What's a frustrated liberal to do? Democrats on the ideological left are grousing that President Barack Obama is just not that into them, and they're soul searching at a big weekend meeting about the strained political relationship as he seeks re-election.
Might they stay home when he asks them to vote for him again?

"We were promised he would be our fierce advocate. And I don't think he has been fierce and I don't think he likes to advocate very much," said John Aravosis, an editor with AMERICAblog who has written about gay rights issues.

But Obama's advisers hope that between now and November 2012 the president can persuade this critical part of his base to turn out in droves again, and the wooing by aides was well under way Friday.

"I promise he is as frustrated as you are," White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer told about 2,400 bloggers and activists attending the annual Netroots Nation conference. He assured them they were "a very important part of the

This isn’t the endorsement Mitt Romney needs right now.

Liberal Al Gore took to his blog Wednesday to applaud the former Massachusetts governor for his stance on climate change.

“Good for Mitt Romney,” Gore, the former Democratic vice president, wrote about the Republican seeking the White House in 2012.

He continued: “While other Republicans are running from the truth, he is sticking to his guns in the face of the anti-science wing of the Republican Party.”

Gore went on to reference a Washington Post story that said Romney during a town hall meeting last week “stuck to the position he has held for many years — that he believes the world is getting warmer and that humans are contributing to it.”

Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II says a judge’s order compelling the University of Virginia to turn over thousands of pages of climate-change research will likely alter his own battle for the long-sought documents.

The Republican attorney general and state Delegate Robert G. Marshall have battled the university for more than a year over the release of documents related to the work of former professor Michael Mann. Mr. Mann had been involved in a leaked email exchange with colleagues that climate-change skeptics claimed showed scientific misconduct.

Mr. Marshall, Prince William Republican, requested the documents through the Freedom of Information Act, while Mr. Cuccinelli subpoenaed them. Mr. Cuccinelli said an order issued Tuesday in Prince William County Circuit Court that grants Mr. Marshall’s request could affect his own appeal to the state Supreme Court to reverse a previous ruling in favor of the university.

The Polar Bear Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the organization of scientists that has attempted to monitor the global polar bear population since the 1960s, has issued a report indicating that there was no change in the overall global polar bear population in the most recent four-year period studied.

“The total number of polar bears is still thought to be between 20,000 and 25,000,” the group said in a press release published together with a report on the proceedings of its 15th meeting

20,000 to 25,000 polar bears worldwide is exactly the same population estimate the group made following its 14th international meeting.

Newt Gingrich, the former Republican Speaker, Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota, and Mitt Romney, have all been put on the defensive for past assertions that climate change was real. Each candidate is handling it differently, at least so far.

Gingrich formally announced he was running for president in 2012 on Wednesday.

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U.S. politicians are targeting police don't ask policies that allow illegal immigrants to report crimes without fear of deportation. The Arizona Republic said Sunday that while most police have found the policies help in the fight against crime, political

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Ivan Vasquez is reshaping the profile of the U.S. Latino. He is better educated than his immigrant parents, fluent in two languages and likes Chinese food more than Mexican. Before moving to Arizona 17 years ago, his parents made their living selling food