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 Why So Many Football  
 Coaches Love the GOP 

Gave big bucks to McCain team last election—and little to Obama

Sep 2, 09 1:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Though Obama outraised McCain 5-1, 20 college and NFL head coaches gave to Republication candidates in 2008—and only 3 gave to Democrats. One coach led the Pledge of Allegiance at a Sarah Palin rally; another spoke at the GOP convention. The scales are clearly tipped to the right, reports... More »

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NFL • Republican • politics • GOP • football • coach • Republicans • college football

Stung by Polls, Obama Plans Health Care Offensive

Prez open to dropping public option

Sep 2, 09 11:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is heading into autumn with a new strategy in hand: He’s going to get specific on what he wants in health care legislation, reports Politico. He is expected to lay out details in a major address soon, and he will reiterate that he's willing to let the... More »

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Afghanistan • Wall Street • politics • health care reform • David Axelrod • strategy • President Obama

 Teddy Jr.—Not Vicki—Is 
 Kennedy Pick for Senate  

Clan irked by focus on Teddy's wife, tensions grew in last days

Sep 2, 09 8:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite the intense focus on Vicki Kennedy at her husband's funeral, Teddy Kennedy Jr. is the family’s choice to fill his late father’s Senate seat, Irish Central reports. Not only is she not a Kennedy, but conflict between her and the senator's powerful family escalated during his last... More »

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politics • Senate • Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • Ted Kennedy Jr • Vicki Kennedy

Pelosi Willing to Deal to Win Back House Dems

They plan more flexible approach, postponed public option

Sep 1, 09 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - House Democrats got whipped on health care over the August recess, and party leaders now have to win back some of their own shaky members, reports Politico. The push starts at a caucus meeting in the Capitol basement next week as Nancy Pelosi and other top leaders will try to... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health insurance • politics • Democratic caucus • health care reform • House Democrats • public option

 Spitzer Eying Return 
 to Politics: Insiders 

Others close to ex-guv dispute claim

Sep 1, 09 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Eliot Spitzer is tossing around the possibility of a comeback bid, mulling a run for New York state office next year, insiders tell the New York Post. The ex-governor is said to be eying the state comptroller's job or Kirsten Gillibrand’s Senate seat. But it’s all informal at... More »

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politics • Senate • sex scandal • Eliot Spitzer • governor • comeback • political scandal • prostitution scandal • New York State Comptroller • Kirsten Gillibrand


 Ridge Takes 
 Back Threat 
 Level Claim 
 in His Book 

Retreats on earlier suggestion that politics played a role

Aug 31, 09 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge says the Bush administration “never pressured” him to raise the US terror threat level, backing down on a claim made in his book, USA Today reports. In the book, Ridge writes that John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld pushed him to elevate it before... More »

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Bush administration • politics • Donald Rumsfeld • John Ashcroft • book • George W. Bush • Tom Ridge • alert level

interview

 Daschle: 
 Insurers 
 Can Talk to 
 Rush—Or Me 

Says Dems need to 'do better' at selling health care reform

Aug 30, 09 9:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Why is Tom Daschle taking money to advise an insurer that’s against the creation of a public health care option—a measure he supports? Pish-posh, the former Senate majority leader tells Deborah Solomon in the New York Times. Who would doubters on the left “advise these insurance companies... More »

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Democrats • politics • Glenn Beck • health care reform • health secretary • Tom Daschle • Sarah Palin • interview • President Obama

 Wikipedia Labels 
 Obama 'Harvard Puppet' 

Days of user stunts like this are numbered

Aug 28, 09 4:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Oops. Wikipedia's new editorial oversight didn't start soon enough to block a statement in President Obama's Wiki profile that he's a "puppet" of Columbia and Harvard Law. Mystery writer "Mrjazzguitar" substituted the word in the kind of prank that Wikipedia hopes to curtail with its new policy to... More »

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Barack Obama • Wikipedia • politics • Harvard • President Obama

OPINION

 Obama's Health 
 Reform Waffling 
 May Be Savvy 

Prez perhaps following his predecessors in 'strategic uncertainty'

Aug 19, 09 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - It may not be timidity that’s keeping Barack Obama from pushing harder for a public health care option. He may instead be employing a time-tested presidential technique: “strategic uncertainty,” writes Jill Lawrence in Politics Daily. Key for Obama is getting strong Senate support for a bill, and... More »

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politics • FDR • Abraham Lincoln • health care reform • President Obama • public option

 Palin Resurfaces on Twitter 


Aug 14, 09 2:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin has changed her Twitter handle to the more civilian-sounding "SarahPalinUSA" now that her old username, AKGovSarahPalin, is defunct, CNN reports. The move sparked speculation that the she may yet tweet again. The former Alaska governor has not tweeted since she resigned, preferring Facebook for her communiqués.... More »

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social networking • Alaska • politics • Facebook • resignation • governor • Sarah Palin • Twitter

(Newser) - Besieged Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is “a national joke,” Michael Wolff writes in Vanity Fair. He’s also immensely popular. In the midst of his most recent sex scandal, he and his party were handily reelected. What’s the deal? To begin with, “he controls... More »

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politics • sex scandal • Italy • corruption • prime minister • Silvio Berlusconi • Michael Wolff • Veronica Berlusconi


 Beck: I Want 
 to Poison 
 Pelosi ... 
 Kidding! 

Sure, no one likes her, but still...

Aug 7, 09 10:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - So a few advertisers abandoned Glenn Beck’s show after his last bout of verbal diarrhea—so what? That didn’t stop him from “joking” that he wanted to poison Nancy Pelosi last night on his show, during a skit about hanging out at her “liberal, elitist wine... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • politics • poison • Glenn Beck • right wingers • liberal elite

OPINION

Lighten Up on Presidential Gaffes

Media blowing up slips is harming political discourse: Kinsley

Jul 31, 09 9:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Saying the Cambridge police acted "stupidly" wasn't Barack Obama's first or even worst gaffe; as president-elect he mused about Nancy Reagan séances, and he still hasn't lived down his awful joke on Jay Leno. But gaffes are okay, writes Michael Kinsley in the Washington Post—we want a... More »

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Barack Obama • politics • gaffe • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

ANALYSIS

When Going Gets Tough, Obama Loses His Cool

Prez changes tactics, dials up the heat

Jul 19, 09 3:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Here's some change you might not believe: President Obama, he of the unflappable political cool, is starting to sweat. And he's also learning to adjust his strategies, writes Politico. Faced with a stagnating economy, troubled foreign relations, and a bogged-down health care bill, the president has (sometimes literally) rolled... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • Congress • politics • White House • Washington, DC • President Obama

(Newser) - The Republican National Committee has yanked an online game from one of its websites after complaints that aspects of the game were anti-Semitic and sexually graphic, reports Politico. The "Obama Card Game (Life Costs Nothing)" was intended to demonstrate how much could be purchased with the $3.4 trillion... More »

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politics • RNC • anti-Semitism • Obama Card Game • sexually explicit

'Kumar' Begins White House Outreach Gig

Thespian won't accept acting gigs for a year or two while he focuses on politics

Jul 6, 09 4:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Kal Penn began work at the White House today, the Washington Post reports. The Harold and Kumar star, who later appeared on House, is the new associate director of the White House's Office of Public Engagement. Penn, 31, has committed to the job for a year or two, meaning... More »

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politics • White House • Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay • Kal Penn • Obama administration • White House Office of Public Engagement

Ex-Lawmakers Lobby Hard for Health Industry

Medical interests shelling out $1.4M
a day to limit reform

Jul 6, 09 9:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The health care industry is making a record-breaking lobbying push to shape and soften health care reform, the Washington Post reports, laying out $1.4 million a day on an army of some 350 former Capitol Hill staffers and members of Congress. Three of every four health care lobbying... More »

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health care • politics • lobbying • lobbyists • health care reform • Max Baucus • PhRMA

(Newser) - Sources close to Sarah Palin say the Alaska governor intends to leave politics entirely—and not focus on a 2012 presidential bid—when her resignation becomes official later this month, Andrea Mitchell reported today on MSNBC. The Republican, under fire at home over ethics complaints and from various media outlets... More »

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Alaska • politics • resignation • Daily Kos • governor • Republican presidential primaries • Sarah Palin • Andrea Mitchell • Election 2012

Analysis

Politico's Obsessive Focus Is Future of News

It's all politics, all the time, and it works

Jul 1, 09 6:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - If you want to see the future of news—and how it will be delivered—look no further than Politico as a reasonable guide, writes Newser founder Michael Wolff in Vanity Fair. Unlike general-interest newspapers, which flail about knowing too little about everything, Politico has an obsessive focus:... More »

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politics • news • online news • journalism • Michael Wolff • Politico

(Newser) - Very late in the presidential campaign, staffers for Sen. John McCain came to the painful realization that it would be impossible, ever, to get Sarah Palin up to speed, reports Vanity Fair. They discovered, too late, she was a truth-shifting, self-regarding "little shop of horrors" who knew little about... More »

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politics • Vanity Fair • GOP • Republican Party • Sarah Palin • Bristol Palin • Todd Palin • right-wing extremism

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