Word: gop
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...eBay - and newcomer to the whirlpool known as electoral politics - has become almost slick at delivering. She was standing on a platform, microphone in hand, at the edge of a beautiful garden in the wealthy desert enclave of Rancho Mirage, a town described as a "hotbed of GOP cash" by an attendee. She is no longer the frumpy corporate mascot who was once photographed in a beige turtleneck and high-waisted slacks, surrounded by a team of Silicon Valley executives. The new Whitman wears a lean, dark suit with a camisole peeking tastefully out and stylish heels, her face dusted...
...country's most populous state as a fiscally conservative, socially moderate woman. As an accomplished business executive, she claims she is in the best position to create jobs and control spending in California, while playing down her pro-choice, socially moderate views. But at a time when GOP elements are conducting a witch hunt to purge moderates from the party, she may have to pass ideological litmus tests in order to get the Republican nomination...
Lately, Whitman's wealth hasn't been as controversial as the way she is spending it. So far, she has injected $19 million of her money into a campaign that could end up costing $50 million or more. (She has raised more than $7 million.) She has alarmed longtime GOP hands in the state by burning through her funds at a frightening pace, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars monthly on strategic advisers, pollsters, fundraising experts and a social-networking start-up called Tokoni, founded by former eBay and Skype executives, which is managing her online presence...
...Massachusetts voters head to the polls on Jan. 19 in the special election to fill the late Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat, some GOP analysts are painting the race as a referendum on one of the most divisive political issues around. The fact that Republican candidate Scott Brown has pulled into a virtual dead heat with Democratic nominee Martha Coakley - prompting President Obama to stump with her this week - is, they say, an indictment of the pending congressional health care overhaul. Much is at stake in the balloting. Coakley would provide Democrats with a critical 60th aye vote, preserving...
...speech at the Brookings Institution, he wrapped his new stimulus plans in a partisan critique, charging that Republicans "presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis" and then handed "it over to others to solve." He accused the GOP of "waxing political about fiscal responsibility" and finished his point with a dash of sarcasm: "It's a sight to see." (See the best business deals...