PHOENIX – After moving to the Phoenix area, the Bustamante family made sure to reregister under their new Maricopa County address. Mom registered as a libertarian, dad as a democrat and the couple’s 18-year-old son as an independent.
Come Election Day, the family found their experiences at the polling booth were as divergent as their political
The incident took place at Hampden-Sydney College, a private institution in Virginia that is one of the few remaining all-male colleges in the United States.
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Daniel W. Jones, chancellor of the University of Mississippi, said on Wednesday that university officials were “very disappointed” in the actions of some students who apparently used racial epithets during a protest of President Obama’s re-election Tuesday night on the Oxford campus.
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Republicans, hoping to gain seats in the Senate, knew that their limited appeal among minorities would be a problem, as would party infighting. But they did not expect to be derailed by the definition of rape.
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A couple of decades ago, Prince William County was one of the mostly white, somewhat rural, far-flung suburbs where Republican candidates went to accumulate the votes to win elections in Virginia.
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WASHINGTON — Even more than the election that made Barack Obama the first black president, the one that returned him to office sent an unmistakable signal that the hegemony of the straight white male in America is over.
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LONG BEACH (CBSLA.com) — A California State University Long Beach professor is being called a white supremacist and a neo-Nazi for preaching white rights.
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Voters in Maine and Maryland approved same-sex marriage on a day of election results that jubilant gay rights advocates called a historic turning point, the first time that marriage for gay men and lesbians has been approved at the ballot box.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/us/same-sex-marriage-gains-cheer-gay-rights-advocates.html?hp
Arcos Restaurant, in the Fells Point neighborhood, was abuzz Tuesday night as the Maryland Dream Act was approved with 59 percent of the vote in a referendum, making Maryland the 13th state with a law granting certain undocumented students access to in-state tuition at state colleges.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Hope-for-StudentsSign-for/135596/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
CHICAGO — Xavier McElrath-Bey drives past the dilapidated houses, liquor stores and vacant lots in his old neighborhood and sees the landmarks of his youth…..
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