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Markos Moulitsas
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02/09/10 05:12 PM ET
Last week’s Tea Party convention featured all the usual conservative talking points. Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) railed against the “socialist ideologue” president, while former Alabama Judge Roy Moore bemoaned Obama’s “socialist agenda.” A speaker received a standing ovation when he demanded to see President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. And of course, attendees drooled at the sight of Sarah Palin.
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Markos Moulitsas
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02/02/10 06:39 PM ET
One of the favorite axioms of Washington’s chattering class is the notion that “America is a center-right nation.” The Democratic wave in the 2006 and 2008 elections forced Beltway pundits to shelve that piece of received wisdom for a few years — after all, what kind of center-right nation gives the center-left Democrats a 59-41 seat majority in the Senate, or a 235-198 majority in the House of Representatives?
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Markos Moulitsas
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01/26/10 04:23 PM ET
In an era of conservative ideological fundamentalism, it’s only a matter of time before the Tea Party crowd starts taking a closer look at North Dakota’s Republican governor, John Hoeven, the current favorite to win his state’s open Senate seat this November.
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Markos Moulitsas
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01/19/10 06:05 PM ET
No matter who wins the tight special election in Massachusetts, the results will likely render Democrats paralyzed with fear.
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Markos Moulitsas
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01/12/10 07:04 PM ET
In December, Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith shocked the political world and became a Republican.
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Markos Moulitsas
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01/05/10 08:02 PM ET
In early 2009, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist joined newly minted President Barack Obama on the campaign trail, extolling the virtues of a stimulus package that would help save and create much-needed jobs in the Sunshine State. It was a show of bipartisanship that put party labels aside to work hand in hand for the common good.
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Markos Moulitsas
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12/15/09 07:19 PM ET
With Democratic Tennessee Rep. Bart Gordon having announced his
retirement, the missing ingredient for a potential Republican wave year
in 2010 — open seats — appears to be materializing.
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Markos Moulitsas
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12/08/09 05:43 PM ET
On a recent conference call to conservative activists, South Carolina
Sen. Jim DeMint told listeners, “All of you all over the country —
please remember that Senate seats are not about a particular state.
They’re about our country. Every vote I take is not about South
Carolina. It’s about the United States of America.”
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Markos Moulitsas
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12/01/09 06:02 PM ET
Democrats had known there was an “intensity gap” between angry conservatives in the Republican Party and the unexcited Democratic base, and in a midterm election, base turnout often determines who wins the night. Yet no one suspected it was this bad.
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Markos Moulitsas
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11/17/09 05:25 PM ET
American liberals are tough on terrorists and secure in their knowledge that the Sept. 11 conspirators are guilty of mass murder.
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