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Primary Round-Up: A Tea Party Triumph (Or Two) Is a Win For Dems
Tea Party activists on Tuesday punctuated a primary season with no shortage of surprises by delivering their sharpest blow yet to the Republican establishment...
Can the Tea Party Cross the Delaware?
THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS In any other election cycle, at any other moment in Delaware's political history, Mike Castle would be coasting to victory. A two-time...
TIME Poll: Women Giving Boost to Dem Senate Candidates
Women voters are emerging as a firewall for Democrats' hopes of holding the Senate in the 2010 midterm elections, steadying Democratic Senate chances in ...
Delaware: Can Coons Hold Off the O'Donnell Juggernaut?
Thanks to Christine O'Donnell and the Tea Party, a lot of Democrats are confident Joe Biden's former Delaware Senate seat is now in the bag. But their...
It's Tea Time
THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS Delaware's Christine O'Donnell may be partial to pearls and proper skirt suits, but she talks like the leader of a rebel army. "When the...
Tea Party Time: The Making of a Political Uprising
Delaware's Christine O'Donnell may be partial to pearls and proper skirt suits, but she talks like the leader of a rebel army. "When the people fear the...
Mark Halperin's Take: The Party of Palin and DeMint
You can draw a straight line between the weakness of the Republican Party after Barack Obama's 2008 victory and Christine O'Donnell's win over Mike Castle in...
Halperin's Take: What O'Donnell's Win Means
You can draw a straight line between the weakness of the Republican Party after Barack Obama's smashing 2008 victory and Tuesday night's victory for Christine...
The Abortion Battleground: Crisis Pregnancy Centers
The newest front line in America's abortion wars can be seen from a Fort Pierce, Fla., street corner. On one side, there's an abortion clinic named A Woman's...
How the Democrats Could Lose the Senate
Most of the Democratic fretting thus far in the election season — and with nine months to go, it's still early on — has been focused on potentially losing their...
Crash For Clunkers: Demolition Derbies Hard Up for Cars
Correction Appended: Sept. 10, 2009 There's at least one group of people who are happy Cash for Clunkers is over: demolition-derby drivers. Participants in...
Crash for Clunkers.
There's at least one group of people who are happy Cash for Clunkers is over: demolition-derby drivers. Participants in these events, in which drivers smash into...
Biden's Debate Challenge: Keeping His Mouth Shut
If Barack Obama had consulted 100 wise Democrats about selecting Joe Biden as his running mate, asking them, "What would be your biggest concern?," he would have...
Can Obama Win Biden's Hometown?
When Barack Obama chose Joe Biden as his running mate, he surely had Scranton, Pennsylvania, on his mind. Biden, Delaware's senior Senator, was born in this...
Joe Biden: Six Key Moments
Election 1972: Biden, just 29 at the time of the election, rode his youth and stump skills to a 3,162-vote Senate upset of GOP incumbent J. Caleb Boggs in...
Behind Obama's Bet on Biden
The day Joe Biden officially launched his 2008 presidential run in February of 2007, he virtually ended it with a classic Biden gaffe — this one involving the...
The Science of Risk-Taking.
The pursuit of a thrill can make us take crazy chances: bungee-jumping, say, or skydiving. And then there's paying for a prostitute when you're a public figure...
An Early 90s MTV VJ Gracelessly Transitions Into Life as a Delaware-Area Adult-Contemporary DJ
Yo yo yo! Word up, boy-eee! Was that a funky-fresh jam by my girl Celine D., or what? And she's looking foiyyyne lately. Man, do I wanna sex her up. ...
The Decline and Fall of Rome
It may not be quite the creation story of the U.S. — no Washington crossing the icy Delaware, no gathering of great minds to write a Constitution in Philadelphia...
