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Colorado’s DNC delegates: Inside the Sanders revolution in Philly

  It was around dinner time at the Democratic National Convention in Philly. The party was in the process of nominating Hillary Clinton, its first female standard-bearer...

Littwin: Day One DNC— How, 8 years later, FLOTUS brought the...

  You might have been too distracted by how well crafted Michelle Obama's game-saving speech was on Day One of the Democratic convention to have...

Wiretap: Will the DNC be as nasty as Nevada’s convention?

Nasty conventions It's not unusual for conventions to turn nasty. But they don't usually end up with death threats and claims of "murdered democracy." Jon...

Romney’s shaky record on abortion draws attack from left and right

As Saturday's South Carolina primary voting draws close, presidential candidate Mitt Romney is being savaged on the right for his shifting stance on abortion, just as he was savaged months ago on the left for his shifting stance on abortion.

DNC launches voting rights effort

The Democratic National Committee launched an online campaign last week to educate voters about what the group calls efforts that aim “to restrict voting purely for partisan gain.”

Citing embrace of personhood, Dems say Romney candidacy doomed in Colorado

Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has struggled to win over social-conservative primary campaign voters, but he recently took up the hard-core anti-abortion, anti-birth control, anti-stem cell personhood movement, which would grant full citizen rights to fertilized human eggs. It's a move that will surely doom his chances to win a general election in Colorado, according to First District Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette, head of the congressional pro-choice caucus, and state Democratic Party Chairman Rick Palacio.

DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz says GOP ‘war on women’ will recapture...

President Obama and the Democratic National Committee have begun courting female voters for the upcoming presidential election. Even though many women voters defected last year after voting in record numbers for the president in 2008, DNC chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Pembroke Pines, says the GOP’s current anti-reproductive rights stance will be a big help in recapturing those voters.

Interfaith group committed to try and wring civility from political leaders

Increasing calls in the wake of the Tucson shootings for civility in political discourse have given rise to not-very-civil finger-pointing and defiance among many of the nation's high-profile political pundits. "Wingnut talk-radio did it!" "Leftist twinkie-eating secular culture is the problem!" "The Democrat party supports the assassin!" "Blood libel!" Undeterred, a group of more than fifty interfaith leaders are addressing members of Congress directly, asking them to lead by example. Unfortunately, similar calls have spectacularly failed in the recent past.

Buck drops off Romanoff birthday wishes, picks off supporters

GOP U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck dropped by former Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff's birthday party campaign-debt fundraiser Thursday. Buck gave Romanoff a...

Dems launch ‘nuts and flakes’ GOP Tea Party video featuring Buck

At Politico, Mike Allen calls a Democratic National Committee video sent out today part of the "nuts and flakes" strategy the party is mounting...
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