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Could GOP Outreach Efforts to Latino Voters Get Any Worse?

From US News and World Report: RNC Latino Site Features Stock Photo of Asian ChildrenpollRNCLatinos.comstock photo from Shutterstock Instead of a Spanish-language website as part of an attempt to market the GOP to Latino voters, which the RNC has apparently botched, why not take a substantive policy stand on

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How The Two Party System Uses War to Stifle Independent Thought

History bears witness that a government is never more powerful, nor more oppressive than when it is at war. A government at war spends more than one at peace; it violates more of its citizen's civil liberties; it glosses over or even brazenly defies its own laws and

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Independent Voters Reject Both Obama and Romney's Plans for the Economy

Look what ABC News is reporting: "Swing-voting independents see Barack Obama’s plans for the economy negatively rather than positively by 54-38 percent in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, marking the president’s challenges as he seeks re-election in still-troubled economic times.It’s no party for

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Democrats, White House in a Panic Over President Obama's Reelection Prospects

The media narrative Tuesday was dominated by talk of panic in the Democratic Party and disarray at an embattled White House as one thing after another seems to go wrong for President Obama in his campaign's long, hard slog to November's election. Monday, in the Washington

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Obama Campaign Increasingly Focusing Its Fundraising Efforts on California

Along with other Democrats and some Republicans cashing in on a modern day, electoral California "gold rush," President Barack Obama has increasingly focused his fundraising efforts on California, where this past week the president attended five fundraisers during his third visit to the Golden State in just one

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Who's Winning The Twitter Campaign, Mitt Romney or Barack Obama? [INFOGRAPHIC]

How do President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney compare on Twitter? The following infographic, current as of late May 2012, has the facts and figures to paint a vivid picture of the intersection between social media and electoral politics in 2012's presidential election:

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Are Parties Still Relevant? A Look at Torie Osborn's Grassroots Campaign in California AD-50

The contentious and expensive race in California Assembly District 50 has pitted two progressive Democrats against each other. Assembly member Betsy Butler, who currently represents the 53rd district, but is running for the open seat in AD-50 after the district lines were redrawn; and LGBT rights activist, Torie Osborn, who

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A Complete List of Independent Candidates in California's Congressional and Legislative Races

Independent voters watching and awaiting the results of California's top two open primary elections today have quite a few independent candidates worth tracking. Here's a complete list of every independent candidate in California's congressional, state assembly, and state senate races, along with their respective

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Meet John Dennis: The Antiwar Republican Challenging Nancy Pelosi for Congress

Meet John Dennis, the 2010 Republican nominee in Rep. Nancy Pelosi's congressional district, and the House Minority Leader's likely general "run-off" election challenger in 2012 after Tuesday's novel top-two open primary. John Dennis is an antiwar Republican who supports gay marriage, legalizing

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America's Youth Unemployment Problem [INFOGRAPHIC]

Young Americans are increasingly likely to be unemployed, living at home, and making less money than they should be. This is leading to a crisis in the US economy: fewer qualified workers and lost revenue and productivity. The following infographic details just how severe the problem is:

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An Interview With Ami Horowitz, Director of the Upcoming Documentary, "U.N. Me"

In the documentary, U.N. Me (in theaters and on VOD this Friday, June 1), filmmakers Ami Horowitz and Matthew Groff show how an organization created to ennoble mankind now actually enables corruption and sows global chaos. I recently had a chance to interview Ami Horowitz about the UN and

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Chris Hayes' Controversial Remarks Highlight Broader Foreign Policy Hypocrisy

Credit: United States Marine Corps MSNBC host Chris Hayes unleashed a firestorm of controversy and discussion with his Memorial Day weekend remarks about America's fallen soldiers and his reticence to refer to them as "heroes"  because it's "rhetorically proximate to justifications for more