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Great piece on Politico. An excerpt: Negative national headlines on religious freedom continue to fuel a negative image of the entire party. Both in my private conversations with and in public (and private) polling, conservatives are moving ever closer to supporting full equity for LGBT Americans. Gallup’s Values and Beliefs poll released last month showed a more than 20 percentage-point …

Via Politico: Hillary Clinton is in the final stages of planning a presidential campaign that will most likely be launched in early April and has made decisions on most top posts, according to numerous Democrats in close contact with the Clintons and their aides. Campaign advisers say the likelihood of a campaign, long at 98 percent (she never really hesitated, …

According to a just published poll conducted by Politico, a thin majority of likely 2014 voters say they oppose same-sex marriage. Clear generational divides exist on the hot-button social issues of gay marriage and marijuana legalization, a new POLITICO poll of voters who will decide the most competitive House and Senate races finds. That split is starkest on the question …

In a lengthy piece titled How Mitt Romney Stumbled, which slams his campaign chief Stuart Stevens, yesterday Politico claimed that at one time Romney wanted former RNC chairman Ken Mehlman to have the job. Politico’s brief mention of Mehlman: POLITICO has learned when Romney was gearing up for his 2012 run, he made never-before-reported overtures to Ken Mehlman, the manager …

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The poll was conducted prior to the Ryan announcement, which usually provides a short-lived “excitement” bump for the non-incumbent. Details. Cross-tabs. Questions.

After the news broke that Mitt Romney had hired homocon flack Richard Grenell to be his foreign policy spokesman, Politico dug into his Twitter history and revealed a history of viciously mocking Newt and Callista Gingrich. Since the start of the year, Grenell has mocked the Gingriches over Newt’s extramarital affairs, Callista’s appearance and her demeanor on the campaign trail. …

Continuing a mini-trend of well-known writers leaving purely political sites for those with a more broad focus, top Politico contributor Ben Smith is leaving for Buzzfeed. After nearly five years of blogging in this space, and seven years of writing a political blog every day, I have a bit of self-referential media news: I’ll be moving on at the end …

Fact-checking site Politfacts has released their Biggest Political Lies Of 2010 list. Here’s their readers’ picks. Unsurprisingly, almost all of the liars are Republicans. Surprisingly, Crazy Eyes isn’t the #1 GOP liar. 1. ObamaCare is a “government takeover” of health care. — Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio; Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla.; the Republican Party of Florida; Lt. Gov.-elect Rebecca Kleefisch, …

Sarah Palin is NOT happy about unsourced reports that the GOP leadership is working behind the scenes to make sure she doesn’t win the 2012 presidential nomination.

The Washington Post has just canceled an event with lobbyists amid an explosive scandal that they’d been selling the lobbyists access to powerful politicians and their own reporters and editors. Politico has the story: Washington Post Publisher and Chief Executive Officer Katharine Weymouth said today she was cancelling plans for an exclusive “salon” at her home where, for as much …