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Move over ’Bradley effect,’ this election saw the birth of a new poll phenomenon. It looks like voters didn’t want to admit to supporting their senator, a convicted felon. But the vote proves that they did.

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) announced this afternoon that on April 17 the House oversight committee will hold a hearing on the Army’s $300 million contract to

According to a review of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac refinancing documents by TWI, buried deep in the fine print lies language that strips legal rights for homeowners.

As if it wasn’t embarrassing enough for Sen. John McCain when he called for Joe the Plumber to stand up and be recognized at a campaign rally in Defiance, OH.,

Earlier I noted it’s worth keeping an eye on last-ditch burrowing efforts by the executive branch, where political appointees slide into career positions,

That’s the real question, isn’t it? Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) asks it of the witnesses at today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. John Nagl,

The MSNBC host wasn’t in the studio today when his show’s pundits pulled apart Glenn Beck’s remarks that President Obama is a racist with deep-seated hatred

Michael Cohen, with something between bewilderment and respect, calls Hamid Karzai a gangster. He means it in the slang sense of someone who doesn’t care what

As I reported earlier, and in my piece that just went up now, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is

<p>If you’d run out in early February, when <a title="we told you" href="../../../view/wanna-trade" id="qlbf">we told

The news coverage today is all about how the greedy auto workers and their unions refused to accept the oh-so-reasonable compromise proposed by Senate

The Washington Post reports that Maryland is poised to legalize same-sex marriage, possibly in the next few weeks. A bill on the Senate floor, SB 116 (PDF),

Pro Publica’s Ben Protess does some digging into the past of former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, who was chosen to fill President-elect Barack

Here are two quick video examples of something BlueMassGroup blogged yesterday--the Brown campaign busing in support for its People’s Rally and running some

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A nervous-looking bureaucrat named Richard Shiffrin -- the former deputy general counsel for intelligence at the Pentagon -- declined any opening statement.

A federal judge has issued an injuction blocking certain provisions in Georgia’s new immigration law from taking effect, as they were scheduled to do on Friday.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s (R-Minn.) speech to the Values Voter Summit was tipped as a pivotal moment in his appeal to the GOP’s conservative base. Pawlenty hardly

There’s much to recommend in this Fred Barnes retrospective of the Bush presidency: like the president, Barnes is a political animal who sees Republican