Updated at 5:10 pm EDT Trent Franks has taken a page from Todd Akin’s playbook. And he’s getting about the same reaction. “Moron,” says Gabriel Gomez, a Republican running for Senate in Massachusetts. It was Akin, the Republican former congressman...
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Representative Trent Franks, a Republican from Arizona, in Washington, D.C.
Channeling Todd Akin on Rape
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People line up to vote on November 6, 2012 in Crawfordville, Florida.
Voting Commission Should Shorten Lines, Democratic Senators Say
In advance of the first meeting of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, four Democratic senators today said the group should address the long lines that beset many precincts on Election Day. Sens. Barbara Boxer of California, Chris Coons of...
Read more »Senate Aging: Will You Still Re-Elect Us When We’re 64?
Frank Lautenberg’s passing spotlights some obvious generational changes that have been occurring in the Senate for several years. Yet dig a little deeper, and something counter-intuitive emerges. As Bloomberg’s Greg Giroux noted yesterday upon word of Lautenberg’s death at age 89, the New Jersey Democrat...
Read more »House Committee Votes to Eliminate Public Financing for Campaigns
Following the first privately-funded election since Watergate, the House Administration Committee today voted to end public financing for presidential elections and the national political conventions. The committee also voted to end the Election Assistance Commission, which provides aid to states and...
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Jonathan Alter
Altered Estates: ‘Common Ground’
Journalist Jonathan Alter and political consultant Mandy Grunwald met at Harvard in the 1970s. At a party last night at Grunwald’s Georgetown home, Alter recalled the “towering” impression Grunwald made at Adams House. “She was more than the queen of...
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Frank Newport, Editor in Chief of The Gallup Poll, in Washington, DC
Gallup’s ‘Likely’ Story: ‘Over-Corrected’
Among the failures and successes of polling in the 2012 presidential election contest, the most noteworthy was the Gallup Poll getting it wrong. Frank Newport, editor in chief of Gallup, has undertaken an examination of the methodology that led the...
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Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and wife Calista Gingrich arrive for the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner in Washington, D.C., on April 27, 2013.
Newt, ‘Cally’ Gingrich: Niagara Falls — Class of ’12: Where in World?
Updated at 12:13 pm EDT, from Niagara Falls We heard from camp Romney this week, with Ann Romney’s word that her husband Mitt expected to win that 2012 presidential contest. That and a postcard from “Newt” this morning got us...
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First lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama in Arlington, Virginia.
Michelle Obama: The Bangs are Back
Reports of the demise of the first lady’s bangs are “greatly exaggerated.” So read the pool report from last night’s New York fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee headlined by first lady Michelle Obama. In the home of fashion designer...
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his wife Ann Romney greet supporters during a campaign rally at George Mason University on November 5, 2012 in Fairfax, Virginia.
Ann Romney: ‘We Expected to Win’
Mitt Romney hit the “panic button” at about 8 pm on Election Day 2012, according to wife Ann Romney. “We expected to win,” she said. But Karl Rove, whose super-PAC had invested millions in the failing election campaigns of other...
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Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann in Blaine, Minn.
Bachmann Out-Foxing Democrats
Michele Bachmann says she is imposing term limits on herself. “Eight is enough,” the saying of congressional term-limit proponents goes. And if it’s good enough for the president, the Minnesota Republican says in her campaign website video today announcing her...
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