surprise: Learning what Republicans really think about rape
Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, the Tea Party usurper who took down Sen. Richard Lugar in the Republican primary, created the biggest political buzz last week by uttering the following sentence in a televised debate: "I think even when life...
Tags: Politics, Parties and Movements, Abortion, U.S. Senate, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Big bird, BS and birth control
WASHINGTON -- We shouldn't be talking about this silliness -- Big Bird, "bull -- er," or a girl's "first time." We should be talking about The Issues, we keep telling ourselves. But in the waning days of the presidential campaign, these are the issues --...
Tags: Family Planning, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Joe Biden
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Democrats Seize On Candidate's Pregnancy, Rape Comments
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON -- In an election that increasingly is a battle for women's votes, the Obama campaign seized on a provocative claim about abortion and rape by a Republican Senate candidate in Indiana, arguing that it shows Mitt Romney does not support women'...Tags: Politics, Parties and Movements, Abortion, U.S. Senate, Kim C. Geiger
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HBO’s ‘Newsroom’ bashes Tea Party as ‘American Taliban’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelAaron Sorkin used the season finale of “The Newsroom” to lash the Tea Party. In its first season, the HBO drama has been an odd mixture of romantic comedy and op-ed piece. The op-ed portion reigned in Sunday's episode as anchor Will McAvoy... -
Duckworth criticizes Walsh on abortion
Clout StreetDemocrat Tammy Duckworth today campaigned with a California congresswoman who said she had to have an abortion to save her life as part of Duckworth's ongoing effort to highlight her differences with Republican Rep. Joe Walsh. The appearance with...Tags: Politics, Joe Walsh, Abortion, U.S. Senate, Republican Party
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About those binders...
Leonard PittsAbout those "binders full of women..." That, of course, is the infelicitous phrase Mitt Romney used in last week's second presidential debate when he was asked how he would address paycheck inequity between the sexes. Romney responded with a homily about...Tags: Politics, Government, CNN (tv network), The Miami Herald, Minority Groups
Nov 6, 2012
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Nov 6, 2012
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Nov 6, 2012
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Nov 4, 2012
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Sep 2, 2012
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Oct 29, 2012
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Oct 30, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Oct 29, 2012
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Oct 27, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Aug 27, 2012
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Oct 25, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Oct 24, 2012
|Column| Tribune Media Services
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