As Election Day nears, voter ID laws still worry some, encourage others
Editor's Note: CNN senior correspondent Joe Johns will debut a one-hour documentary, Voters in America: Who Counts, which focuses on new voting laws and how they may affect the outcome of the 2012...
View ArticleHow women ruled the 2012 election
By Halimah Abdullah, CNN Washington (CNN) - In many ways, the 2012 election was the year of the woman. Women — who have historically formed one of President Barack Obama's key constituencies — once...
View ArticleNew U.S. House: Women and minorities to the left; white men to the right
By Halimah Abdullah, CNN Washington (CNN) - When the incoming U.S. House freshmen of the 113th Congress take their class photo, the image will reflect two very different visions of the nation. On the...
View ArticleTough racial issues face GOP in minority outreach
By Halimah Abdullah, CNN Washington (CNN) - Republican K. Carl Smith is African-American and he knows that the GOP's racial reckoning won't come from 100-page reports from party headquarters with...
View ArticleImmigration reformers seek to avoid deja vu
By Halimah Abdullah, CNN Washington (CNN) - Opponents of a bipartisan Senate effort to reform the nation's immigration policies calculate that dragging out debate by offering so-called "poison pill"...
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