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Dan Balz |
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Daniel J. Balz is a journalist at The Washington Post, where he has been a political correspondent since 1978. Balz has served as National Editor, Political Editor, White House correspondent and as the Washington Post’s Texas-based Southwest correspondent. Balz sometimes appears on the news show Meet the Press and frequently appears on the PBS program Washington Week. In April 2011 the White House Correspondents' Association honored Balz with the prestigious Merriman Smith Award for excellence in presidential coverage under deadline pressure.
Balz is co-author, with Ronald Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times, of the 1996 book Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican Revival. In 1999, Balz received the American Political Science Association award for political coverage.
Balz's latest work, co-written with Pulitzer Prize winner Haynes Johnson in 2009, is The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election" about the 2008 campaign, is based on two years...... (Read more on Wikipedia)
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6 days ago |
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Mitt Romney wins overwhelming victory in Nevada caucuses - — LAS VEGAS — Mitt Romney won an overwhelming victory in Saturday's Nevada caucuses, giving the former Massachusetts governor his second consecutive victory of the year as he tightened his claim to dominant front-runner status … |
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35 days ago |
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Rick Santorum to get Gary Bauer endorsement Sunday - — Gary Bauer, a leader in the social conservative movement, will endorse Rick Santorum's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination Sunday in South Carolina, according to a person close to Bauer. — Bauer, who chairs the Campaign … |
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36 days ago |
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For GOP candidates, worries about the party's brand - — View Photo Gallery — In December, the GOP presidential candidates turned their attention to Iowa and New Hampshire.. — Iowa is awash in presidential candidates right now, and for the next week they will be focused on turning out their voters for the caucuses. |
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83 days ago |
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Pawlenty moves raise questions - — Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is widely regarded as one of the Republican Party's rising national leaders. The runner-up to Sarah Palin to be John McCain's vice presidential running mate, he is a conservative whose blue-collar roots, amiable personality … |
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90 days ago |
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Contests serve as warning to Democrats: It's not 2008 anymore - — Off-year elections can be notoriously unreliable as predictors of the future, but as a window on how the political landscape may have changed in the year since President Obama won the White House, Tuesday's Republican victories … |
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101 days ago |
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Unexpected revival breathes new life into public option - — The resurrection of the public option is the latest and one of the most surprising turns in the long battle over legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system. Under assault for months, declared on life support repeatedly in recent weeks … |
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124 days ago |
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A Republican Comeback? - Are Republicans at a low ebb or making a comeback? - — Are Republicans at a low ebb or making a comeback? — The question is prompted by the new release from the Gallup organization, which showed that the gap in party identification is now the smallest it has been since 2005. Democrats are still in the lead … |
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145 days ago |
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With Health-Care Reform on the Line, Obama Reframes Critical Debate - — After a month of angry town hall meetings and dire predictions about the state of his top domestic priority, President Obama moved forcefully Wednesday night to take the initiative on health care — and in the process rejuvenate … |
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153 days ago |
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The Take: Time for Obama to Regroup in Health-Care Battle - — White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who spent part of his August break fishing out west, offered a wry response this week when asked what the administration's plan is for health care. “Catch more fish,” he e-mailed back. |
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198 days ago |
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For Republican Haley Barbour, Party and Personal Goals Coincide - — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was Republican National Committee chairman the last time his party was at such a low, after the election of 1992. Two years later, Republicans captured control of Congress, and although Newt Gingrich … |
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