- Poll: GOP candidates (525 votes)
Those who know Rick Santorum best aren't sure, but said Tuesday's success was due to his tenacity.
Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks during a primary night watch party Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, in St. Charles, Mo. (AP Photo / Jeff Roberson)
The newly elected commissioners of Philadelphia's election machinery said Wednesday that they would end a practice allowing several hundred election-day workers to collect double pay by filling two different jobs at city polling places.
Acting on a campaign issue from the fall, the Bucks County Commissioners are rescheduling three morning meetings to the evening this year.
Democrats opposed the effort and wanted an industry tax. One legislator criticized the extraction fee as "the largest corporate giveaway in Pennsylvania history."
Property taxes in New Jersey rose 2.4 percent in 2011 despite a 2 percent cap imposed by Gov. Chris Christie and the Legislature.
While Congress dithers over whether or not to extend a payroll tax cut - due to expire at the end of the month and affecting 160 million working Americans - their job approval rating has sunk to a record low.
Rick Santorum must broaden his support and boost fund-raising to take on Mitt Romney long term, experts agree.
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The U.S. Postal Service is reporting quarterly losses of $3.3 billion, hurt by declining mail volume and mounting costs for future retiree health benefits.
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Eight years is an aeon in politics. Witness the waning potency of the gay-marriage issue.
During the 2004 campaign, Republican strategists put gay marriage on referendum ballots in key swing states, as a "wedge" issue to unnerve Democrats and gin up the conservative base for President George W. Bush. The Massachusetts high court had just ruled for legalization, and hostility toward the concept was the centrist position in America.
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