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Blacks Won't Check Out Over Gay Marriage
If speculation in media and political circles is any indication, the biggest political risk in President Obama’s recently announced support for gay marriage lies in homophobic black voters abandoning the president in droves. But are African-American voters, who supported Obama by a 96 percent margin in 2008, really inclined to stay home in 2012 over…
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Obama Endorses Same-Sex Marriage
President Obama has affirmed his support for same-sex marriage. In a taped interview on Wednesday with Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts, to be aired in full on the show’s Thursday broadcast, Obama said that he is no longer standing on the issue’s sidelines. “I had hesitated on gay marriage in part because I thought civil…
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What's at Stake in This Week's Primaries
UPDATE 5/9/2012: The results are in, with the races going largely as expected on Tuesday night. Follow updates below. Tuesday’s primary races may be inconsequential where the presidential candidates are concerned, with Mitt Romney expected to easily trounce Ron Paul in North Carolina, Indiana and West Virginia. But will results in some of the local…
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White House Chef on Food-Desert Fight
Last month a front-page story in the New York Times emphasized two studies that appeared to challenge the notion that food deserts — districts with limited or no access to affordable and nutritious foods, yet rich in stores hawking junk food — are a real problem. The studies, recently published in the journals Social Science…
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17 Mitt Romney Views You Should Know
“If you’re looking for someone who’s never changed any positions on any policies, then I’m not your guy,” Mitt Romney said on Meet the Press in 2007 during his first presidential campaign. “I learn from experience.” The former Massachusetts governor, who once called himself “progressive” but now considers himself “severely conservative,” might have found some…
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Obama Kicks Off 2012 Bid With Rallies
On Saturday President Obama and the first lady will hold their first official campaign rallies of the season at stops in Columbus, Ohio, and Richmond, Va. Although the president has spoken at re-election fundraisers for several months now, this weekend’s rallies at Ohio State University and Virginia Commonwealth University mark his first non-fundraising events of…
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Why the Student-Loan Debate Is Your Fight
More than 7.4 million college students, including 1.5 million African Americans, with subsidized federal Stafford loans could see their interest rates double in July unless Congress reaches a compromise on keeping them down. Since President Obama started pushing the issue two weeks ago, both sides of the aisle now agree that it’s a bad idea…
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Obama's Consumer Watchdog Gets to Work
From the time that President Obama first mentioned the idea of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2009 — pitched in the wake of the economic collapse as part of his broader vision for financial regulatory reform — it has been followed by controversy. With its mandate to police financial products and services marketed to…
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Gingrich, Sort of, Endorses Romney
After winning just two states in the long GOP presidential primary race, Newt Gingrich finally called it quits on Wednesday, announcing that he would suspend his campaign. “But suspending the campaign does not mean suspending citizenship,” Gingrich said before supporters in Arlington, Va., explaining that putting the race behind him now lets him return to…
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Obama's Plan for Afghanistan
Against the political backdrop of the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, a mission that President Obama ordered a year ago to the day, he traveled to Afghanistan on Tuesday to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The agreement, which had been negotiated between the two nations for 20…
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