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During a Republican debate in December, Mitt Romney was asked his favorite Supreme Court justice. The first name he came up with? John Roberts (skip to 8:40). And on his campaign website, the presumptive Republican nominee vows to nominate justices "in the mold of Chief Justice Roberts."

Now, in the wake of Roberts' key vote to uphold

In an election year in which Hispanics in the U.S. are expected to play a crucial role, a significant percentage of them may be up for grabs come November, a new USA Today/Gallup poll suggests. A slight majority of Hispanics in the country, 51 percent, identify as politically independent, according to the survey released Monday. About a third, 32 percent, consider themselves Democrats, while

The strength or weakness of the economy is largely in the eye of the beholder. The 2012 election (re)taught us all that lesson. Democrats insisted that President Obama has done the best he could under incredibly difficult economic conditions he inherited from former President George W. Bush. Republicans argued that Obama was clueless about how to fix the economy, resorting to growing

Keeping with his post-election pledge to reform the filibuster, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday proffered that changes to the rules of the upper chamber will be made, leaving it up to Republicans if they would like to participate.

"There are discussions going on now [over filibuster reform], but I want to tell everybody here. I'm happy I've had a number of