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Christine O'Donnell Bashes GOP 'Cannibalism' For Killing Her Campaign (VIDEO)
Christine O'Donnell's defeat in Delaware's election for U.S. Senate on Tuesday night didn't stop her from making the rounds on the morning talkshow circuit the following day to discuss her loss to Democrat Chris Coons. During an appearance on CNN's "American Morning," O'Donnell described the outcome of the race as a "symptom of Republican Cannibalism." The Tea Party darling then went on to point fingers at some of the biggest names in the Republican Party for not standing behind her campaign a...

Alaska rival's rebuke curdles Sarah Palins Tea Party triumph
Sheldon Alberts, Washington Correspondent, Postmedia News · Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010 WASHINGTON — Is it really Sarah Palin’s Alaska? Senator Lisa Murkowski doesn’t think so. In the substantial wake of this week’s U.S. Midterm Elections, the Hottest Political feud to explode does not involve President Barack Obama and Republicans leaders in Congress. The fight is between Ms. Palin, the former Alaska Governor and Tea Party heroine, and Ms. Murkowski, a longtime rival w...

Reid says he can work with Republicans, Tea Party and Rand Paul
In a rare, live television interview Wednesday, a visibly weary Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who handily won Reelection in a hard-fought race against a Tea Party Candidate, said he was ready now to work with Republicans, including those from the upstart, Grassroots movement that nearly brought him down. "We've got to start working together ... Legislation's the art of Compromise," Reid told "Today" host Meredith Vieira. Reid said he watched Tea Party Republican Rand Paul's victo...

Female Politicians Still Face Sexism
NEW YORK (AP) - Even with many high-profile female Candidates, the just-ended campaign was rife with Sexism ranging from snarky Fashion critiques to sexual innuendo. And when all the ballots are counted, women may hold fewer seats in the New Congress than the outgoing one. "It looks as if we're going backward rather than forward," Siobhan Bennett, president of the Women's Campaign Forum Foundation, said at a teleconference Thursday discussing the prevalence of political Sexism. Two years after H...

Female Politicians Still Face Sexism
NEW YORK (AP) - Even with many high-profile female Candidates, the just-ended campaign was rife with Sexism ranging from snarky Fashion critiques to sexual innuendo. And when all the ballots are counted, women may hold fewer seats in the New Congress than the outgoing one. "It looks as if we're going backward rather than forward," Siobhan Bennett, president of the Women's Campaign Forum Foundation, said at a teleconference Thursday discussing the prevalence of political Sexism. Two years after H...

Sexism remains a problem for women seeking office
New YORK — Even with many high-profile female Candidates, the just-ended campaign was rife with Sexism ranging from snarky Fashion critiques to sexual innuendo. And when all the ballots are counted, women may hold fewer seats in the new Congress than the outgoing one. "It looks as if we're going backward rather than forward," Siobhan Bennett, president of the Women's Campaign Forum Foundation, said at a teleconference Thursday discussing the prevalence of political Sexism. Two years afte...

Alaska rival's rebuke curdles Palins Tea Party triumph
Sheldon Alberts, Washington Correspondent, Postmedia News · Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010 WASHINGTON — Is it really Sarah Palin’s Alaska? Senator Lisa Murkowski doesn’t think so. In the substantial wake of this week’s U.S. Midterm Elections, the Hottest Political feud to explode does not involve President Barack Obama and Republicans leaders in Congress. The fight is between Ms. Palin, the former Alaska Governor and Tea Party heroine, and Ms. Murkowski, a longtime rival w...

Sarah Palin's Midterm Scorecard: A Winning Record, but Some Key Losses
Sarah Palin came out a big winner in terms of raw numbers Tuesday, but saw four of her key endorsees take prominent losses in the Midterm Elections. The former Alaska Governor and 2008 Republican vice Presidential nominee offered her star power -- and the occasional Campaign contribution or Robocall -- to more than 100 conservative Candidates during the primary and General Elections. A Politics Daily tally puts Palin's Tuesday successes at 62 wins, 23 losses and seven contests that are still to...

Tuesday's election a missed opportunity for Republicans
The GOP may have triumphed in the House, but they failed to capture the Senate, and now they're playing the blame game. "Candidates matter," said South Carolina's senior Senator, Lindsey Graham . "It was a good night for Republicans but it could have been a better one. We left some on the table." Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott agreed: "We did not nominate our strongest Candidates." He said if Republicans had nominated establishment candidates Mike Castle , Sue Lowden and Jane Norton in...

Just How Did the Tea Party Do On Tuesday?
by Sandi Behrns Since the rancorous Spring of 2009, the Tea Party has made a lot of noise and has received what many would consider to be more than its fair share of media attention. It is difficult to define, has no national leadership and there is great debate over exactly what constitutes their core beliefs. Many question the staying power of the movement. Will it receive too much blame for costing the Republican Party the Senate? Will the Grassroots interest fade away when The Economy impr...

Will Fox hire Christine ODonnell?
‘Sorry, mom!’ Bristol Palin didn’t vote in Election - but wants Sarah to run for president in 2012 The Midterms are over, and while the GOP regained control of the House, the coronation of the Tea Party movement is still up for debate. Sure, a number of Tea Party Candidates won their races, but perhaps the most visible — Delaware Senate Candidate Christine O’Donnell — suffered a rather significant defeat. So what’s next for Ms. O’Donnell? Som...

Mooseferatu Lives
1) Obama would destroy her. 2) It's hard for you to arbitrarily declare victory when you lose the election. Palin endorsed 34 Candidates for the House, only 15 of whom won Tuesday. In Senate races, just five of her 12 picks were victorious. When you come up short of the coin flip, and there's ample evidence to support the notion that your picks actually cost the Republicans Senate seats they could have won with non-Tea Party Candidates, you're not actually helping much. But the fact of the matte...

The Mama Grizzly Scorecard
She didn't appear on any ballot yet one big question of the Tuesday night election was how well did Sarah Palin do? Shushannah Walshe tallies her wins....

The Mama Grizzly Scorecard: Not That Great
Sarah Palin is deciding whether to be a queen or a queen maker, but the high profile races where she interjected didn’t do all that well for her. Palin will point to a positive win-loss record—49 of her 77 Candidates triumphed, (6 races had yet to be called by Wednesday morning.) But many of the highest-profile races, where she had loudly interjected herself, her Candidates—Sharron Angle in Nevada, Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, and John Raese in West Virginia—lost. The hig

The Mainstream Media is a Myth
The Mainstream Media is a Myth by Tina Dupuy The Mainstream Media gets denounced on Cable News programs, corporate Talk Radio, best-selling books and behemoth blogs every day. This strangely doesn’t seem to bother the Mainstream Media as it heroically absorbs all the jabs thrown at it from, well, itself. It’s stoically unfazed. Admirable in its immunity. Yes, this code word for “liberal Media,” or “not liberal enough media” or “not-the-person-on-the-te...

What Tea Party activists are expecting from the Republican Congress.
"This is going to sound wrong," says Ryan Hecker. "But Obama and Pelosi—I've got to give them Credit." Hecker, a Tea Party Activist based in Texas, was the main drafter of the Contract From America. It was a user-driven 10-point pledge for Candidates that was signed by dozens of this week's winners in the House and Senate, and it was typical of this year's Tea Party innovations—created at the Grassroots level, adopted and promoted by every conservative group that wanted to prove its bona fid...

What Tea Party activists are expecting from the Republican Congress.
"This is going to sound wrong," says Ryan Hecker. "But Obama and Pelosi—I've got to give them Credit." Hecker, a Tea Party Activist based in Texas, was the main drafter of the Contract From America. It was a user-driven 10-point pledge for Candidates that was signed by dozens of this week's winners in the House and Senate, and it was typical of this year's Tea Party innovations—created at the Grassroots level, adopted and promoted by every conservative group that wanted to prove its bona fid...

Sarah Palin: "This is Our Moment"
Sarah Palin's Political Action Committee is out with a New video, "Together," celebrating victories by the Candidates Palin supports in yesterday's Midterm Elections. The video includes shots of South Carolina Governor-elect Nikki Haley, New Hampshire senator-elect Kelly Ayotte, Florida Senator-Elect Marco Rubio, and Kentucky Senator-Elect Rand Paul and others. "I'm confident and I am hopeful because this is our movement, this is our moment, this is our morning in America," Palin can be heard...

Corrupt Media Spins Palins Endorsements
Corrupt Media spins Gov. Palin's Endorsements (Updated) Not all of the biggest winners in this year's General Election were Candidates running for public office. Those running who had Gov. Palin's Endorsement did very well indeed, but you would never know it if you get your News from the Mainstream Media. Not only did crack reporters not do their research, some of them appear to have the math skills of a two-year old. Not all of the Candidates Sarah Palin threw her support behind won Election, ...

Sexism remains a problem for women seeking office
NEW YORK (AP) — Even with many high-profile female Candidates, the just-ended campaign was rife with Sexism ranging from snarky Fashion critiques to sexual innuendo. And when all the ballots are counted, women may hold fewer seats in the New Congress than the outgoing one. “It looks as if we’re going backward rather than forward,” Siobhan Bennett, president of the Women’s Campaign Forum Foundation, said at a teleconference Thursday discussing the prevalence of polit...

Senator-elect Manchin Asserts His Independence
Charleston, WV -- Democrats in West Virginia and Washington celebrated Governor Joe Manchin's Senate victory, which assures the party will hold on to the seat of the late Senator Robert Byrd. However, Manchin made it clear that if Senate Democrats are looking for someone to tow the party line, they've found the wrong man. "If there's a different direction that somebody wants me to go because it's their agenda and not West Virginia's agenda, it's not what I'll do," Manchin said at a late afternoo...

Fratricide Is Foolish
Via Dave Weigel, I see my friend Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks is reading the election as evidence that Social Issues hurt conservative Candidates: “The strength of the movement is the focus on fiscal Issues, which tend to be a uniting factor among a vast majority of Americans, especially given the current economic climate. Social issues have distracted and proven divisive in close races-like Ken Buck in Colorado.” This is cherry-picking at best. If Social Conservatives wanted to ...

If Palin and the Tea Parties are their new kingmakers, GOP may be in for a rough ride
Well, to read the Wall Street Journal or to watch Fox News, you'd come away from the 2010 Elections with the overwhelming impression that the nation's Most Powerful kingmakers now were Sarah Palin and the Tea Parties. The problem with that: Overall, less than half their Candidates won. In the case of the Tea Parties, it was only a Third or so. Palin, appearing on Hannity last night, defended some of her higher-profile Endorsement losses, which included Christine O'Donnell, Sharron Angle, Carly ...

McConnell eyes Democrats up for re-election in 2012
Carrie Dann writes: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that he expects some Democrats –- wary that continued support for Democratic policies will cost them re-election in 2012 -- will "peel off" from their Caucus to work with Republicans for the next two years. “I think the most interesting thing to watch in the next Congress is how many Democrats start voting with us,” McConnell said. “Every one of the 23 Democrats up [for re-election] in the next cycl...

Mama Grizzly Watch
One of the side-stories of this election will be how well Sarah Palin's adopted "Mama Grizzlies"—female Conservatives—are doing. So far, it's a mixed result. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire (who seems, well, a bit tame for Palin, but she did get her Endorsement before her primary) won big. Christine O'Donnell lost big. Most interestingly, the Candidate who first convinced the world that Palin had the golden touch, South Carolina Gubernatorial Candidate Nikki Haley, is strugg...