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WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans watched their effortsfor class-action lawsuit reform crash and burn Thursday over a set of unrelated amendments that Democrats refused to drop from the debate. In the Senate, Democrats held up theClass Action Fairness Act (search)on procedural grounds meant to cut off debate. That procedural vote, called …

The latest from the Political Grapevine: No Bounce So Far Democrats have said they were hoping this week’s convention would give John Kerry and John Edwards at least a 5-point bounce in the polls … it’s still a bit early, but 2 new polls, taken throughout the week, suggest no …

WASHINGTON – Critics of a ballot initiative that would retroactively transform the waythe statedistributes its electoral votes inthe presidential election say they worryColorado could mimic another infamous state in the 2000 election. “We don’t want Colorado to be the Florida of 2004,” said Kate Atkinson, spokeswoman for a group called …