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...support candidates by visiting profiles and clicking a button, much as users can “friend” others. The Web site highlighted closely contested Senate races in Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. In every one of these races, the majority of Facebook users supported the Democratic candidate. Although Facebook does not claim to be a reliable predictive tool, its members got their way in all but Tennessee, where Democratic candidate Harold E. Ford Jr. lost to Republican Bob P. Corker.Candidates could edit their profiles created by Facebook administrators, said employee Brandee Barker. Virginia’s Senate...
...moment there it looked as if incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was making the mistake every pragmatic Democrat feared: putting soft-hearted personal allegiance ahead of cold-eyed political calculation. The first key decision she made since the Democrats' triumph in last week's elections was to back John Murtha, the anti-war hero of the left, in what seemed an impossible battle against Maryland moderate, Steny Hoyer, for the number two position in the House Democratic leadership, majority leader. And it wasn't looking good...
...While nearly everyone in Washington expected Pelosi to back Murtha privately, the public endorsement took many observers by surprise. Just last week, Pelosi worked hard to avert a leadership race between South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn and Chicago congressman Rahm Emanuel, who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Both had talked about their ambitions to be the House Majority Whip, the No. 3 job in the leadership. Democrats on Capitol Hill worried about the fallout from black voters if Emanuel, widely credited for the party's win in the elections, defeated Clyburn, the only African American in the House leadership...
...neither Hoyer nor Murtha has dropped out of this race, leaving a potentially divisive race for Democrats just as they are trying to get their footing. It's particularly complicated for Pelosi, who is in the midst of another contest that could irritate moderate Democrats, as she is planning to replace the current head of the House Intelligence Committee Jane Harman, a hawkish California congresswoman (Pelosi says the post has a term limit, but Harman insists the previous Democratic Leader, Richard Gephardt, had promised her she would get to continue as the top Democrat on the committee...
...Though the Pelosi-Hoyer tensions have largely stemmed from differences on policy - he's more of a centrist than she is - the Hoyer-Murtha matchup is much less simple. Murtha, despite his closeness to Pelosi, is a pro-life Democrat and actually more conservative than Hoyer, who is likely to get the votes of many liberal members who have backed Pelosi in the past. At a time when both parties are worried about pork-barrel spending, Murtha's longtime role on the House Appropriations Committee, where he secured members' votes with promises of getting special spending earmarks in their districts...