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Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina have won their bids for the GOP nomination in the California gubernatorial and Senate contests, respectively. And Rachel’s hunch

A story today in the The Los Angeles Times on a study about biology and politics starts with: Die-hard liberals and conservatives aren’t made; they’re born.

Iowa’s school districts’ operating budgets are the major roadblock preventing the end of the legislative session, Democrats said Thursday. While both sides of the aisle continue to negotiate and discuss how the state should budget, an unwillingness to compromise on Iowa schools’ allowable growth and property tax relief is keeping lawmakers in a deadlock

Americans for Prosperity, a Koch brothers-funded political group, announced on Tuesday that it has formed a chapter in Minnesota.

If they weren’t already busy enough with an anti-Charles Rangel resolution, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) is hoping fellow Republicans will back his resolution

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has faced criticism from both GOP presidential primary opponents and activist groups for support for in-state tuition for undocumented

The heated Republican presidential debate in Iowa last night saw plenty of barbs between would-be GOP candidates, but, as our sister site The Iowa Independent points out , the candidates took jabs not only at one another, but at the debate moderators, as well. # One notable theme of the evening was the candidates’ attempts to out-perform one another when the conversation turned to abortion issues. # From The Iowa Independent’s coverage of the debate: # Poised and never appearing flustered, Bachmann deflected attack after attack fired by Pawlenty, including her compromise on raising Minnesota’s state tax on cigarettes in 2005

Minnesota should consider making English its official language, Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) said Tuesday, in the latest of a spate of moves that appear to be

Here’s the statement from Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), chairman of the Banking Committee, supporting the Obama administration’s proposal to apply a tax on the

Following last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, Minnesota Democrats are proposing a constitutional amendment to define an individual as a “natural person.” The 2010 ruling gave corporations certain rights as “persons” and allowed them to engage in new levels of political activity. Sen

DES MOINES — The west steps of the state Capitol saw around 400 conservative activists Tuesday, mostly dressed in red, criticizing gay rights supporters and calling on the Iowa Senate to pass HJR 6 , which would set the stage for Iowans to vote on a constitutional ban of same-sex marriages.

Texas Republicans are trying to repeal a two-year-old law that allows transgendered people to to marry with a court-approved proof of sex change, as the

Within president Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill he announced Thursday in an address to a joint session of Congress, some $55 billion would go directly to

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson announced today a series of international priorities for the agency, including working across

The fervor drawn from the Occupy Wall Street protests, which began about two weeks ago in New York City, has elicited plans for spin-off protests in Texas and

The Family Leader, an Iowa religious right group that has been active in GOP caucuses of that state, backtracked on a pledge the group released last week that asked candidates to vow to oppose pornography and same-sex marriage. The pledge contained a controversial statement about slavery, and over the weekend, the Family Leader removed that reference

Naturally, it’s beneath stuff about 11 people dying in a Mosul suicide bombing, but still: Egypt is due to reopen its embassy in Baghdad, closed since

Environment and Public Works Chair Barbara Boxer faces an even tougher climate than in May 2008 when the Warner-Lieberman climate bill failed.