Republican Crushed Over Equal Pay
Senate candidate Thom Thillis (R-NC) stumbled when confronted with his poor record on equal pay for women in a debate Tuesday night with Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC). Hagan called Tillis out for...
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Republican Has Bizarre Take On Pre-Existing Conditions
Tom Cotton, the Republican candidate for Arkansas #39; U.S. Senate seat, has repeatedly denounced the Affordable Care Act as a failure and vowed to help repeal it if elected. But in his second...
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Goodbye Republican Party
I am an Independent today. I have no need for the fake two party system. I burned my GOP card in 2009 I am an Independent today. I have no need for the fake two party system. I burned my GOP...
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Republican Senate candidates have been holding the firewall in the most high-profile races around the country: Joni Ernst in Iowa, Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, Cory Gardner in Colorado. But one Republican Senate candidate in Michigan is doing exactly the opposite -- getting disowned by her own party.
If the Democrats hold the Senate, Republicans might be tempted to lay part of the blame at the feet of the floundering Terri Lynn Land for failing to win a vulnerable seat that could have secured a Senate majority.
The critics of Lands campaign have turned harsher recently, accusing Land of ignoring the normally requisite advance notice given before public appearances, and of ducking the press any time she feels threatened by its line of questioning, among other problems.
The Land campaign does not advertise her campaign events on its website ahead of time.
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Even more damning is that critics, including some Republicans, have declared her campaign dead.
After U.S. News called her campaign invisible last month, commentators have taken it one step further: just this past weekend, conservative radio host Frank Beckmann published an autopsy of Lands campaign in the Detroit Newsthree weeks before Election Day.
Earlier this month, the National Republican Senatorial Committee pulled almost a million dollars from Lands campaign
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updated 5:06 PM EDT, Tue October 14, 2014
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Washington (CNN) -- The National Republican Senatorial Committee pushed its first TV spot in a $1 million ad campaign in South Dakota to attack the Republican nominee's top two opponents in what has become a competitive three-way race for the seat.
The 30-second spot, which hit South Dakota airwaves Tuesday, links Democratic opponent Rick Weiland and Republican-turned-Independent former Sen. Larry Pressler as holding the same positions on gun laws, energy and Obamacare and comes less than a week after Democrats announced their own $1 million campaign to attack Republican nominee former Gov. Mike Rounds.
Republicans also deployed two political operatives to South Dakota to boost Rounds' campaign operation.
The ad features two balloons with Rounds' opponents names, pointing out that "Rick Weiland and Larry Pressler have a lot in common." By the end of the ad, both balloons have deflated because "when it comes to looking out for South Dakota, they both fall flat."
"Weiland supports Obamacare, just like Pressler," the ad claims, adding that Rounds' Democratic and Independent opponents also favor "stricter gun laws" and "want you to pay more for your energy."
For now, Rounds still leads the four-man pack, which also includes Independent Gordon Howie, a social conservative running to Rounds' right who barely registers in the polls.
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A SurveyUSA poll released last week showed the race is a three-way split with Pressler trailing the Republican nominee by just three points, with Weiland another four points behind the independent.
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