Why Hispanic voter turnout isn’t higher, in two charts

The rapid growth of the country’s Hispanic population has added millions of voters in recent years. But new data from the Pew Hispanic Center show that Latinos are responsible for a smaller portion of the electorate than many might expect. 

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What is Early Voting and How Does It Work?

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Greg Sargent: The Morning Plum: Mitt Romney, scourge of millionaires

Mitt Romney’s problem is not simply that the Obama campaign has succeeded in persuading voters that his policies would benefit the rich at the expense of the middle class. It’s that his policies really would benefit the rich at the expense of the middle class, and he doesn’t have any reality-based way of persuading voters otherwise.

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Benghazi Was Obama's 3 a.m. Call

Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal
Why won't the Libya story go away? Why can't the memory of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and his staff be consigned to the same sad-and-sealed file of Americans killed abroad in dangerous line of duty? How has an episode that seemed at first to have been mishandled by the Romney camp become an emblem of a feckless and deluded foreign policy?The story-switching and stonewalling haven't helped. But let's start a little earlier.The hour is 5 p.m., Sept. 11, Washington time, and the scene is an Oval Office meeting among President Obama, the secretary of defense, the national...

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Paul Ryan attacks Afghanistan drawdown: ‘They’re still fighting’

GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan had some sharp criticism for President Obama on Afghanistan Monday morning, telling conservative radio host Laura Ingraham that the president put political considerations before national security with his decision to draw down tens of thousands of “surge” troops during the height of the fighting season.

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Voting Six Weeks Early Is Insane

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Washington Post poll: Sen. Bill Nelson leads Connie Mack by 14 in Florida

Democrats’ hopes of holding on to their Senate seat in Florida appear to be looking up, with a new Washington Post poll showing Sen. Bill Nelson (D) holding a 14-point lead on Rep. Connie Mack (R) among likely voters, 54 percent to 40 percent.

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