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Frances “Sissy” Farenthold, a reform-minded liberal Democrat in the Texas House who was pushed for the party’s 1972 vice-presidential nomination, has died at age 94, her family said Monday. Farenthold died Sunday at her Houston apartment after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease, her son, George Farenthold, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. […]

Like the Kennedy dynasty before it, the Cuomo dynasty ends in tragedy and personal failure.

Fri 28 Mar 2008 20.14 EDT Hillary Clinton likes to tell her senior aides at times of crisis, "Somebody has to win, and somebody has to lose." She is implicitly referring to Barack Obama, but there is a group of people scattered across America for whom the words carry a deeply personal resonance. These are the members of an elite group: the failed would-be presidents club. Only 13 people alive have run for the US presidency in a general election (discounting those who polled less than 2%). Of those, four went all the way to the most powerful job on earth. The remaining nine - five Democrats, ...

Roy Blunt Joins 4 GOP Senators Not Seeking Reelection, but Could Democrats Flip Seat? On 3/8/21 at 11:39 AM EST After more than a decade in office, GOP Senator Roy Blunt will not return to Washington, D.C., after his term is up in 2022, giving Democrats a better chance of flipping the seat, although it will likely be a hard-fought battle. Blunt joins a growing number of Republicans who have announced that they won't seek reelection. The fourth Senate Republican to make the decision, he's the ranking GOP member on the Senate Rules Committee, and in Missouri, a state that voted for former Presi...