North Carolina voters approve same-sex marriage ban - YAHOO!
25 May 2012, 6:56 pm
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - North Carolina voters on Tuesday approved a state constitutional amendment that bans same-sex marriage and civil unions, dealing a blow to efforts across the United States to expand gay marriage rights. The amendment ...
Runoff could take Egypt's voters on one of two very different paths - msnbc.com
25 May 2012, 5:37 pm
CAIRO - Hundreds of thousands of people throng the streets. The crowds furiously demand an end to nepotism and corruption and all the unemployment and injustice they create. The protesters rally behind a slogan that is also a deeply held ...
Single Women voters Focus of Democrats’ Equal-Pay Appeal - Bloomberg
25 May 2012, 9:59 am
Unmarried women were among Barack Obama’s most loyal supporters in 2008, turning out in droves and delivering 70 percent of their votes to him. When many of them stayed home in the 2010 midterm election, Democrats lost the House and had their ...
Explaining Black voters' Shift on Same-Sex Marriage - Mother Jones
25 May 2012, 9:16 am
Black voters in Maryland have flipped on same-sex marriage, going from majority opposed to majority in favor in the space of two months. As I noted on Thursday, that means that Maryland could become the first state to approve of marriage ...
Obama Tries to Stop the Bleeding With Blue Collar voters - FOX News
25 May 2012, 9:09 am
“There may be value for that type of experience, but it’s not in the White House.” -- President Obama campaigning in Des Moines, Iowa attacking Republican Mitt Romney’s time as the CEO of Bain Capital. Obama also called Romney’s speech ...
Romney campaign begins quiet push for African American voters - Washington Post
24 May 2012, 7:47 pm
Mitt Romney’s campaign team has been quietly laying plans for an outreach effort to President Obama’s most loyal supporters — black voters — not just to chip away at the huge Democratic margins but also as a way to reassure independent swing voters ...
For voters, It’s the Job-Growth Trend That Counts - New York Times Blogs
24 May 2012, 12:31 pm
When Al Gore went before voters in November 2000, as a sitting vice president promising to continue President Bill Clinton’s economic policies, the economy was in excellent shape. The unemployment rate had fallen to only 3.9 percent, and ...
voters Shrug at Revelations of Ethnic Claim in Senate Race - New York Times
24 May 2012, 6:54 am
SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. — The controversy surrounding Elizabeth Warren’s ethnic heritage and whether she misrepresented herself as a minority in the past may have engulfed her Senate campaign and the news media, but in parts of western ...
Wisconsin Recall: Walker Leads Barrett 50-42 Among Likely voters - Reason.com
23 May 2012, 6:58 pm
Governor Scott Walker leads Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett 50-42 among those likely to vote in Wisconsin’s June 5 recall election, according to a new Reason-Rupe poll of 708 Wisconsin adults on cell phones and landlines. At the same time ...
