Women In Politics

Another Tea Party Win? All Eyes Are On Delaware
Will the “establishment” candidate — Rep. Mike Castle — hold off a challenge from Tea Party favorite Christine O’Donnell? Or will his Senate bid be derailed like several other party favorites’ have been?

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Not Another Vanity Fair Takedown of Sarah Palin
Vanity Fair posted its second Sarah Palin profile in as many months today. As with last month’s “It Came From Wasilla,” the portrait drawn by author Michael Joseph Gross is less than flattering. Are readers beginning to feel the first pangs of Palin fatigue? Stale Story  The Alaska Dispatch slams the article’s revelations as “small advances to the general story about Palin’s growing celebrity …

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Thursday Must Read: Another Oakland tax proposal, more state furloughs, and a new Bay Bridge tower
The Oakland School Board may place a $195-a-year parcel tax on the November ballot to raise an estimated $20 million for teacher raises, the Oakland Tribune reported. The proposed tax measure , which must be supported by four of the seven school board members at Thursday’s board meeting, would join a proposed $360-a-year parcel tax being sought by the city council to enable it to rehire 80 laid …

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Another Senate Poll…Another Huge Lead for Boozman (UPDATE and Beebe)
Another poll is out today on the Arkansas Senate race showing Rep. John Boozman with a huge lead on Sen. Blanche Lincoln. The Reuters/Ipsos Poll has Boozman with a 19 point lead with 54 percent preferring him to 35 percent with Sen. Lincoln. This poll was conducted last Friday through Sunday and is consistant with the [...]

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Another View: Reid’s angle: Money can’t buy him love, but it can buy her hate
The nationally watched U.S. Senate race between Harry Reid and Sharron Angle shapes up like that old joke about two hikers who encounter a grizzly bear.

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Prefontaine Classic: A host of records, and another wonderful race by Wheating
There was one American record and a host of Pre Classic and Hayward Field records set — and a notable University of Oregon record smashed — Saturday in the Prefontaine Classic track and field meet at Hayward Field. Three events — the men’s 1,000 meters and 5,000 meters and women’s …

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First thoughts: Another mixed jobs report
From NBC’s Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg Another mixed jobs report… The economy lost 125,000 jobs in June (but that was mostly due to the loss of 225,000 Census jobs); the private sector added 83,000 jobs; and the unemployment rate fell to 9.5%…

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Another Unemployment Vote In Washington
WASHINGTON, DC, (Indiana’s NewsCenter) – The House has voted to extend unemployment benefits but it won’t affect millions of laid off workers who will soon lose those weekly paychecks.

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Meg Whitman Spends Another $20 Million On Campaign
What’s Your Reaction? Since June 3, GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman raised another $20.733 million for her campaign. Once again, almost all of the money came in a donation from herself.

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Whitman spends another $20 million on her own campaign
How far will Meg Whitman go to be California’s next governor? The GOP hopeful has pumped another $20 million of her own money into her gubernatorial campaign. The contribution, according to a filing with the state’s election office this week, was made on June 10 — two days after she won the Republican nomination in the race. (The former eBay chief, in the filing, identifies her occupation as a …

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