Sep
16
2010
Republican Kelly Ayotte, who squeaked through to victory over a Tea Party-backed candidate to win New Hampshire’s GOP Senate nomination, leads Democratic Rep. Paul Hodes by a bare 47 percent to 43 percent among likely voters, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted Sept. 11-12. Nine percent are undecided. The margin of error is [...]
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Sep
12
2010
Politics Daily White House Correspondent Alex Wagner appeared on MSNBC’s “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” on Friday to discuss the decision of Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) to break ranks with the GOP and support a bill to provide financial relief to small businesses. Click play below to watch the segment: This post was made using the [...]
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Sep
12
2010
Politics Daily White House Correspondent Alex Wagner appeared on MSNBC’s “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” on Friday to discuss the decision of Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) to break ranks with the GOP and support a bill to provide financial relief to small businesses. Click play below to watch the segment: This post was made using the [...]
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Sep
11
2010
A senior Republican senator, Ohio’s George Voinovich, says he will support a small business jobs bill backed by President Obama because the “country is really hurting” and the Senate cannot afford to wait. Voinovich’s vote would give Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid the 60 he needs to break any Republican filibuster and move ahead with [...]
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Aug
31
2010
President Obama is accusing Senate Republicans of harming the U.S. economy by blocking a bill to aid small business. He said the measure should be the Senate’s “first order of business” when it returns Sept. 13 from its summer recess. “Holding this hostage is directly detrimental to our economic growth. So I ask Senate Republicans [...]
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Aug
28
2010
Newly minted Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Scott starts out the Florida general election contest leading Democrat Alex Sink by 41 percent to 36 percent with 8 percent for third-party candidate Lawton “Bud” Chiles, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Aug. 25. Five percent prefer some other candidate and 9 percent are undecided. The margin [...]
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