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● MT-Sen: Republican Ryan Zinke was widely expected to challenge Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in 2018, but Trump threw a huge wrench in Team Red's plans when he picked the congressman to lead the Department of the Interior in December....
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Morning Digest: Despite assaulting a reporter, Republican Gianforte hangs on to win special election Leading Off
● MT-AL: On Thursday night, wealthy Republican businessman Greg Gianforte defeated Democratic folk musician Rob Quist in the special election to fill Montana's lone House seat, which became vacant when former GOP Rep. Ryan Zinke left to...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Fri May 26, 2017 at 06:01 AM PDT
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● MT-AL : Democrat Rob Quist is definitely kicking Republican Greg Gianforte's butt when it comes to fundraising. New reports were due at the FEC over the weekend detailing both ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Tue May 16, 2017 at 05:00 AM PDT
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● GA-06: A few final polls of Tuesday's special election in Georgia's 6th Congressional District all point to a runoff—if, of course, pollsters are accurately forecasting the universe of voters likely to show up. That's no easy task for...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Tue Apr 18, 2017 at 05:00 AM PDT
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● TX Redistricting : Late on Friday, a federal district court finally issued its long-awaited ruling in the lawsuit over Texas' Republican-drawn congressional map ( shown here ). The ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Tue Mar 14, 2017 at 05:00 AM PDT
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The pressure mounts:
A conservative group has launched a new television ad in Indiana attacking Sen. Joe Donnelly for being too liberal and urging him to vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch.
The 30-second ad, also...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Wed Feb 22, 2017 at 08:24 AM PST
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● NJ-Gov: Only a little more than three years ago, GOP Gov. Chris Christie won re-election in blue New Jersey by a solid 60-38 margin. But a failed presidential campaign, a scandal or two, and several Big Mac deliveries for Donald Trump...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 05:00 AM PST
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● SC-Gov : South Carolina just traded its first non-white governor for a new chief executive who refuses to leave his all-white country club .
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Wed Jan 25, 2017 at 05:00 AM PST
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● NH-Gov : This is creepy. Former state securities regulator Mark Connolly, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor, sent a fundraising email to his fraternity ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Tue Aug 16, 2016 at 05:01 AM PDT
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● FL-Sen : Marco Rubio's humiliating attempt to embrace Donald Trump has now been consummated. A few days after Rubio declared that "[w]e have to make sure that Donald wins," Trump ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Thu Aug 04, 2016 at 05:01 AM PDT
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● FL-Sen : According to a new piece in Politico, Florida Rep. Alan Grayson's ex-wife filed multiple police reports against him over a two-decade period alleging that he had ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Wed Jul 27, 2016 at 05:01 AM PDT
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● FL-23 : Debbie Wasserman Schultz tripped into the jaws of hell over the weekend, and it doesn't look like she'll emerge from Hades any time soon. Following Wikileaks' release of a ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Tue Jul 26, 2016 at 05:01 AM PDT
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● Demographics : You're probably aware that urban areas (big cities and inner-ring suburbs) are the main geographic source of strength for the Democrats today. A new article from ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Fri Jul 22, 2016 at 05:01 AM PDT
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● WI-Sen : While Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson has trailed in the polls in his rematch with Democrat Russ Feingold, Republicans sounded prepared to spend big to try and help ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Thu Jul 21, 2016 at 05:01 AM PDT
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● IN-Sen : On Monday, the DSCC released a Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group poll giving Democrat Evan Bayh a massive 54-33 lead over Republican Rep. Todd Young in the Indiana Senate ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Tue Jul 19, 2016 at 05:00 AM PDT
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● IN-Gov : On Friday, Donald Trump announced that Gov. Mike Pence would be his running mate on the GOP's presidential ticket. Pence was already the Republican nominee for governor ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Mon Jul 18, 2016 at 05:01 AM PDT
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● NC Redistricting: Late on Friday afternoon, a federal court hearing a challenge to North Carolina's congressional map found that Republicans drew two districts, the 1st and the 12t
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Tue Feb 09, 2016 at 05:00 AM PST
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by Daily Kos Elections
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• FL Redistricting : In an epic descent into acrimony and recrimination, the Florida legislature concluded its special session on redistricting without producing a new ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Mon Aug 24, 2015 at 05:01 AM PDT
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• MT-Gov : While plenty of Republicans are excited about wealthy ...
by Jeff Singer
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on Thu Jun 11, 2015 at 05:00 AM PDT
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- Just a quick post to let you see the new anti-AHCA put out by the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee (DSCC). Stunning brilliance in thirty seconds, without a single word spoken. Here it is, “The Price” : Wow.202 comments 361 Recs
- Lucian Truscott IV calls his article Profiles in Poltroonery. Poltroonery, the Google tells one, simply means cowardice. Truscott is well qualified to identify cowardice as his Grandfather, Lucian Jr. commanded the Fifth Army in Italy in WWII...198 comments 218 Recs
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