Race and Politics

Issue Of The Week XXXIV: What Does The Republican Party Have To Do To Have A Viable Future?

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Thomas Beaumont - Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tuesday's presidential election results showed the American voting public has not only become more permanently diverse in its makeup, but also in its mindset.

Obama bet, and won, on the assumption that the electorate would retain much of the age, ethnic, and racial diversity he brought out in 2008. But across the country, voters affirmed changes in social policy that show a culture changing along with it.

Obama's Big Hispanic Win Worries Republicans

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Nicholas Riccardi - Associated Press

DENVER (AP) - Omayra Vasquez blinks and does a double take when asked why she voted to re-elect President Barack Obama. The reason for her was as natural as breathing.

"I feel closer to him," said Vasquez, a 43-year-old Federal Express worker from Denver. "He cares about the Spanish people."

Despite Shaky Economy…Obama Wins Re-election

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A triumphant President Barack Obama pledged to ease the bitter partisan divide on display during his grueling battle for re-election and sure to carry over into his second White House term, while the most pressing of many urgent economic problems looms with a "fiscal cliff" at the end of the year.

Hollande Stands Tough Against Anti-Semitism

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TOULOUSE, France (AP) — Israel's prime minister issued a warning to his country's enemies, and France's president vowed to fight anti-Semitism on online social networks and beyond, as the two paid homage to four people killed at a Jewish school in this country's worst terrorist attack in years.

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