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...wealthy Illinois doctor, Proxmire moved to Wisconsin after determining it represented the best opportunity for a newcomer to break into politics. After three failed runs for governor, he finally was elected in 1957 to the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Joe McCarthy. The first-term Democrat almost immediately identified himself as a maverick, angering the chamber's legislative barons and successive administrations by opposing wasteful programs...
...BEEN SPOTTED IN PRESIDENTIAL RUN-UP PLACES LIKE NEW HAMPSHIRE. WHAT'S IT GOING TO TAKE FOR A DEMOCRAT TO WIN THE WHITE HOUSE AGAIN? First, we have to have a candidate who appeals to the South and the West and pockets in the Midwest. Otherwise, we will be relegated to being the Northeastern-- West Coast bicoastal party, and for sure we will lose. We need a candidate with strong national-security credentials, and we need somebody who will speak positively about issues and not just attack the Bush Administration...
Fortunately, the benefits of Benator do not require an actually successful bid on Affleck’s part. Rather, Benator will be a political success for Democrats if he manages to make the race contentious enough that George Allen will have fight for his seat. Allen, a staunch and partisan conservative, has been mentioned as a possible GOP presidential candidate for 2008; any such plans, however, could easily be thwarted by a tough re-election bid in 2006. Here Affleck has a chance. Certainly he has name recognition, he is photogenic, and he has more than enough money...
Others are also beginning to feel the heat. Over Thanksgiving weekend, Democrats began running an ad in Montana that attacks Republican Senator Conrad Burns, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that handles tribal matters. Fully 42% of the contributions to Burns' political-action committee from 2000 to 2002 came from Abramoff clients. In 2004 Burns steered a $3 million federal grant intended for tribal schools to a wealthy Abramoff client, the Saginaw Chippewas. The ad implores, "Tell Burns to work for Montana's working families, not indicted lobbyists." The National Republican Senatorial Committee immediately countered with a press release pointing...
...Harvard College Democrats require that a member—not just officers like the HRCF and the AACF—wish to be known as a “College Democrat and [have] the best interests of the College Democrats and the Democratic Party at heart.” One could easily argue that funding of this group is “discrimination” on the basis of political affiliation under the UC and the Staff’s logic—a Republican essentially cannot join. But this would be silly because a promotion of party ideals...