Tag: republican effort

CHEAT!  A recently distributed guide for Republican poll watchers in Maryland spells out how to aggressively challenge the credentials of voters and urges these volunteers to tell election judges they could face jail time if a challenge is ignored. Democrats said yesterday they consider the handbook, obtained by The Washington Post, evidence of a Republican […]

This is a nice defeat for the GOP: Senators voted Thursday to reject a Republican effort to shrink taxes on inherited estates during this election year. GOP leaders had pushed senators to end the tax once and for all. It disappears in 2010, under President Bush’s first tax cut, but rears up again a year […]