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Perverse best-case scenario: Romney wins popular vote, Obama wins Electoral College

November 1, 2012 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, Campaigns, Democrats, Obama, Politics, Romney, States, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Barring feasible foul play by Republicans, Barack Obama will probably win the Electoral College in 2012, which means that he will serve for another

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O’Donnell calls Des Moines Register’s Romney endorsement “magical thinking”

October 31, 2012 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, Democrats, Economy, Employment, Financial reform, Government, History, Illinois/Midwest, Media, Obama, Politics, Romney, Voting/Elections One comment

In 2008, the Des Moines Register endorsed then Senator Barack Obama for president over Senator John McCain. For largely inexplicable reasons, this year the

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Who are these undecided voters?

October 29, 2012 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, Campaigns, Democrats, Government, Media, Politics, Republicans, Romney, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

There are Democrats who feel that Barack Obama is not progressive enough. There are Republicans or Tea Party members who feel that Mitt Romney

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Arlen Specter, part of a vanishing breed

October 24, 2012 Arthur Lieber Civil Rights, Democrats, Reproductive rights, Senate, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

It’s somewhat like evolution – eventually a certain species just dies away. Perhaps the specie that former Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter was most like

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Philadelphia Inquirer: Obama is the better man for the job

October 16, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Democrats, International, Media, Obama, Politics, Romney Leave a comment

Coming down hard on the Republican Party and its “Etch-A-Sketch” Presidential nominee Mitt Romney, the Philadelphia Inquirer calls President Obama the better man for

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Lincoln [Nebraska] Journal Star endorses Obama for re-election

October 14, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Civil Rights, Democrats, Economy, Government, Health care, Obama, Politics Leave a comment

Obama has been tested and found equal to the task of being president. We think the country is in better shape than it was

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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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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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Dear 20-something: Think about the issues, then vote!

September 25, 2012 Renee Shur 2012 Election, Charity & Justice, Democrats, Education, Employment, Government, Health care, Obama, Politics, Reproductive rights, Republicans, Voting/Elections, Youth issues One comment

How important is it that young people go to the polls and vote?  If you’re an Obama supporter as I am it’s crucial.  Look

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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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