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Goodbye, Joe Lieberman
After 24 years in the U.S. Senate, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the first and only Jewish politician nominated to a national major party ticket, in 2000, had some advice to his colleagues in a farewell speech Wednesday on the Senate floor. To break the...
Tags: John McCain, George W. Bush, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Al Gore
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Hopkins' Dr. Benjamin Carson anointed new Fox darling of the right on Hannity
The Baltimore SunMuch of Friday's political-media online chatter was focused on Fox news hiring failed presidential candidate and pizza executive Herman Cain as a political analyst. But the big story that seemed to mostly sail under the radar was the embattled channel's...Tags: Fox Broadcasting Company, Barack Obama, Herman Cain, White House, Sarah Palin
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Howell heads Harford Republican Central Committee
The Republican Central Committee of Harford County recently elected Derek J. Howell as its chairman and Teresa Reilly as its vice-chairman. Gregory Johnson and Sharon Price were unanimously re-elected as Secretary and Treasurer, respectively. Voting took...Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Annapolis, Local Elections, Elections
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Franchot says he won't run for governor
Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot, considered one of the leading prospective Democratic candidates for governor in 2014, said Tuesday that he will instead seek a third term in his current post. In an interview, Franchot, 65, said he made his decision...
Tags: Republican Party, Polls, Montgomery County (Maryland), Harford County, Martin O'Malley
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Bob Dole and the GOP's disability
Much ink has been spilled in recent weeks criticizing the Republican Party and its failed presidential candidate for a lack of compassion and obvious antipathy toward "47 percent" of the electorate (if not a bit more), so it was reassuring to see two of...
Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Department of State, World War II (1939-1945), Marco Rubio, Tea Party Movement
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In Carroll County, voters warm up to a cool election day
It was almost anti-climactic at the polls in Westminster on Tuesday afternoon. After a year of robo-calls, tons of campaign literature, debates and nonstop news coverage, election day came to Carroll County — and the turnout was heavy and steady....
Tags: John McCain, Judges, Girl Scout Cookies, Barack Obama, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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How to fix the Electoral College
Ohio, Virginia, Florida: If you don't live in one of these or a few other "battleground" states, you may feel disenfranchised in U.S. presidential elections. As a Marylander, no major party candidate competes for your vote — even if the nationwide...Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S. Elections
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The resilience of George McGovern
Inevitably, in all the tributes to former Sen. George McGovern upon his death at 90, his landslide defeat in the 1972 presidential election at the hands of Richard Nixon shared top billing with his fights against America's misguided wars in Vietnam and...
Tags: Scranton, Richard Nixon, R. Sargent Shriver, World War II (1939-1945), Wars and Interventions
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Marylanders go out of state to back Obama, Romney
Henry Li was a hesitant Obama supporter when he opened his front door last weekend in Northern Virginia. By the time he closed it, he had committed to vote for the president. In the intervening three minutes, he spoke with Josh Friedman, a 33-year-old...
Tags: George W. Bush, John McCain, Barack Obama, Republican Party, Parties and Movements
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Needed: A new foreign policy
On Monday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivered a foreign policy speech to cadets at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. He was correct in his indictment of the Obama administration for its numerous failures --...
Tags: Barack Obama, International Military Interventions, Lexington (Lexington, Virginia), Islam, Mitt Romney
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Just like his father, Mitt Romney doesn't know when to stop talking
Every political candidate commits a gaffe from time to time. It becomes a major cause for concern when a pattern sets in that creates a negative image with voters. That's what is happening with Mitt Romney right now in the wake of his hapless remarks at a...
Tags: Republican Party, George H.W. Bush, Frank Sinatra, Richard Nixon, Mitt Romney
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Obama offers hard path to 'a better place'
— Arguing that he needs more time to fix the nation's sluggish economy, President Barack Obama formally accepted his party's nomination for a second term Thursday while stressing that voters will face a stark choice in November that could affect...
Tags: Republican Party, Polls, Government Health Care, Martin O'Malley, White House
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