Tag: Michael Steele

  • Since I've run out of blog ideas—and have New Year's Eve parties to get to—today I'm just going to post some of the things that people who are more interesting than I am have been saying on Twitter this year. Because that's what journalists do. So, without further ado, here—curated with the the ... Read More

  • In a special election Tuesday, Democrat Bill Owens won a seat in upstate New York that the Republicans had controlled since 1872. And if the Republican party had been able to unite behind a single candidate they would likely still control it. While local officials had nominated a relative moderate ... Read More

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