A political debate plays out among Louisiana oil rigs
Los Angeles Times
"There are politicians who say that if we just drilled more, then gas prices would come down right away," President Obama said last month in the Rose Garden. "What they don't say is that we have been drilling more." But companies here complain about a ...

'Super PACs' Let Strategists Off the Leash
New York Times
The intensifying flood of uncapped donations to outside political groups is transforming not just campaigns but the entire business of politics. Once seasonal affairs, campaigns from the presidential race down to House contests are becoming longer and ...
Politics 2012: Super year for Super PACsUPI.com

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Recall politics is old hat in Racine, where no incumbent is safe
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog)
Racine – If there's a battleground within the battleground in Wisconsin's recall wars, this is it – a political no man's land where the two parties have spent a quarter-century trading control of the same tenuous turf. This is the only state Senate ...

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Politics live: May 21, 2012
Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
Welcome to our live coverage of politics from the national capital. All times in AEDST. You can also follow me on Twitter @murpharoo 12.58pm: Mr Thomson says commentators need to disclose when they are players, not simply reporters.
Judgment day for ThomsonThe Australian
CRAIG'S LIST: The people have spoken. Labor - be afraidNEWS.com.au

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Mamata Banerjee personifies populist force in Indian politics
Washington Post
Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of the state of West Bengal, is a rising force in Indian politics, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton paid a special visit to Kolkata this month to meet her. The 57-year-old Banerjee — determined, ...

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Presidential politics: Making sense of the Rev. Wright ad campaign that never was
The Seattle Times
Four years later, the mere mention of Wright by political opponents is considered racist. Just ask Republican political strategist Fred Davis. Or his once-potential client, billionaire Joe Ricketts. Davis prepared a proposal for an ad campaign for ...
Racial Politics, 2012-StyleNew York Times
Politics intrudes upon baseballChicago Tribune
The Lesson of the Ricketts Fiasco: Politics Is BusinessBloomberg
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Gender politics in Congress
Washington Post
It's distressing — even sickening — that debate about this landmark law has devolved into one more election-year grudge match between Democrats and Republicans shamelessly using gender to try to score political points. Now that the House and Senate ...

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Chicago's NATO Summit: In the Shadow of Global Geo-Politics, the Realities of ...
TIME
By Eric Ferkenhoff / Chicago Sunday, May 20, 2012 A woman holds a sign during a demonstration leading up to the NATO Summit in Chicago May 18, 2012. For several days leading up to the start of NATO Summit in Chicago, protests, while large and ...
No NATO politicsPakistan Observer
Obama hosts the G8 and NATO summits, plus more to watch for this weekend in ...ABC News
NATO shifts to help an elusive Afghanistan peaceThe Associated Press

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No politics, just bloc vote, says INC member
Inquirer.net (blog)
By Gil C. Cabacungan Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) votes as a herd in elections, but it never dips its fingers in politics, a member of the religious sect said Sunday. Lawyer Ferdinand Topacio, an INC follower, said he was “offended” and “outraged” by the ...

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The political broom
Berkshire Eagle
Mitt Romney is one of those political broomsticks George Washington described in making his point about party politics in America. In his view, political parties made candidacies like his irrelevant because the personal distinction and accomplishments ...
Romney chipping away at Obama fundraising leadLos Angeles Times
Bob Schieffer Tells Grads Politics Are 'Broken,' Journalism Is FunHuffington Post
Race and Religion Rear Their HeadsNew York Times
CNN -Philadelphia Inquirer -msnbc.com (blog)
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