Over at the Cato Institute's blog, Jim Harper argues that McCain's "I'll follow bin Laden to the Gates Of Hell" rhetoric at the Saddleback Forum gave our terrorist enemies something to cheer about: "What a gift to the recruiting efforts of Al Qaeda! - to have an American presidential candidat
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How big a deal is today's veepstakes comment from Sen. Joe Biden that "I'm not the guy"?
A figure familiar with Biden's thinking says the remark is hardly consequential.
"That is a comment that he typically gives for people who ask about [the vice presidency]," the source said, adding
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A figure familiar with Biden's thinking says the remark is hardly consequential.
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It’s a good thing for Democrats that their convention is just around the corner and that they will soon regain control of the race with Obama’s vice-presidential pick. While none of these most recent polls are particularly alarming -- Obama is ahead in both national surveys within the margin of err
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Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one big, patriotic country star.
Toby Keith, perhaps best known to non-country audiences for his post-Sept. 11 song "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue," says he's a Democrat, and was impressed by the senator from Illinois.
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Where he would rarely even mention McCain in the past, Obama now openly mocks him. McCain boasts of putting country first, Obama said, "but I have to say, it's not an example of putting country first when you say George Bush's economic policies have shown 'great progress.' " As for McCain's
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All pollsters, it seems, eventually find themselves with what Andy Kohut once referred to as "loopy" results. His comment was about the Gallup polls in the 2000 election, though in September 2004, Pew experienced such results itself, and of course several polls this campaign season have produced
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The recent entry of a politically experienced challenger, Democratic state Sen. Don Cravins Jr., has created the possibility of an unexpectedly competitive race this fall for two-term Louisiana Republican Rep. Charles Boustany Jr.
This development — and the announcement Friday by national Democr
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While Republican Sen. Ted Stevens was fending off corruption charges last month his Democratic challenger was raking in big bucks. Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich raised $413,000 between July 1 and Aug. 6, according to the pre-primary report posted on his campaign Web site. He raised one-quarter of his
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