Politics Q&A: Who Will Win the Latino Vote?
Maria Teresa Kumar of Voto Latino talks about the 2012 election, social media and why both parties are failing Hispanics.
Maria Teresa Kumar of Voto Latino talks about the 2012 election, social media and why both parties are failing Hispanics.
"In the United States, at the election of President, the strongest party never dares put forward any of its strongest men, because every one of these, from the mere fact that he has been long in the public eye, has made himself objectionable to some portion or other of the party."
Every day Wright is prominent in the news cycle the chance of someone on the right having a Trent Lott moment are 50 percent higher. |
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Democrats and Republicans both believe they got the upper hand in the kerfuffle over Cory Booker's criticism of attacks on Bain Capital.
And Republicans' protestations ring false when their no-compromises attitude has helped to create a polarized atmosphere.
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The misconception that the Supreme Court case enabled independent campaign supporters to indulge in political expenditures is pervasive and probably un-correctable.
The political dynamics of the fast-changing Mountain West create opportunities in 2012 for both Democrats and Republicans.
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Freed from the obligation to pander to voters, Roseanne Barr, Jill Stein, and Kent Mesplay still fail to offer unpopular but realistic proposals.
The Democratic Senate candidate can't back up family lore that she is part Indian -- but neither is there any evidence that she benefited professionally from these stories.
He isn't just vital to the Obama White House -- he's been the most effective vice president in American history.
By embracing gay marriage, Obama may have strengthened his core support but further alienated blue-collar white voters.
There are plenty of pragmatic reasons Romney and the GOP should steer clear of the pastor. But there's no compelling moral reason that they must.
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An artist's rendering of how one conservative group described President Obama's self-portrayal
One was Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard roommate. The other went to Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. Together, Joe Green and Jim Gilliam want to democratize the most powerful Internet organizing tools.
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A new ad from the Libertarian likens Democratic and Republican governance to smashing a watermelon.
His belief that they're very important and his glowing assessment of the president are at odds with one another.
The $10 million push, which has not yet been approved, would also describe the president as a "metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln."
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The Obama campaign is straining to argue that Romney's business record is about more than heartless greed, but it's a difficult case to make.
At a hastily called press conference, and flanked by fellow also-ran Michele Bachmann, Cain calls for GOP unity.
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The president visits a D.C. deli and brings a bite to eat to a meeting with Congressional leaders.
Are these 12 freshman members of Congress from the "Tea Party" class of 2010 the biggest traitors to conservative causes?
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Is the Garden State big enough for two outsize political personalities?
The project to recruit a centrist third-party standard bearer appears to have fizzled. But it's unclear what happens in states where it's already on the ballot.
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