Defense Secretary fulfill talk of bipartisan cabinet
Financial Times (UK) Nov 19, 08 12:07 PM CST
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Barack Obama and Robert Gates are negotiating policy issues with a view toward Gates remaining Defense secretary, the Financial Times reports, a move that would make the Bush appointee a key member of a bipartisan cabinet that resembles Abraham Lincoln's “team of rivals.” Gates, a former CIA chief, is respected for being tough, but in a less abrasive manner than predecessor Donald Rumsfeld.
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ANALYSIS
Bloggers hope to catch GOP up to Democrats on harnessing the internet
The Hill Nov 18, 08 1:26 PM CST
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The election of Barack Obama has energized conservative bloggers, who see a spell in opposition as an opportunity ideal for reshaping the party, writes Walter Alarkon for the Hill . Conservatives in the “rightosphere” are eying the progress the left’s “netroots” made during the Bush years, when sites like Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Talking Points Memo formed a “partisan message machine” to counter conservative TV and talk radio.
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GOP senators wait for race to be decided
Anchorage Daily News Nov 18, 08 1:18 PM CST
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Senate Republicans will wait until Alaska announces a victor in the still-tight race for Ted Stevens' seat before voting on whether he will be allowed to keep it. The last batch of ballots in the race is expected to be counted today, as the longest-serving conservative senator—who trails by 1,022 votes—turns 85, reports the Anchorage Daily News . GOP senators have been split on when to vote on ousting the convicted felon.
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Alaska governor says Ayers ties still concern her
CNN Nov 12, 08 4:37 PM CST
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Sarah Palin said it would be her "honor" to help the Obama administration, though she's “still concerned” about his ties to “an unrepentant domestic terrorist,” CNN reports. Palin said that while it was fair to continue discussing William Ayers, it's “time to move on.” The Alaska governor—who hasn't ruled out either a run for the Senate or the White House—has been on a TV blitz to shore up her sinking popularity in polls.
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Election could influence balance of power in Senate
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Nov 11, 08 4:34 PM CST
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John McCain will stump for Saxby Chambliss this week as the Republican Senator drums up support for a Dec. 2 runoff vote against Democrat Jim Martin, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Chambliss has also secured Mike Huckabee to campaign for him in Georgia. Martin, meanwhile, has pleaded with President-elect Barack Obama to stump in the key contest, but no word yet.
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Chicago Sun-Times Nov 8, 08 10:49 AM CST
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Shell-shocked Republicans are casting about for a savior for 2012, and believe it or not, the name most often floated for this Moses-like role is none other than Newt Gingrich, writes Bob Novak of the Chicago Sun-Times. It’s a “very risky choice,” admits one strong Newt-booster, but after failing miserably in their attempts to win independents and moderates, Republicans are anxious for some “old-time religion.”
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OPINION
Movement in ruins, but pundits don't think America is liberal
National Review Nov 5, 08 12:40 PM CST
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How is the right wing coping with last night’s crushing defeat. They’re keeping a stiff upper lip, mostly. Here’s a sampling: Jonah Goldberg’s torn by two competing hopes: the hope that Obama will govern from the center, and the hope that Democrats will instead go hog-wild and “walk en masse into the rear rotor blade of a helicopter called the 2010 elections.”
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House results
CNN Nov 4, 08 10:16 PM CST
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House Democrats, who held a 36-seat lead going in, beefed up their advantage tonight and appeared likely to keep padding it as results continued to pour in. Christopher Shays, the lone Republican in the New England delegation, was the highest-profile victim of an emerging landslide, but John Murtha of Pennsylvania appeared to have dodged the bullet he fired at his own foot by calling his district "racist." At least seven seats flipped in the East, while just one moved into the GOP column.
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GOP candidate aims for more conciliatory role in national politics
CNN Nov 4, 08 4:19 PM CST
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Sarah Palin hopes to become a less divisive figure in national politics, assuming she’s not headed to Washington with John McCain, the vice-presidential nominee said after voting today in Alaska, CNN reports. “If there is a role in national politics, it won’t be so much partisan,” Palin said. “It would certainly be a uniter type of role.”
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OPINION
Uncertainty ahead for pros and amateurs, participants and observers.
San Francisco Chronicle Nov 4, 08 11:31 AM CST
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After two years of high drama, the curtain is about to fall. Letdown, writes Steven Winn in the San Francisco Chronicle , may be inevitable. Tomorrow will usher in a lull like those that sandwiched between seasons of the Sopranos, s ays one professor: “This has been the greatest series on television. And now it's stopped.” But even when viewers leave and Tina Fey returns to her day job, the show still goes on. There are laws to pass, and a 2010 election to gear up for.
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OPINION
With bigger problems on our minds, accusations of 'elitist' don't stick
Washington Post Nov 3, 08 12:28 PM CST
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Although Sarah Palin says she would be a fresh face in Washington, she really represents the end of a long line of Republican culture warriors, writes Peter Beinart in the Washington Post . "She's depicting the campaign as a struggle between the culturally familiar and the culturally threatening, the culturally traditional and the culturally exotic," but her argument falls flat, and history can explain why.
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Newly registered force Sen. Chambliss into unexpected dogfight
New York Times Oct 30, 08 1:50 PM CDT
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With Barack Obama’s candidacy driving record early-voter turnout in Georgia among African-Americans, Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss is in an unexpected dogfight with Democrat Jim Martin, the New York Times reports. Though the Obama campaign stopped short of a full-court press for Georgia, it has spent months registering tens of thousands of new voters, many of them African-American.
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