Newark Mayor Cory Booker, widely regarded as a prohibitive favorite to win the late Frank Lautenberg’s U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey, enjoys a commanding lead against his three rivals for the Democratic nomination, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released yesterday. The popular Newark […]
In keeping with the party’s longstanding opposition to U.S. imperialism and reckless military adventurism, the Peace & Freedom Party of Florida has joined more than 125 other organizations and individuals in endorsing the following joint statement and call for action issued by the ANSWER Coalition (Act […]
Fred W. Halstead, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president in 1968, died of liver cancer at his home in Los Angeles on this day in 1988. A longtime civil rights activist and prominent leader in the antiwar movement during the war in Vietnam, Halstead […]
Wealthy hotel chain owner Jim Graves, who came within 4,300 votes of unseating U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann last year and planned to challenge her again in 2014, unexpectedly announced on Friday that he was ending his bid for Minnesota’s 6th congressional district seat. The decision […]
Facing a credit rating mired in junk bond territory, a long-term debt of at least $15 billion and a current budget deficit expected to reach more than $386 million by the end of the fiscal year on June 30, Mayor Dave Bing announced on Tuesday […]
Plagued by persistently low approval ratings, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett undoubtedly breathed a sigh of relief late yesterday afternoon when Montgomery County Commissioner Bruce Castor announced that he wouldn’t challenge the increasingly unpopular governor in next May’s Republican primary. A former Montgomery County District Attorney […]
Leading by more than thirty points in the polls, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s campaign war chest is overflowing with cash, his campaign announced on Monday. Christie’s campaign has raised a total just shy of $6.2 million and reportedly has $3.4 million on hand as […]
Erasing a 9-point deficit, disgraced former Gov. Mark Sanford (R) has narrowly pulled ahead of Democratic rival Elizabeth Colbert Busch in South Carolina’s widely-watched special congressional election, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey released Sunday night. Conducted on May 4 and 5, the […]
Regarded by some as an almost prohibitive favorite in the special election to replace now-Secretary of State John Kerry in the U.S. Senate, U.S. Rep. Edward Markey could be in for a much tougher race than anybody imagined. According to a Public Policy Polling survey of […]
According to POLITICO, a wealthy financial executive from Minneapolis is expected to declare his candidacy for Democrat Al Franken’s U.S. Senate seat sometime next week. The challenger, Michael F. McFadden, is a co-chief executive officer of Lazard Middle Market, a division of Lazard Ltd., one […]
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