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Brown team to apply winning strategy elsewhere - 03/09/2010

The political team that helped Scott Brown stage his improbable victory in the Massachusetts Senate race wants to apply its winning strategy elsewhere this election year. First stop: Rhode Island. The Shawmut Group, led by aides to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, is helping GOP congressional candidate John Loughlin, who's campa

Poll finds blacks motivated to vote in November - 03/08/2010

Democrats facing strong headwinds this election season have at least one reason for optimism, according to polling that found the party's large African-American voting bloc eager to stay involved even without Barack Obama on the ballot. About two-thirds of black adults in four states say they are closely following news about the upcom

McConnell doesn't like GOP pitch based on fear - 03/07/2010

The Senate's top Republican says he didn't like a recent GOP appeal to party donors that was based on stoking fear and negative feelings toward President Barack Obama and other Democrats. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says he doesn't understand why anyone thought such an appeal would help the GOP. The p

Just one job now for ex-Va. Gov. Kaine _ Dem chief - 03/06/2010

Tim Kaine spent President Barack Obama's first year in office pulling double duty as Virginia's governor and the Democratic National Committee chairman _ and weathering criticism that he was an ineffective, absent party leader. Now freed from the responsibilities of elected office and with the White House struggling to communicate wit

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• AFL-CIO sends a message with rebuff of Lincoln

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• Cheney declares Barack Obama 'one-term president'

• Romney says Obama failed America

• Poll finds strong anti-Washington feeling

• Former Va. governor urges DNC chairman's firing