Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: FEC says Vern Buchanan ‘more likely than not’ violated the law
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• FL-13: This is some pretty bad news for ol' Vern:
U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan and his campaign “more likely than not” v...
OH-Sen: The Chamber of Commerce outrageously doctors photo of Sherrod Brown in new attack ad
What scuzzballs. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce outright doctored a photo of Sherrod Brown used in this new ad—and they aren't denying it, either. As The Hill's Josh Lederman puts it, the manipulated pic "looks like surveillance-camera footage of a dis...
Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Democrats & Republicans both plan more state Senate recalls
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• WI Recall: Yeah, baby! As I'd hoped, Wisconsin Democrats are in fact planning on more state Senate recalls, to go along...
Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Democrats & Republicans both plan more state Senate recalls
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• WI Recall: Yeah, baby! As I'd hoped, Wisconsin Democrats are in fact planning on more state Senate recalls, to go along...
Club for Growth opposes China currency bill
Bill author Sen. Sherrod Brown
As Harry Reid prepares for a vote on legislation addressing Chinese currency manipulation, the Club for Growth is opposing it—and letting legislators and presidential candidates know that support for the bill will go ...
OH-Sen: Small drop for Sherrod Brown
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland, OH)
Public Policy Polling (PDF) (8/11-14, Ohio voters, 5/19-22 in parentheses):
Sherrod Brown (D-inc): 47 (51)
Kevin Coughlin (R): 33 (30)
Undecided: 20 (19)
Sherrod Brown (D-inc): 47 (49)
Jim Jordan (R): 35 (31...
Groups push jobless benefits extension. Join them.
If Congress doesn't act, the handwriting is on the wall for 5 million Americans now receiving unemployment benefits. That's how many now depend on benefits extended beyond the 26 weeks that states provide. The federal extensions of up to 73 weeks expire Nov. 30.
Every time a renewal of the extensions comes up, it...
Sherrod Brown on the faux populist Tea Party
A nice, short history lesson from Sen. Sherrod Brown:
or more than a century — in churches and temples, in union halls and neighborhood centers, in the streets and at the ballot box — progressives have moved the country forward. Progressives brought us minimum wage and Social Security in the 1930s, civil...
