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It’s been a pretty good week for you if you like petitions.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s loss to President Barack Obama put the Republican Party at a crossroads on a national scale. During the 2012 campaign, the GOP struggled to remain intact and keep a unified message. While Romney attempted to keep the focus on the economy and jobs, the prevalence of controversial social issues on the national scene exposed weakness in his campaign and in the vision of the party.
Despite President Obama’s re-election being officially projected just after 11 p.m. on Tuesday, ballots were still being counted well after in Florida, where voters waited in lines well past midnight.
As I started to write this column on Election Day, polls were open and votes were coming in. By the time this is printed, very early Tuesday morning, we will most likely know who will be inaugurated in January as president of the United States.
If there’s two things I’m sick of hearing about, it’s Chris Brown’s continued existence and the women’s reproductive rights debate. Frankly, I’m just too busy to worry what goes on with my vagina, and I’m a little insulted that some politicians assume that women are obsessed with reproductive rights. If they even took two seconds to open an issue of Glamour, they’d know we care about a wide range of things, like Fall’s Nine Hottest Nail Polish Colors and Three Totally Chic Ways to Wear a Cape.
Rep. Todd Akin is still running for a Missouri Senate seat.
Many Democrats looked forward to first lady Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday. Her performance was a genuine yet expected testament to her husband’s character.
In an op-ed published last Sunday in the Tampa Bay Times, Charlie Crist, former Republican governor of Florida, sang President Barack Obama’s praises and endorsed him for re-election this year against Mitt Romney.
President Obama is right to claim that the Republican Party has been “radical” and “extremist” in its approach to deficit reduction. I welcome his refreshingly blunt rhetoric.
This month, Mitt Romney continued the disturbing and growing trend of attacking higher education when he said that President Barack Obama “spent too much time at Harvard.”
Rick Santorum withdrew from the race for the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday afternoon.
According to some political pundits, there’s a war going on in the United States. This war doesn’t involve bombs. It involves legislation, and the war isn’t on a foreign nation — it’s on women’s health care rights.
Last night, the plurality of Florida Republican voters decided that Mitt Romney should be the nominee for the GOP.
From the top two candidates in the Republican race, it appears that GOP voters are looking for a few key things. They want a candidate who supports increased military interventionism, an expansion of the surveillance state, social conservative values and an individual health care mandate.
On Dec. 25, GOP nominee Newt Gingrich unveiled his plan for reversing America's spiral into irrelevancy. "By the end of my second term," he said, among an unsettling flood of laughter and cheers, "we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American."
As former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani began his Thursday presentation on leadership, one audience member wanted to change the subject.
If you haven't noticed, it's Hollywood awards show season, and the stars are coming out.
Only a couple weeks in, the Republican presidential primaries have already given us all we've come to expect from the GOP: baseless attacks and conservative talking points. After the New Hampshire primary, the leading Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, called Obama's incumbency a "failed presidency" and claimed Obama is trying to "put free enterprise on trial."
How is it that an individual such as Mitt Romney could not have had better luck as a presidential candidate and still struggle? In spite of multiple candidates reaching the apex of ratings and popularity, only Romney has endured and somehow stood above the fray. Despite this, he faces distrust among conservative Republicans for his mixed record on a number of issues that define a party changed by Ronald Reagan.