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New GOP Super PAC Targets Young Voters

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 14 May 2012 03:55:39 CDT

A new super PAC is targeting younger voters—but it's Republican, not Democratic. Crossroads Generation aims to tap into the frustration of young Americans fed up with poor job prospects, overwhelming student loans, and a weak economy. The new PAC is today launching a $50,000 social media campaign focusing...

Obama's Gay Marriage Stand: 60% Don't Care

Neal Colgrass — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:09:35 CDT

President Obama's stand in favor of gay marriage is no game-changer for six out of ten US voters, a new Gallup poll says. For those who may change their vote over it, 26% are less likely to vote for Obama, and 13% more likely. The numbers among all-important independents echo...

Obama Camp, 'Julia' Is Insulting to Women

John Johnson — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:24:26 CDT

The Obama campaign trotted out the online avatar "Julia" last week, to show how an ordinary American woman benefits from Democratic health care policies over her lifetime. Republicans gleefully pounced, calling it a perfect example of "cradle-to-grave government dependence," notes Joanna Weiss at the Boston Globe . Weiss, too, would like...

Joe Biden's Gay Marriage Motive: the 2016 Election

Neal Colgrass — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:45:05 CDT

Joe Biden's support for gay marriage may not have been a political "trial balloon" or a typically Bidenesque case of loose lips. "No one knows quite what to make of Joe Biden’s apparent endorsement of same-sex marriage on Sunday," writes Steve Kornacki at Salon . But "if you consider Biden’s gay...

White Males Will Be Minority Among House Democrats

Dustin Lushing — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:55:07 CDT

For the first time in history, a political party will soon be represented in Congress by a majority of female and minority lawmakers. The Cook Political Report predicts that white males will make up 46% to 48% of House Democrats when the new Congress is sworn in next January, reports...

RNC Chief: GOP Doesn't Have Woman Problem

John Johnson — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:26:34 CDT

Enter the caterpillar. Republican National Committee chief Reince Priebus is generating headlines today with an insect analogy. In an interview with Bloomberg TV's Al Hunt , Priebus rejected charges that Republicans have a woman problem. “If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked...

Cheer Up, GOP: Democrats Aren't Happy, Either

John Johnson — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:04:44 CST

Republicans are grumpy these days because they don't much like their candidates, writes Jonah Goldberg at the National Review . But they shouldn't get too depressed because Democrats aren't all that jazzed about President Obama, he adds. Generally speaking, it's not that they don't like him anymore, it's that they don't...

Eastwood: I'm Not Politically Affiliated With Obama

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:28:47 CST

God bless America ... and the Chrysler bailout ... seemed to be the message that left football fans misty-eyed after Clint Eastwood's Super Bowl Chrysler ad. It's "halftime" in America, and we're all pulling together for a brighter economic future, says the gravelly-voiced star. But Eastwood was opposed to the bailout that...

Romney Was Once—Gasp!— a Democrat

Matt Cantor — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:23:05 CST

If calling Mitt Romney a "Massachusetts moderate" isn't helping Newt Gingrich, here's a new label: "Massachusetts Democrat." The former governor was briefly a Democrat in 1992, thanks to a technicality BuzzFeed discovered related to his much-discussed Democratic primary vote for Paul Tsongas . Romney was registered as an "unenrolled" voter, meaning...