Women In Politics

Michele Bachmann: Media want “mud wrestling fight” with Sarah Palin
GOP presidential candidate says press wants “two girls” to wrestle as Pelosi aide suggests Bachmann’s treatment amounts to sexism

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Clinton backs Calderon’s drug fight on Mexico trip
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered strong support for Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s war on narcotics traffickers on Monday even as drug-related violence shows no sign of abating.

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Clinton backs Calderon’s drug fight on Mexico trip
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered strong support for Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s war on narcotics traffickers on Monday even as drug-related violence shows no sign of abating.

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Iran’s Ahmadinejad calls on Palestinians to fight on
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged Palestinians to keep up their armed struggle against Israel a day after Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to continue talks on a U.S.-backed peace deal.

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August breeds ugly mosque fight
There’s something about August that seems to bring out the worst in people. Last year at this time tens of thousands of voters around the country flooded town hall meetings to yell at their elected officials about the health care bill. An exercise in…

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Meg and Jerry’s mud fight for governor
Call me an optimist, but I’m hoping the debates between gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman will involve specific discussion of ideas for improving the state of California. Until then – the first scheduled is Sept. 28 – it looks like…

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Dog that walked 2,000 miles to fight cancer now battling the disease
Two years ago, Luke Robinson sold his truck, put his stuff in storage and started walking from Austin, Texas, toward Boston, Mass.

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Palin: Ga.’s Handel to ‘fight like a mama grizzly’
Sarah Palin handed Georgia gubernatorial hopeful Karen Handel her conservative seal of approval on Monday in a tight Republican runoff, saying Handel would “fight like a mama grizzly” and help usher out the state’s “good ol’ boy network.”

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Fight Over First Head Of Consumer Bureau Heats Up
President Obama will appoint the new director and among the people he is considering it Elizabeth Warren, who heads the House Oversight Committee on the Troubled Assets Relief Program. Warren is also an advocate for the new bureau and a vocal critic of the banks.

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Nevada Smith: State’s biggest political fight getting interesting
The Great Nevada Senate Campaign is gaining steam now that the candidacy of Republican challenger Sharron Angle has started clicking on all cylinders.

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