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After decades of fighting, Democrats show unified front

Democratic National Convention

The famously fractious party that tore itself apart in the 1960s and 1970s over civil rights and the Vietnam War, that lost a series of blowout presidential elections in the 1980s and painfully reinvented itself in the 1990s, faces little of the infighting or self-doubt that for decades seemed as much a part of being a Democrat as worshiping FDR or watching the South, a former party bastion, inexorably slip away.

 

Biden gives fiery defense of Obama at NAACP meeting

Vice President Joe Biden drew cheers from the nation's biggest civil rights group on Thursday with a fiery defense of President Barack Obama's record, and he warned that the election of Republican Mitt Romney could reverse years of economic and civil rights gains for blacks.

 

Mitt Romney low-key on civil rights, in contrast to his father

As governor of Michigan, George Romney pressed an aggressive agenda on the issue, putting himself at odds with Republican Party leaders. His son presents a different figure. In 1963, an explosive year in the quest for civil rights, George Romney appeared unannounced in the mostly white suburb of Grosse Pointe and marched to the front of an anti-segregation demonstration to stand beside black leaders.

 

Opinion: Bachmann no gain for women

Her political career is rife with examples of ideological extremism and blatant disregard for civil liberties, civil rights and science.

 

Barbour defends his comments on race, but is the damage to his potential 2012 bid already done?

Barbour defends his comments on race, but is the damage to his potential 2012 bid already done?

Could Haley Barbour's comments on race doom his potential 2012 presidential run before it even starts? On Tuesday, the Mississippi governor sought to clarify his remarks to The Weekly Standard's Andrew Ferguson about growing up at the height of the civil rights movement in Mississippi.

 

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