Ben Smith's Blogs
Ben Smith's Blogs
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Tea Party power struggles
Vogel dives deep: The grass-roots activists powering the movement have become increasingly divided on core questions such as whether
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SEIU runs 'thank you' ads
SEIU says it's going up with this ad in eight districts, thanking vulnerable members for their votes. The beneficiaries: Donnelly, El
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Holbrooke's visibility
Ever since cooperating with a big New Yorker article, Richard Holbrooke's profile has been so low at home that he at one point gave an interview to
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Gutierrez vs. Rahm
A long-running tension between two Chicago politicians bursts into the open a bit: Hispanic lawmakers say an old adversary, White Hou
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McCain's back yard
John McCain's problems inside his own party were hardly overcome by his place as its nominee, Rasmussen reports. The new poll shows M
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Palin's sales
The publishing house confirms she moved 300,000 books on her first day, and Jason Horowitz notes the same campaign feel I did: The Ly
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Remainders: Video
A video game imagines an Obama coup. The U.K. Spectator calls Obama "the worst kind of ally." KBH la
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Math in the North Country
The NY-23 race is now really over, again: Owens leads Hoffman by 3,096 votes with 3,105 absentee ballots left to be counted.
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Giuliani camp denies Senate report
Rudy Giuliani's spokeswoman is denying a report that he's decided to run for Senate. "It's not true," spokeswoman Maria Com
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DNC raises $11.5 million in October
A DNC source says the committee has raise $11.5 million in October, a record month for a non-presidential-election year in the current campaign fina
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Obama's legitimacy
Widely doubted among Republicans, according to a PPP survey: PPP's newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nat
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DN: Giuliani running for Senate?
The Dailiy News leans into the prospect, floated just now in the Post, of a Giuliani bid for Senate against Kristen Gillibrand: Forme
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Rubio closing
Markos tweets the latest Kos/Research2000 poll: Rubio "makes huge gains. From 57-11 Crist in Jan, to 47-37 today." <
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Media Matters ambushes Murdoch
Murdoch responds in typically mellow fashion when a Media Matters tracker asks him about his suggestion Obama made a "racist" remark.
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Rudy not running
To the surprise of no one: Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has decided not to run for governor of New York next year after months of
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Loyalty tour continues
Bill Clinton, I'm told, will host a fundraiser HWEN for Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker, who's running for governor of the state.
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Private equity at work
Perhaps the least appealing part of the equity universe is the extent to which high-flying masters of the universe finance their ventures by using
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Cosmo vs. Stupak
You know Stupak has started to penetrate the popular consciousness when an alarmed Cosmo writes it up.
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Fred Thompson: Afghan war 'has been lost'
Former Senator Fred Thompson today intensified his party's criticism of President Obama's long deliberation over policy in Afghanistan, announcing t
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Elephant in the room at the RGA
Jonathan Martin: CEDAR CREEK, Tex. – As Sarah Palin launched her book tour Wednesday before the type of adulatory crowds she dr
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