Via Chicago Tribune: WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton is heading into Thursday’s appearance before the House Select Committee on Benghazi with the wind at her back. Coming off a strong debate performance, enjoying rising poll numbers, and now secure in the…
Read MoreVia Chicago Tribune: Donald Trump was under siege — stores were yanking his branded merchandise, Univision was dumping his Miss Universe pageant — and James Radcliffe wanted to help out. So the 56-year-old New Jersey dentist reached into his pocket…
Read MoreVia POLITICO: “Carly Fiorina’s time near the top of the Republican polls may have come to an end, as another national CNN/ORC poll out Tuesday suggests. Just 4 percent of Republican or Republican-leaning voters said they would cast their votes…
Read MoreVia Washington Post: “Bernie Sanders has gotten further in the 2016 presidential than a 74-year old self-professed Democratic Socialist might reasonably expect. He’s ahead of Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, nearly bested her in fundraising over the past three months…
Read MoreVia POLITICO: “It’s deadline day for presidential campaigns to release their latest fundraising and spending reports, disclosures that could reorder the free-for-all Republican primary. The reports, chronicling the financial position of presidential campaigns from July 1 to Sept. 30, unmask…
Read MoreVia Chicago Tribune: “Democratic U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth raised more campaign cash during the third quarter of the year than the Republican she is targeting in 2016, Sen. Mark Kirk, according to figures released Wednesday by their campaigns. Duckworth raised…
Read MoreVia Media Matters: “In an interview on CBS Sunday Morning, oil industry billionaire Charles Koch made two false or highly implausible claims that were not addressed by CBS’ Anthony Mason: that all of his political spending is “reported” and that…
Read MoreVia LA Times: “Targeting California’s recent record-low voter turnout, Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday signed a measure that would eventually allow Californians to be automatically registered to vote when they go the DMV to obtain or renew a driver’s license….
Read MoreVia Chicago Sun-Times: “Barbara Byrd-Bennett, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s hand-picked former schools CEO, pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday, admitting her role in a brazen alleged kickback scheme. Byrd-Bennett’s arrival at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse was her first public appearance in…
Read MoreVia New York Times: “They are overwhelmingly white, rich, older and male, in a nation that is being remade by the young, by women, and by black and brown voters. Across a sprawling country, they reside in an archipelago of…
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