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Daily Training for June 11th: How did Alvin Green win the Democratic US Senate nomination in South Carolina?

One of the strangest and most surprising stories of Tuesday's primary is that of Alvin Greene who won the South Carolina Democratic nomination for the US Senate. The only money he spent was the $10,400 required to register as a candidate and nothing else. Democratic party officials were caught off guard--this is generally considered an un-winnable race against Republican incumbent Jim DeMint and a candidate with experience had been selected to try his best. The story gets worse since it's been revealed that he faces felony charges...a great example of how political parties have less control over their candidates in the US system of government than in parliamentary systems.

Daily Training for June 10th: Lincoln Bucks Tide; Business Leaders Win in California

Perhaps it wasn't "Super Tuesday" but it was a pretty good primary election day on Tuesday--the biggest in this cycle. This NY Times article reviews the results--which included many wins for women.

Daily Training for June 9th: Obama's Oil Spill Emotions

The All Politics Daily Training is one year old today! To celebrate, we've got a fun video of the media going crazy over Obama's lack of emotion over the oil spill.

Daily Training for June 7th: Liz Cheney and Ariana Huffington on This Week

A pretty big fight took place on ABC's This Week on Sunday morning--at least by American standards--between Liz Cheney and Ariana Huffington over who is responsible for the conditions leading up to the BP oil spill. It's a short video, but you might need to watch it two times in order to understand everything.

Daily Training for June 8th: Israel as a Strategic Liability?

Today's Daily Training is an analysis by Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies of US policy with Israel.

Daily Training for June 4th: Tea Party Democrat Struggles To Explain His Candidacy

This video is for everyone who's ever suffered as they've watched their candidate struggle through a speech or question and answer session because this is about the worst performance you could ever expect. In this painfully awkward video, Tim Crawford struggles to explain his own politics and what he stands for. Note is a "tea party" candidate who won a Democratic primary in Indiana so the party base understandably wants to know what makes him a Democrat. He also had a bad luck in that the whole thing was recorded and uploaded to the Huffington Post (doh!) It's been edited so it's hard to tell how bad it actually was in person.

Daily Training for June 3rd: Spain proposes total smoking ban in bars and restaurants

I received this article from the Independent today from an American friend who used to live in Madrid, her comment was "is this possible?"

Daily Training for June 2nd: The Conversation: What's Next After Flotilla Attack?

Today's Daily Training is a video of ABC's Simon McGregor-Wood talking with John Berman about Israel's aid ship attack and what comes next.

Daily Training for June 1st: Once More, With Feeling

Maureen Dowd's recent column has some tough criticism for Obama and tops the NY Times most e-mailed list.

Daily Training for May 31st: Meet the Press Roundtable

Interesting discussion on the limits of the government's power Sunday morning on Meet The Press with E.J. Dionne and David Brooks.