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Specter, Obama

Arlen Specter: From GOP to 'Obama Democrat'

Peter Jackson, Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - For most of his 30 years as Pennsylvania's longest-serving U.S. senator and prominent moderate in Congress, Arlen Specter was a Republican, though often at odds with the GOP leadership...
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A voter in the leaves a polling station in a rural farming area during the state's primary election on January 21, 2012 in New Hope, South Carolina. (Photo by Richard Ellis/Getty Images)

Judges OK SC voter law, say it must wait to 2013

Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - A panel of three federal judges upheld a South Carolina law requiring voters to show photo identification, but delayed enforcement until next year...
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President Barack Obama speaks The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Dems on edge amid debate fallout

Julie Pace, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's more than President Barack Obama's lackluster debate performance that has some Democrats on edge a month from Election Day...
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Obama Affirmative Action

Affirmative action's big challenge: Lukewarm liberal support

Perry Bacon Jr.
ANALYSIS - Many Democrats oppose the practice, and some of the key liberal voices in the country are lukewarm about it...
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Supporters hold up an Ohio sign as President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event at The Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center at Kent State University Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, in Kent, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Ohio appeals to Supreme Court on early voting

Ann Sanner and Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio's election chief has appealed a ruling by a federal court that reinstates the final three early voting days in the battleground state...
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Supporters hold up an Ohio sign as President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event at The Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center at Kent State University Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, in Kent, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Early voting reinstated but not required in Ohio

Ann Sanner, Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated in-person early voting in the swing state of Ohio on the final three days before the Nov. 6 election, handing a victory to President Barack Obama's campaign...
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Rev. Richard Dunn, left, and his son, Rev. Richard Dunn III, are seen in Miami, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, as they discuss their plans to motivate church members to vote in the upcoming elections. It's not just the collection plate that's getting passed around this fall at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in presidential battleground states and across the nation. Exhorting congregations to register to vote, church leaders are distributing registration cards in the middle of services, and many are pledging caravans of "souls to the polls" to deliver the vote. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

Black churches use 'souls to polls' to rally vote

Curt Anderson, Associated Press
MIAMI (AP) - It's not just the collection plate that's getting passed around at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in U.S. battleground states ahead of the November presidential election...
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U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, Kennedy, left, meets with U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.(AP Photo/Office of Patrick J. Kennedy)

It's time for Jesse Jackson Jr. to exit stage left

Javier David
OPINION - The curious case of Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. appears to grow more curious by the day...
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A man heads into the the Penndot Drivers License Center in Butler, Pa., near a sign telling of the requirement for voters to show an acceptable photo ID to vote. Some political momentum could be on the line in a judge’s forthcoming ruling on Pennsylvania's tough new voter identification law. Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson is expected to rule Tuesday. That’s just five weeks before voters decide whether to re-elect President Barack Obama, a Democrat, or replace him with Mitt Romney, a Republican. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Judge halts Pa.'s tough new voter ID requirement

Marc Levy, Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A judge postponed Pennsylvania's controversial voter identification requirement on Tuesday, ordering the state not to enforce it in this year's presidential election...
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Cheryl Ann Moore (53) who spent half her vacation day in frustration at the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in downtown Philadelphia finally gets her voter ID. (Photo by Lucian Perkins/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

How Democrats are winning the voter ID battle

Perry Bacon Jr.
theGRIO REPORT - When Republican-led state legislatures and governors passed controversial voting bills throughout 2011 and earlier this year, the provisions at first appeared a major impediment to President Obama winning re-election...
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