Ilhan Omar Easily Fends off Primary Challenger Who Billed Himself as a Friend of Israel
She is expected to easily win re-election November.
She is expected to easily win re-election November.
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) easily survived a primary election challenge, making it likely he will continue to represent Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District.
Mitt Romney won the Florida Republican primary by a wide margin.
Mitt Romney won New Hampshire\’s primary race, with Ron Paul second and Jon Huntsman third.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that he is moving up the date of Likud Party primaries.
\”Starting from zero,\” the foreign assistance plan touted by leading Republican candidates at a debate, is getting low marks, and not just from Democrats and the foreign policy community. Pro-Israel activists and fellow Republicans also have concerns.
Forget the fantasy of Hillary Clinton taking Joe Biden’s place on the 2012 ballot. Not only because it is not going to happen. The theory that having Hillary on the ticket would galvanize the base and that coveted independent voters, especially women, would break toward Democrats, has no deeper roots in empirical reality than creationism or climate change denial. It’s just not the game-changer that Obama needs to hang on to the presidency, let alone give him a Congress that would be any less obstructionist than the one we have now.
With her decisive win in the Kadima party primary, Tzipi Livni now must assemble a coalition government so she can become prime minister. Then all she\’ll have to do is deal with all of Israel\’s regional threats.
Exit polls show Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni winning the Kadima Party primary by a double-digit margin.
There is a clear front-runner in the Kadima primary scheduled for Sept. 17, but it\’s not at all clear how Israel\’s political map will look once Ehud Olmert is gone