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California 2012 Ballot Proposition Endorsements
Recommended votes for select California 2012 ballot propositions.
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Same Old Song: Trashing Barack Obama, Franklin Roosevelt, and Their Supporters
Were President Franklin D. Roosevelt alive today he’d have found nothing strange about Mitt Romney’s depiction of 47% of the American people as moochers who vote Democratic because they expect handouts...
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Obama's Legacy is Our Leverage
“He’s made history. Now he has to think about legacy.” This analysis of Barack Obama came during a recent conversation I had with Representative Bennie Thompson, who joined the civil rights movement in...
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A Serious Setback
If you followed my tweets during the Obama-Romney debate for the Los Angeles Times panel earlier tonight, my sense from the very beginning was that Romney turned his fading campaign around. Obama's...
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Dark-Skinned Democracy Wins in Venezuela
Hugo Chavez was reelected president of Venezuela by a 56-44 percent margin on October 7, extending his 14-year revolutionary tenure for another six-year term. The margin was significantly closer than...
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Is Romney Winning?
If President Barack Obama loses the election, the defeat will be traced back to the first October 3 debate, where Mitt Romney first gained traction. From here on, it is up to Obama and Vice President...
View ArticleMajority of Americans are Anti-Black, Anti-Latino
Slightly over fifty percent of Americans have prejudiced attitudes towards African-Americans and Latinos, up about four percent since the 2008 election of Barack Obama. The findings are according to an...
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On Election Day
One great thing about elections is the opportunity for people to get out of their comfort zones and engage "strangers" at their doors. For example, a spirited cadre of LGBT voters have contacted...
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The Latino-ization of the United States
As Mike Davis predicted several years ago, Latinos are becoming major, even majority, constituencies in metropolitan areas and workplaces across the country, and in the prized Electoral College states...
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Discussing the Election with Thom Hartmann
Former Senator, Tom Hayden, Director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center, joins Thom Hartmann. What lessons should the Democratic Party take from Tuesday's election moving forward into fiscal...
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Westside Voters Reject Betsy Butler
Mayor Richard Bloom of Santa Monica was declared the winner in the 50th Assembly District this week by 1,300 votes after a several-week count of late and absentee ballots. The loser was Democrat Betsy...
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