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That’s what Democrats are saying to themselves as the Tuesday deadline approaches for Missouri Congressman Todd Akin to withdraw from a Senate race with Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill
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Virginia House Democrats talked up the other side of the $448 million state budget surplus announced on Wednesday
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John McCain went with Sarah Palin as his game changer in 2008. Does Paul Ryan change the game for Mitt Romney in 2012? Maybe, maybe not
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When Laila Stones sent a letter to the Commonwealth of Virginia requesting a copy of her birth certificate, the response was jarring: “They say I don’t exist,” she recounts under oath
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Extraordinary things do happen. Of course, extraordinary occurrences are rare. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be extraordinary. But they do happen, and their happening is important to the course of history
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Watching TV last night, I finally saw the ad that the Barack Obama campaign has been running to counter the “you didn’t build that” furor in the conservative echosphere
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I’d eat at Chick-fil-A again, calories and gastrointestinal challenges be damned. Here’s how I go back: Chick-fil-A issues a statement telling us that it won’t give any more money to anti-LGBT groups
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The Democratic members of Virginia’s congressional delegation backed out of a scheduled Wednesday meeting with Gov. Bob McDonnell after the governor’s office scheduled a Republicans-only news conference at the conclusion of the meeting
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Local Democrats were quite active on the political scene four years ago, and their hard work paid off
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Is the Barack Obama campaign’s full-court press on Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital and his tax returns fair and balanced? Plenty of ink and cyberspace have been devoted in recent days to answering that question. What about the impact of the line of attack on the 2012 campaign?
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