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Nov 02 2014
News
Both Parties See Campaign Tilting to Republicans
Republicans entered the final weekend before the midterm elections clearly holding the better hand to control the Senate and poised to add to their House majority. But a decidedly sour electorate and a sizable number of undecided voters added a measure of suspense.
The final drama surrounded the Senate, which has been a Democratic bulwark for President Obama since his party lost its
New York Times (News)Nov 01 2014
News
Harry Reid Pleads to Democrat Supporters: 'I'm Begging You'
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid begged Democratic voters on Friday to help the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee reach a $1 million fundraising goal by midnight to pay for its grassroots efforts in tough battleground states to "keep the Senate safe from tea party extremists!"
"It’s the single most important day of the entire election," the Nevada Democrat said in an email sent
Newsmax (News)Nov 01 2014
News
Fox News Poll: 1-point margin in Iowa, Kansas and North Carolina Senate races
“It all comes down to turnout.”
That’s one of the biggest clichés in politics. It’s also true in one-point races. Welcome to Iowa, Kansas and North Carolina.
According to the latest round of Fox News Senate battleground polls, none of the front-runners in those states hits the 50 percent mark. That means these races will be decided by late-deciding voters -- and campaigns
Fox News DigitalOct 27 2014
News
Ahead of 2016, Immigration Activists Want Answers From Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton had just finished telling the crowd that North Carolina families could count on Senator Kay Hagan when the chants of Oliver Merino — a 25-year-old whose mother, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, faces deportation — grew louder.
He held a sign that read, “Hillary, do you stand with our immigrant families?” and shouted that his mother lives in constant fear of
New York Times (News)Feb 06 2024
Headline Roundup
Nikki Haley Requests Secret Service Protection Citing ‘Multiple Issues’
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has requested Secret Service protection, The Wall Street Journal (Center bias) reported.
Facing Threats: Haley attributed the request to “multiple issues” her campaign has faced recently. Last week in Columbia, South Carolina, a protesting Israel’s war in Gaza was apprehended by Haley’s private security team when she tried to rush the stage
Wall Street Journal (News) Associated Press New York Post (News)Apr 16 2019
Opinion
OPINION: Trump’s Trade War With China Doesn’t Look Like a Win
Prevailing against a fast-growing country run by autocrats isn’t so easy.
In March 2018, President Donald Trump uttered his famous declaration that “trade wars are good and easy to win.” A little more than a year later, it looks as if Trump is losing the trade war he started with China.
The tariffs that Trump slapped on Chinese goods -- and the additional tariffs he threatened
BloombergSep 09 2013
News
Fiasco: Did Kerry's Syria Gaffe 'Solve' Obama's PR Crisis, or Make It Worse?
Kerry's accidental gambit in London -- the details of which we'll discuss in a moment -- may have opened up a face-saving escape route for the president, and not a moment too soon. It's not like it's been smooth sailing for Obama since his re-election, but let's face it: Drawing a red line, then dithering for months before disclaiming the red line while threatening ("unbelievably small")
TownhallMar 09 2020
Perspectives Blog
Living in a News Filter Bubble During Coronavirus
You stroll into work on Monday, fresh off another much-too-short weekend. As you toss your jacket on the chair, your cubicle neighbor pitches their routine small-talk: “Read the news this weekend?”
Of course you did. But which news?
If you’re like many Americans, you may get your news inside an ideological filter bubble, where you’re only exposed to viewpoints you already agree
Henry A. BrechterSep 03 2012
News
Barack Obama Promised A New Kind Of Politics, But Played The Same Old Game
In the days following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson was left to pursue his predecessors unfinished legislative agenda. White House insiders considered the task nearly impossible. The civil rights bill was bottled up in the House Rules Committee, where its chairman was intent on running out the clock
until the election the next year. A critical tax cut,
HuffPostJan 29 2014
News
Paul Ryan, Republicans: Obama's Wage Hike Push 'Bad Economics'
President Barack Obama opened this year's congressional election season with a State of the Union message centered on economic inequalities, a theme harder to sustain in scattered House and Senate contests. Mapping out his goals to assist those struggling amid a broader recovery, the president in last night's address called for extending unemployment benefits, an increase in the minimum wage
Newsmax (News)