A new Web site provides an archive of tweets deleted by politicians, from President Obama and Mitt Romney to freshman lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Politiwoops contains more than 3,000 tweets that were deleted by politicians over the past six months, according to the Sunlight Foundation, which produced the site.
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Republicans on Wednesday were celebrating the defection to the GOP this week of a former Democratic congressman and close ally of President Obama, saying that it underscored their argument that the president has led the country on a march to the left.
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Likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney added five more notches this week to his long list of Election 2012 primary wins. But a close inspection of the returns shows the former Massachusetts governor can't shake a few nagging questions about his candidacy.
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Much of the legislation involving federal employees on the congressional agenda lately has been enough to make them spitting mad.
About two-dozen bills, most sponsored by House Republicans, would further freeze federal pay or increase employee pension contributions or cut the workforce.
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Rick Santorum has said he'll eventually throw his support behind presumed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
The two met behind closed doors last week, the first face-to-face discussion they've had since well before Santorum ended his campaign in early April. But when the former rivals emerged, there was something noticeably absent: an endorsement.
...African Americans and whites have starkly different views about the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Trayvon Martin and the “Stand Your Ground” law at the center of the controversy, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Read full article >> BOSTON — Mitt Romney marched into the Massachusetts State House in 2003 as a self-declared reformer, pledging to fix a judicial nominating system he decried as riddled with patronage and backroom deals.
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Use the interactive below to see how different groups have changed (or not) their views on gay marriage in recent years.
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The Texas Republican Senate primary is headed for a runoff, after Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst fell shy of 50 percent of the vote Tuesday.
Dewhurst will face former state solicitor general Ted Cruz, a favorite of the tea party, in the July 31 runoff. The winner of that runoff will be a heavy favorite to succeed retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), after Democrats failed to land a top-tier recruit.
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