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...Democrat Eric Massa happened to be in Washington last week for a fund-raiser for his bid to challenge Rep. Randy Kuhl (pronounced "cool"), a Republican from upstate New York, for his seat next year, and he couldn't believe his good fortune. As his potential opponent voted against the expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Plans (SCHIP), Massa felt like he was watching Kuhl commit "political suicide" for all to see on C-SPAN...
...again - the end of another quarter, and therefore, another financial day of reckoning for the presidential campaigns in a race that has shaped up to be longer and more expensive than any other in history. Will Barack Obama continue to raise money faster and from more people than any Democrat has before, or will Hillary Clinton edge him out in this latest period? Has onetime front-runner John McCain, having upended the organization that had spent his campaign into near insolvency, begun to rebuild his bank account and his viability? How much of his own vast fortune is Mitt Romney...
...least two once-promising candidates - Democrat John Edwards and Republican John McCain - find themselves at a potential make-or-break moment...
Obama is not the first thoughtful Democrat to capture the fancy of the party's upscale élites, convincing them he represents a new direction for their party. There was Gary Hart in 1984, Bill Bradley in 2000 and Howard Dean four years ago. But the outcome has always been the same when these phenomena have come up against more conventional rivals who appeal more explicitly to the populist voters that make up the Democratic Party's base. So while the Obama brand has a certain cachet--celebrities like Halle Berry have been photographed around Los Angeles wearing Obama...
...fight over appropriations is just one of two big confrontations brewing between the White House and the Democrat-controlled Congress. This week both chambers are expected to pass bipartisan legislation to expand state health care programs for children (known as SCHIP) - a move Bush labels as the first step toward socialized medicine. He says he'll veto that bill as well...