Stein crosses party lines, helps Franken
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Liberal Al Franken is good enough and smart enough to win some of conservative Ben Stein's money Â and doggone it, Stein likes him.
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Both parties have similar kinds of candidates. Meet the Charismatic, the Practicals, and the Base-Wooers.
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Democrat John Kerry has gained ground on President Bush in several states in recent weeks, while independent Ralph Nader remains a factor.
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Presidential hopeful Barack Obama won the endorsement Saturday of U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson, a popular moderate in largely Republican Nebraska who said he believes Obama has ability to bridge the partisan divide and to carry Democratic candidates across the country to victory in 2008.
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Forget the spat over David Geffen's affections. The political story that matters was McCain's visit with the mean green machine, Gov. Schwarzenegger. How the low-carbon Californian may help shape the '08 presidential race.
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When George Steinbrenner and his top officials discussed potential acquisitions in meetings last week in Tampa, everyone was encouraged to raise positives and negatives.
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Toby Moffett used to be good friends with independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader, back when Nader was best known as a consumer advocate.
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U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman has enough voter signatures to secure a spot on the November ballot with a new party, the secretary of the state said Wednesday.
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TIME's Joel Stein reviewed all 18 of the 2008 presidential candidates' MySpace pages ranked from lamest to coolest. In less than a year, you can tell people that the leader of the free world thanked you for the add
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A review of Senator Charles E. Schumer's first term reveals not an idle backbencher, but a wily pragmatist who has been adept at the inside game.
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Joel Stein heads to the Bellagio to discover what happens when you merge democracy, capitalism and entertainment
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Republican John McCain is having quite a moment. He's rising in the polls. He's got major newspaper endorsements in Iowa and New Hampshire. And now he's getting help with this state's legions of independent voters from Joe Lieberman, the contrarian who was Democrat Al Gore's running mate in 2000.
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Republican front-runner John McCain is trying to gain his party's presidential nomination by convincing conservatives he is one of them, without hurting support from moderate voters who have propelled his candidacy.
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After tirelessly storming the country for Sen. John F. Kerry and raising millions of dollars for his candidacy and for Democrats in Congress, she, after Kerry&#39;s defeat, has become the party&#39;s favorite for 2008.
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The GOP presidential hopeful has often defied his party and colleagues to chart his own course.
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In search of the perfect caucus, Joel Stein joined Iowans in their bead-throwing, rule-morphing festival
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They call themselves Main Street Republicans, moderates consigned to the back alleys of politics by their own party. But despite a severe bruising in the fall election, this minority within a minority finds itself with new avenues to explore, including working more closely with Democrats.