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Will it be Clinton? Cuomo? Warren?
Shortly after the 1988 presidential election, pollsters asked Democrats whom they favored to be their party's nominee in 1992. The strongest candidates were Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York. The governor of...
Tags: Democratic Party, James Carville, Joe Biden, 2012 Democratic National Convention, John Quincy Adams
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For former members, life after Congress
Connie Morella served as an ambassador in Paris. Helen Bentley became a consultant to the port of Baltimore. Wayne Gilchrest opened an environmental education center on the Eastern Shore. Former members of Congress from Maryland, they rebounded from...
Tags: Democratic Party, Montgomery County (Maryland), Justice System, NAACP, U.S. Congress
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Where are the real statesmen when you need them?
Why isn't President Obama taking a lead role in resolving the fiscal issues at hand? He keeps harping on taxing the rich — which would solve about 5 percent of the problem — but not proposing any other concrete solutions ("Bucking the pledge,"...Tags: Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, John Boehner
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For Democrats, unity and its pitfalls
It's hard to recognize the Democratic Party these days. In recent decades, it's been a divided, brawling tribe. But this year, Democrats are one big, happy family. Sure, there was grumbling from the left over President Barack Obama's agreement to keep...
Tags: Social Security, Personal Weapon Control, Doyle McManus, Health Insurance Cost, U.S. Congress
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Federal workers, others oppose poultry inspection overhaul
Federal workers' unions and food safety groups have joined to oppose new rules proposed by the Department of Agriculture to streamline federal poultry inspections. The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service says the rules would "modernize"...
Tags: Tom Vilsack, National Government, Health and Safety at Work, Government, Salmonella Infection
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Obama inaugural: Marking a new progressive era?
In what might have been President Barack Obama's most progressive speech, his second inaugural address Monday marked a distinct change from the so-called New Democrat ideology of pragmatism and compromise to a full embrace of the principles that once...
Tags: Democratic Party, Social Security, Feminism, Finance, National Government
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Hope, cynicism run high for second Obama term
— Four years after he rode into the White House on a message of change, President Barack Obama is set to begin his second term Monday amid lowered expectations and a sense that his re-election has done little to alter the nation's fractured...
Tags: U.S. Department of Education, Democratic Party, Shootings, Pikesville, U.S. Postal Service
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A nun quietly rebukes 'I built that'
— Let's talk about the other speech. No, not Bill Clinton's 48-minute stemwinder to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night that was so mesmerizing even Republicans praised it. Instead, let's offer a little nod of affirmation for...
Tags: 2012 Democratic National Convention, Landforms, The Miami Herald, Sociology, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
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War on 21st-century Jim Crow
Kemba Smith Pradia went to Tallahassee, Fla., last week to demand the right to vote. Back in the '90s, when she was just Kemba Smith, she became a poster child for the excesses and inanities of the so-called War on Drugs. Ms. Pradia, then a college...
Tags: Polls, NAACP, Justice System, Abusive Behavior, Charlie Crist
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Bartlett's career imperiled
Once again, there won't be much national interest in the 2012 federal election results here in Maryland next month. President Barack Obama, who carried the state by 25 percentage points four years ago, is a cinch to capture the state's 10 electoral votes...
Tags: Democratic Party, Annapolis, Montgomery County (Maryland), Hillary Clinton, Michael Steele
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Romney inadvertently shows why he lost
Defeated presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who helped do himself in with his closed-door characterization of nearly half of all Americans as content to live off federal handouts, wasted no time doubling down on the theory. He did so in a conference call...
Tags: Joe Biden, The New York Times, Richard Nixon, Regional Authority, Los Angeles Times
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The virtues of a president with humble origins
Since World War II, Americans have tended to elect middle class presidents. With the exception of the two Bushes — the first of whom lost his second election, the second of whom "lost" his first — both parties succeeded by nominating...
Tags: Democratic Party, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Paul Ryan
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