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The GOP's Electoral College Scheme. Republicans alarmed at the apparent challenges they face in winning the White House are preparing an all-out assault on the Electoral College system in critical states, an initiative that would significantly ease the party's path to the Oval Office.

The GOP's Electoral College Scheme

Senior Republicans say they will try to leverage their party's majorities in Democratic-leaning states in an effort to end the winner-take-all system of awarding electoral votes. Instead, bills that will be introduced in several Democratic states would award electoral votes on a proportional basis. Already, two states -- Maine and Nebraska -- award an electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district. The candidate who wins the most votes statewide takes the final two at-large electoral votes. Only once, when President Obama won a congressional district based in Omaha in 2008, has either of those states actually split their vote. Republican state legislators are motivated to act after Romney's loss. Freethought Blogs. Moneybox. This story first appeared in Inc.

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In six years, Interscope records mogul Jimmy Iovine and hip-hop icon Dr. Dre have turned Beats by Dr. Dre headphones into a $1 billion-plus business. Now, together with new president and former Interscope executive Luke Wood, they’re faced with a new challenge: taking a hot brand and making it, you might say, even hotter. AlterNet. Project Vote Smart - The Voter's Self Defense System. Judicial Watch. Candidates on the Issues. Project On Government Oversight. OpenSecrets.org. Exclusive: Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy.

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Conway and Naomi Oreskes Jonathan Twingley for The Chronicle Review A prediction: When all the votes have been counted and the reams of polling data have been crunched, analyzed, and spun, this will be clear: Few scientists will have voted for Republican candidates, particularly for national office. Survey data taken from 1974 through 2010 and analyzed by Gordon Gauchat in the American Sociological Review confirm that most American scientists are not conservatives. A 2009 study by the Pew Research Center found that only 9 percent of scientists self-identified as conservative, while 52 percent called themselves liberals.

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Burwell, in which conservatives will argue that the text of Obamacare limits federal subsidies only to people who buy insurance from state-run exchanges, not from the federal exchange. Roughly speaking, there are two prongs of the conservative argument: The law contains text that explicitly limits subsidies to state-run exchanges. Wonkette — The D.C. Gossip. Slacktivist. Thank you for your interest in Patheos newsletters!

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Since 1973, CPAC, hosted annually by the American Conservative Union Foundation (ACUF), has attracted thousands of activists and some of the biggest names on the Right, with this year’s March 14-16 speaker line-up including Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, and Sarah Palin. Under pressure from participating anti-LGBTQ organizations, the major annual conservative gathering rejected GOProud as a conference sponsor in 2012 and again this year. FAIR.