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Romney should let the convention pick his VP
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is expected to announce his vice presidential running mate any day now. He could make a conventional pick, for instance Ohio Sen. Rob Portman or former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty. He could also throw us a...
Tags: Elections, Regional Authority, Tim Pawlenty, Republican Party, Government
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Tired of negative ads? They're just getting warmed up
When the Olympic Games began almost 30 centuries ago in ancient Greece, rulers of city-states proclaimed an "Olympic truce," a ban on warfare to allow athletes, poets and spectators to attend without getting speared. It would be nice to think that this...Tags: Democratic Party, Parties and Movements, Polls, Labor Day, Elections
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Will Obama win by default?
Could it be that President Barack Obama's best chance for re-election in November is ... Mitt Romney? The dismal state of the economy, and especially the stagnant high unemployment rate, clearly are red flags for Mr. Obama's hopes of retaining the...
Tags: White House, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), George W. Bush, Elections, Sarah Palin
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Al Gore to anchor Current TV's convention coverage -- with Spitzer, Uygur, Granholm
The Baltimore SunFormer vice president Al Gore will anchor convention coverage on his Current TV channel, it was announced Wednesday. This is what happens if you own the candy store, I guess. But when was the last time a former Nobel Prize winner sat in the anchor...Tags: Keith Olbermann, Elections, Regional Authority, Current TV (tv network), Government
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GOP freshman challenges Maryland power structure
By any standard measure, Neil Parrott's place in Maryland politics ought to be toward the very bottom. He's a freshman Republican delegate in a very blue state, without pedigree or government connections. Yet through dogged organizing and clever use of...
Tags: Democratic Party, Parties and Movements, DREAM Act, Montgomery County (Maryland), Immigration
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Judy Agnew, vice president's wife and Md. first lady
Elinor Isabel "Judy" Agnew, who as the wife of former Baltimore County Executive, Maryland Gov. and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew preferred quiet domesticity to that of the political limelight, died June 20 in Rancho Mirage, Calif. She was 91.
"She...Tags: Woodhaven, Elections, Regional Authority, Republican Party, Government
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Romney's taxing sophistry
Remember in March, when former senator Rick Santorum got a lot of grief for saying that Mitt Romney was the "worst Republican" in the country to challenge President Barack Obama on health care reform? Well, turns out he was right. That was evident...
Tags: Democratic Party, Government Health Care, Parties and Movements, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Elections
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Good afternoon, Baltimore: Thursday lunchtime lowdown
ON THE SITE... Freeh report: Paterno, others protected Sandusky: Penn State’s leaders, including Joe Paterno, were more concerned about bad publicity than protecting children, which investigators in a report released this morning found “...Tags: Thurgood Marshall, Joe Paterno, Motorvehicle Accidents, College Baseball, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport
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Greens descend on Baltimore for convention
It won't have the glitter of the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions, but Baltimore will nevertheless get a piece of the 2012 nomination action as the national Green Party opens a three-day convention here today to pick a presidential...Tags: Democratic Party, University of Baltimore, Libertarian Party, Tampa, Political Candidates
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Don't expect much excitement at the GOP convention
In the long lull before the Republican National Convention in Tampa in late August, party leaders and strategists for Mitt Romney are calculating how they can put their collective best foot forward. This year, it will not be easy. The usual...
Tags: Democratic Party, Parties and Movements, John Boehner, Tampa, Huma Abedin
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Witcover unfair to GOP
I'm assuming it was cathartic for Jules Witcover to write his op-ed piece regarding next month's Republican National Convention ("Don't expect much excitement at the GOP convention," July 24). Couldn't he have gone farther in bad-mouthing more...Tags: Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Barack Obama
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When Baltimore was convention central
This summer, the Republican and Democratic parties will hold their presidential nominating conventions in Tampa, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C. In so doing, they will continue a political ritual that began 180 years ago in Baltimore. From their inception in...
Tags: Democratic Party, Parties and Movements, White House, Tampa, Theodore Roosevelt
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