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Rand Paul’s rewriting of his own remarks on the Civil Rights Act

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Apr. 11 (Fact Check) - "It's a mischaracterization of my position. I've never been against the Civil Rights Act, ever, and I continue to be for the Civil Rights Act as well as the Voting Rights Act. There was a long, one interview that had a long, extended conversation about the ramifications beyond race, and I have been concerned about the ramifications of certain portions of the Civil Rights Act beyond race, as they are now being applied to smoking, menus, listing calories and things on menus, and guns. And so I do question some of the ramifications and the extensions but I never questioned the Civil Rights Act and never came out in opposition to the Civil Rights Act or ever introduced anything to alter the Civil Rights Act." Read full article ...

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Burma ceasefire 'holds' in rebel-held Kachin areas

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Jonathan Head - Jan. 19 (News) - A ceasefire announced by the Burmese military fighting rebels in Kachin state appears to be holding, the BBC's Jonathan Head reports from the area.

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US debt as convention gate-crasher: Can either party solve problem on its own?

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Mark Trumbull - Aug. 29 (News Analysis) - Republicans and Democrats say they have the answer to the US debt problem, but economists increasingly say the peril to the economy is so severe that bipartisan compromise is the best solution. ...

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Florida’s voter purge explained

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Rachel Weiner - Jun. 18 (News Analysis) - Laws designed to clamp down on voter fraud have been causing controversy all over the country. But in Florida, an attempt sparked by Gov. Rick Scott (R) to remove non-citizens from the voter rolls has become particularly heated, devolving into dueling lawsuits, with officials refusing to carry out directives from the secretary of state. ...

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Money Unlimited

Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - By Jeffrey Toobin - May. 21 (Special Report) - When Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was first argued before the Supreme Court, on March 24, 2009, it seemed like a case of modest importance. The issue before the Justices was a narrow one. The McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law prohibi

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Fund-raising game upended in 2012 race

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Brian C. Mooney - Apr. 08 (News Report) - As the general election for president unofficially begins, its funding will be marked by two firsts: For the first time in the post-Watergate era, neither candidate will use public funds, and the super PACs created as a result of a 2010 Supreme Court ruling will have their first chance to wield their unlimited contributions from wealthy individuals, corporations, and labor unions as the nation selects a president. The vast majority of seven-figure checks is gushing into Republican coffers, making some Democrats nervous. On the plus side for the Democrats, their expenditures have been a fraction of what Republicans have shelled out during the contentious primary season. Under the old campaign finance rules four years ago, Democrats had a rare lopsided money advantage over the GOP, as Barack Obama’s campaign obliterated all fund-raising records, taking in nearly $750 million.

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Don't like how we elect a president? Americans Elect offers alternative.

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Andrew Mach - Nov. 16 (Special Report) - To combat discontent with the political climate, Americans Elect aims to put the first directly nominated nonpartisan presidential candidate on the ballot, decided by an online convention. ...

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House Democrats push legislation to overturn Citizens United ruling

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Hill - By Mike Lillis - Sep. 23 (News) - The proposal would amend the Constitution to reverse the Supreme Court ruling that sanctioned unlimited corporate spending on elections. Read more...

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CNN Poll: Time to clean house in Congress?

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Aug. 09 (Poll) - Need more evidence that Americans are extremely angry at Congress? Well, here you go: According to a new national survey, for the first time ever most Americans don't believe their own member of Congress deserves re-election.

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Stephen Colbert's running PAC shtick creates sticky mess

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Kenneth P. Vogel - Jun. 30 (News) - Advocates of reducing the power of money in politics thought they had found a champion in the unlikely person of Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert, whose ongoing shtick about forming a political action committee brought more attention to their cause than all their press releases, testimony and legal briefs combined.

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How state legislatures could affect the 2012 elections

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Molly Ball - Jun. 05 (News) - Across the country, state legislatures are embroiled in partisan battles over election-law changes that, by design or effect, could play a significant role in determining the outcome of the presidency.

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Obama order could make corporate political spending public

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Matea Gold - May. 09 (News Report) - A lobbying battle is raging largely behind the scenes over a seemingly obscure executive order that could — if signed by President Obama — make public the political spending that many corporations can now keep secret.

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Bombshell ballots in tight Supreme Court election race getting a closer look in Wisconsin

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - By By Jason Stein, Laurel Walker, Bill Glauber - Apr. 09 (News) - MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin's top elections official said Friday that he is sending state staff to examine results in Waukesha County, where thousands of previously uncounted votes were revealed Thursday in a bombshell that upended the tight state Supreme Court race.

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In states, partisan clashes over voting laws affecting college students, others

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Peter Wallsten - Mar. 07 (News Report) - Backers of the voting measures say they would bring fairness and restore confidence in a voting system vulnerable to fraud. Many states, for instance, do not require identification to vote. Measures being proposed in 32 states would add an ID requirement or proof of citizenship, according to an analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.

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Secretaries of state up the political ante

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

stateline.org - By Louis Jacobson - Jan. 03 (News Analysis) - As Kris Kobach and Scott Gessler prepare to take office as secretary of state for Kansas and Colorado, respectively, their elections are putting to rest any lingering notions that the job of secretary of state is a quiet, low-key, technocratic position.

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Despite Alaska Senate race results, Joe Miller presses on in principle

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Sandhya Somashekhar - Nov. 28 (News Report) - Much of America may have moved on, but Joe Miller has not. More than a week after the last vote was counted in Alaska's closely watched U.S. Senate race, the Republican nominee continues to press his case in court in hopes of grabbing back a victory that once seemed inevitable.

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Election Attorneys File Racketeering Complaint Against Karl Rove and Tom Donohue's Elections Operations

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

PR Newswire - Oct. 29 (News Report) - The following is being issued by ProtectOurElections.org: Yesterday, Ohio election attorney Cliff Arnebeck filed a two-count complaint with the Ohio Election Commission against The Partnership for Ohio's

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Corporate campaign ads haven't followed Supreme Court's prediction

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By David G. Savage - Oct. 27 (News Report) - Companies and unions have been able to avoid the transparency called for in the court's landmark ruling. Spending on next week's midterm election has been exorbitant.

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Officials: Nearly 1 in 4 Afghan ballots invalid due to fraud

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Joshua Partlow - Oct. 20 (News) - Afghanistan's election commission threw out 1.3 million fraudulent votes from last month's parliamentary elections, about a quarter of all ballots cast and roughly the same amount as invalidated in last year's presidential election, election officials said Wednesday.

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Judge won't reinstate 6,000 purged voters

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - By Felisa Cardona - Oct. 20 (News) - He said some voters have filled out their address incorrectly on forms; clerks sometimes make errors when inputting the new data; and postal workers also make mistakes in delivering the voter cards. But Mirbaba argued that inactive voters can still show up at the polls and vote on a provisional ballot until their addresses can be verified.

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Interest-group spending for midterm up fivefold from 2006; many sources secret

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By T.W. Farnam, Dan Eggen - Oct. 04 (News Report) - Interest groups are spending five times as much on the 2010 congressional elections as they did on the last midterms, and they are more secretive than ever about where that money is coming from.

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Analysis: Our votes are counted accurately -- aren't they?

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Dave Schecter - Sep. 30 (News Analysis) - There are increasing calls for Congress to authorize creation of a federal database so that machines that have problems in one election don't have the same issue in the next. "Voting systems fail in a particular county in one election, and then again later, under similar circumstances, but in a different locale. These repeated failures disenfranchise voters and damage public confidence in the electoral system," wrote Lawrence Norden, senior counsel in the Democracy Project at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University's School of Law.

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Disappointed Supporters Question Obama

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:39:57 -0700

New York Times - By Sheryl Gay Stolberg - Sep. 20 (Special Report) - It was billed as “Investing In America,” a live televised conversation between President Obama and American workers, students, business people and retirees on the state of the economy, a kind of Wall Street to Main Street reality check. But it sounded like a therapy session for disillusioned Obama supporters. In question after question in Monday’s one-hour session, which took place at the Newseum here and was televised on CNBC, Mr. Obama was confronted by people who said, in short, that they had expected more from him. People from Main Street wanted to know if the American dream still lived for them. People from Wall Street complained that he was treating them like a piñata, “whacking us with the stick,” in the words of a former law school classmate of Mr. Obama’s who now runs a hedge fund

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Repeal the 17th amendment?

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ezra Klein - Sep. 03 (News Analysis) - During our discussion of the filibuster today -- which you can stream over at C-SPAN's Web site -- Heritage's Brian Darling talked a bit about the Senate's important role as a voice for the states. Responding to a questioner, he went so far as to say he'd consider repeal of the 17th amendment, which would mean that senators would again be elected by state legislatures rather than voters.

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Bush Campaign Chief and Former RNC Chair, Ken Mehlman: I'm Gay

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Marc Ambinder - Aug. 25 (Special Report) - Ken Mehlman, President Bush's campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay.

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