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The NAACP and President Ben Jealous have launched what it says will be its biggest ever push to register voters ahead of the 2012 election.
The Congressional Black Caucus is asking African-American ministers to help educate voters about complying with new state voting laws, which they see as designed to suppress the black vote in November's elections. » read more
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President Barack Obama waves to spectators in 2009 as he and a longtime friend, Dr. Eric Whitaker, golf at Farm Neck Golf Course in Oak Bluffs, Mass.
Most modern U.S. presidents have played golf, but its touchy, since many people view it as an expensive, elite sport. President Barack Obama plays golf a lot, but he wont let the news media see him do it. » read more

Kevin Siers / Charlotte Observer (May 25, 2012) | More election cartoons from McClatchy
Is he a flexible pragmatist, or a politically soulless flip-flopper too eager to please? His supporters say his overarching philosophy of government is clear and consistent.
Romney was elected fresh off his success with the 2002 Winter Olympics, campaigning as a political outsider. He 'didn't like the clubby, good old boys style of politics in Massachusetts' and his business world approach was not always well received. Some of Ron Paul's positions, once dismissed as kooky or quirky, don't seem so bizarre anymore to voters or Republicans. They're now part of the standard GOP playbook. Rep. Ron Paul may have dropped off the presidential campaign trail, but he insists that he's not entirely out of the race. Paul plans to go after delegates and alternates at state GOP conventions in hopes of gaining delegates to wield influence in at the Republican National Convention and beyond.GOP CANDIDATE PROFILES
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