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The Democrats didn't endure many disappointments in the 2006 mid-term elections - their smashing successes included their biggest political gains in the U.S. House since 1974. But one rare setback for the Democratic Party was its failure to recruit a strong challenger against Republican Rep. Charles Boustany Jr. , who was a freshmen seeking re-election in southwestern Louisiana's 7th District, which had long preferred conservative Democrats to Republicans.
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From the Do-as-we-say-not-as-we-do Party. I double checked, because I was pretty sure this was satire, but I guess reality has trumped satire yet again.
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An eight-month McClatchy investigation of the detention system created after Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has found that the U.S. imprisoned innocent men, subjected them to abuse, stripped them of their legal rights and allowed Islamic militants to turn the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba into a school for jihad.
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...looming on the horizon are two big potential Obamacons: Colin Powell and Chuck Hagel.
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Louisiana tourism officials have unveiled the first 26 sites on an African American Heritage Trail running from New Orleans to northern Louisiana.
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Obama's first general election ad.
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One week into the general election, the polls show a dead heat. But many presidential scholars doubt that John McCain stands much of a chance, if any.
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...It's thus quite appalling that 20 members of the state Senate voted Tuesday to give themselves and other lawmakers and almost $34,000 pay raise...
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Lots of reasons you might want to vote Republican...or might not. Forwarded by Alicia Breaux.
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Slidell Mayor Ben Morris wants the city's charter review committee to consider an amendment that would allow elected officials in Slidell to serve three consecutive terms, rather than two.
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WHEN Barack Obama achieved his historic victory on Tuesday night, the battle was joined between two Americas. Not John Edwards's two Americas, divided between rich and poor. Not the Americas split by race, gender, party or ideology. What looms instead is an epic showdown between two wildly different visions of the country, from the ground up.
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Despite what my friends on the right may think, Louisiana will be competitive in the 2008 Presidential General Election.
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Opponents of a school voucher program gathered at the Louisiana state capitol Thursday, bashing Governor Bobby Jindal and protesting a program that funnels state money to private and parochial schools.
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Saunders recalls that while McCain was in New Orleans Tuesday bemoaning the 'unresponsive bureaucracies of big government', in September 2005 he voted in lock step with his party against a motion to examine the government response to Hurricane Katrina and improve such responses in the future.
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As the general election campaign between Barack Obama and John McCain unofficially gets underway, many of the typical Democratic-Republican divides in the electorate -- such as those by religion, gender, marital status, and income -- already appear to be in place. Additionally, some of the special appeals each candidate had with voters in the nomination phase of the election (on the basis of age, education, race, and political affiliation) seem to be carrying over into the general election.
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I've been a Hillary Clinton supporter right from the start of this campaign. I have lived and breathed this campaign since its inception...
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This month, the Democrats are trusted more than Republicans on eight out of ten electoral issues tracked regularly by Rasmussen Reports. The two parties are essentially even on the other two issues.
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Today it is highly likely that Senator Obama will gain the number of Delegates needed to claim the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States...
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Well, it turns out the presumptive Republican nominee John McCain will be coming to Louisiana this week...
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Louisiana Senate: Landrie(D) 47% Kennedy (R) 44%
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