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Republican Richard Mourdock, candidate for Indiana's U.S. Senate seat, participates in a debate with Democrat Joe Donnelly and Libertarian Andrew Horning in a debate in New Albany, Ind., Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. Mourdock said Tuesday when a woman is impregnated during a rape, "it's something God intended." He was asked during the final minutes of the debate whether abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or incest. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

GOP candidate on rape pregnancy: 'That's something God intended'

Tom LoBianco, Associated Press
NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) - Top Republicans were slow to embrace tea party-backed Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock after he ousted a longtime GOP senator from office..
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William Bain Jr. (right) and Mitt Romney, at Bain's offices in Copley Plaza. (Photo by Justine Schiavo/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Romney's 'binders' backlash not new

Similoluwa Ojurongbe
theGRIO REPORT - According to the Huffington Post, this foot in mouth feeling surrounding women's issues is not entirely a new one for the Massachusetts governor...
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Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol February 16, 2012 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Scott Brown pays homeless $8 an hour to campaign in the hood

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theGRIO REPORT - Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown is under fire for a racially tinged campaign tactic in his contentious 2012 U.S. Senate race...
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U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (C) speaks to members of the media as Senate Minority Whip Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) (R) and Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) (L) listen at the U.S. Capitol September 19, 2012 in Washington, DC. Senate Republicans had a weekly policy committee luncheon meeting earlier. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

US Senate expected to remain without blacks for years

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The United States Senate will remain without any black representative for some years to come...
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George Allen

New ads attack GOP candidate's 'racist' past

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - The man behind the infamous 'macaca' slur is back in the spotlight for his racially troubled past...
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Ellen Chube, Vice President, Chief of Staff to the Chairman & CEO at Ariel Investments, Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, Robert Wiesenthal Executive Vice president and Chief Financial Officer of Sony Corporation of America, and Brian Chesky, internet developer and founder and CEO of Airbnb, attend Allen & Company's Sun Valley Conference on July 12, 2012 in Sun Valley, Idaho. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Is Cory Booker ready to step into NJ's statehouse?

Vivian Glover
theGRIO REPORT - No one following the career of Cory Booker believes his political aspirations ended when he was elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey...
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Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., talks with reporters while attending the Governor's Ham Breakfast at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia, Mo. Akin was keeping a low profile, Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, a day after a TV interview in which he said that women's bodies can prevent pregnancies in "a legitimate rape" and that conception is rare in such cases. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Obama: Akin 'somehow missed science class'

Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - President Barack Obama is mocking Senate candidate Todd Akin of Missouri for his remarks about a woman's body being able to avoid pregnancy during what Akin called a 'legitimate rape'...
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Why Romney can't move ahead of Obama

Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Brooke Brower
FIRST READ - Our latest NBC/WSJ poll shows President Obama leading Mitt Romney by four points among registered voters, 48%-44 percent...
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Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) (L) and Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) hold a news conference to announce legislation to overhaul the federal government's planning, management, and oversight of wartime-support contracting at the U.S. Capitol March 1, 2012 in Washington, DC. The senators said they believe this is enough support in Congress to pass the legislation, which would build a greater system of accountability in military contracting. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Why Todd Akin is so important

Perry Bacon Jr.
ANALYSIS - The controversy involving the Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Missouri, Rep. Todd Akin, is so critical not just because of his inflammatory remarks, but because control of the Senate could be determined...
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Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., talks with reporters while attending the Governor's Ham Breakfast at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia, Mo. Akin was keeping a low profile, Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, a day after a TV interview in which he said that women's bodies can prevent pregnancies in "a legitimate rape" and that conception is rare in such cases. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Akin reiterates plan to go on with Missouri Senate bid

Jim Salter, Associated Press
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Rep. Todd Akin has reiterated his intention to stay in the Missouri Senate race after making comments that women's bodies can prevent pregnancies in cases of 'legitimate rape'...
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