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The GOP civil war continues to intensify, with numerous prominent conservative media figures lashing out at Karl Rove in recent days over vehement disagreements about the direction of the party. This is far from the first incident pitting Rove against fellow right-wing media figures

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Once again , the press is turning a blind eye to the unprecedented obstructionism coming from the Republican Party.

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Question: If the snap polls, along with the pundit consensus, had indicated Mitt Romney had won Tuesday’s debate, would anyone on Fox News have cared what moderator Candy Crowley said while the two candidates discussed last month’s terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya? It’s doubtful

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by Brad Johnson Years ago, both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney spoke forcefully about the need for action on global warming: “ We cannot afford more of the same timid politics when the future of our planet is at stake. Global warming is not a someday problem, it is now .” — Barack Obama in 2007 “ I concur that climate change is beginning to effect on our natural resources and that now is the time to take action toward climate protection .” — Mitt Romney in 2003 But during this election, they’ve been silent about the key facts of global warming and how they plan to address it.

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Ovide Lamontagne, the Republican candidate for governor in New Hampshire, broke with his party’s presidential candidate’s comments about the 47 percent of Americans who don’t pay taxes.

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The National Organization for Marriage invested large sums of money — it pledged millions, but how much it spent remains unclear — into fighting the Republican state senators in New York who voted for marriage equality last year and are seeking reelection. To that end, NOM seems to have had mixed results at best in yesterday’s low-turnout primary, including a notable failure. One of NOM’s prime targets was Sen

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Polling is a tricky business. It’s an inexact science predicated on extrapolating broad trends from small populations.

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Although Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler (R) felt the need to question his state’s registered voters about their eligibility to vote, sending a letter earlier this month that asked about 4,000 Colorado residents to provide proof of citizenship, his office has confirmed that at least 88 percent of those voters are indeed U.S. citizens.

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Mitt Romney’s sister assured “Women for Mitt” that if her brother is elected President, he won’t pursue the anti-abortion policies he espouses on the campaign trail.

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