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Category: 2012 Election

Money, voter inequality, and the Electoral College

September 4, 2012 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, Campaigns, Good government, Politics, States, Voting/Elections One comment

Imagine the United States without California, New York, and Texas. These three states represent close to one-fourth of the population of the country. Yet

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Taken in by Republican propaganda

September 3, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Campaigns, Congress, Government, Media, Obama One comment

The 90-year-old, college-educated woman sitting across from me is someone whom I know for sure voted for President Obama in 2008. I also know

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Lakoff: The American dream beats the nightmare

August 30, 2012 Renee Shur 2012 Election, Campaigns, Charity & Justice, Government, Ideas, Language/Words, Politics Leave a comment

$60 million. That’s the mountain of cash plunked down on TV ad buys by Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS and Americans for Prosperity as of

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Romney /Ryan and America’s veterans: Does support go both ways?

August 29, 2012 Mike Davis 2012 Election, Military, Obama, Politics, War Leave a comment

A Gallup poll indicates that America’s male veterans lean towards the Romney/Ryan ticket at a 58% to 34% margin. The reasons are uncertain, but

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Confusion: The wording of the Second Amendment

August 28, 2012 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, Crime/Violence, Guns, Police, Public safety, Violence 62 comments

One of the primary arguments of gun advocates in that the Second Amendment guarantees the right for citizens to own and carry guns.  Their

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Republican convention’s “We Built It” hypocrisy

August 27, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Campaigns, Government, Politics Leave a comment

The Republican Party is adopting “We Built It” as a convention theme — a catch-phrase built on the Fox News-fueled distortion of the President’s

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Todd Akin’s colonial-era ideas

August 25, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Campaigns, History, Ideas, Missouri region Leave a comment

Where does Todd Akin get the idea that, when she’s raped, a “woman’s body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down?”

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The truth about sex and pregnancy, as told to Todd Akin

August 24, 2012 Nicole Lopez 2012 Election, Education, Health care, Politics, Reproductive rights, Uncategorized, Women 2 comments

Dear Congressman Akin: When a man and a woman love each other and decide that the time is right, they call the stork. Nine

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Dear Todd Akin: Get out of my body

August 23, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Crime/Violence, Missouri region, Politics, Reproductive rights, Women One comment

Eve Ensler, the award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues, was in the Democratic Republic of Congo when she saw Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” interview.

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Lawrence O’Donnell: Why liberals need to support conservative Democrats

August 23, 2012 Madonna Gauding 2012 Election, Campaigns, Senate Leave a comment

Lawrence O’Donnell is an American political analyst, journalist, actor, producer, writer, and host of The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, a weeknight MSNBC opinion

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