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Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s planned visit to the campus of Alabama A&M next month as a guest of the university’s College Democrats is drawing more protests from Republicans both inside and outside the state. (more)

The race for Oregon’s First Congressional District is heating up and has brought young people out in full force. With the special election to replace former Representative David Wu just around the corner, College Republicans have been working around the clock to elect businessman Rob Cornilles to the U.S. House. (more)

Edward Dooley, 20, was so enchanted with candidate Barack Obama in the 2008 election that, although he was too young to vote, he still traveled from his home in Massachusetts to New Hampshire to knock on doors for Obama in the primary. Now Dooley, a political science major at George Washington University, holds a different opinion of President Obama and the Democratic Party in general. (more)

University of Iowa student and Iowa Federation of College Republicans chair Natalie Ginty was shocked when a tenured professor at her school sent her an email reading “FUCK YOU, REPUBLICANS.” It was a response to a campus-wide email the College Republicans sent out promoting their “Conservative Coming Out Week.” (more)

The College Republican National Committee (CRNC) is launching a television ad in Iowa this week with the goal of energizing young voters to get involved in the political process in a state that will host the first electoral contest of the presidential primary season. (more)

With Chairman Michael Steele’s announcement that he will run for a second term at the helm of the Republican National Committee, the contours of the race for the chairmanship became much more defined. With so many experienced and qualified candidates running, the RNC is sure to end up with a proven leader. As a political junkie, I look forward to observing a spirited race. (more)

With Comedy Central’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” and the “March to Keep Fear Alive” scheduled the weekend before the midterm elections, politically minded college students face a choice: Do I want to spend a day with television comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for a party on the National Mall, or sit in a windowless room for hours making cold calls to strangers for a political campaign? (more)

Two years ago Edward Dooley called himself a “Kennedy-worshiping, stereotypical Massachusetts liberal.” (more)

“It’s not me, it’s you.” Those are normally the words that cement the failure of a relationship that has gone awry. Across the country, Democratic candidates are hearing this sentiment, and they can’t understand why. They can’t understand why they have fallen out of favor with the population in general, but more importantly, they haven’t realized that they have lost the allegiance of today’s college students. (more)

Venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel will host GOProud’s “Homocon” party in New York, a spokesman for the organization that represents gay conservatives told The Daily Caller Friday. (more)

Republican Dan Maes rejected a proposal from third-party candidate and former Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo that they both drop out of the governor’s race so the GOP could appoint a more formidable candidate to take on Democrat John Hickenlooper. (more)

Some are just shocking, some are weird and others might actually win some votes. Of all the campaign videos released this week, here are some of our favorites here at The Daily Caller: (more)

The same fiscal hubris that pushed Greece’s economy past the breaking point has become Obama’s economic policy: spend without regard to future consequences.  Spend regardless of revenue.  Spend, and give no thought to the effect on the private sector.  Just spend. (more)

Students across the country traveled long distances and often paid out of pocket expenses to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington this weekend. (more)

For volunteers in a political campaign, the action usually begins in small residential neighborhoods, knocking on doors, passing out leaflets to suburbanites trying to hide their irritation at having to open the door. We never made it out of the parking lot. (more)