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Glenn Beck: Media and Occupy sit ‘closer to the communists’ than Democratic Party
On his program on Thursday night, Glenn Beck illustrated his views on politics and freedom in America — literally. Creating a spectrum of the “scale of freedom,” he argued that “People are fleeing the parties. And they are standing somewhere in-between.” On Beck’s spectrum, the Democratic Party stands close to…
Clinton: No plans to run for president in 2016
Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said again Wednesday she has no plans to make a second bid to be America’s first woman president. “I’ve said I really don’t believe that that’s something I will do again,” she told Barbara Walters from ABC News. “I am so grateful I had…
Top Texas Democrat: Republicans are ‘digging their own graves’ with Latinos
Thanks to record Latino turnout in the 2012 elections, the Texas Democratic Party succeeded Tuesday night in breaking the Republican supermajority that’s run the state since 2010. That’s no surprise to Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa (pictured left), who told Raw Story in an exclusive interview that Republicans are…
Pile of manure dumped in front of local Ohio Democratic Party headquarters
Local volunteers in Ohio were surprised and disgusted on Tuesday morning to find a large pile of manure left in front of the Warren County Democratic Party headquarters. “I think it was totally disgusting what these people did,” Kim Bergman told WRGT-TV. “I’m kinda shocked that someone would go to…
Catholic bishop: Voting for Obama jeopardizes the ‘eternal salvation of your own soul’
A Catholic bishop from Springfield, Illinois is warning that the stakes for the 2012 election are even higher than most people think because voting for President Barack Obama could damn “you own soul” to hell. In a column and video posted by the official newspaper of the Diocese of Springfield…
It’s the Congress, stupid
Now that Mitt-flop has pretty much put the nail in his political coffin, it’s time for the nation to turn to what’s been painfully obvious to many of us since the minute we heard Willard “Mitt” Romney was the Republican nominee for President: Barack Obama is going to win in…
Republicans insist Romney has no ‘woman problem’
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney badly needs to attract women voters if he is to win the White House, but Republican policies on abortion, contraception and gay marriage risk alienating many. Republican women gathered from across the United States in Tampa, Florida for the presidential nomination convention had little patience with…
Democratic Party’s 2012 national platform to include same sex marriage
The Democratic Party platform drafting committee has unanimously approved language endorsing marriage equality as part of the party’s official 2012 platform. According to LGBT newspaper The Washington Blade, two sources close to the drafting process have come forward and stated that same sex marriage will be a plank in the…
Elizabeth Warren: I’m ‘not scared’ and I’m ready for this fight
On Saturday morning, Massachusetts Democratic candidate for Senate Elizabeth Warren addressed a breakfast meeting of labor leaders in Boston. The Harvard professor acknowledged that the Brown campaign has shown that they are willing to get “nasty,” but said that she is ready to fight for the Democratic Party and for…
Rep. Allen West defends key provisions of ‘Obamacare’
Tea Party darling Rep. Allen West (R-FL), the freshman congressman and outspoken critic of the Democratic Party and the Obama administration, has spoken out in favor of key provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the health care reform act that is mostly known to conservatives as “Obamacare.” In an interview…
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