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As this article is being written, Election Day is 14 weeks away. The predominant chatter among political pundits is not whether there will be Republican gains, but the extent of those gains, and whether those gains can produce a Republican wave large enough to enable them to retake the House, the Senate, or both houses of Congress [...]

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Watch this video of Robert Gibbs, President Obama’s chief media flack, as he explains the status of allegations that Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA), the newly-minted Democrat nominee for the U.S. Senate seat about to be vacated by the repudiated Arlen Specter, was offered a position within the Obama administration in exchange for his agreement to [...]

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Today was a bad day to be an incumbent or an “establishment” candidate. The bad news started yesterday, when the New York Times revealed that Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) fabricated his Vietman experience in speeches with voters (in fact, he received multiple deferments). Suddenly an open seat race thought to be safe for the [...]

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Tomorrow is primary day in Arkansas, Kentucky, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. Three of the states have significant intraparty primaries that feature an establishment candidate facing an insurgent candidate, and the outcomes of these races will be a good test of the depth of anti-incumbent sentiment:

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I’m running as a Republican. I’m very proud to be from the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, others that really have stood up for the principles of our party, like Ronald Reagan.This is a great party. It has a great future. We have a great opportunity to win in November. It’s important that we [...]

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…Meet Marco Rubio, who is blowing the doors off Charlie Crist in Florida GOP Senate primary. You might want to get familiar with him, because by 2021 – if not sooner – he could end up in the White House. Rubio brought down the house at CPAC 2010 in Washington today:

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