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As predicted, the Ames Straw Poll was a 2012 game changer, prompting former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty to end his campaign and elevating U.S. Rep.

Ralph Hallow, the Washington Times’ crack reporter on the RNC, has a damaging scoop this morning on RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s side gig as a

Members of the U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan agriculture appropriations bill Tuesday as part of a larger appropriations process that will soon be merged with an earlier offering by the U.S. House.

Because The New York Times is reporting that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is now the Obama administration’s indispensable interlocutor with Afghan

The Senate is back to amending Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform proposal today. Here is a list of pending amendments that might come up

And here’s Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the Afghanistan war, testifying for the first time since his June congressional hearings. He praised an

Ben Smith unearths a classic 11th-hour attack from Republicans against then-Democratic nominee for Congress Parker Griffith.

Zachary Roth has a short write-up on Michael Zak, the amateur historian who wrote the Heroes section of the new GOP.com, which focuses to a confusing degree

We finally had a sense they were listening, one advocate says of the White House shift in tone.

This isn’t going to please Democrats who, privately, describe Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley’s strategy in Massachusetts as running out the clock.

My profile of WorldNetDaily made the case that the conservative Website, which opinion-makers brush off as a conspiracy hub, is actually incredibly influential

From The Minnesota Independent: No Republican contenders in the 2010 gubernatorial contest — except environmental activist Leslie Davis — believe in global

Speaking at Grand Canyon National Park today, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a 20-year ban on new uranium mining claims as the “preferred alternative” in an ongoing federal review of hardrock mining on the 1 million acres of public lands surrounding the Grand Canyon.

Whether BP will be found grossly negligent in its handling of the Deepwater Horizon rig is one of the next big questions in the saga of the Gulf oil spill. To

The insurance giant AIG is back with its hands out, asking for yet another government bailout, the New York Times reports. At TPM, Josh Marshall raises an

ASPEN, Colo.--The climate is an historically awful one for Republicans, Nicolle Wallace said. It’s just terrible. Wallace, the communications

Whether the Tea Party rank-and-file decide to get on board remains an open question, but conservative figures like Dick Armey, the former Republican majority

Finger pointing and agitation is quick on the heels of disappointment following a collapse in negotiations between Pennsylvania House and Senate leaders over a

The Minnesota Faith and Freedom Coalition, part of a network of groups created by religious right icon Ralph Reed , is hosting a strategy session on the ballot measure to put a ban on marriage for same-sex couples in the Minnesota Constitution . Former gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer will emcee the October event, and Sen

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The Senate has rejected a Republican amendment that would have blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions

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