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…to this campaign,” it added. And Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Biden: Senator Biden, on his first joint campaign swing with Senator Obama just a week after his own rise to…

State tort law and ‘what is the idealology’?

…waging a campaign to dramatically reconfigure American tort law by claiming that routine regulatory action taken by federal agencies has the effect of preempting state law damages claims. The campaign

Mary Cheney v. John Kerry

…as director of her father’s re-election campaign, stayed silent when Aravosis launched a controversial Internet campaign DearMary.com pleading with her to denounce Bush. She stayed silent when Kerry, during a…

Add it Up: Bush Promises $3 Trillion More in Debt

…is what Weisman asserts: A Washington Post review of Kerry’s tax cuts and spending plans, in addition to interviews with campaign staff members and analyses by conservative and liberal experts,…

…report, the campaign has officially hit the $200 million mark for total fundraising. As of April 30, BC04 had $71.6 million in cash on hand, putting the campaign’s spending at…

The Struggle to Keep Up With Bush’s Campaign Spending The Kerry campaign launched its own ads in response to Bush’s first negative ads. Unfortunately, I worry that Bush’s strategy of…

Why does Clinton’s senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan think liberals support bottlenecks for small business loans? And does Clinton REALLY think that if Corrections Corporation of America and its chief competitor (Marco Rubio’s tacit business partner, GEO) reduce their prices, mass incarceration should continue?

…can’t remember the details.) So Clinton didn’t campaign in the state, and her current senior policy adviser, who had a high position in her 2008 campaign, would not have visited…

The little problem with Clinton’s message that Krugman doesn’t mention in his critique of Clinton and Sanders today: Her incessant claim that only taxes bears negatively against “incomes”. [Edited and typo-corrected. 1/20 at 11:34 a.m. Addendum added 1/20 at 11:50 a.m.]

…I will not raise taxes on the middle class. I want to raise incomes, not taxes, and I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that the wealthy…