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...also part of the conversation, the network." In other words, if you're a yapper, what's the difference between touting your tailback and your candidate's tax policies? And if you're a candidate looking to talk to that yapper, just look for the Ohio State Buckeyes or Florida Gators sign on the lawn - you might just score...
...numbers are likely to shift before Election Day as voters are forced to make their final commitments. And McCain still has a shot at victory, if the Bush states that have swung away from him in recent weeks, like Florida, Virginia and Ohio, swing back. But it is an uphill climb, and it beings up the question, Why is he so far behind this late in the game...
...certain point, you have to start feeling bad for the scandal-scarred residents of Florida's 16th Congressional District, who are only two years removed from the abrupt resignation of Republican Representative Mark Foley after claims that he sent inappropriate, sexually suggestive e-mail and text messages to young male pages on Capitol Hill. That scandal helped catapult the Democrat Tim Mahoney, an investment banker, into the House; soon after his swearing in as the Representative of the Republican-leaning district, he told reporters that Foley had not reflected the "values and morals" required to serve in office...
...press conference, and he wasted no time in attacking the alleged $121,000 in hush money given to Allen. Party members blasted Mahoney, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for a separate Ethics Committee investigation - which, since Congress is on recess, would have to take place after the election. Florida's Republican Party rushed a one-minute television ad mocking a 2006 Mahoney television campaign commercial that described him as someone "who believes in faith, family and personal responsibility"; the image is followed by excerpts of an alleged telephone call from January in which the bullying Congressman tells Allen...
...also had an affair with Mahoney while he was in office. On Wednesday, ABC News reported allegations that Mahoney went out of his way to help the woman secure a $3.2 million hurricane-cleanup reimbursement from FEMA. (Mahoney's representative responded that the Congressman had helped many counties in Florida get reimbursed by Washington for disaster-recovery expenses, and that Martin County had been seeking funding prior to Mahoney's election.) Republicans have also accused leading Democrats of covering up whatever knowledge they had of Mahoney's trysts, the very same charge that was leveled at Republicans after Foley...