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As Republican charges of “fraud” and Democratic claims of “voter suppression” have escalated in the home stretch of the presidential election campaign, liberal activists have started blasting Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential team’s voter protection effort for not doing enough to ensure that all Democratic votes are going to be counted on Election Day.

On Sean Hannity’s program Monday night, pollster Frank Luntz hosted a focus group of Iowa Republican caucus-goers, gauging their reaction of President Barack Obama’s Sunday afternoon interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. After a question by O’Reilly about the Muslim Brotherhood’s role in transitioning a government for Egypt, Luntz began to ask the Iowa Republicans why the meters showed them all having such a negative reaction to Obama’s answers . One woman said she believed the president’s religious convictions guide his policies.

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2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Would-be Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney edged his opponent Rick Santorum by a hair during the Iowa caucuses — defeating him by only eight votes. The Republican Party has deemed it the closest-ever margin of victory in a Republican presidential contest. From CNN : Ron Paul finished a close third, according to the state GOP

CNN covers Henrietta Hughes -- the newly homeless woman who told President Obama that she needed help at a town hall Tuesday in Fort Myers, Fla. -- and it makes

A caravan that environmentalist and renowned climate-change writer Bill Mckibben calls the “largest collective act of civil disobedience in the history of the climate movement” will roll through Boulder and Denver next week to protest the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf Coast of Texas. Designed to carry oil from the tar sands production fields of Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf Coast, the nearest the pipeline comes to Colorado is Nebraska, but activists point out that tar sands oil already comes into Commerce City by pipeline and is then refined by Suncor Energy and sold as gasoline across Colorado at nearly 270 Shell and Phillips 66 stations.

On a McCain campaign conference call with reporters today, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani used a leading question about Sen. Barack Obama’s work with

The Obama administration released today its latest estimate of the economic cost of its moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. And the numbers

Though foreign-policy experts worry that U.S. actions targeting Al Qaeda in autonomous tribal areas of Afghan-Pakistan border would destabilize Pakistan, Obama insists terrorists must be hunted down.

U.S. and Canadian environmental groups sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) today raising concerns about the

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan told Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) that while she admires former Justice Thurgood Marshall, she will be a different justice than he

Papers have reportedly been filed for a new corporation to cash in on her fame with myriad money-making projects. One is Black Ice, a consulting firm specializing in personal vendettas.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has agreed to stay the execution of Troy Anthony Davis, the

Paper manufacturer Georgia-Pacific is pushing back against claims made by protectors of the Ouachita River along the Arkansas-Louisiana state line that have

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) talks about getting full disclosure for the Clinton Foundation’s donors. That’s correct, Senator, Clinton reiterates. Menendez

World leaders in Copenhagen have reached a climate deal, albeit one that leaves many questions unresolved, The New York Times reports. The breakthrough

On the heels of a decisive victory in South Carolina, Sen. Barack Obama heads into Super-duper Tuesday as a surprisingly strong challenger to the

Richard Florida has written influential works about the US society and economy and on Tuesday he turned his vision to the Great American Dental Divide. Blogging a recent Gallup study on oral hygiene in the United States, he pointed out that the dramatic if unsurprising findings underline the kind of deeply divided nation we all live in today.

Some Republican senators, along with centrist Democrats, aren’t happy with Harry Reid’s decision to slip the DREAM Act into a defense authorization bill up for

It would seem to be the exact kind of thing the Occupy movement is protesting. High-paid political elites commissioned by the financial sector to battle against the interests of the public. The New York Stock Exchange, targeted in the digital-social-media universe as a main stage for the bad-acting finance sector, is holding a “Social Media Day” on Friday to which it is inviting a high-profile roster of special speakers , according to Politico.

While Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s being pilloried on the right for a 2001 speech in which she said her race and gender inevitably impact her

One of the more amusing quirks of the birther movement is the quality of the legal minds in whom Obama birth certificate obsessives are placing their trust