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Jamelle Bouie

Jamelle Bouie is a staff writer at The American Prospect.

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Justified Mockery?

Jamelle BouieSep 20, 2010

Last week, at a fundraiser for supporters of the Connecticut Democratic Party, President Obama made a few jokes at the expense of liberal activists:

A Moral Majority?

Jamelle BouieSep 17, 2010

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Pro-"Limited Government" and Pro-Torture.

Jamelle BouieSep 17, 2010

I'm at the Values Voter Summit, and while waiting for the next speaker I -- along with most of the attendees -- spent a few minutes watching a longer version of this Heritage Foundation video celebrating the Constitution:

Short-Term Gain, Long-Term Pain?

Jamelle BouieSep 17, 2010

"Moderates? I don't need no stinkin' moderates*," says South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, chairman of the NRSC:

"They told me we couldn't win in Pennsylvania with a conservative - Pat Toomey is ahead. They said we couldn't win in Florida with a conservative - Marco Rubio is ahead. They said Rand Paul couldn't be competitive in Kentucky - he's ahead," DeMint said, reeling off the names of conservative Senate candidates he has endorsed. "Everything they said has been wrong. I'm counting on them to be wrong in Delaware."

There's More to Winning than Money.

Jamelle BouieSep 16, 2010

Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman has spent immense sums in her bid to succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of California, but as Colorlines' Jamilah King reports, it hasn't done her much good in the polls:

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