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...Quincy House iteration, 11 innocent members of the House began the game, working together to solve group challenges and to defeat their 12th member—the Mole. The Mole must lay low, deflect suspicion, and work as a double agent to subvert the group’s success, while being careful not to reveal his or her identity...
...keynote the Tea Party movement's national-tour kickoff event, set firmly and deliberately on Reid's turf. In a taunt to the Silver State's senior Senator, thousands of angry activists from around Nevada and the country swarmed his hometown to make it clear they have placed his defeat for re-election at the top of their 2010 to-do list, and Reid's droopy poll numbers make it a real possibility...
...against legislators in the wake of the final health care vote. Palin herself has been the subject of criticism for urging her followers to "reload" rather than "retreat" after passage, and for using crosshair markings on her Facebook page to identify the list of Democrats she has targeted for defeat in the fall election. Quippy and tart, she mocked the "lamestream media," and offered her usual punch of charm and charisma, something the public and the press have hungered for since she mostly limited her exposure to Facebook updates, Twitter tweets and calculated appearances on Fox News, her new employer...
...Right now polls indicate both Rubio and Crist would defeat the leading Democratic candidate, Congressman Kendrick Meek. But by fighting so hard to win over the GOP's right wing, both could still end up losing the rest of the Sunshine State...
...Party, an account by British political commentator Andrew Rawnsley of how Britain's Labour government came to squander a huge popular mandate to face possible defeat in the forthcoming parliamentary elections, identifies a multiplicity of contributory factors. Blair's unwavering determination to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with a martial U.S. is prominent among them. (See pictures of the George W. Bush-Tony Blair friendship...