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Republican Dan Coats Wins Indiana Primary

(AP) Voters in Indiana, North Carolina and Ohio kept their incumbents and voted for an old Capitol Hill hand – Republican Dan Coats – in Tuesday’s primaries despite the nation’s bottom-barrel support for Congress and frustration with the Washington establishment. In Indiana this fall, Coats – who was recruited by the National Republican Senatorial Committee [...]

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Wanted: short, fat white man to succeed Barack Obama

I wanted to repost this article from the British paper The Telegraph.Co.Uk because I thought it was an interesting take on our political situation from a European point of view. I am most assuredly not endorsing the opinion that our next American President be white, short, bald or any other physical characteristic. Competent? Oh, yes. [...]

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Five ways to lose the Senate majority

By:  David Catanese Sen. Evan Bayh’s stunning decision Monday to pass on a reelection campaign in Indiana is the latest blow to a Senate Democratic majority that is suddenly within striking distance for the GOP. While the retirements of Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) had a clear political logic to them—both [...]

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