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Van Jones: “If Obama believes Keystone is a good thing, he should call it the Obama Tar Sands Pipeline.”

June 17, 2013 Madonna Gauding 2012 Election, Climate Change, Environment, Obama One comment

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the

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Obama rewards billionaire Penny Pritzker for making him president

May 14, 2013 Madonna Gauding Campaigns, Obama, Social Sec/Medicare, Voting/Elections 3 comments

You may still have romantic vision of a progressive Barack Obama. You know, he’s a Chicago community organizer who ran for president because he

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How to fix long lines at polling places

February 14, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Civil Rights, Good government, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

No one should have to stand in line for three hours to vote in a presidential election. But that’s just what 102-year-old Desiline Victor had

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Blueprint for a federal takeover of national elections

December 3, 2012 Madonna Gauding 2012 Election, Democrats, Good government, States 2 comments

Some Democrats in the last election had a hard time voting. Republicans, like Secretary of State John Husted of Ohio, worked overtime, using a

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What and why the religious right lost in the 2012 election

November 26, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Politics, Religion in Politics, Reproductive rights Leave a comment

Taken together, four  letters to the New York Times editor, posted on Nov. 19, 2012, sum up what happened to the supposedly all-powerful religious

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Robert Reich on how to reduce the deficit

November 16, 2012 Madonna Gauding Congress, Obama, Politics, Republicans, Taxes Leave a comment

In a recent blog post, Robert Reich points out that Obama won re-election, so he needs to aim much higher on the upcoming budget

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Bibi made a bad bet

November 15, 2012 Madonna Gauding 2012 Election, Foreign Policy, International, Obama, Romney Leave a comment

For the first time in history, an Israeli prime minister took sides in an American election. The right wing, saber rattling prime minister of

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Romney’s Project ORCA: Technology fails, shoe leather wins

November 13, 2012 Nicole Lopez 2012 Election, Campaigns, Romney, Technology, Voting/Elections 2 comments

When my friend who worked in the Obama campaign’s analytics department told me about Project ORCA, I thought he was talking about an environmental

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2012 election cost a monstrous $6 billion

November 13, 2012 Madonna Gauding 2012 Election, Campaigns, Media, Voting/Elections One comment

Gaius Publius writing at Americablog comments on a recent New York Times article on this election cycle’s monstrous cost. I suggest reading the NYT article then

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Progress: Women, minorities make up majorities in newly elected government

November 12, 2012 Stacy Mergenthal 2012 Election, Congress, Democrats, LGBT, Uncategorized, Women Leave a comment

“The Democratic Caucus will bring to the 113th Congress the first Caucus where the majority is women and minorities. Our new Caucus will celebrate

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