Category Archive: 2012 Campaign

Nov 23

Spotlight: How President Obama Won a Second Term

Political strategist James Carville breaks down where the Republicans went wrong – and what it means for the future >by Tim Dickinson| November 23, 2012 7:00 AM ET |

Two weeks after Barack Obama won a second term, political analysts are just beginning to assess the surprising scope of his victory. By routing Mitt Romney by …

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Nov 22

Spotlight: Relaxed yet feisty, Obama lays out second-term agenda

>by Jeff Mason and Mark Felsenthal |Re-post DLU November 22, 2012 |

WASHINGTON | Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:13pm EST

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama laid out his second-term agenda on Wednesday, expressing a willingness to work with Republicans in Congress and a resolve to defy them if necessary.

In his first full-scale news conference …

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Nov 03

Spotlight Jonathan Chait: Political for and against comparison of Obama, Romney

>by Jonathan Chait|10/31/12 at 10:17 AM|  Re-post 11/03/12 DLU|

I decided to support Barack Obama pretty early in the Democratic primary, around spring of 2007. But unlike so many of his supporters, I never experienced a kind of emotional response to his candidacy. I never felt his election would change everything about American politics or …

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Oct 28

Spotlight: Right-wing Voter Suppression [...]

>by Andrew Cohen | Mar 16 2012, 12:10 PM ET |[Re-post! As of this day October 27, 2012, just days away from the most important presidential election since the end of the Civil War; Voter Suppression is still a part of the Right-wing arsenal to take down President Obama! The Right-wing had conspired to take …

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Oct 21

Spotlight Editorial: Conspiracy World

Editorial Published: October 9, 2012|NYTimes.com |Re-post DLU October 21, 2012 | [Republicans have a problem handling the facts, especially when it doesn't bold-well [sic] for their campaign. Mitt Romney has been campaigning on lies and half truths since the on-set of his bid for the presidency. It is second nature for him to lie to the …

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Oct 20

Spotlight Sarah Jones: Obama Endorsements

>by: Sarah Jones | October 19th, 2012 |

Major papers in two swing states (Florida and Colorado) endorsed President Barack Obama for a second term, and in Utah – considered by some a home state of Mitt Romney’s – the Salt Lake Tribune has also endorsed President Barack Obama.

In the heart of Utah (one …

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Oct 14

Spotlight: H.I.G.-Owned E-Voting Machines

>by Harvey Wasserman | October 13, 2012 |by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman |Hawaii News Daily|

Electronic voting machines owned by Mitt Romney’s business buddies and set to count the votes in Cincinnati could decide the 2012 election.The narrative is already being hyped by the corporate media.  As Kelly O’Donnell reported for NBC’s Today Show …

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Oct 14

Highlight: Chronicling Mitt’s Mendacity, Vol. XXXVIII

>by Steve Benen |Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:20 PM EDT |

The broader concerns about Mitt Romney’s comfort with dishonesty reached a milestone this week — it got The Onion treatment. (Remember, this is satire. The quotes in this excerpt are not actual quotes.)

For weeks many Beltway insiders had written off the Romney campaign …

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Oct 14

Spotlight Jeff Carlson: CROSSROADS MY VISION:

>by Jeff Carlson| DLU| October 14, 2012|[Jeff Carlson is a Face Book friend, colleague and a grass roots member of the DLU! We have similar views and visions of this country and where it's headed...I share in his Crossroads Vision! ->Like, comment and share - Gbismarc!]

There are so many things that need to …

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Oct 06

Spotlight Editorial: Obama for president: A second term for a serious man

>by the Editorial Board|The Platform St. Louis Post-Dispatch|Re-post: October 06, 2012|

Four years ago, in endorsing Democrat Barack Obama for president, we noted his intellect, his temperament and equanimity under pressure. He was unproven, but we found him to be presidential, in all that that word implies.

In that, we have not been disappointed. This is …

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Oct 05

Spotlight: Obama’s Debate Strategy

>by: Rmuse |October 5th, 2012|

One of the privileges of being a spectator in a sporting event is criticizing athletes for making the wrong play, and it never fails that the most vocal critic likely never donned a uniform or actually played in a professional level game. What spectators often fail to acknowledge is that …

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Sep 22

Review of: Mitt Romney’s 47% Theory

>by REMINGTON SHEPARD| September 21, 2012 1:17 PM EDT|[It has been a long week for the GOP's Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the Pundits over on Fox News aka GOP TV News; trying to reflect and redirect the damage caused by the 47% comment onto Barack Obama and his campaign...to no avail. Gbismarc!]

After GOP …

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