Category Archives: Election

Five things we learned from back-to-back debates

By doris | Published: January 10, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) — Republican presidential candidates faced off twice in 11 hours on Saturday and Sunday in debates ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. While both debates were staged in the Granite State, it was clear that the rivals intended for their messages to go beyond New Hampshire. Here [...]

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Two more states allow same-sex civil unions

By doris | Published: January 2, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Several same-sex couples came together in the first minutes of New Year’s Day in Honolulu to become the first in the state’s history to enter into civil unions. “We really don’t want to wait any longer because we have been together for 33 years waiting for the opportunity and [...]

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Will the end of Gadhafi sway U.S. politics?

By doris | Published: October 22, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Cambridge, Massachusetts (CNN) — With Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s dramatic demise this Thursday morning, the world is rid of a tyrant, and a free Libya has jumped a mile forward to stability (though, as CNN’s Ben Wedeman reports, there are still many more miles to go). Yet in America, we are [...]

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Why do U.S. elections cost so much?

By doris | Published: October 14, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The presidential campaign fundraising numbers being reported paint a picture of what’s to come over the 13 months until the 2012 election: A flood of television ads, cross-country bus tours and a lot of handshakes. Money drives a campaign, and fundraising is a signal of its strength. It [...]

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Ariz. sues feds over Voting Rights Act

By doris | Published: August 28, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Opening up a new front in its legal battles with the Obama administration, the state of Arizona on Thursday challenged the federal Voting Rights Act, prompting a swift response from Attorney General Eric Holder. “The Voting Rights Act plays a vital role in our society by ensuring that every American has [...]

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Perry looks to break the mold in N.H.

By doris | Published: August 17, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com BEDFORD VILLAGE, N.H. — For a Southern presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been spending valuable time early on in New Hampshire, a secular state not known for its embrace of evangelical Republicans. But the time he’s spending here — and the fact that his political guru, Dave Carney, is [...]

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Democrats fall short in Wisconsin recall elections

By doris | Published: August 11, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Democrats failed late Tuesday in their effort to gain control of the Wisconsin state senate as Republican incumbents won four of six recall elections. The outcome was a big setback for Democrats, organized labor, and progressive groups who’d sought retribution against six GOP allies of Gov. Scott Walker, who earlier this [...]

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CNN Poll: Time to clean house in Congress?

By doris | Published: August 9, 2011

Full Story at PoliticalTicker.Blogs.cnn.c0m Washington (CNN) – Need more evidence that Americans are extremely angry at Congress? Well, here you go: According to a new national survey, for the first time ever most Americans don’t believe their own member of Congress deserves re-election. Read full results (pdf). And the CNN/ORC International Poll released Tuesday also [...]

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Wife of Las Vegas mayor wins race to replace him

By doris | Published: June 13, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LAS VEGAS — Carolyn Goodman, the wife of Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, will be the next mayor of Sin City after winning 61 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s election. The first lady won a race that pitted the Goodman brand against a longtime elected official whose eagerness and grass [...]

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Texas governor says he might run for president

By doris | Published: May 28, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the longest serving chief executive in the state’s history and a politician who has never lost an election, said Friday he will consider seeking the Republican nomination for president. The outspoken conservative, who for months said he wasn’t interesting in running for the White [...]

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Foreclosure flood may not have crested yet

By doris | Published: May 22, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com ATLANTA — Herman Cain has run a pizza chain, hosted a talk radio show and sparred with Bill Clinton over health care. He’s never held elected office. Now the tea party favorite wants to be president. “In case you accidentally listen to a skeptic or doubting Thomas out there, just be [...]

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Hawaii’s governor takes on ‘birthers’

By doris | Published: December 25, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com HONOLULU — Gov. Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii, who befriended President Obama’s parents when they were university students here, has been in office for less than three weeks. But he is so incensed over “birthers” — the conspiracy theorists who assert that Mr. Obama was born in Kenya and was thus not [...]

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