Democratic state Sen. Suzanne Bonamici cruised to victory in Oregon's 1st Congressional District special election on Tuesday.She defeated Republican businessman Rob Cornilles, 57 percent to 38 percent, in the mail-in election and will replace former Rep. David Wu, who announced his resignation in July after a sex scandal involving the 18-year-old daughter of one of his campaign contributors.But Bonamici's victory in this very Democratic friendly, Portland-area district — which President Obama won easily last cycle and where voters haven't sent a Republican to the House in…
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James Lee Community CenterFalls Church, Virginia11:05 A.M. ESTTHE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! (Applause.) Thank you so much. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Everybody please have a seat. Have a seat. It is great to be back in Falls Church. (Applause.) Thank you for having me.Last week, in my State of the Union, I laid out my blueprint for an economy that’s built to last. And I want to assure you I am not going to go over the whole thing again this morning. (Laughter.) That was a long speech. I'm not going to repeat the whole thing. (Laughter.) But I do want to…
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KING: David Axelrod is the president's senior campaign strategist from 2008 and now in 2012. He joins us from Chicago.David, Governor Romney last night, you have called him a weak front-runner. Would you concede this point, that the Mitt Romney in Florida was a much better, much sharper, much more focused and disciplined candidate than the Mitt Romney in South Carolina?AXELROD: Well, I think he ran a very strong negative campaign down there. He outspent Speaker Gingrich by 5-1.And every single dollar he spent was on negative ads. I think he had one positive radio ad in the Hispanic…
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