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Christie gets the White House treatment
By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 12/6/12 12:58 PM
Via 44, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's visit to Washington today included a visit with President Obama at the White House.
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Stevens: Eastwood's act was 'bad'
By PATRICK GAVIN | 12/6/12 1:57 PM
“To the degree that it was a distraction, it was bad," Romney's former adviser says.
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O'Malley trumpets new marriage law
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 12/6/12 12:42 PM
O'Malley takes a victory lap after signing a proclamation today recognizing that gay marriage is now legal in Maryland.
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McFarland on Petraeus ask: It was a joke!
By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 12/6/12 8:20 AM
Fox News commentator and for-a-brief-moment 2006 U.S. Senate candidate KT McFarland pushes back on Bob Woodward's story, documented by audio tape, about her relaying to Gen. David Petraeus that her boss, Roger Ailes, wanted him to run for president. On the Fox News website, McFarland writes:
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Cuccinelli throws brushback at Cantor
By JONATHAN MARTIN | 12/5/12 6:00 PM
Virginia Attorney General and presumptive GOP gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli sent a curt note this week to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) regarding how the party should nominate candidates — an issue that has become a stand-in for the broader fight in the state between establishment and conservative Republicans.
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Dems to Obamaland: Share your data
By LOIS ROMANO | 12/5/12 4:42 AM
They're falling over themselves to get their hands on it for their own campaigns.
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Shumlin elected to lead DGA, with O'Comartun as top aide
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 12/4/12 6:02 PM
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin has been elected to lead the Democratic Governors Association for 2013, a DGA source tells POLITICO.
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Letters from Hillary
By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 12/4/12 1:46 PM
Colin Campbell has a scooplet on a type of message from Hillary Clinton - letters to at least a handful of Democrats who lost their congressional campaigns a few weeks ago, just as she gets ready to leave the State Department amid questions about her political future.
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Bennet, Cecil at DSCC
By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 12/4/12 1:20 PM
We reported on this page a few weeks ago that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had asked Sen. Michael Bennet to helm the DSCC. We also reported that Bennet made clear he wouldn't do it unless executive director Guy Cecil, his former chief-of-staff who steered the committee to a hugely successful election night, remained on. And both things have happened, our colleagues John Bresnahan and Manu Raju scoop:
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Report: Bloomberg suggested Hillary run for NYC mayor
By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 12/3/12 8:25 PM
Michael Barbaro, in his latest scoop since leaving the Mitt Romney bubble, reports that New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg called Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this year and urged her to run as his sucessor:
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Winston analysis: Montana, North Dakota big red flags for GOP
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 12/3/12 3:23 PM
Republicans from Mitt Romney on down failed to engage fully and win the national economic debate, GOP pollster David Winston said.
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Mitt Romney rejoins Marriott board
By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 12/3/12 3:15 PM
Former presidential candidate and Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is getting a new job title: member of Marriott International's board of directors.
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Daniels deplores '47 percent' comments
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 12/3/12 3:14 PM
The term-limited governor of Indiana said Mitt Romney lost because of his disparaging remarks about Americans who do not pay income taxes.
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Gay marriage, Hillary Clinton edition (Updated)
By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 11/30/12 5:14 PM
Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remains the biggest-name potential Democratic 2016 presidential hopeful who has yet to take a position in support of gay marriage, a source of discussion in Washington this week after the State Department hosted a major LGBT event.
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Rand Paul heads to Israel
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 11/30/12 3:14 PM
Israel has become an essential stop for presidential candidates, especially for Republicans in the age of Obama.
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Priebus to meet NYC donors on post-election listening tour
By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 11/30/12 2:01 PM
Jets owner and Mitt Romney mega-bundler Woody Johnson is hosting a lunch meeting with dozens of New York-area bundlers and Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus on Monday, which two bundlers described as a "vent session" to go over what happened in the 2012 election.
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Romney's off-base final polling numbers
11/30/12 8:57 AM
The results wrongly bolstered the Republican's confidence during the last days of the race.
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Obama, Romney have chili summit
By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 11/29/12 3:22 PM
The two pledged to stay in touch and work together, a source says.
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Booker's path of least resistance
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 11/29/12 11:39 AM
As Chris Christie's approval numbers soar, PPP finds a potentially easier opportunity for Cory Booker in the New Jersey Senate race.
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The Stevens postgame report, cont'd
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 11/29/12 10:41 AM
Stuart Stevens says the images of Obama managing Hurricane Sandy were 'very helpful' to the president.
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Romney tattoo man does about-face
By PATRICK GAVIN | 11/28/12 10:38 PM
He heard some of Romney’s post-election comments, most notably his claim that the president won reelection because of “gifts” given to various constituencies. “It stands not only for a losing campaign but for a sore loser,” Hartsburg said.
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