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An Indiana election law expert said Texas lawmakers do have reasons to be concerned that proposed voter photo identification legislation -- authored by state

At a mid-day press conference on Capitol Hill, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) launched a Declaration of Health Care Independence

An editorial in today’s New Orleans Times-Picayune today says calls for an extension of the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater drilling in light of

Tim Pawlenty’s courting of young voters with pop-culture references didn’t go unnoticed by one media icon: Stephen Colbert . At a gathering of Iowa college Republicans Saturday, Pawlenty said Barack Obama won’t keep the youth vote because “he duped the young people in this country.” Dropping references to Charlie Sheen, tiger blood and Lady Gaga, Pawlenty said young people have a “Bad Romance” with Obama. “I gotta say,” Colbert said, “it’s like Pawlenty ripped those references from the headlines, then stored them in a drawer for a couple of months, then re-ripped them from his drawer and put them in a speech

New tallies released by Pueblo County Clerk Bo Ortiz on Thursday put the percentage of “inactive voters” who returned ballots this year at 1,791 or nearly 11 percent of county voters. That’s a gain of nearly 5 percentage points from 2009 and well above the previous statewide 3 percent average. “A press release issued October 31 by this office contained a mistake in the reporting of the Inactive Failed to Vote tabulations,” Ortiz wrote in a release.

I’m a little late, but the Republican Governors Association (RGA) was the beneficiary of some big time contributions the other month -- one from News Corp., the

The Center for Responsive Politics revealed Thursday that corporate campaign spending has skyrocketed since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. the Federal

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) today defended Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s restriction of military recruiters’ access at Harvard Law School

After killing health care reform in 1993, the health insurance lobby made the PR-savvy decision not to come out in staunch opposition to the Democrats’ plans

DES MOINES — As the Ames Straw Poll hovers on the proverbial horizon and the eyes of the nation turn to Iowa, members of the religious right want to make sure their voices are the loudest come Saturday. The “ Values Voter Bus Tour ,” a coalition comprised of state and national religious conservative organizations, including National Organization for Marriage and The Family Leader , will hit 22 Iowa cities before the Ames Straw Poll, advancing their agenda that entails support of traditional marriage and anti-abortion initiatives. Many within the group also spoke out adamantly Tuesday about state supreme courts overstepping constitutional bounds.

Yesterday afternoon, Kenneth Feinberg, who takes over as independent administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil spill compensation fund, briefed reporters on how the

The Obama administration is reportedly preparing to allow up to seven Chinese Muslims imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay to settle in the United States, according to

This morning, a little, wonky blog post is creating a lot of controversy. Economics of Contempt writes: Here’s a scary thought: Let’s say the European

Doug Hoffman, he failed Conservative Party candidate in the NY-23 special election is clearly relishing the surprise twist in his election -- errors in the