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Both campaigns are trying to set the stage for Wednesday’s debate.

More than two weeks after four Americans — including the U.S. ambassador to Libya — were killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, FBI agents have not yet been granted access to investigate in the eastern Libyan city, and the crime scene has not been secured.

Many on the right are heavily invested in the argument that current polling is intentionally biased against Mitt Romney. Their argument is not very plausible.

Whether Mitt Romney wins or loses, the GOP needs to evolve or be doomed to minority party status.

Good journalism? Or, bad ethics?

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Republicans think they found the smoking gun of the 2012 election. They’re kidding themselves.

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So, Mitt Romney opened his mouth again.

The Romney campaign’s critique of the President’s foreign policy record is weak, and based on bad history.

Several recent polls suggest that Mitt Romney is losing the advantage he had over the President on economic issues.

The Libertarian Party’s Presidential candidate could prove decisive in determining who wins the Electoral College.

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy weaknesses are starting to become apparent.

A new round of polling has Obama in the lead and shows reasons why Romney’s supporters should be concerned, but it’s unclear how long any of this will last.

Another bad jobs report threatens to undermine whatever good will the President had coming off the Democratic National Convention.

President Obama didn’t blow the doors off the Time Warner Cable Arena last night, but he didn’t need to.

Last night, Bill Clinton hit one out of the park for the President Of The United States.

Depending on what time you watched any of last night’s proceedings in Charlotte, you got a very different experience.

The Obama campaign’s 4.5 new private sector jobs claim is true, but only if you forget the first year of the Obama Administration.

Mitt Romney left one crucial piece out of his speech last night.

Not surprisingly, Romney campaigns staffers don’t seem to want to take responsibility for Clint Eastwood’s performance last night.

Over two days of speakers, not a single Republican has mentioned the Tea Party.

Lindsey Graham: “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”

I question the timing of the Republican Convention.

Security at the Republican Convention in Tampa looks more like a war zone than a political convention in a democratic republic.

As its convention begins, one has to wonder what has happened to the Republican Party.

New York’s police commissioner admits that his officers recklessly wounded 9 innocent bystanders at the Empire State Building yesterday.

The fallout from Todd Akin’s rape comments on Sunday has exposed a rift in the Republican Party.

Bill Keith built a successful business making solar-powered ceiling fans. The President’s trade policies are in the process of destroying it.