Category Archives: Politcal

Romney on ‘poor’ comment: I misspoke

By doris | Published: February 5, 2012

Full Story at PoliticalTicker.blogs.CNN.com (CNN) – One day after Mitt Romney took heat for a comment he made about the poor, the Republican presidential candidate characterized his remark as a “misstatement.” “I misspoke,” Romney said Thursday in an interview aired on KSNV, a CNN affiliate in Las Vegas. “When you do I don’t know how [...]

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Gingrich: S.C. ‘decided to be with us in changing Washington’

By doris | Published: January 22, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) — Newt Gingrich won Saturday’s South Carolina GOP presidential primary, marking a stunning turnaround for a candidate who finished fourth in Iowa and New Hampshire and whose campaign had been left for dead — again — by observers just weeks ago. With about 95% of polling places [...]

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Cain to make ‘major announcement’ Saturday

By doris | Published: December 3, 2011

Full Story at FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com Alfredo Ortiz, a Georgia-based press secretary with the Herman Cain campaign, tells NBC News that Herman Cain will make a “major announcement” tomorrow in Atlanta at his new campaign office in DeKalb County. Ortiz would not allude to the nature of the announcement other than to say it is a “major [...]

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New Hampshire Union Leader backs Gingrich

By doris | Published: November 27, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON (AP) — The New Hampshire Union Leader endorsed former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in Sunday editions, signaling that rival Mitt Romney isn’t the universal favorite and that the state’s largest newspaper could reset the contest there with six weeks to go before voters cast their ballots. “We are in critical [...]

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Clad in baseball cap and sunglasses, first lady shops at Target

By doris | Published: September 30, 2011

Full Story at TheLook.today.com Attention Target shoppers: You could have been standing in line with Michelle Obama. The first lady, hard to recognize in a baseball cap and sunglasses, shopped Thursday at a Target store in Alexandria, Va., just outside Washington, D.C. Casually dressed Secret Service agents arrived about a half-hour before Mrs. Obama, who [...]

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Republicans hope to seize Democratic House seat

By doris | Published: September 13, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK — Democrat David Weprin faced an unusually tight race against Republican Bob Turner in a special election Tuesday in New York’s heavily Democratic 9th Congressional District, where voters unhappy with President Barack Obama could elect a Republican for the first time. The contest to replace disgraced Democratic Rep. Anthony [...]

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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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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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Republicans still seek Medicare overhaul in budget talks

By doris | Published: May 30, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Top Republicans tiptoed their way around the Medicare question Sunday, playing to their conservative base by backing a controversial overhaul proposal while acknowledging they will have to negotiate the issue with Democrats. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, both told Sunday [...]

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Kerry’s star rises with global conflicts

By doris | Published: May 18, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Whenever a conflict pops up around the world, he has become the go-to guy, either rolling up his sleeves in the Senate or flying from hot spot to hot spot. John Kerry is, after all, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, holder of one of the [...]

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House passes $6 trillion spending cut plan for 2012

By doris | Published: April 20, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a Republican budget blueprint that proposes a fundamental overhaul of the main U.S. medical program while combating out-of-control budget deficits. It would impose sharp spending cuts on social safety net programs.

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Clinton says no to second term

By doris | Published: March 16, 2011

Full Story at PoliticalTicker.blogs.cnn.com CNN) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer she does not want to serve a second term as secretary of state or run for president of the United States. Blitzer sat down with the former 2008 presidential candidate in Cairo. Full transcript:

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