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Dodd finds new GOP partner for banking bill talks (AP)
12.02.2010 0:17   23 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: Republican, Democrats, Senate, Republicans, Chris, Republican Bob, After, Does, January


Key US lawmaker Chris Dodd, pictured in January 2010, chairman of the powerful Senate Banking Committee, teamed up with Republican Bob Corker Thursday to announce a joint plan to regulate the US financial system.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Kris Connor)AP - After all the talk, some glimmers of real bipartisanship. Senate Democrats and Republicans are looking for a few dry patches of common ground, showing mixed results on a jobs bill and new hope for legislation aimed at avoiding another financial meltdown.


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Republican McDonnell wins Va. governor's race 
04.11.2009 5:30   31 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: President, Obama, Barack Obama, Virginia, Republican, McDonnell, Bob McDonnell, Republican Bob


Republican Governor-elect Bob McDonnell waves to the crowd at his victory party in Richmond, Va., Tuesday. Unofficial results showed McDonnell, a conservative and former state attorney general, with about 60 percent of the vote over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds. He will be the state's first Republican governor in eight years.Republican Bob McDonnell easily won the Virginia governor's race Tuesday as independent voters who last year delivered the state to President Barack Obama shifted to the GOP.




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INDEPENDENTS SWING TO GOP Virginia hands triumph to a Republican Party looking to rebuild. In ...
04.11.2009 5:05   24 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: Obama, Barack Obama, Jersey, New Jersey, Virginia, Republican, Jon Corzine, Corzine, Democrats, Republicans, Paris, Republican Party, Chris, Republican Bob, Republican Chris, Independents, Democrat, Conservation


Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into a midterm election year. Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell's victory in the Virginia governor's race over Democrat Creigh Deeds and moderate Republican Chris Christie's ouster of unpopular New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine was a double-barreled triumph for a party looking to rebuild after being booted from power in national elections in 2006 and 2008. The outcomes were sure to feed discussion about the state of the electorate, the status of the diverse...

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GOP wins Va. gov race a year after Obama won state (AP)
04.11.2009 4:08   18 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: Obama, Republican, McDonnell, Bob McDonnell, Republican Bob


Republican Governor-elect Bob McDonnell waves to the crowd at his victory party in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. Unofficial results showed McDonnell, a conservative and former state attorney general, with about 60 percent of the vote over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds. He will be the state's first Republican governor in eight years. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - Republican Bob McDonnell wooed Virginia's independent voters Tuesday to win a landslide election for governor just a year after the state bucked tradition and voted for Barack Obama.


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GOP wins Va. gov race a year after Obama won state (AP)
04.11.2009 3:30   23 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: Obama, Republican, McDonnell, Bob McDonnell, Republican Bob


Republican Gov-elect Bob McDonnell waves to the crowd at his victory party in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. Unofficial results showed McDonnell, a conservative and former state attorney general, with about 60 percent of the vote over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds. He will be the state's first Republican governor in eight years. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - Republican Bob McDonnell tapped Virginia's independent voters Tuesday to win a landslide election for governor just a year after the state bucked tradition and voted for Barack Obama.


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