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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — In the days since Republicans lost an election many in the party thought was theirs, chatter has been bubbling about what the GOP should do to recover. For Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, it starts with the smallest of actions: abandoning the state's now-infamous straw poll. Once a festive checkpoint on […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — To hear some Republicans tell it, the Grand Old Party needs to get with the times. Some of the early prescriptions offered by officials and operatives to rebuild after devastating elections: retool the party message to appeal to Latinos, women and working-class people; upgrade antiquated get-out-the-vote systems with the latest technology. Teach […]

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At one point during last Tuesday night’s election returns, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney led in the popular vote.   But that was AFTER President Obama had already won the necessary 270 Electoral College votes to cinch his re-election bid.   Even if Romney had gone on to win the popular vote – which he […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is telling top donors that President Barack Obama won re-election because of the "gifts" he had already provided to blacks, Hispanics and young voters and because of the president's effort to paint Romney as anti-immigrant. "The president's campaign, if you will, focused on giving targeted groups a […]

The racial hatred toward President Barack Obama never ends. It was bad enough that conservative blowhard Ann Coulter called Obama a “retard,” but now that Obama has soundly thrashed Mitt Romney to re-claim the White House, angry bigots are coming out of the shadows. Take Denise Helms, a 22-year-old California woman who was living in […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — It's not just the economy, stupid. It's the demographics — the changing face of America. The 2012 elections drove home trends that have been embedded in the fine print of birth and death rates, immigration statistics and census charts for years. America is rapidly getting more diverse, and, more gradually, so is […]

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The votes were barely in and the celebratory confetti barely dropped on President Barack Obama for his impressive re-election victory last Tuesday night before politicians, prognosticators, and the voting public turned their attention to the 2016 presidential election. Obama’s second and final term means a jump ball for the White House in 2016, and there […]

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The strong showing from blacks and Hispanics at the polls on Tuesday that helped re-elect President Barack Obama and boosted several Democrats into office across the country will force the Republican Party to change its strategy in the future, says Dr. David Bositis of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. “This was not […]

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CHICAGO (AP) — President Barack Obama's campaign was relishing a hard-fought victory for the presidency, capping a re-election bid that hinged heavily on aggressive voter registration and turnout efforts. Obama and his team were scattered across his hometown of Chicago as supporters awaited the president's victory speech. The president celebrated his win with his family […]

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The future arrived early this week.  Thirty years early, to be exact. It blew in in time to send Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president, to the White House for a second term. It put him over the top in Nevada and Colorado, with its contingency of Latino voters, and in Iowa, with young […]

Dominique on Obama's re-election, rhe in-Labor voter and Jesse Jackson Jr.'s re-election.

CHICAGO – In the final days leading up to Election Day, a friend told me that God wasn’t finished with President Barack Obama because he has four more years of important work to do on behalf of the American people. I believe she was right. And I also believe that many African Americans feel the […]