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A volunteer claps during political speeches at the Obama For America Wilson Field Office before marching to a local polling precinct for the first day of early voting on October 18, 2012 in Wilson, North Carolina. (Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)

How Obama 2012 reinvented campaigning

Addisu Demissie
ANALYSIS - Barack Obama will never be on a ballot again, but after his big victory last night, many will ask if the Obama campaign model even be replicated...
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GOP marches toward control of House

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans drove toward recapturing control of the House for two more years on Tuesday as the two parties traded gains from the Eastern seaboard to the Southwest...
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Elizabeth Warren takes the stage for her acceptance after beating incumbent U.S. Senator Scott Bown at the Copley Fairmont November 6, 2012 Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images)

Dems win GOP seats in Indiana, Massachusetts

Donna Cassata, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats closed in on keeping their majority in the Senate, swiping Republican-held Senate seats in Indiana and Massachusetts on Tuesday and keeping a once vulnerable seat in Missouri...
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Control of US Congress likely to remain same

Ron DePasquale, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Americans deeply dislike Congress, but they are unlikely to change its makeup in Tuesday's election, which is expected to leave Republicans in control of the House of Representatives and Democrats keeping their majority in the Senate...
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Should faith and politics mix? Bill O'Reilly asks these reverends

Patrice Peck
The political pundit recently discussed the topic with two black reverends on his show "TheO' Reilly Factor."
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Nervous Democrats eye Ohio Secretary of State

Joy-Ann Reid
theGRIO REPORT- Some Democrats and activists are looking warily at Secretary of State Jon Husted, the man some say could decide the election in the state, and therefore in the country...
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This May 17, 2011 file photo shows U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., announcing his candidacy for U.S. Senate, in Creve Coeur, Mo. Akin said in an interview Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012 with St. Louis television station KTVI that pregnancy from rape is "really rare." Akin, who has said he opposes all abortions, said in the interview if a woman is raped, her body "has ways to shut that whole thing down." (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, file)

Gaffe-prone candidates hurt GOP's Senate chances

Andrew Taylor, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Flawed, gaffe-prone nominees may have cost them the chance to win three seats in the 2010 GOP wave....
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A voter gets directions on how to use the electronic voting booth at the Board of Elections early voting site on October 18, 2012 in Wilson, North Carolina. Today is the last day to register and the first day to vote for the election in North Carolina. (Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)

Why are African-Americans so dominant in early voting?

Zerlina Maxwell
theGRIO REPORT - It might be too early to know for sure whether African-American turnout will trump 2008 numbers, but there are plenty of signs, days and weeks into early voting, that they are on pace to set another record..
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In this March 10, 1969 file photo, Rosalie Bryant holds her two year old son, Gregory Michael as she talks to Senators George McGovern, D-S.D., right and Jacob Javits, R-N.Y., in Immokalee, Fla..(AP Photo/Jim Bourdier, File)

How McGovern opened up the Democratic party

Adam Howard
theGRIO REPORT - George McGovern is far too often ridiculed for his landslide presidential defeat forty years ago. But he was in some ways an unsung hero of the civil rights moment...
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Has the GOP conceded defeat in culture wars?

David Callahan
OPINION - We are living in the twilight of the great culture war -- a forty-year battle over social issues that helped separate white working and middle class voters from their natural allies in the Democratic Party...
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