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Paul Ryan's floor statement on passing the Budget Control Act: “The Budget Control Act represents a victory for those committed to controlling government spending and growing our economy."
Remember when Paul Ryan voted last year for the Budget Control Act that triggered automatic cuts ...
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The candidate that is not losing.
Spinning, spinning, spinning the news that Ohio is falling out of Mitt Romney's reach, a senior Romney campaign adviser responds to Rich Lowry over at the National Review:
It’s horses**t. Nobody in Boston thinks we’re going to lose. We’re in a tigh...
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Today's comic by Tom Tomorrow is Convention coverage:
What you missed on Sunday Kos ...
The verdict is in: Our press isn't ready for post-truth politics, by Hunter
The Republican party left people like me': Workers in the Democratic convention spotlight, by Laura Clawson
Ex...
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Why can't someone else make these decisions for me?
It's not exactly news that Mitt Romney has taken every position on reproductive rights, short of marching in the streets to demand free abortion on demand. (And given how badly he's losing, don't rule that out just yet.)
So Mitt's lates...
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It's not just money: People also like Obama more than Mitt
For the last three months, Mitt Romney has made a big deal about outraisin... |
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Latest polls from pollster.com
Paul Krugman:
Should [Democrats] have tried to push through a major new economic program during that n... |
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Democrats should not be complacent. The 2012 elections are not yet won, and we soon will find out just how much half a billion dollars... |
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Back from Charlotte! It was an honor to represent California's 33rd Congressional District as a delegate to the Democratic National C... |
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Does character matter?
One of the overarching questions of this campaign is how our nation's national pol... |
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Above chart is Gallup, Ipsos/Reuters, Rasmussen trackers only, during the convention weeks.
There have been a pretty large number of p... |
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Pres. Barack Obama in Akron, Ohio.
They can read the polling too.
President Barack Obama heads out of the national political conventi... |
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 Although the Democratic and Republican National Conventions had many things in common—most notably, a focus on President Obama—ther... |
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Triumph: Gabrielle Giffords leads the Democratic National Convention in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Mo' Money:
A Federal Election C... |
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Some things you should know:
Since 2005, at least 16 farm workers have died due to heat illness.
In California, farm workers don't hav... |
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With Chicago teachers currently planning to go out on strike on Monday, negotiations between the Chicago Teachers Union and the manage... |
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Tommy Thompson, typical Republican.
Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, now running for the state's open Senate seat, has an awful ... |
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Maryland Republican Rep. Roscoe Bartlett has apologized (to anyone he "may have offended," natch) for comparing student loans to the H... |
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Let the uncertain fate of a proposal to raise Albuquerque, New Mexico's minimum wage be a lesson to you: Proofreading matters. Groups ... |
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In 2008, the Massachusetts AFL-CIO endorsed Scott Brown in his race for state Senate. In 2012, it's a different story. In a Labor Day ... |
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