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Do you remember back in December when all hell broke loose because Mike Huckabee put out a television ad wishing Iowans “Merry Christmas” while seated in front of a bookcase that looked like a white cross? There were dozens of broadcast reports and newspaper stories analyzing whether it was...
Barack Obama is closing in on the Democratic nomination for president, but he clinched the race for the best campaign soundtrack long ago — no superdelegates needed. John McCain and Hillary Clinton also have plenty of musical support in the first presidential election of the YouTube era. But from...
By Rob Moritz The Morning News LITTLE ROCK - Three Senate and 19 House seats outside of Northwest Arkansas are contested in the May primaries Tuesday. One of the more interesting races is in Pulaski County, where former three-term state Rep. Joyce Elliott is trying to unseat incumbent Sen. Irma...
By Rob Moritz The Morning News LITTLE ROCK - Lack of any opponents assured Democrats a House majority in the state Legislature before the first early vote was cast. Democrats will claim 51 unopposed seats in the House. Republicans stand to garner 12 House seats the easy way, about halfway to at...
By Doug Thompson The Morning News BENTONVILLE - The Republican primary race to succeed Rep. Horace Hardwick, R-Bentonville, has drawn one of the region's best-known Republican campaigners and an experienced justice of the peace. Vickey Boozman of Cave Springs says she handled much of the requests...
Fans of HBO's "The Wire" know fictional Baltimore Mayor Tommy Carcetti. The reformer spends his first days in office screeching through every public-works unit, railing about an abandoned car here, a leaking hydrant there. Shocked city administrators ask their angry new boss: Where is the...
Story Created: May 15, 2008 Story Updated: May 15, 2008 DES MOINES - Iowa Governor Chet Culver made the list. Playboy Radio's list of most "doable" governors and ex-governors, that is. Culver came in at No. 4, behind President Bush's brother, Jeb Bush of Florida and Jennifer Granholm of Michigan....
Gerald Ford, the sitting president, had won 16 of 27 Republican primaries and led in the party’s delegate count. Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the Democratic nomination are increasingly remote, with even a blow-out victory in Tuesday’s West Virginia primary unlikely to make much...
Now we’ve seen it all. The current issue of Playboy includes a list of governors and ex-governors, rated for "doability" by a panel discussion held by Playboy Radio in the wake of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s prostitution scandal. The panel included "some high-priced Los Angeles call...
I just got this email from Mike Huckabee… Last night was a reminder of what a tough year this will be for Republicans. The loss of the Congressional seat in Mississippi was tough. We had a great candidate, but the Democrat very effectively ran as a pro life, pro 2nd amendment conservative. I’m...
