Former Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell (R) has opened up a statistical lead over his Democratic rival in the race for governor, according to new polls out of the Old Dominion, and some political observers say a public souring on President Obama could be the cause.
The latest poll, conducted for the liberal DailyKos website by [...]
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Senate Republicans on Wednesday vowed to stay on the attack until the Obama administration reverses its decision to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
Forcing the Senate into a lopsided, 90-6 vote Wednesday to yank $90 million from a military supplemental bill reflects a turning tide in public opinion against the idea of closing the prison, [...]
The expected announcement Tuesday by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist that he’s running for the Senate would seem to be a rare bit of good news for beleaguered Republicans.
But while Crist is a brand-name recruit with sky-high approval ratings and bipartisan appeal, his path to keeping the seat of retiring Sen. Mel Martinez in GOP hands [...]
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) has called on the intelligence community to declassify documents showing what certain members of Congress were told about the harsh interrogation techniques employed in the war on terrorism.
In a letter to CIA Director Leon Panetta and National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair on Friday, Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence [...]
It’s almost as if the 2008 presidential campaign never ended: The community organizing group known as ACORN continues to find itself in legal jeopardy and the Republican Party continues to spend an inordinate amount of time obsessing about it.
Six months after an election where the controversial liberal group became a partisan lightning rod, the Association [...]
Republicans say the White House plan to close U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, “is a dangerous case of putting symbolism over security.”President Barack Obama needs to tell the public where the suspected terrorists will go after the facility is shuttered, Missouri Sen. Kit Bond said in the GOP radio address Saturday.
“The American people [...]
Congressional Democratic leaders said Wednesday that Sen. Arlen Specter’s party switch is a sign that Republicans should become more like, well, Democrats.
“I say to Republicans in America, take back your party,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters. “The party of protecting the environment, the party of individual rights, the party of fairness.”
Specter stunned the [...]
No more “Party of No.”
Top Republican officials and lawmakers plan to announce on Thursday a series of town hall-style meetings about their ideas for shaping the country. With the backing of the House and Senate GOP leaders, the new group will operate outside the Republican National Committee and highlight conservative policy ideas and draw contrasts [...]
A national Republican group is hitting the telephones to remind Pennsylvania Democrats that Sen. Arlen Specter was endorsed by President Bush in 2004 and that he angered labor unions by opposing a bill to make it easier for workers to form unions.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee launched its “robocall” campaign Wednesday. Spokeswoman Amber Wilkerson says [...]
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