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2006 Election
Latest 2006 Election coverage from NewsAmericaNow
GOP In Emergency Mode As House Melts Away
Barnstorming from Bush across red states not helping Republicans as losses continue to pile up for election day......
CHENEY DESTROYING EVIDENCE IN ADVANCE OF ELECTION NIGHT LOSSES?
Shredding services truck has been sighted outside of Dick Cheney's compound at the naval observatory.... Link...
GEORGE ALLEN HAMMERED ON SEALED ARREST RECORD
"Democrats are demanding that George Allen stop stonewalling and immediately release records addressing why multiple warrants were issued for his arrest in 1974 while he was a student at the University of Virginia. The court records of his arrests are...
Bush Approval Still A Bust
""President Bush's popularity has not been buoyed by a series of public events in recent days," according to a new CNN poll. "Bush's approval rating still hovers in the high 30s, where it has been throughout October."" Link...
LIAR: BUSH CLAIMS MEMORY LOSS ON "STAY THE COURSE"
In shock performance on morning chat show, President Bush claimed he never said "stay the course". The record shows this as a blatant lie by the 43rd president. Think Progress...
MCCAIN RAISING MONEY FOR PAGE SCANDAL REPUBLICAN
"Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is scheduled to appear Oct. 20 in Rochester, N.Y., at a fund-raising luncheon with Rep. Thomas Reynolds. The New York Republican is among members of the House GOP leadership who this spring learned that former Rep....
VOTERS DISGUSTED WITH REPUBLICAN-RUN GOVERNMENT
"A record low primary turnout and voter disgust for politics could spell trouble for Republicans trying to keep control of the House and Senate. Only 15 percent of eligible voters cast primary ballots this year, breaking the 19 percent low...
REPUBLICAN CORRUPTION FEEDS VOTER OUTRAGE
"With midterm elections less than five weeks away, the latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that about half of likely voters say recent disclosures of corruption and scandal in Congress will be very or extremely important when they cast their vote...
REPUBLICAN LEAKED E-MAILS AT SOURCE OF SEX SCANDAL
"The source who in July gave news media Rep. Mark Foley's (R-Fla.) suspect e-mails to a former House page says the documents came to him from a House GOP aide. That aide has been a registered Republican since becoming...
GOP STAFFER QUITS UNDER PEDOPHILE SCANDAL CLOUD
"The chief of staff for Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds, Kirk Fordham, resigned after questions were raised about his role in the handling of the congressional page scandal, according to Republican sources on Capitol Hill." The Blotter...
SCANDAL, WAR DROP BUSH DOWN TO 30; DEMS POISED FOR GOV'T TAKEOVER
"The news of a Republican congressman's improper correspondence with a teenage page and the recent release of journalist Bob Woodward's unfavorable portrayal of the Bush administration's handling of Iraq all seem to have taken a toll on President Bush and...
TOP REPUBLICAN: SPEAKER HASTERT TO BLAME FOR FOLEY'S PEDOPHILE RAMPAGE
"In a radio interview with 700 WLW radio in Cincinnati, House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) placed responsibility for the Foley matter not being handled properly on House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL). "I believe I talked to the Speaker and...
GOP COULD LOSE HOUSE, SENATE OVER PEDOPHILE SEX SCANDAL
"Republican strategists said yesterday that public revulsion over the sexually graphic online conversations between Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) and former House pages could compound the party's problems enough to tip the House to the Democrats in November -- and could...
FBI INVESTIGATING REPUBLICAN PEDOPHILE, COVER-UP BY SENIOR GOP OFFICIALS ALLEGED
"The FBI is examining former Rep. Mark Foley's e-mail exchanges with teenagers to determine if they violated federal law, an agency spokesman said Sunday. House Speaker Dennis Hastert asked Sunday for a federal investigation into the case - a lurid...
GOP REP MARK FOLEY QUITS CONGRESS OVER DIRTY EMAILS TO TEEN BOY
"Saying he was "deeply sorry," Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) resigned from Congress today, hours after ABC News questioned him about sexually explicit internet messages with current and former congressional pages under the age of 18." ABC...
DEMS COULD WIN SENATE IN NOVEMBER THANKS TO GOP FUMBLES
"Democrats must win six Republican seats to regain a Senate majority, meaning they would have to win nearly every close race. Even the most optimistic Democrats acknowledge that such a feat would require a big anti-Republican wave, a lot of...
WHITE HOUSE: WE WON'T RELEASE SECRET NIE TERROR DOCS
"The White House refused Wednesday to release the rest of a secret intelligence assessment that depicts a growing terrorist threat, as the Bush administration tried to quell election-season criticism that its anti-terror policies are seriously off track." AP...
DEMOCRATS IN POSITION TO TAKE OVER HOUSE
Dem consultant Chris Bowers: "Taking the House is far from a guarantee. However, we have put over forty Republican-held seats in serious play. Right now, even before the time period when most unknown challengers make up a lot of ground...
DOG AND PONY SHOW: TONY SNOW TO RAISE MEGABUCKS FOR GOP
"White House press secretary Tony Snow is taking his gift of gab across the country in the coming weeks to raise money for Republican candidates, an unusual task for the president's top spokesman." AP...
PROFESSOR: GEORGE ALLEN USED RACIAL SLUR
In video interview with MSNBC's Hardball, Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato confirms earlier reports that Senator George Allen used the racial slur "nigger"......
MAN CLAIMS VA SENATOR GEORGE ALLEN USED RACIAL SLUR
""Allen said he came to Virginia because he wanted to play football in a place where 'blacks knew their place,'" said Dr. Ken Shelton, a white radiologist in North Carolina who played tight end for the University of Virginia football...
DEMS WERE RIGHT: IRAQ WAR CAUSING TERROR INCREASE
""Unfortunately this report is just confirmation that the Bush administration's stay-the-course approach to the Iraq war has not just made the war more difficult and more deadly for our troops, but has also made the war on terror more dangerous...
BUSH SMEAR: WHINES THAT DEMS WILL RAISE TAXES
"President George W. Bush charged on Thursday that Democrats would raise taxes if put in control of the U.S. Congress, turning to a familiar campaign theme as he seeks to stave off Republican losses in November. "If they get control...
UNPOPULAR REPUBLICAN CONGRESS IN CRISIS
"With barely seven weeks until the midterm elections, Americans have an overwhelmingly negative view of the Republican-controlled Congress, with substantial majorities saying that they disapprove of the job it is doing and that its members do not deserve re-election, according...
GOP CANDIDATE BOB CORKER IN LEGAL TROUBLE
"E-mails recently obtained by the Memphis Commercial Appeal are strengthening critics' charges that GOP Senate candidate Bob Corker used his position as mayor of Chattanooga to advance a land deal between Wal-Mart and one of his companies... The deal has...
"FAMILY VALUES" REPUBLICAN RICK SANTORUM SWEARS AT REPORTER
" Santorum, who alluded to his rocky relations with the press as he hopped from room to room to meet with regional caucuses earlier in the morning, later refused to talk when a Patriot-News reporter approached with a question about...
YANKEES AND RED SOX FANS TEAM UP TO SLAM JOE LIEBERMAN
New campaign ad for Senate candidate Democrat Ned Lamont shows Yankees and Red Sox fans teaming up to bash turncoat senator Joe Lieberman in hot Connecticut race......
JOE LIEBERMAN PARKS IN HANDICAPPED SPOT
Embattle Senator Joe Lieberman has had his car snapped parking in a handicapped spot, a move that's sure to offend more than a few as Lieberman fights for his political life versus anti-war candidate Ned Lamont. Lamontblog...
REPUBLICAN JOE SCARBOROUGH: THROW BUSH OVERBOARD
"If I were a GOP candidate this year, I would not call the president an idiot (he isn't). But I would spend the next 50 days of the campaign telling conservatives and liberals alike that even though I voted for...
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