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June 2009
- Aide's Plea in Hate Crime Undercuts Tancredo
  
  Washington Independent | Jun 2, 09 12:54 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - An aide to Tom Tancredo has pleaded guilty to a hate crime, compromising the former congressman's credibility as he helps lead the opposition to Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court, the Washington Independent reports. Marcus Epstein, executive director of the onetime Republican presidential candidate's PAC, copped to using a racial slur and karate-chopping an African-American woman in the head on a DC street in 2007. More »
- Senate Recount Case Goes to Minn. High Court Today
  
  Minneapolis Star Tribune | Jun 1, 09 10:24 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Minnesota’s Supreme Court will hear arguments today in the Senate seat dispute between Al Franken and Norm Coleman, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. If the court goes Franken’s way, he could be seated in Washington; if the five justices find for Coleman, “recounting-type” hurdles will remain before he could head to DC, said a legal expert. The decision could come in days—or months. More »
May 2009
- Coleman-Franken Fight Heads to Minn.'s Top Court
  
  The Hill | May 31, 09 9:40 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Norm Coleman and Al Franken take their protracted election battle to Minnesota's Supreme Court tomorrow, reports the Hill, in what could be its final stage. Lawyers on both sides have spent some 6 weeks readying their arguments—including Coleman, himself a lawyer. Franken, meanwhile, holding to a slim ballot advantage, has instead played the role of incoming senator. More »
- Palin Shopping Spree OK: Feds
  
  Anchorage Daily News | May 19, 09 3:24 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Federal Election Commission dismissed today a complaint that the Republican National Committee broke the law when it bought $150,000 in clothes for then-vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the Anchorage Daily News reports. The FEC said purchases were “coordinated party expenditures” for campaign purposes, and did not violate a ban on using campaign funds for personal expenses as a watchdog group alleged. More »
- Ayers, Rev. Wright Team Up for Middle East Peace
  
  Chicago Tribune | May 18, 09 10:25 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Two of the toughest thorns in Barack Obama's side during the presidential campaign joined together in Chicago yesterday for the first time, the Tribune reports. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers shared a stage at a kickoff rally for a march for Mideast peace. It was their work on the issue, not their lightning-rod status, that got them invited to the event, organizers said. “We can't be squelching viewpoints because they are unpopular or because someone has a reputation through Fox News,” said one. More »
- Edwards Staff Planned to Sabotage Him
  
  ABC News | May 10, 09 3:13 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Suspicious that John Edwards was having an affair, several of his campaign staffers drew up a “doomsday” plan to take him down if he seemed likely to win the Democratic nomination, George Stephanopoulos blogs for ABC News. Most staffers dismissed the rumors, but a few close advisers saw the light by early last year. Describing themselves as “Democrats first,” they agreed on a back-up plan to derail the campaign. More »
- Campaign Over, Mac's Mom Lays It Out
  
  Los Angeles Times | May 6, 09 12:26 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Throughout the presidential campaign, James Rainey of the LA Times tried to land an interview with Roberta McCain. “They wouldn’t let me talk, thinking I don’t do the politics thing,” the 97-year-old says. “And they were right.” Now the gag order’s off, and McCain says she “loved every second,” of the campaign, even if she does think the media favored Obama. “You know, you don’t have to win everything to have a good life.” More »
- Obama Insider 'Queasy' Over '12 Challenge From Utah Gov.
  
  ABC 4 | May 5, 09 3:02 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - President Obama’s campaign manager says he’s a “wee bit queasy” about a possible election challenge from Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman in 2012, Salt Lake City’s KTVX-TV reports. “I think he’s really out there speaking a lot of truth about the direction of the party,” said David Plouffe of Huntsman, who has just toured Michigan, a key GOP primary state. More »
- Elizabeth to Oprah: It's 'Complicated'
  
  Associated Press | May 5, 09 12:15 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards is taking married life day by day—or "maybe it's month by month"—she tells Oprah, in an episode to air Thursday. When asked whether she still loves her husband, she responds, "You know, that's a complicated question," the AP reports. "I wanted him to be faithful to me," Edwards says. "It was enormously important to me." More »
- Rove and Plouffe Go Negative at Book Event
  
  Huffington Post | May 5, 09 9:04 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Old campaign hacks never die; they just bicker at events to boost book sales. Last night Obama campaign geek-in-chief David Plouffe and Bush hatchet man Karl Rove went at it in Monterey, California, only half-playfully, the Huffington Post reports. Rove attacked Obama’s commitment to bipartisanship; shot back Plouffe, “This is like getting interview lessons from Sarah Palin.” More »
- Edwards Cost Clinton Dearly: Penn
  
  ABC News | May 1, 09 4:24 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Hillary Clinton strategist Mark Penn is kicking himself in the wake of reports that Elizabeth Edwards thinks her husband shouldn't have run for president, ABC News reports. If news of John Edwards' infidelity had forced him to drop out of the race, Penn said, “No question in my mind, it would have been a very different race.” More »
April 2009
- Yes, He Did: Ahmadinejad Appropriates Obama Slogan
  
  Guardian (UK) | Apr 28, 09 2:37 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Seeing Barack Obama’s success in the 2008 election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has borrowed the US president’s most famous phrase for his own reelection campaign, the Guardian reports. In a campaign video, the Iranian president stands in front of a blackboard with the Farsi words “Ma Mitavanim,” or “We Can,” written on it. The video stresses Ahmadinejad’s previous life as an academic. More »
- Cheney Should Have Run in 2008
  
  New York Times | Apr 28, 09 6:31 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - As he bashes the Obama administration and insists that torture kept the country safe, Dick Cheney sounds less like a retired VP than a man campaigning for a third Bush term. For Ross Douthat, it's a pity he didn't run himself. In his first column for the New York Times , Douthat says that a Cheney-Obama race would have forced the right to acknowledge the failures of "a conservatism of supply-side economics and stress positions." More »
- Republican Concedes in NY House Race
  
  Times Union (Albany) | Apr 24, 09 4:29 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The fight for Kirsten Gillibrand’s House seat is over, the Albany Times Union reports. Republican candidate Jim Tedisco conceded the race to Democrat Scott Murphy this afternoon, more than 3 weeks after the election. “Ultimately, it became clear that the numbers were not going our way,” Tedisco said. “The time had come to step aside and ensure that the next congressman be seated as quickly as possible.” More »
- Dear GOP, Americans Are Just Not That Into You: Maher
  
  Los Angeles Times | Apr 24, 09 10:57 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The GOP is not coping well with loss. After a long, torrid affair with America, Republicans have gotten dumped, and they're hurting, writes Bill Maher in the Los Angeles Times . Now they’re going a little crazy, worrying about all the wrong issues, talking about secession and reeducation camps, throwing tea parties. “But it wasn't tax day that made them crazy; it was election day. Because that's when Republicans became what they fear most: a minority.” More »
- McCain's Campaign Chief: He Never Had a Chance
  
  Politico | Apr 23, 09 7:22 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The man who ran John McCain's campaign said his defeat was nearly preordained, reports Politico. It was "the strategic equivalent of throwing a football through a tire at 50 yards,” said Steve Schmidt. Given the ascendancy of Barack Obama—"the unfinished Bobby Kennedy campaign"—the unpopularity of George Bush, the economy, and the splintered GOP, McCain would have needed a miracle. More »
- Coleman Takes Vote Battle to Top State Court
  
  Minneapolis Star Tribune | Apr 21, 09 1:32 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Embattled former senator Norm Coleman is keeping alive the last fight of Election 2008 with an appeal to Minnesota's Supreme Court, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Coleman is arguing that a lower court that awarded Al Franken a 312-vote victory denied constituents their constitutional rights by rejecting some absentee ballots. Franken, meanwhile, has started picking his Senate staffers. More »
- Palin's Pop to Levi: 'Buy Some Diapers'
  
  Us Weekly | Apr 16, 09 11:41 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sarah Palin’s father—the great-grandfather of Bristol Palin’s son, Tripp—says 19-year-old babydaddy Levi Johnston “has not contributed anything” to raising the boy, Us reports. Chuck Heath took exception to Johnston’s recent Palin-bashing media tour. “He’s broke, so he’s trying to capitalize on this. I wish he’d take some of this money he’s making and buy some diapers with it.” More »
- Dems to Coleman: Concede Already
  
  Minneapolis Star Tribune | Apr 15, 09 12:31 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Democrats have widened their campaign against Norm Coleman to include a radio ad urging him to concede to Al Franken, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. “Minnesota deserves two senators and voters deserve to have their verdict stand,” says the ad, produced by the DNC. “Call Norm Coleman,” the ad concludes. “Tell him that it is time to concede.” More »
- HBO Plans Film Version of 2008 Election Book
  
  Variety | Apr 14, 09 2:32 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - HBO Films has picked up Game Change , a book about the 2008 election, to adapt for the small screen. The book, to be published next year, takes a character-driven look at the campaigns from the perspectives of the candidates and their camps, says Variety . The option continues the network’s recent interest in timely political material, a la last year’s 2000 election saga Recount . More »