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Jul 07 2012
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Red-State Democrats Snub Obama
The Strategy: Democrats facing re-election in conservative states are finding a plethora of ways to keep their distance from President Barack Obama. Some voted last week against his attorney general. Next week, some will vote against his health-care law. Several plan to skip the party's convention this summer. And some Democrats
Wall Street Journal (News)Mar 28 2015
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With Reid Out, Republicans See An Opportunity
Harry Reid, the wily Democratic Senate leader, was likely — once again — to be one of the most vulnerable incumbents up for re-election in 2016.
Few, though, would have bet the house against Reid — a sharp-elbowed campaigner — especially in a presidential year when demography will favor Democrats in a state where almost 3 in 10 people are Hispanic.
"Do you really want to go up
NPR (Online News)Jul 18 2019
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‘This is an army of socialists’: To retake House, GOP is hammering one message
At the Monitor Breakfast, House Republican campaign chair Tom Emmer said there’s “no place” for language like the “Send her back!” chant aimed at Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar at Wednesday’s Trump rally.
The timing of the Monitor Breakfast with Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn. – chairman of the House Republican campaign committee – Thursday could not have been better.
The night before, at a
Christian Science MonitorMay 31 2019
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Barr says he's seen no evidence of Trump 'shredding institutions' despite Trump's attacks
Attorney General William Barr said in a new interview he's seen no evidence of President Donald Trump "shredding institutions," despite the President's past attacks and unprecedented efforts to pressure the Justice Department and US judiciary.
Barr's interview with CBS News comes in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller's statement about his investigation into Russian interference
CNN DigitalJun 10 2014
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Cantor loses
It wasn’t enough that Eric Cantor spent $1 million in the weeks leading up to the election, when his primary opponent hardly had $100,000 in his campaign coffers. It didn’t matter that the House majority leader, 51, branded Dave Brat a liberal hack, and himself as the guardian of the Republican creed. On Tuesday night, Cantor, who was swept into the majority leader’s suite in a tea party wave
PoliticoJun 20 2012
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Bloomberg poll: Obama up big, Bain debate up for grabs
Bloomberg News has a poll this morning showing the rosiest picture of the general election the Obama team has seen in weeks: Obama leads Romney in the survey, 53 percent to 40 percent. Fifty-five percent of voters in the poll say Romney is the candidate most out of touch with the American people, versus 36 percent who say that of the president.
PoliticoNov 05 2014
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Texans Vote To Ban Fracking
On Tuesday, voters in Denton, Texas, banned fracking within the city limits by a large margin of 59 to 41. The first such restriction in energy-giant Texas, Denton has been a hotly contested site for the industry and one of eight locales with fracking bans on the ballot this election. A city of about 125,000 residents located 35 miles northwest of Dallas, Denton sits atop the Barnett shale and
ThinkProgressApr 04 2019
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Limited information Barr has shared about Russia investigation frustrated some on Mueller’s team
Members of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team have told associates they are frustrated with the limited information Attorney General William P. Barr has provided about their nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether President Trump sought to obstruct justice, according to people familiar with the matter.
The displeasure among some
Washington PostApr 04 2019
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Democrats 'weaponize' subpoenas, tax law in bid to take down Trump
One House committee chairman officially fired off a request Wednesday for six years of President Trump’s tax returns, as another won the authority to issue subpoenas to demand special counsel Robert Mueller’s full investigative file of Mr. Trump.
The twin moves marked escalations in Democrats’ scrutiny of the president, and both threatened to spark legal battles.
House Ways and
Washington TimesNov 03 2014
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Harvard poll: Millennial voters get their swing back
Young voters were once one of the pillars of President Obama's coalition, but the latest national survey of Millennials shows that young voters have soured on the president, are more likely to vote Republican in the midterm elections and are in play for 2016.
"In contrast to where we were four years ago, the Millennial vote is very much up for grabs politically," said John Della Volpe,
USA TODAY