Senate Candidate Provokes Ire with ‘Legitimate Rape’ Comment In an effort to explain his stance on abortion, Representative Todd Akin, the Republican Senate nominee from Missouri, provoked ire across the political spectrum on Sunday by saying that in instances of what he called “legitimate rape,” women’s bodies somehow blocked an…
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From the Grio: A growing chorus of critics is decrying the Commission of Presidential Debates’ decision to not include a single journalist of color among the presidential (and vice presidential) debate moderators this year. This week it was revealed that Jim Lehrer, Bob Schieffer, Candy Crowley and Martha Raddatz would…
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Ohio: ThinkProgress: In a dramatic move, Ohio Secretary of State John Husted immediately suspended two Democrats on a county election board after they voted to allow weekend voting. Earlier, Husted issued a directive canceling weekend voting statewide. In 2008, Ohio offered early voting on the weekends and thousands of voters…
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Brilliant move by the Obama campaign: President Obama’s team is offering Mitt Romney a deal on taxes: Publicly release five years of returns, and the Obama campaign will drop its insistence for additional tax information.[TPM] Romney-Ryan responded with a diatribe of falsehoods: It is clear that President Obama wants nothing…
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Nathan Weber for New York Times New York Times: CHICAGO — Tens of thousands of young illegal immigrants waited excitedly in lines as long as a mile and thronged to information sessions across the country on Wednesday, the first day that a federal immigration agency began accepting applications for deportation…
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From USAToday: They could turn a too-close-to-call race into a landslide for President Obama— but by definition they probably won’t. Call them the unlikely voters. A nationwide USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll of people who are eligible to vote but aren’t likely to do so finds that these stay-at-home Americans back…
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From The Nation: Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson, a Republican, declined to issue an injunction against the state’s new voter ID law in a ruling [this week], despite the preponderance of evidence that the new law is unjust, unnecessary and discriminatory. (See my blog “Ten Takeaways From Pennsylvania’s Voter…
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