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CNN Poll: Obama 49 percent-Romney 47 percent among likely voters
With three days to go until the start of the Republican convention, President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney remain deadlocked in the race for the White House, according to a new national survey. A CNN/ORC International poll released...
Tags: Abortion, Abortion Issue, U.S. Senate, Elections, Joe Lieberman
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'Weak' In Review: The Science Behind Todd Akin's Rape, Pregnancy Claims
The Hartford CourantCongressman Todd Akin, the Republican nominee in Missouri for U.S. Senate, created quite a stir a week ago with his claim that women have biological defenses to prevent pregnancy in cases of "legitimate" rape. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female...Tags: Science and Technology, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, Michele Bachmann, William Shatner
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Presidential election or abortion referendum?
The platforms that the two political parties publish every four years are a lot like the warranties that come with washers or refrigerators: Nobody ever reads them, but if you do, you find that nothing in them actually applies. This year, though, the...
Tags: Abortion Issue, Abortion, Reproductive System, John McCain, Elections
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Akin's gaffe offers unflattering glimpse of widely shared Republican attitudes
Mary SanchezLadies, remember what your mothers told you about men who regard women as sex objects? They're no good. Keep that in mind when pondering the Republican Party platform this year and all those heated conversations about the "war on women." Why is so...Tags: Abortion, U.S. House of Representatives, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Elections, Tampa
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Trash collection time
Paul GreenbergWho is this Todd Akin and why is everybody, it seems, paying so much attention to what he has to say? Answer: He's a congressman from Missouri who's running for the U.S. Senate in a race that could prove critical for control of the next Congress. And he'...Tags: Elections, White House, Cancer, John Ashcroft , Joe McCarthy
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Tea party down but not out
Mary SanchezReports of the death of the tea party are greatly exaggerated. For about two years now, certain observers have been declaring the demise of this insurgent tendency within the Republican Party. However, despite recent headlines, we should expect to hear...Tags: Primaries, Jim DeMint, Richard Mourdock, Elections, Tim Huelskamp
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The decline of party power
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- No recent development has underlined the decline of political party clout more than beleaguered Senate Republican nominee Todd Akin's refusal to accede to GOP leadership demands that he withdraw from his race against Democratic Sen. Claire...Tags: Jimmy Carter, John Bailey, Rush Limbaugh, Elections, Gerald Ford
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Akin's idiocy is infectious
Jonah GoldbergTodd Akin's idiocy appears to be infectious. The evil genius of the Missouri congressman's comments is that they lend themselves to such broad interpretations -- and misinterpretations. By now his remarks are familiar, but just in case ... Akin told...Tags: Abortion, Abortion Issue, Whoopi Goldberg, U.S. Senate, Roman Polanski
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The Goldwater legacy
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- As the 2012 Republican National Convention gathers in Tampa, I find my thoughts going back nearly half a century to San Francisco in 1964. It was the first political convention I covered as a reporter, and it was the one at which Sen....Tags: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Elections, Tampa, 2012 Republican National Convention, Parties and Movements
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Women flex muscle at the polls
Congratulations, ladies. You kept the barbarians from the gate. On Tuesday, Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri, who famously said that a woman's reproductive system shuts down during "legitimate rape" and prevents conception, lost by 15 points to incumbent Sen....
Tags: Abortion, Richard Mourdock, Reproductive System, Elections, Tammy Duckworth
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How Republicans win in 2016
Last week's column was all about why certain of us (49 percent nationally) continue to identify with the party of individualism and free markets. This week, a related topic: what it will take to increase that 49 percent to 51 percent in 2016. First,...
Tags: Malcolm X, Richard Mourdock, Immigration, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Elections
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Republican problems are about more than just packaging
American VoicesThere was nothing particularly noteworthy in the size of Barack Obama's defeat of Mitt Romney. The election was, as smart people predicted, generally tight, with Obama winning by a decisive, if unspectacular, margin. Immediately in the wake of that win...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Abortion, Prisons, Immigration, Richard Mourdock
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