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Richard Mourdock, the Republican running for U.S. Senate from Indiana, infuriated many Tuesday night when, during a debate, he said that “when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.” The comments have put Mourdock and even Presidential candidate Mitt Romney back on the defensive, especially with women.

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have just three weeks until Election Day and the race is as close as its ever been. On Tuesday night, the two took part in a testy exchange of claims and counter-claims, and even a few ideas, in the second presidential debate.

Mitt Romney came out on top, according to most who Wednesday night watched his first debate with President Barack Obama. Romney was described as aggressive, while Obama was panned for being passive and listless.

When Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are trying to up their appeal to Latino voters, they’ll often try on a few words of Spanish. But, perhaps too often, those words don’t come out the same way they sound in the candidates’ head. And that can be a problem.

Mitt Romney finds himself forced to explain himself once more after a video was released Monday in which he says almost half the country will never vote for him because they’re dependent on government and natural Barack Obama supporters. The video was surreptitiously recorded at a Romney fundraiser.