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There were no Republican candidates in the race, so yesterday’s Democratic primary was the main event of the special election. In the general contest on May 11, DiDomenico will face Independent candidate John Cesan, a resident of Agawam...
Those comments alone may have doomed her later appointment. It was clear from the start that even with the Democrats' 60-vote Senate supermajority, which evaporated with Republican Scott Brown's election in January, the confirmation would not be easy. And it wasn't, despite support from hundreds of law professors and one Senate Republican, Richard Lugar of Indiana. After her nomination was first reported out of committee, it languished through 2009. Obama had to renominate Johnsen again this year, resulting in a second hearing in March...
This Friday the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club will face off in their fifth annual “Paintball Brawl...
...Both sets of issues, supercharged by the Tea Party movement, provoked the kind of reaction in New Orleans that Republican leaders have seen around the country - raw, intense and emotional. In the past, appeals to the pocketbook and concerns over Middle Eastern alliances have not always stirred the same kind of passions that are sparked by talk of late-term abortions and gay marriage. But something about Barack Obama and his economic and security policies (not to mention his style and agenda) seem to inflame the American right in a way that equals - and perhaps exceeds - the ire inspired...
...court vacancy to raise money and highlight specific social issues. Additionally, with conservatives pushing for judicial consideration of the constitutionality of the new health law's mandate that all individuals purchase medical insurance, economic considerations will play a role in the Supreme Court debate. But right now, to Republican leaders, national security and the economy remain far stronger vehicles for the rough ride back into power...