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The result, a first, was because more black voters went to the polls than in 2008 and fewer whites did, according to a census report released Wednesday.      Full News here – NYT > Politics

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Rachel Maddow reports on the outcome of the special congressional election in South Carolina in which former governor, Republican Mark Sanford defeated Democratic challenger Elizabeth Colbert Busch despite his scandal stained past. (msnbc.com) Full News here – RealClearPolitics Video Log

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“Voters in South Carolina’s first congressional district head to the polls on Tuesday to decide whether to offer former Gov. Mark Sanford a chance at political redemption, or instead send the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert to Congress,” NBC News reports. Full News here – Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire

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Voters under 30, who turned out in droves to elect President Obama in 2008, are increasingly turned off by politics, according to a new Harvard poll.      Full News here – NYT > Politics

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Americans are largely supportive of a Senate plan to overhaul immigration laws, but they’re skeptical it will fix a broken system forever, a new poll shows. Full News here – Washington Wire

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – District of Columbia voters easily approved a measure that gives the U.S. capital more budget autonomy, and they returned an incumbent to a city council seat made vacant in a financial scandal. The charter amendment on the budget was approved by 83 percent of voters in a Tuesday special election that drew [...]

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By Andrew Cawthorne and Deisy Buitrago CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan acting President Nicolas Maduro said on Saturday a centuries-old curse would fall on the heads of those who do not vote for him in next week's election to pick a successor to late leader Hugo Chavez. Maduro's invocation of the "curse of Macarapana" was the [...]

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By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) – After months of infighting over what went wrong for them in the 2012 elections, Republicans on Monday outlined a broad plan to attract racial minorities, women and young voters – and shed their image as a "narrow-minded, out-of-touch" party of "stuffy old men." Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus [...]

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Warnings about the Republican Party’s future have been dire since the November elections. Find a way to attract minority voters –- particularly the nation’s fast-growing Latino population -– or face losing the White House and down-ballot races for decades. An analysis of a poll released this month by the independent polling firm Latino Decisions found [...]

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Disagreements were rare as Gabriel Gomez, Michael Sullivan and Daniel B. Winslow made their cases for filling John Kerry’s seat. Full News here – The Caucus

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