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Political News by Carol Marin of the Chicago Sun-Times
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Carol Marin is the political columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.

In addition to her work at the paper, she is the political editor for NBC5 …

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  • Carol Marin: Is it ever OK for a politician to deceive the public?

    CAROL MARIN: When is it OK for a politician not to level with us? Especially when that politician is all about — you know — “transparency” and “truthiness.” Consider Friday’s departure of Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard.

  • Walsh gaining ground on Duckworth’s territorial advantage

    The danger for Tammy Duckworth in the November election is that Congressman Joe Walsh is a better, more nimble, more natural retail politician than she is. Please note, I’m not saying he’s a better or more honest person. But Walsh is, as a political operative …Read More

  • Marathon just another challenge for Rep. Deborah Mell

    Sometimes we run for fun. Sometimes we do it to help a cause. But sometimes, in difficult times, we run as a declaration that nothing will stop us. So it is with state Rep. Deborah Mell of Chicago, who is running in Sunday’s Chicago Marathon …Read More

  • We’re conflict junkies when it comes to debates

    When U.S. Senate candidates Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown went at each other in Monday’s televised debate, the headlines told the story. “Face Off in Fiery Massachusetts Debate,” said ABC News. “Illuminating Stumbles,” reported Boston.com. “Debate Focuses on the Personal,” wrote the Huffington Post. We …Read More

  • Thuggery en route to Mount Hope

    Skip the statistics about just how big a killing field Chicago’s South and West sides have become. Skip the debate over whether it matters that overall crime has decreased despite the increase in shootings and death. Numbers can be numbing. Listen instead to my colleague, …Read More

  • Why Preckwinkle washes her hands of it all

    Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is blunt. “This state rep race has been a nightmare from the beginning,” she said by phone early Tuesday morning. She was talking about the latest plague on our political house, the race in which state Rep. Derrick Smith, …Read More

  • Illinois Republican Party focuses on keeping congressional seats

    Talk about irony. This weekend, and pretty much every weekend until the election, Chicago area Democrats will take the Ronald Reagan Expy. west to Iowa. Just as they did in 2008, they are headed to the Hawkeye state to talk about the Man from the …Read More

  • West Side story: Indicted, expelled Smith could win

    There are wake-up calls. And then there are wake-up calls. On Sunday, I wrote about Derrick Smith, the indicted, expelled state representative from Chicago’s West Side who remains on the November ballot, running as a Democrat, to reclaim the job from which he was ejected. …Read More

  • Indicted pol sponsors legal aid fair

    Derrick Smith learned a lot about politics and the law this year. The former 10th District state representative has been indicted by the feds, kicked out of the Legislature and abandoned by some — but certainly not all — members of the Illinois Democratic Party. …Read More

  • Rahm Emanuel picked this fight with teachers

    Rahm Emanuel started a fight with teachers that only he can finish. In his 2011 campaign for mayor, he took the Chicago Teachers Union on as an adversary rather than attempt to make them a partner. He opted for a blunt instrument rather than a …Read More

  • Marin: Axelrod ready to hang up his running shoes

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. — This is David Axelrod’s final campaign. The guy who took an unknown Illinois state senator to the political mountaintop has declared the re-election campaign of President Barack Obama will be his last. After all, what’s left?

    • Marin: Will Hillary Clinton run again?

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Conventions are auditions. Not only for the nominee on deck but for those setting their sights on the next time around. So an array of wannabe presidents not so subtly strutted their stuff at the Republican pep rally last week in Florida …

    Marin: Chicago style can spark either shame or pride

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. — While Romney Republicans in Tampa hammered away at Barack Obama’s politics as “Chicago-style” — code for Capone and cigar chomping ward bosses — Democrats at this convention couldn’t wait to paint their own portrait of Chicago. And style. First lady Michelle Obama excelled on both counts. Her elegance and substance shone a light on Chicago Tuesday night that GOP disparagement couldn’t dim.

    Marin: Obama going ‘hand to hand’ for every electoral vote

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Is the Obama team worried? “Democrats, oh yeah, they’re worried,” said David Yepsen on his mobile phone Monday as he was doing his regular Iowa-to-Illinois commute “from the land of hog farms to the land of Lincoln.” Yepsen, variously referred to as …

    Readers’ rants from Romney fest

    TAMPA — OK, here I am, sitting in the Tampa airport, and reading emails that have piled up over a week of covering Republicans at their Romney fest. Some of you have gotten pretty worked up about what I’ve written. And I figure if I …

    Marin: Lots of truthiness at political conventions

    TAMPA, Fla. — So, here’s Sen. Dick Durbin by a satellite truck in a parking lot just outside the security perimeter of the Republican National Convention. A fish out of water? A skunk at a garden party? No. And yes. Durbin was dispatched by the Obama campaign as part of a “truth squad” to counter the claims being made here by the Mitt Romney team. The Romney campaign will have its own truth squad in Charlotte next week for the Democratic convention.

    Ray LaHood: Outspoken, conservative, Republican — and for Obama

    TAMPA, Fla. — The last time I saw Ray LaHood was at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, where the outspoken, conservative, seven-term congressman from Peoria was an enthusiastic delegate for John McCain. Today, LaHood is still outspoken, conservative and a Republican. But for the first time in his life, he will vote for a Democrat for president, Barack Obama, and not his party’s nominee, Mitt Romney.

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