MAY 29, 2010 Primary Fight Alters Dynamic in Race vs. Reid By ALEXANDRA BERZON Republican Sue Lowden was expected to pose a stiff challenge to Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada this fall, in one of the nation’s most closely watched Senate races. But Mr. Reid, facing a tide of unpopularity in his home state, […]
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MAY 21, 2010 By JOHN FUND Elections this month have enhanced the political clout of two groups widely separated on the political spectrum. The tea party movement stands to play an outsize role in the fall elections now that outsider Rand Paul has swept Kentucky’s GOP Senate primary, while unions provided the muscle for Democrats
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MAY 20, 2010 Anti-Incumbent? Try Anti-Obama By FRED BARNES The hordes are not massing at the gates of Washington—not yet. They won’t arrive until after the midterm congressional election in November. Most are likely to be Republicans, a good number of them old Washington hands. Yesterday’s primary elections, including the impressive victories of Republican Rand
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MAY 20, 2010 A Bad Day for the Obama Agenda By KARL ROVE The temptation for politicians and political analysts is to draw broad, sweeping conclusions from election results. But most election outcomes defy being reduced to a single cause. Campaigns are a complicated mix of issues, personalities and impressions. Voters settle on a candidate
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Cathy Wright Wright For The House Candidate for North Carolina House of Representatives, District 54 Voters Voice Frustration Posted by Cathy Wright on May 6, 2010 in Press Release Wright says campaign is all about jobs, taxes and spending CHAPEL HILL, NC: While helping other Republican candidates at the polls during early voting and on
The Weekly Standard Lessons for the GOP from the UK Election Lessons for the GOP from the UK Election BY Fred Barnes May 9, 2010 12:15 AM Conservatives came in first in Thursday’s election in Great Britain, but it’s their failure to win a majority that Republicans should examine for the lessons it teaches. If
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Will the Democrats Listen? by Michael D. Tanner This article appeared in The Washington Times on April 28, 2010. A Pennsylvania special election scheduled for May 18 may provide an early glimpse for anyone wondering how big a millstone the health care law will be for Democrats this fall. The state’s 12th Congressional District, which
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Washington Times More vets enlisting in the electoral wars April 27, 2010 David Eldridge The wars they fought in are still raging, but a surge of veterans from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan are already running hard for public office and shaking up congressional races across the country. It is estimated that the number
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MAY 5, 2010 Britain’s Roller-Coaster Election By RUPERT DARWALL London Tomorrow’s British election is on course to be only the third time in 31 years that the country has changed its government. Margaret Thatcher swept the Conservatives into power in 1979 and Tony Blair ushered in a period of Labour Party control in 1997. Yet
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Leading the charge for GOP insurgents By Marc A. Thiessen Tuesday, May 4, 2010; SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. Santa Barbara is about as far from Greenville, S.C., as you can get in the continental United States, but Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) cares more about principle than geography. He is leading a conservative insurgency across America. Speaking
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