Dec 30
>by Drew Spencer, Rob Richie | Published November 27, 2012 |
In southern states, racially polarized elections remain an active part of political life. Since 1965, the Voting Rights Act has guaranteed that African Americans in the South cannot be shut out of elections either through direct barriers to voting or through discriminatory districts that …
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Dec 15
>by Ezra Klein on December 14, 2012 at 2:07 pm |
When we first collected much of this data, it was after the Aurora, Colo. shootings, and the air was thick with calls to avoid “politicizing” the tragedy. That is code, essentially, for “don’t talk about reforming our gun control laws.”
Let’s be clear: That is …
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Dec 01
>by Remington Shepard |November 30, 2012 12:43 PM EST|[The DLU, you get the bitter and the sweet - Gbismarc!]
Major papers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, are hiding compromises in a White House proposal on federal spending and budgets, claiming that the proposal was “loaded with …
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Nov 30
>by: Jason Easley |November 30th, 2012 |
Remember in 2010 when House Republicans used the threat of throwing millions into poverty at Christmas in order to get the Bush tax cuts extended? President Obama does. In 2012, he is getting payback.
Here is the video from NBC News:
During his remarks the president admitted …
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Nov 18
>by Lisa Lambert and Patricia Zengerle | Fri Nov 16, 2012 6:27pm EST | Re-post DLU November 18, 2012|
WASHINGTON -(Reuters) – Republican and Democratic congressional leaders emerged from a meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday pledging to find common ground on taxes and spending that would allow them to avert a looming “fiscal …
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Nov 03
>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 21
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
>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
>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
>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
>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 05
>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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