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...places, but this is Washington, D.C., where wags have even figured out a way to turn the beloved Redskins into a tool for predicting presidential elections (if they lose their last home game before Election Day, that's a bad sign for the party in power - so with the GOP extra-nervous this year, expect Republicans to be Dallas Cowboys fans on Nov. 5 even though it's only a midterm). Both the mayor's race and the campaign for D.C. Council chair featured multiple contenders for open seats, and candidates dumped enough money on TV ads and mailers that...
...there's another sign of good news in this race for the GOP. Laffey got more than a third of the money he raised in his campaign from a conservative, anti-tax group called the Club for Growth, which blasted Chafee for his liberal record and opposition to the Bush tax cuts. But Laffey ran less as the true conservative in the race and more as a populist, outsider candidate. In one of his ads, he declared ?Washington is going in the wrong direction... and it's time for a change? and noted the high gas prices around the country...
...GOP May Not Gain from Lieberman's Loss With the Connecticut Senator vowing to run as an independent, Republicans would be licking their chops - if only they had more confidence in their candidate
...operating under pretty bad legal advice from the Justice Department," which told them Bush had near-limitless authority when acting as commander-in-chief during times of war. "They're worried about some rogue prosecutor in the future who might hold specific individuals responsible," Malinowski says. Privately, some senior GOP senators say they believe that is what is motivating the White House resistance to the McCain/Warner/Graham bill...
...Senate Republican leaders weren't breaking out the top-tier invitations for nothing. Three moderate GOP Senators have split with them and the White House over how to treat detainees at Guantanamo Bay and around the world. At the lunch, Senators John Warner, John McCain and Lindsey Graham were scheduled to present their case for a detainee bill that conforms to the Geneva Conventions. The White House and Senate leaders are pushing one that would allow interrogations using methods that strain - or break, depending on whom you ask - the Conventions' rules against abuse...