Tag: Democratic Party

Alabama Poll: Trump Has Big Lead In GOP Race, Clinton is Crushing Sanders in Dem Contest

An Alabama poll found Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton enjoying large leads within their respective parties in the 2016 presidential race.

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Speculation That Al Gore Is Considering 2016 Presidential Run Surfaces Then Fizzles Out

A BuzzFeed article sparked speculation that Al Gore was considering entering the 2016 race. Sources close to Gore later denied the rumors.

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President Obama Writes A Powerful Letter Defending Voting Rights Act

In a letter to the editor, President Obama made a powerful case for restoring the protections contained in the Voting Rights Act.

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Bernie Sanders Gets Major Environmental Endorsement

The campaign of Bernie Sanders scored a major coup Saturday, earning the first endorsement of any candidate by a national environmental group, Friends of the Earth. Granted, the field is limited to Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, given that no living Republican candidate will ever earn the endorsement of any environmental group, local, state, or…

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Bernie Sanders Rules Out Third Party Run If He Doesn’t Win Democratic Nomination

Bernie Sanders explicitly ruled out a third party presidential bid if he fails to secure the Democratic nomination.

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Insanity Defined: Why the Interminable GOP Primary Season is a Win for the Left

The experience of the 2016 voter is already a battered one, abused by the rhetorical swill of 14 official candidates representing the GOP

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Former Bush Adviser Claims Democrats Moved Further Left than Republicans Moved Right

Peter Wehner says the liberal claim that Republicans are the ones who have become more extreme over the years is a “self-flatting but false narrative.”

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Texas Democrats Stall, Run Out The Clock On Republican Anti-Gay Marriage Bill

A GOP effort to prohibit issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in Texas, failed to come to a vote on Friday.

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House Republicans Pass Measure To Prevent DREAMers From Serving In The Military

The U.S. House voted to block a measure permitting considering letting immigrants who arrived here illegally to serve in the military.

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Democratic Led Minnesota Senate Approves Expanding Early Voting And Voting Rights

On a 39-28 party-line vote, the Democratic-controlled Minnesota Senate approved a bill expanding voting rights on Monday.

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This Is A Republican Elected Official’s Version Of Welcoming Refugees To America

Take heart my Hispanic and Latino brothers and sisters. You’re not the only ones whose presence in the U.S. makes Republican’s skin crawl. At least if the parsed bigotry of South Carolina Republican Representative Trey Gowdy and some of his colleagues and constituents is any indication.

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Republicans Admit Hobby Lobby Ruling Is Religious Tyranny Meant to Control Women

Republicans claim their abominable legislation overturning a Washington D.C. anti-discrimination statute that prohibited religious employers from punishing women who use birth control, family planning services, or abortion services was to protect employers’ religious liberty according to the Hobby Lobby ruling. However, they revealed the legislation is about using religious tyranny to control women.

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Public Support For Obamacare Grows As Less Than 30 Percent Of Americans Support Repeal

A Kaiser Health Tracking Survey finds that more Americans now have a favorable opinion of Obamacare than an unfavorable one.

For Corporate Profits Republicans Want President Obama To Skirt Congress’ Authority

What is duplicitous and very telling about how Republicans operate, and where their only loyalties and priorities lie, is that they are pushing the President to seek unilateral authority to negotiate and sign an international trade deal; something that requires congressional approval. And yet they have done everything in their power and all but forbid him from exercising his rightful executive authority where Congress has no say according to the Constitution; like on immigration enforcement and negotiating with foreign governments.

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Ready For Martin? O’Malley Makes His Case Running To Clinton’s Left

O’Malley is hardly a household name in America, but he is making his case for president, by staking out bold positions well to the left of presumptive Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.

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Republicans Admit Defeat and Silently Surrender In Their War On Obamacare

While Republicans aren’t waving the white flag publicly, the GOP is becoming quietly aware that they have lost their war against Obamacare.

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Democrats Fight Back Against Religious Freedom Laws By Pushing For LGBT Federal Protections

In a pointed response to the discrimination brought about by Indiana’s so-called “Religious Freedom” law, House Democrats announced a resolution to protect the civil rights of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community on the federal level.

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Hillary 2016 – Did the Republicans Just Lose the Election?

The hapless GOP needs somebody of Hillary’s stature for 2016, but all they have is a cast of nobodies with no ideas

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Republican-Dominated North Dakota House Resists 21st Century, Rejects LGBT Equality Again

The ND legislature has made a habit of rejecting LGBT equality, soundly rejecting legal protections every time they come to a vote.

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Montana House Refuses To Follow Other Red States Down The “Religious Freedom” Rabbit Hole

The Montana House failed to pass a “religious freedom” to discriminate bill, deadlocking on a 50-50 vote on Friday.

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Obama’s Cleveland Appearance Leaves Boehner No Other Option but to Lie – Again

Eviscerated by President Obama in Cleveland, Speaker Boehner had no option but to try to bury Obama’s budget in well-tried but obvious lies

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Democrat Russ Feingold Leads Sen. Ron Johnson 50-41 In Potential Wisconsin Senate Rematch

Early polling suggests that if Democrat Russ Feingold decides to mount a comeback Senate bid, Wisconsin will back him all the way.

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Here’s To Booting A Chicago DINO Out Of The Mayor’s Office

Incumbent Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel is going to have to labor a bit extra for the next six weeks if he hopes to continue to occupy that legendary office.

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Game On! Democrats Choose Philadelphia For 2016 Convention Site

Citing logistical advantages and the city’s historical significance, the Democrats choose Philadelphia for the 2016 convention site.

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Critics Claim Hillary Has an Income Inequality Problem

Have we really reached the point where asking the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes is a form of vilification?

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Vaccine Wars: Where The 2016 Candidates Stand On Protecting Our Health

Presidential hopefuls Chris Christie, Rand Paul, Ben Carson, and Hillary Clinton have taken sides on the debate over requiring vaccinations

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Joe Scarborough Says Liberals Are Anti-Science Because They Oppose Keystone Pipeline

During the Tuesday broadcast of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough claimed “climate alarmists” are denying science by opposing the extension of the Keystone oil pipeline.

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Obama’s Tax Plan Forces Republicans To Choose Main Street Or Wall Street

President Obama’s proposal to give middle class and working class Americans a tax break has the GOP on the defensive.

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Whitewashing The Past: How Conservatives Spurn MLK’s Legacy

MLK was a radical who wanted to eradicate poverty through a guaranteed income program, and he wanted to give reparations to black Americans.

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Democrats Found Their Identity Too Late To Help President Obama’s Agenda

If Democrats had proposed any of their current populist plans last year, Republicans would have went into the midterm elections defending their religious allegiance to the richest one-percent of income earners and their highly-profitable corporations.

House GOP Doubles Down On Bigotry With Vote To Stop Obama’s Immigration Executive Order

On a 237-190 vote, the Republican controlled U.S. House has voted to undo president Obama’s executive order on immigration.

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Gallup: Record Number Of Americans Identify Themselves As Liberals

A growing number of Americans call themselves liberals. Going forward, Democrats need to embrace liberal ideas.

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Speaker John Boehner Declares Himself Anti-Establishment Rebel And Not A Squish

Just two days after orchestrating the removal of two disloyal Florida GOP Congressmen (Daniel Webster and Rich Nugent), from the House Rules Committee, John Boehner is continuing his fight against recalcitrant Republicans. Today, Boehner tried to make the case that he was not “spineless or a squish”. In a press conference, he told NBC News that he was the…

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President Obama Named The Most Admired Man In The World For The 7th Straight Year

The endless Republican anti-Obama campaign suffered another defeat as for the seventh consecutive year President Obama was named the most admired man in the world by Gallup.

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Obama’s War to Stop the GOP From Dragging America Into Irrelevance

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Obviously, the President has preached at, begged, and cajoled Republicans to pass legislation addressing the income gap and there is no better way to start than allocating major funding to rebuild the country’s infrastructure.

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President Obama Preserved Women’s Reproductive Rights In Passing the CRomnibus

The recent appropriations bill known as the CRomnibus could have been a lot worse for women’s reproductive rights and it is very fortunate for women that Democrats and President Obama succeeded in getting it passed.

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113th Congress Produces 22% of “Do-Nothing” 1947-1948 Counterpart

Similar to overpaid NFL “star” Jay Cutler’s reign of terror as the starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears, the best thing we can say about the 113th session of Congress is that it’s over.

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Americans Will Pay For Republican-lite Democrats’ Compromise “At All Costs”

Whatever the reason, the so-called compromise appropriations bill is an affront to the American people, and revealed that many Democrats are what Howard Dean labeled “Republican-lite.”

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Soon-To-Be Nevada Speaker Said Democrats Are The “Master” Of The “Simple Minded Darkies”

Assemblyman Ira Hansen was selected earlier this month to be Assembly Speaker once the new legislative session begins. He has a long history of making bigoted and offensive statements.

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Pelosi Slams Republican Failure While Praising Obama for Strong Leadership

Pelosi detailed the threats Republicans have been making against President Obama for doing what all modern presidents before him have done, and then urged people not to listen to Republicans on immigration reform, saying we “welcome President Obama’s meaningful, courageous and imminent action.”

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Bold Democrat Mary Landrieu Should Be Truthful About KeystoneXL

It may have been Democrat Howard Dean who said not long ago that if given a choice between voting for a Republican, or a Republican-lite, voters of both parties will always opt for the real Republican; because they cannot trust a Democrat pandering for votes as a Republican. It is a lesson Senator Mary Landrieu, and soon-to-be-former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, would do well to heed.

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First Order Of The 2015 Right-Wing Majority Is The TPP. Beware!

Like a snake in a woodpile, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) lies dangerously in wait to be fast-tracked to International Big Boy land where giant foreign and domestic money interests will control every aspect of U.S. trade dealings with the 11 other member countries of TPP.

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Harry Reid Throws Blue Dogs A Bone By Naming Senator Jon Tester New Chair Of The DSCC

On Thursday, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) will take over as Chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, replacing Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO).

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Pat Buchanan Says Democrats Have Forced GOP to Become Party of White People

Pat Buchanan presents an America where Republicans are the black voter’s best friend and where whites are forced to be Republicans by racist leftist politics

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The Significant Role That Stupidity Played in Republicans Winning Control of Congress

The sad fact is that the stupidity that drove the results of the midterms is not reserved to the Republican base, or Democratic voters would not have stayed home in a repeat performance of the devastating 2010 midterms.

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The Mainstream Media is Culpable in the Murder of American Democracy

Democrats are now people who can have our heads held under water until we stop breathing, who can be “made to squeal,” not like pigs and the media will remain silent

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Unlike Much Of The Country, California Still Solidly Blue After Midterm Elections

After a not-so-really-heated contest between the Republicans and Democrats, California still remains blue, and our State elected leaders are all Democrats.

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Democrats Need to Be Bold In Their Policies and Stand with the Guy In The White House

One thing is obvious: Democrats are still allowing the media to parrot GOP narratives, and Democrats are still running away from their own ideas and into the arms of the tepid enemy of equivalency. Democrats are still afraid to be bold.

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GOP Strategist Behind Republican Obstruction Of Obama Now Laughably Calling For Compromise

Republican strategist Frank Luntz said that after winning the Senate majority, Republicans should work with Democrats and President Obama to find “common-sense solutions” to a number of issues. Luntz was behind the plan to create gridlock in Washington to hurt Democrats and Obama.

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Democrats Lost Because They Wasted Their Most Valuable Weapon in the Midterms

Barack Obama is still the President, and his administration’s record achievements over the past five-and-a-half years were squandered by Democratic candidates intent on appearing to be more like Republicans than Democrats affiliated with a President with a record of successes.

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South Carolina Continues Its Quest To Be The Reddest State In The Nation

Some view South Carolina as the reddest state in the nation. After November 4th, it just might be.

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Can’t Blame Obama: African-American Voters Showed Up But Rick Snyder Won In Michigan

We can’t blame this on Obama. And we can’t blame it on Detroit voters not turning out at the polls either. Despite high turnout in Detroit, Republican Rick Snyder was re-elected as Governor of Michigan.

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Record Early Voter Turnout In Iowa Could Mean Good News For Democrat Bruce Braley

The Iowa Secretary of State reported that they had received over 455,000 absentee ballots for this election through Monday. That represents the strongest early voter turnout in a midterm election in Iowa history. A recent poll shows Braley leads by 20 points among early voters.

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Rachel Maddow Reveals How Minimum Wage And Pot Ballot Measures May Push Dems To Victory

During Monday night’s episode of The Rachel Maddow Show, host Rachel Maddow discussed popular ballot measures in a number of red or swing states that could help swing the tide in many close gubernatorial or Senate races.

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Women’s Greatest Enemy Is Evangelical Women, Not Republican Men

Even shaky reason dictates that a robust women’s electoral movement would cleanse Republican patriarchs from Congress, governorships, and state legislatures, and bring the Republican war on women to an abrupt and just end. However, that is certainly not the case and it is down to American women’s greatest enemy and it is not Republican men per se, but the evangelical women electing them.

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Cheaters Never Win – Winners Never Cheat? A Close Look At November 4th

This will be my last mid-term general election contribution. At least in my state of South Carolina, it ain’t pretty.

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Mitch McConnell Resorts to Lying to Win, Claims ‘Nobody Wants to Privatize Social Security’

While casting himself as the “change” candidate after 30 years of the same old same old, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) then denied that he had ever said diddly-squat about privatizing Social Security.

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Republicans Don’t Care About Income Inequality Or Basic Human Needs

We have come to serve the economy rather than the economy serving us. We ask people to suffer to save the system that produces suffering, instead of creating a system that seeks to eliminate suffering.

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Fox News Host Implies Obama Is Manipulating Gas Prices To Help Democrats In Midterms

During Thursday’s episode of The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson, host Gretchen Carlson suggested on multiple occasions that the White House was manipulating the price of gasoline to possibly help out in the midterm elections.

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Republicans: Women Problem? What Women Problem?

Nothing wrong with an exclusive and hate-filled Republican message. Just with the people who aren’t sufficiently white, male, and Christian.

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Won’t Get Fooled Again: Rick Snyder Won’t Con Michigan Twice With “Moderate Nerd” Persona

If the person who you elected to represent you only listens to you when you are saying what he wants to hear, then perhaps it’s time to choose someone else to represent you.

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How Chris Christie And Other Republicans Would Control The Voting Mechanisms

Unless you are a rich and a member of the GOP, Republicans don’t want you to vote.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton Going To Charlotte NC To Join Kay Hagan For An Early Vote Event

On October 25, Hillary Clinton and North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan will appear together for an early vote event at the convention center in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Here’s More Great Economic News For Democrats To Hammer Republicans With

There has been relative silence on two new economic reports that put a stake in the economic agenda Republicans are frothing at the mouth to enact should they win control of Congress.

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New Poll Shows Republicans Are Running Against The Top Issue for Working Women

For years Republicans have been telling women we don’t care about equal pay, but a new poll proves they are wrong. Again.

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Thanks To the NRA, The US Has No Surgeon General Overseeing the Ebola Threat

The President nominated Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, an extremely qualified candidate to replace ‘acting’ Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin. However, the National Rifle Association blocked Murthy’s confirmation because he does not recognize that the NRA is “fourth and all-powerful branch of the federal government” and called for sane gun restrictions to prevent more Americans from dying unnecessarily from the gun violence epidemic.

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Democrats Listen to Liberals, Hitting Republicans for Their Dangerous CDC Cuts

Democrats listened to liberals. The DCCC blamed House Republicans for cutting funds to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in online ads starting Monday.

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GOP Senate Candidate Says He’s Losing Because Lazy Single Women Are Dependent On Government

New Jersey Republican Jeff Bell, who is running against incumbent Democrat Cory Booker in New Jersey’s US Senate race, told a New Jersey newspaper Thursday that he is behind Booker because single women are “wed” to the Democratic Party due to their reliance on government benefits.

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A Tireless President Obama Urges His Base To Stay Positive And Get Out the Vote

President Obama warned Democrats about the importance of getting out the vote in the upcoming November 4th midterm elections, in which Democrats are at risk of losing control of the Senate to extremist Republicans.

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The Democratic Party Is Not Your Abusive Partner, Progressives, It’s Your Problem Child

Calls for the Progressives to “break up” with the Democratic Party as an abusive partner miss the mark. The problems is actually their neglect of the party.

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The Koch Brothers, ALEC and the GOP Are Trying To Win The Election By Destroying Democracy

Crucial to their success is Republicans’ heavy dependence on one of the Koch brothers’ legislative arms, the American Legislative Exchange Council, to create template legislation for Republicans to block access to voting in what can only be termed as a direct assault on America’s rapidly waning democracy.

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Proof That Republicans Are Creating Poverty: America Is Number One In Low Wage Jobs

According to new research on America’s world-leading economic inequality, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported that in 2014, the exceptionally rich United States has the distinction of the highest proportion of low-paying jobs among every developed nation in the world. The report is just in time for Republicans on the campaign trail to boast to their supporters that America is number one in having over a quarter of its workforce laboring for poverty wages.

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No Time Like The Present: Why Historical Midterm Voting Patterns Could Mean A November Upset

Midterms tend to be viewed, both individually and in the eyes of media pundits, as a referendum on the sitting President. But other writers and thinkers offer a deeper psychological assessment of these elections

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Conservative Poll Shows Republican Senator Pat Roberts Down By Five Points In Kansas Race

The chest-thumping and boasting that we heard from the GOP earlier in the year about the likelihood of the party taking over the Senate has quieted down dramatically in the last few days as bad news keeps spilling in for Republicans.

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Teacher-Hating Right-Wing Shill Campbell Brown Deserves All The Criticism She’s Getting

You may know Campbell Brown as a former anchorwoman who had regular gigs on CNN and NBC. Since then, she has kept herself busy writing critical op-eds about President Obama and Planned Parenthood and jumping into the education reform movement.

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The Heritage Foundation Hits Up The Little Guy

The Heritage Foundation is located right in the middle of the DC power corridor and well it should be, as arguably the most powerful right-wing think tank of them all.

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Republican Lawmaker Hates The Thought Of African-Americans Getting A Chance To Vote Early

Georgia State Senator Fran Millar, a Republican representing Dunwoody in DeKalb County, is apparently angry over the recent decision by county CEO Lee May to offer Sunday voting to county precincts ahead of this November’s elections.

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Chris Christie Condemns Democratic Process As Shocking And Underhanded

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was absolutely outraged that a bipartisan election commission in Illinois simplified the voting process that he claimed is “shocking,” and a “major obstacle for the GOP’s gubernatorial candidates.”

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2012’s Biggest Loser Karl Rove Confidently States GOP Will Overtake Senate In Midterms

In an article for the Wall Street Journal, Republican strategist and campaign funder Karl Rove wrote that the Republicans are all but assured of taking over the Senate following November’s midterm elections

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Progressive Hatred of the Democratic Party is Misguided

The idea that progressives need to break up with the Democratic Party, that it’s “Time to get out of this abusive relationship” is based on a false premise

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House Republicans’ Intransigence On Immigration Reform Will Cost Them Seats In November

A year ago Friday marked the one year anniversary since the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill with bipartisan support. It still sits in seemingly permanent limbo in the House.

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Real Death Panels: Virginia Republicans and Their Monomaniacal Quest to Deny Medicaid

In ongoing efforts to deny affordable health care to their citizens, Virginia Republicans may have very well broken the law in an attempt to play petty politics.

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Another Red State Democrat Calls On Elizabeth Warren To Bring Home A Victory

West Virginia Senate candidate Natalie Tennant plans to campaign with Elizabeth Warren in July.

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Regarding Surge In Iraqi Violence, Majority Of Americans Feel That US Should Not Intervene

CBS News and The New York Times released a poll Monday showing that 50% of Americans feel that the United States does not have a responsibility to do something about the recent violence in Iraq.

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Rand Paul and Charles Blow Make Strange Partners in Voting Rights Advocacy

Two men from opposing sides of the political spectrum, with different experiences of America, utilizing two divergent forums, arrive at the same conclusion: disenfranchising voters is harmful to our struggling democracy.

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Howard Dean Feels That Eric Cantor’s Loss Can Lead The Way To Big Democratic Gains

In an op-ed piece for Politico published Sunday, former Democratic Governor of Vermont Howard Dean stated that the recent primary loss by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) offers five lessons for Democrats in upcoming elections.

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Introducing the Current Era of New and Largely Unknown Republican House Leaders

Word has it that a California Republican Representative named McCarthy is in line to take over Eric Cantor’s post as House Majority Leader next Thursday, the 19th. However, he is being challenged by Idaho Republican Raul Labrador.

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American Voters Need To Realize The Terrible Urgency Of 2014

Every time I hear a pundit or a pollster discuss the certainty that Republicans will hold the House or the high probability they will gain control of the Senate I suspect I am having an out-of-body experience.

While Clamoring For War, Republicans Ignore Positive Obamacare News

As Republicans once again try to besmirch Obama’s foreign policy, they willfully ignored a week full of positive Obamacare news. Is anyone surprised?

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Much To Fox News’ Chagrin, Majority Of Republican Voters Support Immigration Reform

A poll released Tuesday by the Public Religion Research Institute shows that a large majority of Americans support a path to citizenship for immigrants who are in the United States illegally.

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Keep An Immigration Eye On The House Rules Committee. The Hispanic Vote’s At Stake!

Come Tuesday, May 27, House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor and his merry band of bigots will have ceded all Hispanic/Latino votes to the Democrats come the November 4th mid-terms. Just ask California Republican Jeff Denham.

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Politico’s Poll Showing Democrats In Trouble This Midterm Election Is a Total Crock

This week, political news site Politico released a poll showing that Democrats are at a seven-point disadvantage against Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. The poll is supposed to reflect voter sentiments in the most competitive House and Senate races this year.

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