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Murkowski Race in Alaska So Tight Results May Take Week
(Newser) - Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski probably won't know for a week whether she still has political life. The Republican is locked in a race with Tea Party favorite Joe Miller that remains too close to call, reports the Anchorage Daily News . Miller actually leads by about 3,000 votes, but it... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Ex Press Chief: Fox News White House Seat a 'Travesty'
(Newser) - The former president of the White House Correspondents Association called the decision to grant Fox News a front-row seat for White House press briefings a muddle-headed "travesty." "The vacancy was created because of an ideological conflict. To fill the vacancy with another cloud of ideological conflict was... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Outsider Rick Scott Wins Fla. GOP Primary
(Newser) - Political novice Rick Scott has narrowly defeated Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum—and the state's GOP establishment—to win the Republican nomination for governor. Scott, a former health care executive, poured $50 million of his own money into a bitterly fought campaign in which he painted his rival as a... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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McCain, Brewer Win in Arizona
(Newser) - John McCain has cruised to victory in Arizona, easily defeating conservative challenger JD Hayworth. The Republican now looks to set to win a fifth term in the US Senate, the AP reports. McCain looked vulnerable to anti-incumbent sentiment early in the campaign but fought back by shifting to the rights... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Kendrick Meek Wins Dems' Primary in Florida
(AP) - Rep. Kendrick Meek is the Democratic nominee for Senate in Florida, overcoming billionaire Jeff Greene's massive television and mail onslaught to win a bitter primary. If he wins again in November, Meek will be the state's first black senator. He will face Republican Marco Rubio, a Tea Party favorite who... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Cops Order Alvin Greene to Leave Restaurant
(Newser) - The strange candidacy of Alvin Greene takes another turn: Cops in South Carolina had to kick the Senate hopeful out of a restaurant after his female companion began arguing with patrons, reports the AP . Greene had originally been invited to the restaurant to speak to local Democrats, but they rescinded... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Partisan Bloggers Often Get Paid for Posts
(Newser) - The Daily Caller smells a rat in the political blogosphere: The site says many supposedly independent bloggers are taking money on the side from political campaigns to push a particular candidate or agenda. It's a "form of partisan payola that erases the line between journalism and paid endorsement,"... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Boehner: Fire Geithner, Summers
(Newser) - John Boehner—the House minority leader who could be House speaker if things go right for Republicans in the midterms—is generating headlines today for one of his economic prescriptions: Obama must fire Tim Geithner and Larry Summers.The duo must "see the handwriting on the wall" after the... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Congress Spends Its Time Naming Post Offices
(Newser) - You might think the most pressing issue facing Congress is the economy, or terrorism, or global warming, or immigration. But you’d be wrong. “Nope, the biggest problem facing America today is … the desperate lack of appropriately named post offices,” writes John Merline for AolNews . He combed... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Shirley Sherrod to USDA: No, Thanks
(Newser) - Just a month after she was unceremoniously hustled out the revolving doors at the Agriculture Department, Shirley Sherrod has declined an invitation back in. Sherrod met this morning with Tom Vilsack, who offered her a position aimed at improving the USDA's civil rights record. Sherrod said that while she was... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Jimmy Carter Headed to N. Korea to Free American
(Newser) - Another August, another white-haired ex-president heads off to North Korea to collect an American prisoner, reports Foreign Policy. This time it's Jimmy Carter, who has reportedly decided to travel—as a private citizen, so as not to undermine White House policy toward the Hermit Kingdom—to Pyongyang to negotiate the... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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