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The Colorado Republican Party’s Official Independent Expenditure Committee (CORE) launched a snazzy new website today, billed as a grassroots organizing and fundraising tool for local and state pols. It’s part of the party’s healthily financed, years-long effort to catch up to the Dems’ technological edge that emerged during the Obama years.

Bexar County Court at Law Judge Carlo Key switched from the Republican party to the Democratic party emphasizing that the, "Republican party has been at war with itself," and that ultimately, "I have not left the Republican party, it left me."

RedState editor and CNN contributor Erick Erickson called out the "journalism" of conservative media outlets on Wednesday, claiming they've bypassed the basic tenets of journalism in an attempt to gin up and highlight controversies.

The tea party movement is dead. When an ant mound is poisoned and the queen dies there are still worker ants running around. However, for all practical purposes, the mound is dead. That is the current state of the tea party.

There is a reason Mississippi, once a solidly Democratic state, is a modern-day Republican stronghold. But it's not the reason you might think.

The two-term governor was seen as a possible ultraconservative contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. That was before he vanished from the state for five days in 2009. Reporters were told he was hiking the Appalachian Trail, but he later tearfully acknowledged he was visiting Maria Belen Chapur, which he told everyone at news conference announcing his affair. He later called her his soul mate in an interview with AP.

The Tea Party Express rolled into Duluth, MN yesterday. But Tea Party Republican Chip Cravaack was nowhere to be found. After riding the Tea Party wave into Congress, Cravaack is staying away from such gatherings -- he is trying to convince everyone he's a moderate now.

This is a word cloud of the top 50 words of Gov. Christie's keynote; we have an advanced copy. There's a lot of America and American. And you'll see the word Believe show up big. Ever hear the saying about not trusting a person who begs you to trust him? to believe him?

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