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Ballot Box Blues
By the time you read this, I’ll already have voted — the single most reflexive political act of my life — in the single most dispiriting election I can …
Paul Rogat Loeb | Ten Reasons Why I’m Spending This Election Day On the Phones
I admit it. 2008 was a whole lot more fun. We were riding a wave of change. We had the political momentum. We reached into states and districts we …
Michael Winship | Restore Sanity: A Report From Waaaay in the Back
Mistakes were made. “Let's face it,” a fellow rally-goer admitted. “We committed several tactical errors this morning.” As you may have heard, the worst part of Saturday's Rally to …
Debunking the Myth of the Big Spender
While I have written about this topic recently, there is a bit more to the story on how government spending has not, contrary to what you may have heard, …
House Takeover Would Give GOP Ways to Attack Health Law
Washington - If Rep. Joe Barton becomes the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee next year, the Texas Republican vows to make life miserable for Democratic defenders …
Jonathan Alter | Why the Midterms Matter: The GOP’s Agenda Has to Be Stopped
Prediction is an addiction in the Press Corps. We can search for the key to the Keystone State with sophisticated cross tabs of projected African-American turnout for Joe Sestak …
Eugene Robinsom | Race and the Tea Party
Washington - The first African-American president takes office, and almost immediately we see the birth of a big, passionate national movement — overwhelmingly white and lavishly funded — that …
“Kill Some Crackers”: GOP Group Pays Fox Affiliates to Influence Election With Anti-Obama Propaganda
Several Fox television stations and one ABC affiliate in key battleground states are running a Republican front group’s anti-Obama propaganda as paid programming in the final days leading up …
News in Brief: McDonald’s May Have Intimidated Employees Into Voting GOP, and More
McDonald's May Have Intimidated Employees Into Voting GOP
How China Buys US Debt While Burying Its Own
China may be as heavily in debt as we are. It just has a different way of keeping its books - which makes a high-profile political ad sponsored by …