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O'Malley labels Franchot 'our version of Mitt Romney'
The gloves came off this week in a long-brewing feud between Gov. Martin O'Malley and Comptroller Peter Franchot this week after the comptroller held a roundtable Tuesday to denounce the governor's proposed increase of taxes on gasoline. O'Malley, in...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Democratic Party, Anne Arundel County, Same-Sex Marriage, Executive Branch
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Food stamps are good for us
The nation's food stamp program is an essential part of the American safety net. Why? Because people can't be productive — in school, at work or looking for work — if they are hungry and fearful about not having enough food to feed their...Tags: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Los Angeles Times, Newt Gingrich, Pension and Welfare, Groceries
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Who's happier with Tuesday's results, Santorum or Obama?
I am certain that the staff in Obama headquarters in Chicago were euphoric after Rick Santorum's primary and caucus victories Tuesday in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri. They may hardly have to use their expected $1 billion campaign war chest as the...Tags: Republican Party, Timonium, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Elections
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Is the GOP handing the election to Obama?
The last time a Republican candidate for president defeated an incumbent Democrat running for reelection, the primary returns were a lopsided affair. Ronald Reagan won convincingly in New Hampshire and South Carolina (after George H.W. Bush took Iowa) and...Tags: George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Ron Paul, Tampa, Republican National Conventions
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Newt the demagogue
Rick Perry's withdrawal from the presidential race and his endorsement of Newt Gingrich give a boost to a campaign that has been gaining momentum in the days before the South Carolina primary. Much of the analysis of this latest turn of events focuses...Tags: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Fox News Channel (tv network), Parties and Movements, White House, Newt Gingrich
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Santorum's moral relativism should play well in South Carolina
Never mind Rick Santorum's flexibility on abortion, which columnist Thomas Schaller cited in questioning the GOP presidential primary contender's morality ("Rick Santorum's moral flexibility," Jan. 11). It's the candidate's profession of "pro-life"...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Values, Republican Party, Civil Unrest, Ethics
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Romney's trump card: 'electability'
New Hampshire Republicans are practical people.
As I traveled around the state this past week, voters who said they supported Mitt Romney in Tuesday's presidential primary consistently offered two reasons for their choice.
One was Mr. Romney's resume:...Tags: Ron Paul, Parties and Movements, Executive Branch, Same-Sex Marriage, Newt Gingrich
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McCain's faint praise, Gingrich's long knives greet Romney in New Hampshire
The politics-by-the-numbers game we play has been quirkily friendly to Mitt Romney. He was able to waltz into New Hampshire a week before its Republican presidential primary boasting of being a winner in the Iowa caucuses.
He could do so despite the fact...Tags: George W. Bush, Executive Branch, Newt Gingrich, Government, Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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Post-Iowa, a weaker tea party movement
A year ago, the tea party movement looked like an irresistible wave sweeping through the Republican Party. Anyone who hoped to win this year's GOP presidential nomination, it seemed, would need to embrace tea party activists' stringent demands for smaller...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Ron Paul, Parties and Movements, Newt Gingrich, Media Industry
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Iowa caucus: Romney win changes nothing
As political theater, the Republican Party's Iowa caucuses came through: A photo finish with a mere 8 votes separating winner Mitt Romney from the runner-up, former Sen. Rick Santorum. Throw in a third-place for Rep. Ron Paul as well as a decent showing...Tags: Ron Paul, Parties and Movements, Executive Branch, Medical Procedures and Tests, Charles Elson Roemer, III
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CNN the TV place to be for coverage of amazing, super-tight Iowa race
The Baltimore SunWith a caucus vote so close that the cable channels had to wait until all the votes were finally tallied at 2:34 a.m. Wednesday to declare a winner, Iowa was no place to be Tuesday night for media amateurs and ideologues. Which is to say there was only...Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Rachel Maddow, Libertarian Party, Stranger Than Fiction, U.S. Presidential Election Exit Polls (2008)
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Jan. 25: The young voter
DeJanee Fennell hears the excuses. Young people are apathetic. Young people are sick of politics. Young people have given up. The thing is: Fennell doesn't buy that. The 20-year-old junior at Morgan State knows President Barack Obama needs the youth...Tags: Harvard University, Parties and Movements, Iraq War (2003-2011), Morgan State University, Newt Gingrich
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