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Category: 2012 Election

What if electoral votes were awarded proportionally? — updates

March 18, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, 2016 Election, Federalism, Politics, Voting/Elections 43 comments

The selection process of party nominees for president of the United States reveals many of the undemocratic components of the American political system. As

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It’s 2016: What happened to all those dire, Obama-geddon predictions?

January 2, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, 2016 Election, Obama, Republicans Leave a comment

Now that it’s 2016, it’s time to fact-check some of the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it predictions that President Obama’s critics made before his 2012 re-election. In an

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My Congressman’s newsletter: refreshing, intelligent communication

October 2, 2013 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Activism, Campaigns, Congress, Democrats, Good government, Republicans, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Those of us who are politically engaged often get dozens of on-line political solicitations every day. There’s a basic formula to them: This is

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The New Denial: How much of partisan gridlock is driven by race?

September 11, 2013 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, Activism, Civil Rights, Congress, Obama, Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans, Senate, Voting/Elections One comment

Recently, historian Taylor Branch said, “Everybody says partisan gridlock is poisoning America, but nobody asks how much of it, underneath, is driven by race

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Election Passport reveals a world of election results

September 5, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, International, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

During the 2012 presidential campaign in the U.S., it was easy to hyper-focus on our own election issues and to ignore elections in the

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The curious “thinking” of Republicans continues

September 2, 2013 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, Campaigns, Media, Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans, Romney 3 comments

You might think, if you are a leader of a political party, that you would seek as much air time on television and radio

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Voting rights watch: Florida restarts its [previously squelched] voter purge

August 19, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Civil Rights, Immigration, Politics, Republicans, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

The fallout continues. States that previously wouldn’t have dared to impose voting restrictions that disenfranchised minorities–and, of course, Democrats–are back in business. Florida is

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Supreme Court shreds Voting Rights Act: Political cartoonists respond

June 28, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Courts, History, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

The Supreme Court has opened the floodgates: Less than a year since state legislatures, governors and secretaries of state in both the north and

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This is what happens when the Supreme Court loses sight of common sense

June 26, 2013 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, Civil Rights, Courts, Ethics, Federalism, Obama, Politics, States, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Perhaps if it hadn’t been for the Bush v Gore Supreme Court case, we would give the Supremes the benefit of the doubt when

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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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