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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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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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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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President Barack Obama (R) meets with former Secretary of State General Colin Powell (L) in the Oval Office of the White House December 1, 2010 in Washington, DC. According to a White House media release, Obama and Powell were expected to discuss various issues including education, and the ratifying the New START Treaty. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Colin Powell endorses Obama for president again

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a longtime Republican, is sticking with President Barack Obama in this year's election...
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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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George Romney (AP Photo)

George Romney's 1964 RNC 'walk out' myth debunked

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theGRIO REPORT - One of the most infamous, and widely reported, moments of George Romney's political career was his alleged decision to "walk out" of the Republican National Convention in 1964, when the GOP nominated the anti-Civil Rights Act right-winger Barry Goldwater as the party's standard bearer...
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Jason Thompson

GOP candidate's son: We can send Obama 'back to Kenya'

theGrio
theGRIO REPORT - Jason Thompson, the son of Republican Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson, made an off-color remark at President Obama's expense which has now gone viral...
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Stacey Dash (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images)

Why Stacey Dash's Romney praise struck a chord

Mychal Denzel Smith
OPINION - No, we’re accustomed to black Republicans. Even still, something reeks of opportunism...
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