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Federal Court Rules Against Texas Redistricting Maps
Credit: texastribune.comThe U.S. District Court in Washington tossed out Texas redistricting maps drawn by the 82nd Texas Legislature because they don’t comply with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ...
29 Aug, 2012
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Delegate: RNC Rule Change Would Have Silenced Reagan in '76
In an interview Monday, Brian Dougherty, a Republican National Convention delegate from the Pennsylvania delegation told IVN that if the controversial RNC rule change advanced by the Romney camp at th ...
28 Aug, 2012
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GOP Fight Over Party Control May Overshadow Romney Nomination
With the weather throwing the GOP a curveball and Ron Paul delegates giving Romney a fit, the Republican National Convention has been pitched by the media largely as a ceremonial event to give Mitt Ro ...
27 Aug, 2012
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2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa Tailors to Base
Credit: npr.orgThe 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa has been rescheduled due to Tropical Storm Isaac in the area. Originally slated to kick off today, party chairman Reince Priebus w ...
27 Aug, 2012
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Ted Cruz Does Not Represent Texas Says Paul Sadler
Paul Sadler (D-TX), Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. Credit: Texas TribunePaul Sadler, Democratic candidate for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s U.S. Senate seat, told the Texas Tribune that Ted Cruz ...
27 Aug, 2012
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Sadler: Ted Cruz Does Not Represent Texas
Paul Sadler (D-TX), Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. Credit: Texas TribunePaul Sadler, Democratic candidate for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s U.S. Senate seat, told the Texas Tribune that Ted Cruz ...
26 Aug, 2012
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California Legislature Approves Election Day Registration
On Thursday, the California State Senate passed a bill to allow Election Day Registration (EDR), which will allow citizens to register to vote up to and on the day of an election.The bill, AB 1436, pa ...
25 Aug, 2012
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Crossing Party Lines Is More Important Than Ever
Former IRA chief Martin McGuiness and Queen Elizabeth shake hands, signifying the formal end to decades of hostilities. Credit:mirror.co.ukWe are living in hyper-partisan, politically polarized times ...
24 Aug, 2012
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Texas Judge Claims Obama Will Incite 'Civil War'
Are you ready for civil war? Tom Head, a judge in Lubbock County, Texas, says that is what Americans should expect if President Barack Obama is reelected.“One of the things is he’s going to try to giv ...
23 Aug, 2012
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In-State Tuition For the Undocumented Transcends Politics
Credit: LA TimesThe Republican platform committee pushed a number of anti-illegal immigration platform planks on Tuesday. On top of advocating a completed border fence along the U.S.-Mexico border an ...
23 Aug, 2012
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