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RNC Chairman Reince Priebus (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

The Company Memo: Monday, March 18, 2013

The Republican National Committee is set to release a major new digital strategy Monday, called the "Growth and Opportunity Project" - a report ordered by RNC Chair Reince Priebus after Mitt Romney's loss in November. Read More

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin speaks to CPAC on Saturday, March 16, 2013.

NOW Today: More confusion?

With strategies like this.... The Republican National Committee is set to unveil a new autopsy to help republicans change course and fix the problems that led… Read More

MSNBC's Joy Read delivers her "Open Letter" to RNC Chariman Reince Priebus.

To win back black voters, GOP must do more than ‘show up’

In her guest Open Letter, theGrio managing editor Joy Reid offered some thoughts on RNC chairman Reince Priebus' "African American listening tour." Read More

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Scott Prouty offers final thoughts on Romney in ‘last’ television interview

Scott Prouty, the 38-year-old bartender behind the infamous 47% video dropped by NOW with Alex Wagner on Friday, saying it would be "the last television interview that I do." Read More

Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, speaks to reporters in the spin room after the second presidential debate at Hofstra University, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 Hempstead, N.Y. (Photo  by Mary Altaffer/AP Photo, File)

Let Me Start: Change of heart

A dramatic reversal on gay marriage by an influential Republican senator: Ohio's Rob Portman now says he supports gay marriage, a change of heart triggered after his son came out. Read More

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Obama used the 47% video ‘exactly the way I would have hoped’

When President Obama finally referred to the tape in a debate, Prouty was thrilled: "I think he used it to great effect..It defined Romney in a real negative light but in an honest light." Read More

Voters stand in line to cast their ballot at Hartford City Hall during the U.S. presidential election in Hartford, Connecticut, November 6, 2012. (Photo by Reuters/Michelle McLoughlin)

How voter ID kept minority youths from the polls in 2012

Researchers discovered that African American and Latino youth were more likely to be asked for ID, and more likely to not even try to cast a ballot because they lacked it. Read More

Screen grab of secretly recorded "47 perccent" video, which show Mitt Romney speaking to donors at a Florida fundraiser

The ’47% tape’ and the man who revealed the real Mitt Romney

Finally, meet the bartender who changed political history by secretly recording Mitt Romney's 47% remarks. He'll be interviewed on "The Ed Show" Wednesday night. Read More

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., holds up a copy of the 2014 Budget Resolution as he speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

First Word: Ryan Budget 3.0

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan will reveal his budget plan today for the third time in the last three years. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, he stresses that the only way to balance he budget is by using Obama's tax increases and Obamacare's Medicare cuts. Read More

Today's jobs report was very good. So what does President Obama do with it? (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Let Me Start: Crossing the aisle

President Obama is preparing to meet the House Republican conference, but after four years of near vitriol towards this president from Republicans, how much can… Read More

Scott Brown on Capitol Hill on Feb. 22, 2010. (File Photo by  Harry Hamburg/AP)

Lawrence O’Donnell rewrites Scott Brown’s political future

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell argues that Scott Brown made the conscious decision to end his political career on Monday by joining a Boston law firm as a lobbyist focusing "his practice on business and governmental affairs." Read More

Failed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney would have won the 2012 election if a new GOP-backed electoral college plan were implemented nationwide (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Guess who has a new job? Romney heads back to private sector

Sources confirm that former presidential nominee Mitt Romney is back to work in the private sector, joining his eldest son's investment firm in Boston as chairman of the executive committee. Read More

Nathan Sproul, right, former executive director of Arizona's Republican Party, runs the company that oversaw two employees who admitted to committing voter registration fraud (AP Photo/Tom Hood)

The real GOP voter fraud: Employees admit forging voter registration forms

Employees of a consulting company hired by the GOP admit to destroying dozens of registration forms, and one claims she was told not to register Democrats. Read More

Jeb Bush has fumbled his immigration reform (ahem, 2016) rollout. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Top Links: Jeb Bush’s immigration flip-flops may determine his 2016 status for him

Top story: Former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Florida, won’t rule out a 2016 presidential run, though the criticism from the left and the right over his immigration… Read More

(James Carter on MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell)

The MVP of the 2012 campaign: James Carter IV

James Carter IV, the Democratic opposition researcher who discovered Mitt Romney's "47%" video, explained how he stumbled upon it and how President Obama thanked him for his contribution to the 2012 presidential race. Read More

Mitt and Ann Romney, seen here from March of last year, do damaging damage control like only they can do during their Sunday interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Top Links: Perhaps Republicans should sequester Mitt and Ann Romney

Mitt and Ann Romney certainly stepped in it much worse during campaign 2012. But their extended interview with Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" shows they haven't lost their ability to give comedians material and Republicans heartburn. Read More

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Pennsylvania takes lead on Republican plan to rework Electoral College

Late last week, a plan that would've given Mitt Romney 8 of Pennsylvania's 20 votes was introduced by Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi and 12 other Republican senators—that's already half the votes needed to pass the plan in the Senate. Read More

Chief strategist Stuart Stevens described the Romney campaign as a series of "Kabuki play set pieces."

Romney campaign done in by bad ‘Kabuki’

Chief strategist Stuart Stevens took responsibility for Mitt Romney's loss Sunday, while also describing the candidate's "Kabuki" theater. Read More

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Voting rights bill will honor Desiline Victor, 102-year-old Florida voter

Hoping to fixing Florida’s flawed voting system, State Senator Oscar Braynon, along with civil rights organizations such as the Advancement Project, are joining 102-year-old voter Desiline Victor to introduce a bill that will protect and improve the right to vote in Florida. Read More

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Idealizing Millennials is no more accurate than condemning them

It's nice to get some positive press. But author David Burstein's over-reaching praise of his fellow Millennials is just as inaccurate as everyone else's criticisms. The thing to know about all Millennials is that there's no such thing as 'all Millennials.' Read More