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- New analysis shows Democratic takeover of House likely
  Posted by Billbar from Rawstory
  The latest state-by-state analysis by the Rothenberg Political Report projects a Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives. In the lower house of the legislature, Rothenberg's analysis sees Democrats gaining 15-20 seats--well over the 12 needed for a House majority. Previous analysis had the gap much tighter, with Democrats' prospects for takeover hanging on just a handful of hotly contested seats. Democrats still appear unlikely to re-take the Senate, however, with projected gains of just 3-5 seats.
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- GOP Candidate McGavick reveals '93 DUI charge in unusual letter on his personal life
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  McGavick told The Associated Press that he blew.17 percent on the blood-alcohol meter — well above Maryland's legal intoxication threshold. The current threshold is .08, the same as in Washington state.
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- Lieberman gains ground against Lamont
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  It'll be an exciting Tuesday evening while we wait for these results. The race tightened towards the end - but Lamont has had every progressive blog and Comedy Central tv show behind him. Let's hope he can make it stick.
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- Santorum donors give to Green Party
  Posted by Jeff from Philadelphia Inquirer
  Fourteen Santorum supporters gave $40,000 to fund a petition drive that has allowed Carl Romanelli to collect about 100,000 voter signatures to qualify for the Senate race. That's 33,000 more signatures than required, and double what independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader gathered here in 2004. But Romanelli and the Green Party of Luzerne County, which collected the money, might have violated federal election law in the process.
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- GOP-run Senate kills minimum wage increase
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  The Republican-controlled Senate smothered a proposed election-year increase in the minimum wage Wednesday, rejecting Democratic claims that it was past time to boost the $5.15 hourly pay floor that has been in effect for nearly a decade.
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- Handicapping Senate Races
  Posted by Jon from Washington Post
  Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Montana... and some other big Senate races. Things looking pretty good for the Democrats.
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- Strongman of the North (Seattle Weekly)
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Weekly
  The Seattle Weekly's Rick Anderson has a great story on crazy Alaska Senator Ted Stevens and how he's helping Maria Cantwell in Washington state indirectly through his attacks on the environment. If you missed the Daily Show last night, they did a "coot off" in which Ted Stevens narrowly lossed for craziest coot in the Senate. Robert Byrd won by a half a Yosemite Sam.
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brendajo313 comments on:
Democrats May Kick Out Joe Lieberman If He Addresses The Republican National Convention

Addressing the Republican convention would be in the true spirit of "reaching across the aisle"... republicans have been doing it for years and it would be a welcome change.

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5:57 am 7/14/08
Jon comments on:
Democrats May Kick Out Joe Lieberman If He Addresses The Republican National Convention

About time. After the ‘08 elections, we won’t need Joe anymore. If the Republicans can stand him, they can have him.

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11:49 pm 7/13/08
Jeff comments on:
Democrats' "censure" plan--another cynical diversion of fight against war and reaction

I agree . I think censure will just take away the impeachment option in the mind of the public. Lame Feingold.

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10:15 am 7/24/07
Jeff comments on:
Senate to Investigate Walter Reed Scandal

From everything I’ve read the past few years, the problem isn’t just Walter Reed…the entire VA system is underfunded.

When gates says he wants to get to the bottom of this, he must be joking. The problem is the overextension of the U.S. military and the underfunding of veterans affairs by Congress.

It would help if Bush would put forward an honest budget with true accounting for the costs of the Iraq war.

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11:54 am 2/27/07
Kathy comments on:
Senate to Investigate Walter Reed Scandal

TPMmuckraker has the details on the investigation and a summary of Pentagon response (divided) to the story.

If you missed it – ya need to read it. Very sad. Thousands of soliders waiting for disability rulings. One story is especially painful—how our gov’t went out of its way to say IT wasn’t responsible for the soldier’s disability. Too bad he couldn’t have that decision made by a jury of his peers.

I read another report that says the wounded-killed ratio in this war is the highest ever—10-to-1. Vietnam, reportedly 3-to-1. That means a lot of folks are gonna have lifelong care—and our system isn’t set up to handle it. :-/

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1:34 am 2/27/07
Jon comments on:
Senate gridlocks on Iraq war resolution

Really sad to see that the “world’s greatest deliberative body” can’t manage to deliberate the world’s most important issue.

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1:50 pm 2/17/07

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