Missouri might not be the only state this year where the Republican candidate’s statement about rape costs the party a Senate seat. In last nights Indiana Senate debate, Republican candidate Richard Mourdock was asked about his stance on abortion. Mourdock responded that he oppose abortion even in cases of rape because that can be something “God intended to happen.”

Several months ago when the general election began in earnest the Romney campaign said they would keep a laser focus on the economy. The idea made sense. President Obama’s job approval rating on the economy is very bad and at the time, at least, Romney had an edge on which candidate voters thought would be [...]

The Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan is well to the right of most Americans on the issue of abortion. Ryan believes that abortion should be illegal in all cases except if it endangers the life of the mother. Ryan believes life begins at conception, and as a result a women should be forced to [...]

The is no better sign that the Romney campaign is really concerned about the damage Republican Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin could do to its campaign than the extraordinary lengths they are going to avoid talking about the issue of abortion. Romney did a local interview with KCNC-TV but with the one stipulation from the [...]

It is easy to understand why so many top Republicans are working to get Rep. Todd Akin to drop out of the Missouri Senate race. Not only could he cost them a seat and potentially control of the Senate, but his problem is already starting to metastasize to other Republican candidates. Normally the exact nuances [...]

One of the biggest inherent injustices in our government system is that there is no democracy for the people living in the capital of the country which is called the leader of the free world. The problem is not simply that the people of Washington DC are denied any representation in Congress. The even larger [...]

Voters are telling pollsters that the election this year will be all about jobs and the economy. With the economy still in bad shape, the so called “social issues” such as marriage equality and abortion barely even register with voters. The economy is the number one issue for voters, followed by unemployment. Social issues ranked [...]

During the budget debate, President Obama and Congressional Democrats again sold out the 600,000 mainly African-American and Democratic voting citizens of Washington, DC. They allowed the Republicans to add to the budget deal a rider that would prevent the District from using its own tax revenue to have Medicaid pay for abortion. Democrats used the [...]

The Republican party managed to win their largest House majority in decades thanks to incredibly disciplined focus on economic issues rather than social issues. They were able to use the country’s concerns about financial insecurity, slow growth, and deficit spending to great political success. Republicans were so uniformly disciplined on fiscal messaging that they even [...]

We typically see a gender gap in US politics, with men favoring Republicans more and women going for Democrats. That trend could decide the US Senate race in Colorado, which has been dominated this week by a controversy over Republican Ken Buck refusing to prosecute a rape case in 2005. The victim in the case [...]