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CNN Poll: Obama 49 percent-Romney 47 percent among likely voters
With three days to go until the start of the Republican convention, President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney remain deadlocked in the race for the White House, according to a new national survey. A CNN/ORC International poll released...
Tags: Abortion Issue, Politics, Joe Biden, Republican Party, Voting
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'Weak' In Review: The Science Behind Todd Akin's Rape, Pregnancy Claims
The Hartford CourantCongressman Todd Akin, the Republican nominee in Missouri for U.S. Senate, created quite a stir a week ago with his claim that women have biological defenses to prevent pregnancy in cases of "legitimate" rape. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female...Tags: William Shatner, Politics, The New York Times, Michele Bachmann, Kevin Yoder
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Letters to the Editor - Aug. 25
Barbaric acts contrary to teachings of Islam To the editor: Seventy people killed in a soccer stadium in Egypt. Acid flung on to the faces of young girls in Afghanistan, leaving them disfigured just because they were attending school. These horrors...Tags: Paul Ryan, Abortion, Religion and Belief, Islam
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Akin's gaffe offers unflattering glimpse of widely shared Republican attitudes
Mary SanchezLadies, remember what your mothers told you about men who regard women as sex objects? They're no good. Keep that in mind when pondering the Republican Party platform this year and all those heated conversations about the "war on women." Why is so...Tags: Politics, Tampa, Mary Sanchez, Health Care Reform (2009), Feminism
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Trash collection time
Paul GreenbergWho is this Todd Akin and why is everybody, it seems, paying so much attention to what he has to say? Answer: He's a congressman from Missouri who's running for the U.S. Senate in a race that could prove critical for control of the next Congress. And he'...Tags: Bette Davis, Politics, Joe Biden, Republican Party, Parties and Movements
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The decline of party power
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- No recent development has underlined the decline of political party clout more than beleaguered Senate Republican nominee Todd Akin's refusal to accede to GOP leadership demands that he withdraw from his race against Democratic Sen. Claire...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Politics, Joe Biden, Republican Party
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Akin's idiocy is infectious
Jonah GoldbergTodd Akin's idiocy appears to be infectious. The evil genius of the Missouri congressman's comments is that they lend themselves to such broad interpretations -- and misinterpretations. By now his remarks are familiar, but just in case ... Akin told...Tags: Abortion Issue, Politics, Republican Party, Whoopi Goldberg, Elections
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Neither party is defined by its lunatic fringe
Your recent editorial attempted to link Rep. Todd Akin's stupid and hopefully career-ending comments about rape with the GOP's overall philosophy on women's rights, even though the entire GOP leadership, including Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan, have...Tags: Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Politics, Anthony D. Weiner, Republican Party
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Columnist Leonard Pitts Jr.: Ignorance hardly unique
Rep. Todd Akin's fame - more accurately, his infamy - now reaches all the way to the Congo. There, Eve Ensler, the award-winning American author of ''The Vagina Monologues'' and herself a survivor of rape, wrote an open letter castigating last week's...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Movies, Republican Party, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida)
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The Goldwater legacy
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- As the 2012 Republican National Convention gathers in Tampa, I find my thoughts going back nearly half a century to San Francisco in 1964. It was the first political convention I covered as a reporter, and it was the one at which Sen....Tags: Joe Biden, Politics, 2012 Republican National Convention, Republican Party, Tampa
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Akin's ignorance hardly unique
Leonard PittsRep. Todd Akin's fame -- more accurately, his infamy -- now reaches all the way to the Congo. There, Eve Ensler, the award-winning American author of "The Vagina Monologues" and herself a survivor of rape, wrote an open letter castigating last week's...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Republican Party, Movies, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida)
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Monday, August 27, 2012
5:30 - 9 a.m. Bill Leff in for Jonathon Brandmeier 7:35 a.m. She directed her first feature at 12. Bill Leff (in for Johnny B) chats with the young filmmaker during Hollywood on it's ear. 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Mike McConnell 10:05 a.m. Why can't...
Aug 24, 2012
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