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Democratic legal teams kicked into action Thursday in Florida, demanding a recount they insist will ultimately declare Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson the winner and with defeated Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum hedging his concession. Mr. Nelson had already signaled his intention to fight the results, but Mr. Gillum’s surprise announcement further roils the electoral waters in the Sunshine State. Republican former Rep. Ron DeSantis, a strong ally of President Trump, beat Mr. Gillum, the left-wing mayor of Tallahassee, in the unofficial results and Mr. Gillum conceded shortly before midnight last Tuesday. But in a brief statement Thursday, he appeared to...

The hawkish Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says he is thinking about running for president in 2016. In an interview with Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard, the senator, running for re-election to the Senate this year, said: “If I get through my general election, if nobody steps up in the presidential mix, if nobody’s out there talking — me and McCain have been talking — I may just jump in to get to make these arguments,” Graham said.

Even for DC's worshipful press corps, Washington Post scribe Dana Mil bank's latest column was a doozy. Hoping to explain why the president appears to be an indecisive waffler, Milbank whelped this whopper: Obama's too smart for his own good. That's a new one. But is it true -- is Obama too bright to be president? Milbank consulted his tea leaves -- and a few social scientists -- to help diagnose Obama's malady: Genius in the extreme! "I put Obama on the couch," Milbank wrote, "and came away with a reasonably coherent diagnosis: There's too much going on in the...

John McCain says Sarah Palin didn't hurt his presidential bid and he attributes anonymous criticism aimed at her following their loss last week to typical campaign sniping. --snip-- The Arizona senator tells Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" the Republican ticket faced a tough challenge from the start but disputed that a different vice presidential pick would have changed the outcome. He had only kind words for the Alaska governor and her family. But he didn't directly address criticism from unidentified McCain operatives ...

Barack Obama's initial opposition to the surge of U.S. troops in Iraq is gone from the likely Democratic nominee's Web site, a review of the site indicated. When U.S. President George Bush ordered the surge in January 2007, Obama, a U.S. senator from Illinois, said he wasn't persuaded the additional military personnel "is going to solve the sectarian violence there" and would have the opposite effect. Recently, however, he acknowledged the surge helped reduce violence but said he was still is of the opinion that political progress hasn't been made. Media outlets noticed Tuesday that Obama's campaign Web site no...

Al Gore was guilty of it. John Kerry was the master. Hillary Clinton has a family history. But Rudy Giuliani? Not that Rudy Giuliani! Yep, the former mayor of New York, tough-guy champion of clarity and action, waffled, ducked and dodged in the clutch. Asked a series of straight questions about abortion during the Republican presidential debate, Giuliani proved incapable of giving a straight answer. Would it be OK with him if the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade? Yes and no. Is he still for public funding of abortion? Maybe. Finally, on his third try, he managed a tortured...

Kerry in PA. Vet/ Dem Congressman John Murtha should be ashamed of himself. And what is wrong with Ben Affleck--he is Kerry's campaign mascot! What the Hell is this idiot talking about. Kerry is constantly acting like we are in the Great Depression.

Kerry people (one overtly gay guy, an old bag and some other random schmuck) just knocked on my door to push Flipper and the Breck Girl. I really tried not to be rude. I told them that I didn't want any part of Kerry and that he's a flip flopper. They started with Iraq, and I reminded them that Kerry had voted for it. They didn't want to hear that. They said Bush lies. I told them they needed to review Kerry's tortured history on Iraq. Voices were raised, and now they are headed to my neighbors house. It's cool--...

BOSTON - A conservative anti-tax group unveiled a $1 million advertising campaign Monday that paints Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) as a waffler, picking up where President Bush (news - web sites) left off last week when his campaign pulled down its ads. The Club for Growth's launch is much smaller than what Bush had been spending. However, the group's ads will give Republicans somewhat of a presence on the air in certain areas during a week in which Kerry news dominates the airwaves. Bush's campaign went dark this week, with the campaign opting to save money for...

Michael Moore may be the Democratic Party's favorite filmmaker, but the Kerry-Edwards campaign wants nothing to do with him during next week's Democratic Convention in Boston. Asked about some of the angry Bush-bashing rhetoric coming from Hollywood these days, Kerry campaign spokesman Chad Clanton told Westwood One radio host Ron Insana on Saturday: "I can't speak for every extremist out there. Michael Moore - these people aren't part of the Kerry campaign." But it turns out Clanton may have spoken too soon. Not only will Moore be descending on Boston during convention week to bask in the adulation of...

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Bush-Cheney '04 Morning Reads, May 24th -- 162 Days until Election! In today’s Reads – the Boston papers flood the zone on Kerry’s plan use the Democrats’ nominating convention to do anything but accept the nomination. Plus, a must-read Michael Barone piece on the growing gap between media spin and the reality on the ground on Iraq. Morning Reads: Will the Real John Kerry Please Stand Up? Reading John Kerry's hometown newspapers this morning, one gets a clear sense that Boston residents are less than appreciative of their junior Senator's latest ploy to delay his nomination several weeks beyond...

BOSTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Saturday he has yet to decide whether to delay his nomination at the party's convention to improve his campaign's financial prospects. But he said he wouldn't put himself at a disadvantage. "Boston will have the best convention ever put on no matter what decision," the Massachusetts senator told local television stations in his first public comment on the proposed strategy. "We've made no decision, I've made no decision personally, but I'm not going to put myself at a disadvantage to the Republicans," Kerry said, according to WBZ-TV. "I'm not going to...

Someone's been a naughty boy or girl lately..And a clever one at that!

  DEMAND that John Kerry Testify Under Oath Before the 9/11 CommissionWrite A letter to the editor demanding John Kerry's testimony on what he knew and when he knew it.1.  Open the "Write for W" window by clicking HERE.2.  Enter your ZIP CODE and click "Get Info"3.  Select Every News Outlet Listed!!!4.  Enter your info5.  Write your letter!You can use the sample below, or, of course, you may draft your own :) Subject:  Senator Must Testify Before the 9/11 CommissionSenator John Kerry must testify, under oath, before the 9/11 Commission.On May 7, 2001, Brian Sullivan, an FAA Special Agent, sent Senator...

President Bush's campaign for re-election has an easy job running anti-Kerry ads. All it has to do is quote John Kerry. The most laughed-about quotation in the new TV commercial about the Massachusetts Democrat's flip-flop on Iraq: "I actually did vote for his $87 billion, before I voted against it." Kerry's campaign responded by raging that "America continues to falter." By the way, still no comment from Kerry's handlers on his ringing endorsement from anti-Jewish zealot Mahathir "Final Victory" Mohamad.

Sen. John Kerry (D.-Mass.) has been all over the map on the topic of the Iraq War. In October 2002, he voted for the Iraq war resolution. Later, assaulted from his left on the campaign trail, he changed his mind, stating that the U.S. should not have invaded Iraq. When confronted with his vote in favor of the war, Kerry has flip-flopped back, retreating to this position, which he gave this month to a reporter from Time: "I might have gone to war but not the way the President did." Is that so? It sounds reasonable enough. But in fact...

(to the tune of The Gambler) On a warm summers evening, on a campaign train to nowhere I met up with a waffler, we were both too tired to sleep So staring out the window, thinking of flip flops of our past The boredom overtook us and Ted began to speak He said, son I've made a life out of reading people's faces And knowing what words to say, by the way they held their eyes So if you don't mind my sayin', I can see you're out of flip flops For a taste of your whiskey, I'll give you...