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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced the members of his Social Conservatives Statewide Steering Committee today; the list includes prominent anti-gay rights and anti-abortion rights activists in Florida’s Christian right circles. According to a press release from the campaign: … Each member has been an active voice in state politics and an advocate for conservative causes and issue campaigns. The Romney campaign will utilize this coalition to perform voter outreach and coalition building for Get Out the Vote efforts

The Palin brand is undergoing yet another test today in Delaware among Republicans -- will her endorsement energize conservatives in Sussex County to get out

Hulk Hogan, who’s become a spokesman for the decidedly too-good-to-be-true sounding GuaranteedLowerPropertyTax.com, appeared at the Aug. 22 Orlando Tea Party to

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, the most prominent West Virginia Republican, appears to be leaning against running in a special election for the Senate seat left

<p>Philip Zelikow, the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, communicated secretly with White House political strategist Karl Rove and other Bush

NASHVILLE -- Justin Elliot picked up on my observation that Joseph Basel was here at the National Tea Party Convention and wondered how Basel was allowed to

Latinos are the fastest-growing minority group in the U.S., and their votes could hinge on how the government addresses immigration: A poll released today by

By now, everybody has distanced themselves from a video released last week that shows people exploding into a million little pieces for not being willing to

The Congressional Budget Office last week made a bit of news when it released cost estimates on two different health reform packages being considered by House

Noah Shachtman got an interview with Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and asked about the likely prospective NATO-Afghan

Here’s what Afghan President Hamid Karzai told Fareed Zakaria about the disgusting Afghan marital rape law: Now I have instructed, in consultation with clergy

Surprising speculation! According to this Arkansas news organization, the Second Congressional District seat that will be vacated by retiring Dem Vic Synder may

This afternoon, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough got into a spat on Twitter with Salon’s Glenn Greenwald. The blogger fired first, making a frustrated point about the

As of yesterday, the pro-choice political action committee Emily’s List has started gearing up for the 2012 election by putting five GOP freshman “on notice.” On the list: Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale

People are fed up, said Saranac Lake activist Russ Finley. The Tea Party people are serious. The 9/12 people are serious. I’d hate to say that a loss is a good thing, but this is a good thing.

From a post put quietly on Hoekstra’s campaign Website this morning: We would like to let you personally know that we have decided that this past election will

In an interview with The Washington Independent, Sierra Club Deputy National Campaign Director Melinda Pierce said prospects for passage of significant energy

Good catch by Paul Bedard, from a town hall meeting where first-term conservative Rep. Parker Griffith (D-Ala.) was asked if he’d support Rep. Nancy Pelosi

The recent Supreme Court decision upholding the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act, which penalizes employers that knowingly hire undocumented workers by revoking

At noon, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will announce the fate of a proposed offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound, near Cape Cod -- and The Boston Globe is

Charter school magnate Clark Durant is trying to chip away at Pete Hoekstra’s massive lead in the race to take on Sen. Debbie Stabenow by comparing his primary opponent to the woman they want to replace. The Grand Rapids Press reports : Speaking to reporters at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, Durant referred to the Holland Republican as a “partner” of U.S