Dems point to support for ‘personhood’ as Romney’s downfall in Colorado

Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has struggled to win over social-conservative primary campaign voters, but he recently took up the hard-core anti-abortion, anti-birth control, anti-stem cell personhood movement, which would grant full citizen rights to fertilized human eggs. It’s a move that will surely doom his chances to win More…

DNC members call on Obama to halt Keystone XL

Seven members of the Democratic National Committee have joined with environmental activists, celebrities and a group of Nobel Peace Prize winners in calling on President Obama to deny a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline.

Early states join forces to protect 2012 nomination calendar

House speakers from Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina have stepped forward in support of the current presidential nomination calendar, as well as to protect the traditional early starts of the process by their states.

Paul Ryan, DNC planning ad campaigns in Iowa

More political ads will likely soon fly across the Iowa airwaves, and they won’t be the product of the 2012 campaigns.

Charlotte will host Democratic National Convention in 2012

First lady Michelle Obama announced in a posting on BarackObama.com that Charlotte will host the 46th Democratic National Convention in 2012. St. Louis, Minneapolis and Cleveland were the three other cities in the running.

In an email sent out to supporters, Michelle Obama wrote:

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Franken, Klobuchar, Dayton push for Democratic convention in Minneapolis

Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar, as well as DFL gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton, are pressing the Democratic National Convention Committee to host the DNC in Minneapolis in 2012. The state’s most populous city is on the short list along with Charlotte, N.C., St. Louis and Cleveland.

Rhetoric Around U.S. Chamber and Foreign Funding Reaches New Heights

Mudslinging about undisclosed campaign donors and the potential for foreign interference reached a new pitch yesterday in an already surprisingly heated national debate about campaign finance.

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Obama Rallies Supporters to Vote and Vote Early

President Obama is speaking in Madison, Wisconsin, this evening in an attempt to reenergize young voters — a group which voted for him over Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the 2008 presidential election by more than 30 percentage points. In addition to getting them excited to go to the More…

GOP-Allied Groups Outspending Democratic Counterparts 6 to 1

As of this point, ad spending by GOP allied groups is outpacing the spending of Democrat aligned ones by a ratio of about 6 to 1:

Helped by looser fundraising rules, about two dozen organizations intended to benefit Republicans are active this fall in House and Senate races; fewer than

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Outside Right-Wing Groups Negate Democrats’ Fundraising Lead

New fundraising numbers are in for both parties, and they’re telling the same old story of this election cycle. All three national Democratic campaign committees outraised their Republican counterparts in August — the DNC took in $10.9 million last month, beating the RNC’s $7.9 million, while the DCCC and More…