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Republican: Akin 'partly right' on rape comment
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican congressman and OB-GYN says former Rep. Todd Akin was "partly right" when he said women's bodies can avoid pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape." Georgia Rep. Phil Gingrey made the comments Thursday to...Tags: Washington, DC, Republican Party, Politics
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Democrats expand Senate grip but fail to win House
Democrats strengthened their hold on the Senate but failed Tuesday to recapture the majority in the House of Representatives they lost two years ago. President Barack Obama, in his freshly authorized second term, will face the same divided Congress in...
Tags: Richard Lugar, Government, Jim Renacci, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, John Boehner
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Dems fight for continued Senate control
WASHINGTON (AP) — Majority Democrats fought Republicans for control of the Senate on Tuesday after a bitter campaign marked by roughly $1 billion in outside spending in competitive races from Virginia to Montana. Republican Sen. Scott Brown, who...
Tags: Washington, DC, Richard Lugar, Joe Donnelly, Parties and Movements, Scott P. Brown
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GOP pursues last chances to upend Senate Dems
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans vigorously pursued their last, longshot chances for taking control of the Senate — Pennsylvania topped their list — as Democrats remained cautiously optimistic that they'd retain their narrow majority...Tags: Washington, DC, John McCain, Richard Lugar, Kent Conrad, Parties and Movements
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Abortion flap refocuses Indiana Senate campaign
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Seeking to capture an Indiana Senate seat Democrats haven't held for four decades, Joe Donnelly's television ads depict him as an earnest moderate while slamming his tea party-backed Senate opponent for an abortion remark that...
Tags: Elections, Richard Lugar, Joe Donnelly, Parties and Movements, Government
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Mourdock criticized over rape, pregnancy comments
NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — Top Republicans were slow to embrace tea party-backed Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock after he ousted a longtime GOP senator from office. Though he eventually won their support — and money — Mourdock...
Tags: John McCain, Mitch McConnell, Elections, Richard Lugar, Political Fundraising
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Romney stands by his endorsement of Mourdock
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney disavowed Senate candidate Richard Mourdock's comment that when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape "that's something God intended," but stood by his endorsement of the Indiana...
Tags: Washington, DC, Elections, Richard Lugar, Parties and Movements, Government
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What do Mourdock's controversial comments mean for Senate race?
WSBT-TVIndiana's Republican Senate candidate says his words were twisted, but could it cost him the race? Several local political science experts believe Richard Mourdock’s words at the end of Indiana’s U.S. Senate debate Tuesday night could be...Tags: Elections, Joe Donnelly, Social Sciences, Television Industry, Politics
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GOP candidates in close races disavow rape remark
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as Mitt Romney and other Republicans had cut into the Democrats' advantage with female voters, a tea party-backed Senate candidate's awkward remark — that if rape leads to pregnancy it's "something God intended" —...
Tags: Washington, DC, Richard Lugar, Parties and Movements, Joe Donnelly, Scott P. Brown
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Romney: Big business is fine, helped by tax havens
HOPKINS, Minn. (AP) — Creating a potential headache for his campaign, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said big businesses in the U.S. were "doing fine" in part because they get advantages from offshore tax havens. His comments...
Tags: Ron Paul, Hurricane Isaac (2012), Tampa, Elections, Political Fundraising
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Indiana pols distance themselves from Akin comment
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Indiana congressmen who backed legislation that would have denied abortion funding for victims of statutory rape and incest criticized a Missouri Senate candidate Monday over his comments suggesting women can avoid getting...Tags: Elections, Joe Donnelly, Parties and Movements, Government, Abortion
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F.V. man elected president of state Republican group
Fountain Valley resident and accountant John W. Briscoe, 63, has replaced Celeste Greig as president of the California Republican Assembly. Greig was ousted in a 84-78 vote during the group's convention April 28. The assembly is a volunteer group that...Tags: Elections, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Sex Crimes, Rape
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