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State of the Union Address [LIVE FEED]

As mandated by the U.S. Constitution, President Barack Obama will deliver his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress today. Surge Desk has a live feed of the proceedings, which will be followed by an official response delivered by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, and an unofficial tea party rejoinder...

Michele Bachmann for President? First Reactions

Look out Sarah Palin -- there's a new Republican woman who's eyeing an Oval Office run in 2012. Michele Bachmann, a three-term congresswoman from Minnesota, is known as much for her conservative views (homosexuality is a "dysfunction" and President Barack Obama is turning America into a "nation of slaves") as for the...

Joe Miller Files for Injunction to Keep Fat Lady From Singing

(Nov. 18) -- The Alaska Senate race is heading back to court. An attorney for tea party candidate Joe Miller asked a federal judge today to halt the certification of Lisa Murkowski as the victor. Miller's challenge will once again focus on state rules over how a write-in candidate's name can appear on a ballot. If past...

Lisa Murkowski Leading Joe Miller by Nearly 2,000 Votes (and Counting)

(Nov. 16) -- Is the handwriting on the wall? Sen. Lisa Murkowski appears poised to become only the second Senate candidate in U.S. history to mount a successful write-in campaign. At last check, Murkowski now leads tea party rival Joe Miller by more than 1,700 votes with approximately 8,000 write-in ballots left to count,...

Did Harry Reid 'Steal' the Nevada Senate Election?

(Nov. 3) -- Dirty tricks? On Tuesday night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was basking in the glow of his narrow victory over tea party upstart Sharron Angle. Throughout the course of the campaign, polls had shown the race to be an extremely tight contest, with the lead swinging back and forth between the two...