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Progressive Alan Grayson favored to win Florida seat

October 16, 2012 Madonna Gauding 2012 Election, Campaigns, Congress, States Leave a comment

When he was last in office, Alan Grayson was a hard working progressive Democrat. He campaigned as a progressive, and when he got elected, he delivered.

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The debate in 99 seconds

October 12, 2012 Arthur Lieber Campaigns, Media, Obama, Politics, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

If you dig deep enough into a CNN story called, “Obama and Romney: Middle class promises will be hard to keep,” you’ll run across

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Presidential debates: Bi-partisan, fraudulent, corporate controlled theater

October 12, 2012 Madonna Gauding 2012 Election, Campaigns, Democrats, Republicans, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

The presidential debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process. Walter Cronkite

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Finally, a political ad that’s fun to watch

October 10, 2012 Bill Kesler 2012 Election, Campaigns, Children, Humor, Literature/Arts/Film, Politics Leave a comment

A lot of creativity is absent from the current crop of national political ads. According to Studio360’s Kurt Anderson, The real problem with campaign

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Dick Morris—yeah, that Dick Morris—called today

October 8, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Campaigns, Obama, Republicans Leave a comment

According to Dick Morris—the Republican political consultant and Fox News contributor who was the recorded voice on my phone a few minutes ago– “Barack

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Clinton remembers poor as well as middle class

October 5, 2012 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, Campaigns, Charity & Justice, Consumer issues, Democrats, Employment, Good government, Health care, Human Rights, Politics, Poverty, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

The official poverty rate for the United States in 2010 was 15.1 percent. There were 46.2 million individuals who were poor, defined as a

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Study debunks Romney myth of makers and takers

September 28, 2012 Madonna Gauding 2012 Election, Campaigns, Government, Ideas, Republicans Leave a comment

Political scientists Suzanne Mettler and John Sides provide the numbers that debunk the Romney view that 53% of the population are hardworking, independent, and

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Akin faces ethics complaints

September 27, 2012 Stacy Mergenthal 2012 Election, Campaigns, Missouri region, Politics Leave a comment

The Missouri Senate race between Todd Akin (R) and Claire McCaskill (D) continues to make news with ever more astonishing statements from Akin, followed

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Obama working to avoid an October Surprise

September 27, 2012 Madonna Gauding 2012 Election, Campaigns, International Leave a comment

What’s an “October surprise?” It’s any negative (or positive) news that breaks right before the November presidential election that has the capability to determine

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I ran against Todd Akin in 2010

September 24, 2012 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, Campaigns, Congress, Democrats, Government, Missouri region, Politics, Voting/Elections 4 comments

It was 10 am on March 31, 2010, the filing deadline in Missouri to run for Congress.  My wife and I kept looking at

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