OOPS! – OBAMA CAMPAIGN FAILS TO FILE SLATE OF DELEGATES FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY For obvious reasons, most news coverage of the 2012 New Hampshire presidential primaries focuses on the Republican contest. With rare exceptions, incumbent presidents seeking re-election enjoy a nearly insuperable advantage in their party’s nomination process. So it’s business as usual in [...]
26 Oct
While it was my fervent hope that a candidate of national stature and credibility would challenge President Obama in the 2012 Democratic primaries, I have entered my name in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary to offer my fellow disillusioned Democrats a choice. The growing sense of political hopelessness, frustration and alienation symbolized in the fledgling Occupy [...]
22 Oct
Longtime activist and community organizer Howie Hawkins hopes to become the first Green Party candidate in history to win a partisan office in New York State when he faces Democrat Khalid Bey in the race for 4th District Common Councilor in Syracuse on November 8. Hawkins polled 41 percent of the vote for the same [...]
16 Oct
Delegates to the Socialist Party USA national convention in Los Angeles turned to their 2008 vice-presidential nominee yesterday to head the party’s ticket in the 2012 presidential sweepstakes. In nominating Stewart A. Alexander, an early frontrunner for the party’s top spot, the delegates turned back a late but spirited challenge from sociology professor Jerry Levy, [...]
14 Sep
The GOP’s Mark Amodei easily defeated Democrat Kate Marshall and independent candidate Helmuth Lehmann, a political novice from Reno, to capture Nevada’s heavily Republican 2nd Congressional District seat Tuesday night. Amodei will take the seat of former U.S. Rep. Dean Heller, R-Carson City, who was appointed to the U.S. Senate in May after former U.S. [...]
14 Sep
In a race largely viewed as a referendum on President Barack Obama’s economic policies, Republican Bob Turner, a retired television executive perhaps best known for producing“The Jerry Springer Show,” easily defeated Democratic state Assemblyman David Weprin to capture New York’s traditionally-Democratic 9th Congressional District seat vacated in June by former Rep. Anthony Weiner. Turner, who [...]
12 Sep
With Republican Bob Turner clinging to a narrow lead over Democrat David Weprin in New York’s 9th Congressional District, little-known Christopher P. Hoeppner of the Socialist Workers Party could be a major factor in the outcome of Tuesday’s hotly-contested special election to replace disgraced former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner. According to a Public Policy Polling [...]
24 Aug
Former Sen. Arlen Specter, who was defeated in his bid for a sixth term in the spring of 2010 shortly after switching parties, is reportedly finishing an autobiography — his third memoir — scheduled for release in late March. Called “Life Among the Cannibals: A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing [...]
20 Aug
Former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin ruled out a political comeback next year in a statement posted on his political action committee’s website on Friday. Feingold, who was defeated in a bid for a fourth term in 2010 — losing to Tea Party-backed Republican Ron Johnson by slightly more than 100,000 votes — had [...]
18 Aug
Consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren, who said that she will make a formal decision about challenging Republican Sen. Scott Brown shortly after Labor Day, formed an exploratory committee earlier today, bringing the potential number of Democrats hoping to unseat Edward M. Kennedy’s unlikely successor to eight. The Harvard University law professor and former chair of the five-member TARP [...]
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