Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Reince Priebus appeared back-to-back on this weekend’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt” to discuss last week’s debate and the parties’ game plans going forward. Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National Committee chairman, said Mitt Romney tallied points...
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., Chair of the Democratic National Committee, speaks at the Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012.
Party Leaders Spin Post-Debate
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DNC chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz introducing Vice President Joe Biden during a campaign event in Boca Raton, Florida.
Wasserman Schultz: Romney Scored With Style Points, Not Facts
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, is willing to give Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney some style points for his performance against President Barack Obama in their first debate. But she wants to deduct even more...
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Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin, R-Missouri, speaks during a forum at a Republican conference in Kansas City, Mo.
Akin Links McCaskill to Obama in Ad
Updated 3:30 p.m. with the McCaskill campaign Rep. Todd Akin is trying to go back on offense in the Missouri U.S. Senate race after spending weeks apologizing and doing damage control following his controversial comments about rape and abortion. Akin’s...
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Barack Obama delivers the keynote speech during the DNC in Boston in this 2004 file photo.
Obama’s Keynote: Standard for Measure of Promises and Progress
A certain keynote speech at a Democratic National Convention once proved to be historic. “I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before...
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Protesters march through Uptown, the Charlotte business district, before the start of the Democratic National Convention.
Priebus: Hope and Disappointment
The Republican National Committee started an “Obama Isn’t Working” rapid-response center in Charlotte today as a counterpoint to the Democratic National Convention with a Web site and daily press conference “highlighting how America is not better off under President Obama.”...
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Rep. Todd Akin addresses members of the media in Chesterfield, Mo., on Aug. 24, 2012, where he confirmed his plans to remain in Missouri's U.S. Senate race despite a political uproar over remarks he made about rape and pregnancy.
Akin Tackling Republican ‘Bosses’
As the Republican Party celebrates its nominees for president and vice president in Tampa, one of the party’s candidates for another one of its most important elections is having some words for the party “bosses.” Yesterday, Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican...
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RNC Chairman Reince Priebus bangs the gavel to start the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on August 27, 2012.
Republican Convention, Open, Shut
How short it was. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus gaveled the party’s national convention to order, and just as quickly gaveled it shut. Because of Tropical Storm Isaac, which since has spun far off into the Gulf of Mexico...
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Alaina Carnan of Lexington, Ky., works in the Senate campaign office of Rep. Todd Akin in Chesterfield, Mo.
Todd Akin’s $100,000 Day
Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin, who’s been asked to drop out of the race by seemingly everyone in his party’s leadership, used that opposition to fuel a $100,000“ money bomb” ’in donations Wednesday. His party’s presidential candidate, Mitt Romney,...
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus at the University of Chicago.
Priebus Refreshes Republican Coffer
Reince Priebus inherited a Republican National Committee in January 2011 that had been out-raised by its Democratic counterpart and needed to pay off a $23 million debt. His predecessor, Michael Steele, was criticized over his management of the party’s finances...
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Rep. Paul Ryan with supporters during the Victory Rally in Florida at Town Square, Lake Sumter Landing on August 18, 2012 in The Villages.
Ryan: Dodging `The European Bullet’
Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney’s running mate, greeted donors at a Tampa Bay area fundraiser today with an admonition about the course the Obama administration is following, advising supporters that there is still time to “dodge the European bullet.” The party’s...
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Al Hunt
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Richard Rubin
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