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Michele Bachmann Follows Hillary Clinton's Fashion Lead
Tweet Share on Facebook August 15, 2011 Comment (6)Secretary of State Hillary Clinton might not know it, but GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann and many other candidates of all political stripes are flipping through her closet of campaign tricks to avoid the biggest double standard of all: the media's treatment of female candidates as fashion mannequins.
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Zogby: Obama's Hiding Out in the Middle
Tweet Share on Facebook August 12, 2011 Comment (10)Pollster John Zogby updates our weekly Obama Report Card with a grade on the president's performance. Zogby uses his polling, expert analysis and interaction with major players to come up with a grade and some comments that capture how he sees the president's week ending.
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Is Rick Perry Wrong to Pray in Public?
Tweet Share on Facebook August 12, 2011 Comment (7)Texas Gov. Rick Perry, poised to join the 2012 GOP presidential primary race, is being jeered by liberals for publicly praying last weekend at "The Response," his religious gathering in Houston attended by 30,000.
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Hispanics, Women Top GOP Vice Presidents List
Tweet Share on Facebook August 11, 2011 Comment (15)Hispanics and women top the list of most buzzed about 2012 Republican vice presidential candidates as the party seeks to build on its shrinking base of whites, according to several GOP officials.
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Obama's Vineyard Vacation Will Cost Taxpayers Millions
Tweet Share on Facebook August 11, 2011 Comment (270)At a time when many more cash-strapped Americans are stuck at home instead of vacationing at the beach, President Obama next week will lead an entourage of several dozens to exclusive Martha's Vineyard island at a cost of millions to taxpayers.
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Is Mitch Daniels Looking to be Drafted for President in 2012?
Tweet Share on Facebook August 10, 2011 Comment (15)He's rejected running for president, but an upcoming book from Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels that lays out a comprehensive "reconstruction" plan for the United States is sure to revive the "Draft Mitch" effort, especially if the economy continues to sputter and no GOP candidate catches fire.
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Nixon Nearly Picked Bush as VP
Tweet Share on Facebook August 10, 2011 CommentThe world is just now learning just how close George H.W. Bush came to being Richard Nixon's vice president in 1968, a choice if made could have changed that administration's legacy of corruption, potentially avoided the Watergate crisis and made Bush president instead of Ronald Reagan.
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Tea Party Says Boehner Should Recall Congress
Tweet Share on Facebook August 9, 2011 Comment (12)Upset that Congress has gone on recess as the stock market is tanking and U.S. credit has been downgraded, the leading Tea Party group is demanding that House Speaker John Boehner recall members to immediately enact spending cuts promised in the recent debt deal and make good on earlier promises to slash $100 billion from the budget.
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Buzz Building for Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer in 2016
Tweet Share on Facebook August 9, 2011 Comment (7)Speakers at Democratic national conventions have a way of making it to the White House. Consider Barack Obama, whose 2004 keynote address thrilled the party faithful and Bill Clinton, whose 1988 speech nominating Mike Dukakis bored the gathering.
Another Democrat with convention experience is looking at a similar path. Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer brought down the house in 2008, and there's lots of buzz he would be a natural presidential candidate in 2016.
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Congress May Give 'Presidents' Day' Back to George Washington
Tweet Share on Facebook August 8, 2011 Comment (3)It's been 40 years since Congress created Presidents' Day and what do we have to show for it? For most, it's a three-day weekend in February to ski in the mountains, tan at the beaches, or shop the malls for huge savings. Missing? Any mention of who the original holiday was created for way back in 1879.
