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Artur Davis, former prominent Obama backer, leaves Democratic party
Artur Davis, one of President Obama’s earliest supporters and a former co-chairman for his presidential campaign, announced Tuesday that he was leaving the Democratic party for good. In a post published Tuesday on his website, Davis was vague about...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Democratic National Convention (2008), Mitt Romney, Artur Davis, Politics
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Planned Parenthood endorses Obama, calls Romney "wrong for women"
The Planned Parenthood Action Fund launched a $1.4 million ad campaign Wednesday attacking Mitt Romney as “just wrong for women,” injecting the abortion rights issue into a presidential campaign that has been heavily focused on the economy....
Tags: Birth Control, Politics, Health Treatments, Family Planning, Planned Parenthood
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Popular Medicare drug program targeted in Utah GOP primary battle
This post has been updated.WASHINGTON -- As veteran Republican lawmakers are forced to defend their support for any government program in the face of tea-party-backed primary challenges, even Medicare, the popular insurance program for the elderly and disabled, is becoming campaign...Tags: U.S. Senate, Primaries, Hospitals and Clinics, Orrin Hatch, Republican Party
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Tea party favorite Ted Cruz forces runoff election in Texas
WASHINGTON -- Ted Cruz, the tea party-backed GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, will face establishment-backed David Dewhurst in a runoff this summer that will test conservative strength. Dewhust, the Texas lieutenant governor, failed to achieve the...
Tags: Jim DeMint, Sarah Palin, Republican Party, Politics, Tea Party Movement
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No verdict in sight yet for John Edwards
GREENSBORO, N.C. — For weeks, the focus of the John Edwards campaign finance trial was the former senator's adulterous behavior and his convoluted attempts to cover it up. Now, after seven tedious days of jury deliberations and no verdict in sight,...
Tags: Campaign Finance, Judges, Rielle Hunter, Punishment, Justice System
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Gov. Scott Walker's 2012 fundraising tops $20 million
MILWAUKEE -- If the ability to raise money is the be all and end all of politics — as some swear it is -- then Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has all but sewed up next Tuesday’s historic recall battle with Democrat Tom Barrett, the...
Tags: Campaign Finance, Tom Barrett, John Kerry, Scott Walker, Chicago Mayor
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Internet punishes Romney for believing in 'Amercia'
The Internet just became Mitt Romney's worst enemy. The Republican presidential nominee released a new iPhone app Tuesday called "With Mitt," which lets you take pictures with various stencil overlays promoting his presidential campaign. But it seems the...
Tags: Media Industry, Social Media, Computer Networking and Internet, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg
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Michelle Obama addresses popularity, husband's past drug use
Following her appearance Tuesday night on “The Daily Show,” a new Gallup poll shows First Lady Michelle Obama remains more popular than her husband by a sizable margin. The first lady, as part of a media blitz to promote her new book “...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Republican Party, White House, Foods and Beverages, Politics
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Obama congratulates Romney on nomination in 'brief and cordial' call
WASHINGTON -- In keeping with tradition and good manners, President Obama called Mitt Romney Wednesday to congratulate him on winning the delegates needed to secure the GOP nomination. Obama’s campaign says the president made the call at about 11:...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Politics, Barack Obama
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Campaign tests Joe Biden's everyman appeal
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — About the last thing Barack Obama's advisors expected when Joe Biden joined the ticket was to see him develop a kitsch public persona — an odd blend of affable everyman and the Dos Equis "Most Interesting Man in the World....Tags: Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Los Angeles Times Journalists, Primaries, White House
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Nepal forms caretaker government pending new elections
KATMANDU, Nepal — Nepal announced the formation of a caretaker government Tuesday and settled into a tense calm after a weekend constitutional crisis led the prime minister to call elections, some four years and several shaky governments after the...
Tags: New Delhi (India), Crisis, Nepal, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Minority Groups
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Study finds wealthy donors lean toward centrist candidates
WASHINGTON -- Ever since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 struck down restrictions on the ability of corporations to spend money in political campaigns, Democrats have been warning their followers that a tidal wave of...
Tags: Vanderbilt University , Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Sheldon Adelson, Charity
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