The post-Census reapportionment cost New York two of its 29 congressional seats. The new districts placed many of those who remained in competitive races this fall. Seven of New York’s House members — more than one-fourth of the delegation —...
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., accompanied by Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., left, and Rep. Timothy Bishop, D-N.Y., on Capitol Hill.
Super-PAC Ad: Bishop is Pelosi `Pawn’
A Republican super-political action committee is using a chess-themed play on words in a television ad linking New York Rep. Tim Bishop and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. “He’s not a bishop. He’s Pelosi’s pawn,” a narrator says after attacking...
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Mitt Romney arrives at Denver International Airport on Sept. 24, 2012 .
Gillespie: Romney Ready for Targets
In the last two weeks, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has visited New York, Texas, Utah and California, four states not in contention on Election Day. Rather than courting votes, Romney was seeking cash, visiting states where he could pull...
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President Barack Obama during a campaign event in Columbus, Ohio.
Obama’s Nod to $10 Million Donors
Campaigning for re-election, President Barack Obama has alerted supporters to the financial challenge he faces: millionaires and billionaires writing $10 million checks to defeat him. Those checks are going to super-PACs and “social welfare” committees that draw their money from...
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Beyonce, left, singing as President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama finish their dance at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball in Washington in this 2009 file photo.
Obama’s Beyonce & Jay-Z $4 Million
You may call them Beyonce and Jay-Z. To President Barack Obama, they are just “B and J.” Thus he referred to the music stars who hosted a $4 million fundraiser for him at Jay-Z’s club, 40/40, in New York City...
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Jay-Z and Beyonce Knowles perform during the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.
Obama’s Post-Convention Beyonce
The president’s up in the polls following the parties’ nominating conventions. Seven points in the rolling Gallup track. The pollsters call that a post-convention “bounce.” The president also is up lately in fundraising, narrowly surpassing Republican Mitt Romney in August,...
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in his only scheduled public appearance at the Democratic National Convention, rallied his state’s Democrats today with the same rhetorical flourishes that his father, former Governor Mario Cuomo, used as the keynote speaker at the...
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker leaps from a mobile billboard during part of the FixGunChecks.org truck tour stop.
Gun-Control Group Files FEC Report Listing Donors
Donors funding many of the current political ads that boost or attack candidates are being kept under wraps. But a group sponsoring a new ad campaign calling for gun-control plans from President Obama and Mitt Romney has opted for disclosure....
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New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman
Tax-Exempt Political Groups Probed by NY Attorney General
Tax-exempt nonprofit groups account for some of the biggest, yet most mysterious, spending in the presidential election. And now they’ve attracted the attention of New York’s attorney general. Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, has asked two dozen nonprofits to explain how...
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David Koch, executive vice president of chemical technology for Koch Industries Inc., center, at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
David Koch Named as Romney Convention Delegate From New York
Billionaire industrialist — not to mention major financial supporter of Republican causes — David Koch has been named as one of Mitt Romney’s delegates to the convention later this month in Tampa. Koch, 72, is one of 95 delegates chosen...
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