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Despite a Democratic edge among registered voters in former Rep. Anthony Weiner's district, a poll on Friday showed a GOP candidate in the lead. Will a Republican victory in the Sept. 13 special election send a message to Democrats? Or will redistricting make the outcome irrelevant?
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In his heyday, the New York congressman had been one of his party's best deliverers of the Democratic Message, whatever it was at any given moment. The irony is that he became a distraction from the Message once revelations surfaced about his online exchanges with several woman. That, in the end, proved unforgivable.
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The New York Democrat's once-bright political career imploded after a lewd photo he sent via Twitter to a college coed was posted online over Memorial Day weekend. That led to revelations that have ultimately forced him from office. He is expected to announce his resignation at 2 p.m. ET.
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Poll shows many voters still on Anthony Weiner's side, despite the congressman's lewd tweeting. But New York state will lose two districts, and the controversy makes it a good bet his will be one of them.
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Public humiliation? Check. Implosion of a promising political career? Sure. Punishment by a jury of his peers? Not so much. Why Rep. Anthony Weiner has little to fear from an official House committee.
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The drumbeat started Wednesday afternoon. This morning, there are more stories about the strong suggestions from Democrats and Republicans that the congressman — who's admitted to lewd and lascivious behavior and then lying about it — should go.
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Citing three unnamed sources, the paper reports Huma Abedin is pregnant with the couple's first child. The news comes just days after Weiner admitted to sending lewd pictures to a woman over Twitter.
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The New York Democrat has been at the center of a media firestorm in recent days over sexually charged photos allegedly sent from his online social media accounts to several women. He will not resign from office, he says.
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One of the hotter stories over the weekend was the news that someone sent a suggestive picture from Weiner's Twitter account to a female college student in Washington state. The New York Democrat says he was hacked.