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DNC Amends Platform By Voice Vote Amid Controversy
via Daniel Newhauser, Roll Call Caving under pressure from critics, the Democratic Party decided to restore to its platform the word “God” and language recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. But on...
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Michele Bachmann In Danger Of Losing Her Reelection Bid
via Doug Barry, Jezebel After unseating herself from the cool Republicans’ table earlier this month with accusations that Huma Abedin knew someone who knew someone who was friends with a guy who once...
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County Judge Strikes Down Wisconsin’s Collective Bargaining Law
via Scott Bauer, The Huffington Post A Wisconsin judge on Friday struck down nearly all of the state law championed by Gov. Scott Walker that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for most...
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Occupy Wall Street Movement Sees First Anniversary
via Rick Hampson, USA Today Protesters will mark the anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement today with rallies in more than 30 cities around the world, including a march on the New York Stock...
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Romney Campaign Took $20M Loan To Handle Summer Cash Flow Woes
via Dan Eggen and Phillip Rucker, The Washington Post Even as it bragged about beating President Obama in fundraising over the summer, Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign was so low on cash that it...
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California Bill Bans Gay Teen ‘Conversion’ Therapy
via AP, Fresno Bee California has become the first state to ban a controversial form of psychotherapy aimed at making gay teenagers straight. Gov. Jerry Brown announced Sunday that he had signed SB1172...
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Pennsylvania Judge Halts Enforcement Of Voter ID Law
via Kris Maher, The Wall Street Journal A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday blocked the state’s controversial voter-identification law from taking effect in time for the November election. Commonwealth...
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Romney Receives Much Needed Boost From Debate
via Jonathan Mann, CNN Mitt Romney was ready. After nearly two-dozen debates against fellow Republicans earlier in his campaign and exacting preparation in the months since, the Republican candidate...
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South Carolina Voter ID Law Not In Effect Until 2013, Court Rules
via David Ingram, Reuters A new South Carolina law that generally requires voters to show photo identification does not discriminate against racial minorities but cannot go into effect until the start...
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Ohio: Supreme Court Sides With Democrats, Refuses To Block Early Voting
via The Salt Lake Tribune The Supreme Court sided with Democrats on Tuesday in refusing to block a decision over disputed early voting days in the battleground state of Ohio, giving President Barack...
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Arizona, Indiana Blocked From Defunding Planned Parenthood
via Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress Planned Parenthood scored two legal victories this week, with rulings in both Arizona and Indiana preventing the healthcare provider from being defunded. A federal...
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As Govorner, Romney’s Lax Regulation May Have Facilitated Meningitis Outbreak
via Craig Unger, Salon The fatal meningitis epidemic sweeping the United States can now be traced to the failure of then-Gov. Mitt Romney to adequately regulate the Massachusetts pharmaceutical company...
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Election Eve: Obama and Romney Make Their Final Case
via John Whitesides, Reuters President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney make a frenetic dash to a series of crucial swing states on Monday, delivering their final arguments to voters...
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President Barack Obama Wins Second Term
via Steve Holland and John Whitesides, Reuters President Barack Obama rolled to re-election and a second term in the White House on Tuesday with a clear victory over Republican challenger Mitt Romney...
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Democrats Maintain Control Of Senate, Republicans Keep The House
via Lucy Madison, CBS News Despite hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of spending in races across the country, the political composition of Congress will look much the same next year as it does...
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Obama Victory, Passage Of Progressive Ballot Measures All Thanks To Young Voters
via Tyler Kingkade, The Huffington Post Mitt Romney lost the youth vote by a huge margin, and with it, he lost the presidency. Sixty percent of young voters who cast ballots chose to reelect President...
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Mitt Romney Completely Blindsided By Loss
via John Dickerson, Slate Mitt Romney says he is a numbers guy, but in the end he got the numbers wrong. His campaign was adamant that public polls in the swing states were mistaken. They claimed the...
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Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi Will Remain House Minority Leader
via Paul Kane, The Washington Post House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will remain atop the Democratic caucus for at least two more years, extending her role as Congress’s most vocal liberal...
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10 Days After The Election, Romney Is Persona Non Grata In GOP Circles
via Dan Eggen, The Washington Post Ten days after failing to sail into the White House, Mitt Romney is already being tossed overboard by his party. The former Massachusetts governor — who attracted $1...
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Grover Norquist’s GOP Tax Pledge: What It Is and How It Started
via Chris Good, ABC News As Congress wrangles over the fiscal cliff, one tiny document will loom large over the negotiations. Known in Republican circles simply as “The Pledge,” the Americans for Tax...
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Amid Protests From Unions, Michigan Becomes A Right To Work State
via Matthew Dolan and Kris Maher, The Wall Street Journal The Republican-led Michigan legislature approved a pair of right-to-work bills, sending them on for the governor’s expected signature, as...
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Court Decision Ends Illinois’ Ban On Carrying Concealed Weapons
via Dave McKinney and Fran Spielman, Chicago Sun-Times In a huge win for gun-rights groups, a divided federal appeals court in Chicago Tuesday tossed the state’s ban on carrying concealed weapons and...
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Republican Governor Jindal Wants Oral Contraceptives To Be Available Over The...
via Lauren McGaughy, New Orleans Times Picayune Gov. Bobby Jindal said oral contraceptives should be available over-the-counter in a Thursday evening op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. The...
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John Boehner Fails To Rally Republican House Members Around ‘Plan B’
via New Jersey Area News Group Things were so bad for Speaker John Boehner Thursday night, support for his Plan B tax bill so diminished, the limits of his power with his own party laid bare, that he...
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Congressman Honda: Paul Ryan’s Budget Would Destroy The American Dream
via Congressman Mike Honda (D-CA), Politix This election year Americans are faced with a difficult decision on how to best move our country forward. Among the proposals to address our economic...
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