The Fix: April 16, 2006 - April 22, 2006
McCain's Strange Bedfellows
As if we needed more convincing that Arizona Sen. John McCain (R) is courting the Republican establishment that scorned him in the 2000 presidential race, an invite to a May fundraiser for his Straight Talk America PAC in Dallas found...
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April 21, 2006; 6:40 PM ET |
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House: Mollohan Steps Down From Ethics Post
Bowing to pressure from Republicans, fellow Democrats and the news media, Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) today stepped down from his post as the ranking Democrat on the House Ethics Committee. "Today I have accepted, at his request, the decision of...
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April 21, 2006; 5:15 PM ET |
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Virginia: The Races to Come
"Virginia is for lovers ... of elections," state Attorney General Bob McDonnell (R) said Wednesday at the annual Shad Planking political gathering in Wakefield. How right he is. The commonwealth hosts elections every year, with state offices up in odd...
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April 21, 2006; 2:18 PM ET |
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The Friday Line: Fla. Drops Off List of Top Govs. Races
All gubernatorial races are -- theoretically -- created equal, but in reality there are a handful that matter more than the others due to the size of the states and the resultant national influence those chief executives enjoy. So, while...
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April 21, 2006; 8:30 AM ET |
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2008: The Case Against John Kerry
If my Tuesday post making the case for a second presidential bid by Sen. John Kerry proved anything, it was that The Fix's readers feel strongly about the junior senator from Massachusetts. In the interest of keeping the debate going,...
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April 20, 2006; 3:23 PM ET |
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Virginia: Fish, Beer and Politics
WAKEFIELD, Va., April 19 -- Virginia's political class gathered here today for the 58th annual Shad Planking to toast Sen. George Allen (R) and his all-but-announced bid for president in 2008 over cold beer and bony fish. Master of ceremonies...
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April 20, 2006; 9:23 AM ET |
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Parsing the Polls: Iraq, Vietnam and Public Opinion
The idea for this week's "Parsing" came over the weekend as I scanned a summary of Gallup polling on the question of whether it was a mistake for the United States to send military troops into Iraq. According to the...
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April 19, 2006; 6:00 AM ET |
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House Republicans Move to Blunt Ethics Issue
House Republicans are keeping busy these days. Not content with their efforts to knock a top-tier Democrat out of the Ohio 6th District race, the National Republican Congressional Committee is trying to capitalize on the ethics question currently surrounding Rep....
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April 18, 2006; 4:00 PM ET |
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Ohio: Republicans' Machiavellian Maneuver in the 6th
House Republicans are pulling out all the stops in their attempt to keep state Sen. Charlie Wilson (D) from winning the May 2 Democratic primary in Ohio's open 6th District race: Their latest gambit is decidedly Machiavellian, taking the form...
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April 18, 2006; 12:57 PM ET |
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2008: The Case For John Kerry
When the 2004 presidential campaign started, Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) was widely acknowledged to be the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. A decorated Vietnam veteran, Kerry was seen as the right man to take on President George W. Bush during...
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April 18, 2006; 9:38 AM ET |
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Counting on Sen. Clinton
Candidates running for reelection this November filed financial reports with the Federal Election Commission over the weekend, and, once again, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) emerged as the big winner. Sen. Clinton addresses the Economic Club of Chicago on April...
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April 17, 2006; 1:45 PM ET |
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Bill Frist: The Howard Dean of the GOP?
In politics, as in life, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. During the 2004 Democratic presidential primary campaign, a little known former governor named Howard Dean went from also-ran to frontrunner thanks in large part to a huge online...
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April 17, 2006; 9:10 AM ET |
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