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In the 2012 presidential election, the Republican candidate will likely face the long-rumored, Obama-Hillary super ticket, predicts longtime political guru and Bill Clinton administration veteran Robert Reich. (more)

A U.S. District Court judge has rejected a challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — filled when the Department of Justice barred the city of Kinston, N.C. from holding nonpartisan elections — reasoning that lack of access to party affiliation would discriminate against minority voters who otherwise wouldn’t know how to find Democratic candidates on a ballot. (more)

New York Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez admitted she did not know what Operation Fast and Furious was at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus event on Tuesday. (more)

The Democrats’ decade-long strategy of hyping embryo stem cell research crashed into a hard fact on Nov.15. That’s when Geron Corp., the world’s leading embryo research company, announced it was closing down its much-touted stem cell program, despite the guarantee of more government aid from Democratic-affiliated sources. (more)

In a Sunday evening interview on MSNBC, “Hardball” host Chris Matthews spoke candidly not just of his allegiance to the president’s agenda, but also of the frustrations many on the professional left are feeling with the administration’s lack of leadership. (more)

Failure by Congress’ debt-cutting super committee to recommend $1.2 trillion in savings by Wednesday is supposed to automatically trigger spending cuts in the same amount to accomplish that job. (more)

Bill Burton, the former White House deputy press secretary, left his post earlier this year to focus on raising money for President Obama’s re-election campaign. While he set an initial fundraising goal of $100 million, his results to date have been less than impressive. (more)

President Obama and his Democratic allies made two key political missteps in recent years, according to former president Bill Clinton in a new book to be released Tuesday. (more)

Who’s benefiting from the Occupy Wall Street protests? Wall Street. (more)

“Occupy Wall Street” has captured global attention and become the darling of the world press. CNN hosts a “Meet the 99%” Web page advertising the movement on CNN.com. MSNBC’s praise of OWS has approached religious awe. Yet for all the attention, many assertions about the movement are flatly inaccurate. (more)

Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin told the Chicago Tribune that if the 2012 election is a “referendum” on President Barack Obama, then Democrats are “in trouble.” (more)

The Occupy Wall Street protests have attracted significant support from Democratic Party politicians. But two of the country’s most significant third parties say that the message of the protests is that the two-party system is broken. (more)

The top 10 ZIP codes for Democratic donors include a narrow set of four D.C. locations, two New York neighborhoods and two L.A. locations. (more)

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Tuesday that Democrat leaders were “stirring up the pot” by supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement that has spread throughout the country. (more)

Senate Democrats will attempt to pass a millionaire surtax this week because it provides a campaign trail alternative to President Barack Obama’s unpopular tax proposal. (more)

The millionaire tax being pushed by Senate Democrats this week would hit taxpayers in Democrat-dominated states almost twice as hard as those in Republican-dominated states, according to an analysis by The Daily Caller. (more)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Attorneys for Democratic candidates and committees trying to recover from an alleged embezzlement scheme appealed Friday to California’s political watchdog agency to relax financial reporting rules temporarily and waive some contribution limits. (more)

Despite predictions that Democrats’ upset loss in a heavily Jewish district of New York earlier this week forecasted a shift by Jewish Americans toward the GOP, a Gallup poll released Friday found that while President Obama’s approval among Jews has slowly declined, it has not done so in dramatic fashion. (more)

This summer has cemented it: Barack Obama is a lame duck. His administration is a failure. Democrats know it. And they only have months to act. (more)

Senior Democratic Party flacks are using Twitter to spin the credit-downgrade blame away from the White House and toward the GOP. (more)