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Midterm elections getting ugly

With primaries in Nevada and California over, the candidates begin to attack their opponents. The first ones are Jerry Brown and Sharron Angle. In the Nevada Senate race, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying to defend his seat against Republican candidate Sharron Angle. This race is crucial not only for Democrats, but also for…

It’s all about the money in California!

Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina. Those are the two women, who won the Republican primaries in California, yesterday. Both are former CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and therefore extremely wealthy, which shaped the race prior to the primaries. Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, invested $5.5 million of her own money into her campaign. This was…