The GOP nominee’s comments surfaced on Dirigo Blue, a left-leaning Maine blog Tuesday. The video captured the Waterville mayor taking questions from a group of fisherman at a Republican forum who told him that financial regulations were driving them to poverty.
Maine Republican Paul LePage says he’ll have a fiery message for President Obama if he’s elected governor: “Go to hell.”
The GOP nominee’s comments surfaced on Dirigo Blue, a left-leaning Maine blog Tuesday. The video captured the Waterville mayor taking questions from a group of fisherman at a Republican forum who told him that financial regulations were driving them to poverty.
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Speaking Monday at Google and POLITICO’s Election Preview, White House senior adviser David Axelrod said he wasn’t “Pollyannish” about Democrats’ chances this November, but pushed back against Republicans and their recently released “Pledge to America,” saying they weren’t “offering anything new.”
Dale Peterson is continuing his assault on “thugs and criminals” – a pursuit that already made him an Internet sensation. His new target: former Democratic Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes.
West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin’s popularity isn’t translating into enthusiasm for his Senate campaign —instead, disapproval for his party is threatening to derail his special election bid.
A Public Policy Polling survey released Tuesday shows the Democratic governor losing his lead for the first time against Republican John Raese. The wealthy mining company leader has a 3-point advantage over Manchin, 46 percent to 43 percent, just within the poll's margin of error. Ten percent are still undecided. Rhode Island state Treasurer Frank Caprio is running unopposed in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for governor, but according to Republican John Robitaille there was a time he considered running on the GOP slate.
After a recount showed Vermont Democrat Peter Shumlin’s lead had only grown, second-place finisher Doug Racine conceded the race for governor Friday, giving the party an official nominee more than two weeks after the Aug. 24 primary.
The recount of 74,633 ballots in Vermont’s 14 counties began Wednesday and concluded earlier than expected on Friday morning. The new totals showed Shumlin, the state Senate pro tempore, atop Racine, a former lieutenant governor, by 203 votes, expanding slightly his 197-vote margin from the original count. South Carolina Republican Jim DeMint is bucking his party’s establishment yet again, endorsing two insurgent Senate picks just ahead of their competitive primaries Tuesday.
In a series of late Friday night tweets, the conservative senator announced he is supporting Senate candidates Christine O’Donnell in Delaware and Ovide Lamontagne in New Hampshire. In the political world, it was the viral video of the day: The impassioned, way-over-the-top, Raging-Bull-style stump speech delivered Wednesday evening by Minerva, Ohio, Councilman Phil Davison.
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