Monday is Memorial Day. Most of us will spend the day with friends and family. There will be bar-b-ques, volleyball, picnics. The kids wi...

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Ouch. One advertisement accused the rival candidate of billing taxpayers for a call to a phone-sex line. One alleged that a candidate "fixed" his d...

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From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... Wrapping up our never-ending series, 2006: 13 Months That Shook the Nation, C&J dives into the fourth quar...

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From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... Continuing our series, 2006: 13 Months That Shook the Nation, C&J dives into the second quarter of the ...

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From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... Welcome back. Hope you had a nice Festivus (we bent our aluminum pole...but, oh God, was it worth it). Now,...

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Here is an interesting email commenting on Rep. William Jefferson's victory in the runoff for Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District....

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Various media reports indicate that Johnson's situation is currently critical. He has undergone surgery, though no diagnosis has been publicly ...

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Incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues her campaign to boost the profiles of newly elected Dems (traditionally the most vulnerable in their ...

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Gee, I hate to bring this up again... Blogger Chris Bowers at MyDD perhaps is the best example of how clueless some bloggers really are about ...

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The DCCC polled and obviously liked what they saw. While some San Antonio Express-News columnist calls reports of a 3-point deficit in the DCCC's poll "scuttlebutt", word is those numbers are accurate. And how can we trust that "word"?...

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From today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Dayna Klein had only her unborn baby in mind when she instinctively covered her belly after...

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