In the wake of the overwhelming Latino and Asian American support for President Obama in the 2012 election—support that was critical to his re-election—the political winds on immigration have shifted significantly to favor reform with a pathway to citizenship for the approximately 11 million undocumented living in our country.... Read more»
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Former Arizona Rep. Jim Kolbe joined representatives of business, church and civil rights groups to file briefs supporting same-sex marriage in two upcoming Supreme Court cases on the issue. Kolbe, in a same-sex marriage himself, said it’s time marriage equality.... Read more»
Women may hold up half the sky, but they don’t look likely to feature heavily in the president’s next cabinet.... Read more»
Five conservative dark money groups active in 2012 elections previously told tax regulators that they would not engage in politics, including Arizona-based Americans for Responsible Leadership, which spent more than $5.2 million - mainly to support Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.... Read more»1
We’ve long warned our readers to make good use of the delete key when emails spreading sketchy claims pop up in their inboxes. But we’ve found that old viral emails, unfortunately, never die — and new ones spread like a highly contagious disease.... Read more»
Mitt Romney’s son, Tagg, is raising eyebrows with his latest statements on his dad’s presidential run. In an interview with the Boston Globe, Mitt’s oldest son said his father had “no desire” to be president despite his attempt to unseat Barack Obama this fall.... Read more»
A fog of misinformation has settled on the fiscal cliff, as both House Speaker John Boehner and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner have traded conflicting, misleading and false statements in recent days on the president’s deficit-reduction plan.... Read more»
How did the U.S. reach a ‘fiscal cliff’ and what does it mean? Here are the facts.... Read more»
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney visited the White House Thursday for lunch with President Barack Obama.... Read more»
Politico rarely does anything to illuminate the issues, clarify the questions facing voters, or even shed much light on the characters of the respective candidates—any of which is usually the justification for such contentless coverage.... Read more»
True immigration reform that deals practically and responsibly with the 11 million people living in the United States without immigration status has proven elusive over the past decade.... Read more»2
For the past nine months, we’ve been following how political campaigns use data about voters to target them in different ways. Now, members of the campaign are starting to open up about what their team actually did with all that data.... Read more»
What’s that smell? A whole lotta conservative memes rotting on the trash pile of history – that’s what.... Read more»
Reports released in Border Agent Nicholas Ivie’s shooting death, youths shot at U.S-Mexico border remembered, three Arizona sheriffs stay in office and one county gets a new one, U.S. elections reverberate across Mexico, and more.... Read more»
U.S. Rep Raul Grijalva, on his way to a sixth term with a win over GOP challenger Gabriela Mercer, said “the people of Arizona are essentially decent and good people.” While Democrats cheered loudly at the news of Obama’s reelection, while local Republicans booed and broke up their party early.... Read more»3
The campaign is over. The election is decided. It feels anticlimactic.... Read more»
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