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Florida Rep. Allen West (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) and Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Election 2012: A bad night for black Republicans

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - While President Barack Obama and supporters celebrated his victorious win last night, black politicians in the Republican Party were experiencing less luck in their race for Congress.
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Voters show identification as they sign in to vote during the Republican primary election April 24, 2012 at Bodine High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Turnout is expected to be low as Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney continues his campaign as the presumptive GOP candidate. (Photo by Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)

Pennsylvania GOP accused of planning voter intimidation

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - Civil rights groups sent a letter to Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez today about alleged efforts between the Pennsylvania Republican Party and the Pittsburgh Tea Party to target Pittsburgh precincts with large numbers of African-American voters...
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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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(Photo by WREG)

Controversial billboard labels MLK a Republican

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT -'Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. VOTE REPUBLICAN!' the controversial billboard reads from above Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Dallas, Texas...
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WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 11: Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell and co-chairman of the U.S.-Cuba 21st Century Policy Initiative at the New America Foundation, testifies before the Senate Finance Committee during a hearing about the Cuba trade embargo on Capitol Hill December 11, 2007 in Washington, DC. The hearing was called to discuss the "Promoting American Agricultural and Medical Exports to Cuba Act of 2007" and received testimony from witness on both sides of the 45-year-old embargo. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Colin Powell's former chief of staff: GOP 'is full of racists'

Similoluwa Ojurongbe
theGRIO REPORT - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former Chief of Staff and a registered Republican, told MSNBC's 'The Ed Show' in an interview 'My party is full of racists'...
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AP photo.

Big Bird, binders, and bayonets: Psychographic marketing and the 2012 presidential election

Lawrence M. Watkins
OPINION - Political candidates such as Romney are now using many psychological and marketing tactics to increase their likelihood of victory on election day at the expense of maintaining their integrity...
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Mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah Mia Love speaks during the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on August 28, 2012 in Tampa, Florida. Today is the first full session of the RNC after the start was delayed due to Tropical Storm Isaac. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

1st black GOP woman in US Congress possible

Paul Foy and Andrew Miga, Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - In her bid to become the first black Republican woman elected to Congress, Mia Love is her party's face of diversity this campaign year...
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Jim Greer, former Chair of Florida Republican Party.

Ex-Florida GOP chair: Voter ID a 'marketing tool'

Joy-Ann Reid
theGRIO REPORT - The former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida is currently awaiting trial for allegedly paying himself to raise money for the party...
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Anti-Obama ad produced by Pivot Point, a PAC out of Washington state. (shitocat1 YouTube)

Super PAC, black pastor tell African-Americans to vote for Romney

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - 'When Obama was elected it was thrilling,' the ad starts off, but the African-American man and woman on screen quickly begin questioning whether President Barack Obama should be re-elected for a second term...
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Mugshot of Colin Small (Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office)

Man with GOP ties accused of trashing voter forms

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - A man employed by a company working for the Virginia Republican Party was arrested Thursday and charged with destroying voter registration forms...
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