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Senate Democrats become the Supermajority

Senate Democrats edged closer to a supermajority by ousting Republicans in North Carolina and New Hampshire and adding three seats held by retiring GOP incumbents to a fragile 51-49 majority in the Senate. Four other races involving Republican incumbents were too close to call early Wednesday. In the House, Democrats captured GOP-held seats in the [...]

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A Political Quandary

I was reminded (again) this morning on a TV commercial that Senator John McCain has voted with President Bush 90% of the time. Over the past few days, I’ve also heard some Democrats increase that ‘genuine approximation’ to 95%. Senator Obama has clearly put his education to good use and strategically inversed the 90% figure [...]

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