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The Republican Party's dangerous imbalance
Source: msnbc.com

Congressional Republicans risk creating a vicious cycle that will keep them in the minority.

Battle for state legislatures carries high stakes
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Though state legislative races draw far less attention than contests for the White House, Congress and governor, the party that controls the legislatures has an outsized role nationally

Was It Enough?

Hillary Clinton just gave the speech of her political career. Following the brutally divisive primary race and her eventual loss to Barack Obama, Senator Clinton found herself preparing this week for the speech she hoped she'd never have to give.

Backers Want Clinton Nominated at Convention
Source: scrippsnews.com | Scripps News Service

Hillary backers are half way to having enough signatures for a nomination. They say this will help unify the party even though Obama is the presumptive Democratic candidate for the general election. Will this really unify the party or will it result in further division?

An Exclusive Interview With Will Bower, Co-Founder of PUMA (Party Unity My A**)

PUMA, which stands for Party Unity My A**, is a group of democrats (and, for that matter, Republicans) who feel disenfranchised by the DNC, the party elite and Barack Obama. They say they can see through Obama's persona.

Clinton and Obama share stage in Unity, N.H.
Source: msnbc.com

Putting their past political turbulence behind them, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton make a public show of unity in the appropriately named town of Unity,��N.H.

Tiny N.H. town readies for Obama-Clinton
Source: msnbc.com

No one cared much about Unity - the town or the ideal - back when more than a dozen candidates were competing in the New Hampshire primary.

Not all Democrats going for Obama
Source: msnbc.com

For all his successes, the Illinois senator does not go over so well in a fair number of Democratic lawmakers' home districts. So it seems there is little chance some will endorse him for president.

Clinton backers to protest outside rules meeting
Source: msnbc.com

The Democratic presidential race is heading into a fractious end game as supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton mobilize for a protest Saturday to demand that the party count two outlawed primaries that favored her.

On the Mending Fence

Being a political aspirant many of my friends and family who know little of politics turn to me for reasoned opinion during these heavyweight political times.

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