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The Best Man

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Infidelity and homosexuality. Or: love outside wedlock and love that’s been made impossible inside wedlock. The two themes play out like a broken record in American politics.

 
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Election Trends

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If President Obama wins re-election this November, it will mark only the second time in United States history that the American people re-elect four out of five consecutive presidents.

 
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Rush’s Marriage Rules

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At a campaign fundraiser for Mitt Romney, the presumed Republican presidential candidate seeks counsel from conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.

 
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Bizarro Politics

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Presidential politics have splash landed on Bizarro World. Democrats want to talk about foreign policy. Republicans want to talk about the economy. Ron Paul’s winning delegates.

 
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Mitt Eats Cookies

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“Who insults a cookie?!” exclaims Thomas Monson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

 
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Forget National Polls

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Support among women. Support among minorities. Support among seniors. Support among millennials. Unemployment rate. Stock market gains.

 
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Un-Secret Protection

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The Secret Service is authorized by law to protect major presidential and vice presidential candidates and their spouses within 120 days of a general presidential election.

 
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Clinton for VP?

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On July 11, 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr fatally shot Alexander Hamilton, the former Secretary of the Treasury. Consequently, President Thomas Jefferson did what any reasonable President would do under these circumstances. He dropped Burr from the 1804 re-election ticket. Then he won.

 
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Marco? Rubio!

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His brother-in-law is a convicted cocaine dealer. He has acrimonious relations with America’s most influential Latino news broadcaster. His biography is falsified.

 
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Romney Veepstakes

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With bated breath, you’ve waited 24 hours to see who the Republicans will nominate for vice-president. I won’t keep you any longer.

 
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Romney Veepstakes

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With Rick Santorum’s withdrawal last week, the steady transition to the general election season continues. With victory assured, Mitt Romney has begun the search for the bottom half of his ticket.

 
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Santorum’s Pink Balls

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While Barack Obama entertains NASCAR champions Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr. at the White House . . .

 
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Mad Mitt

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“Romney’s a clown.” That’s what someone in Mad Men said during last Sunday’s episode. How did the Romney clan respond? Stop “mocking” us, they said.

 
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Predicting the End

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Growing uncompetitive, the 2012 Republican Primary has lost its luster. Recent endorsements from Jeb Bush, Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, and former president George H.W. Bush tell us what we already knew.

 
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Down with Death!

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Death, holding his tall scythe, stands in the dock before the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices.

 
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Campaign Eraser

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What’s the number one criticism of Mitt Romney from the Republican Party’s conservative base? That he’s not actually a conservative!

 
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Shake! Shake! Shake!

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Deep inside Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign headquarters in Boston, the Republican candidate is pontificating on why he loves firing people, how he has no concern for the very poor, and where he parks all of his Cadillac sedans.

 
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Tick Tock

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Sooner or later, Rick Santorum will have to make a dent in Mitt Romney’sdelegate lead. Wait, not later. Just sooner.

 
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What’s in a Tweet?

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Would a phrase by any other length sound as sweet? Not when coming from Iran’s Ayatollah Khameini, and certainly not when the Supreme Leader is giving a tepid endorsement for the sitting president and presumptive Democratic candidate.

 
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Math with Romney

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Mitt Romney is going to be the nominee of the Republican Party. It’s inevitable. The campaign has grown borderline cocky. Yet, in its confidence, it seems to have completely misread the objectives of their opponents.