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Mark Sanford Wins: When Party Trumps Character?
Mark Sanford has made it all the way back to recover his old House seat. It seems GOP voters hate Democrats more than tawdry sex scandals.
Sheldon vs. Shelley: Inside Vegas' Ugly Jew v. Jew Tiff
Politico’s Steve Friess has a fascinating story online today about the longstanding personal feud between two of Nevada’s “most prominent Jewish figures,” hotelier Sheldon Adelson and Rep. Shelley Berkley, who’s running for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican family-values guy John Ensign. It’s a gripping look at how Adelson operates — the intensity and relentlessness of his personal grudges, his obsessive hatred of unions and Democrats and the lengths to which he’s willing to go to get his way.
Weiner Mania: A Puny Vice Is Making Us Nuts
America’s going crazy over Anthony Weiner as though we’d just discovered that men are horny so-and-so’s who can’t keep their zippers up. Doesn’t anyone remember King David and Bathsheba? And why isn’t anybody yelling about Senator David Vitter?