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Obama Will Ride to the Rescue ... for Republicans

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Cenk Uygur - Dec. 22 (Opinion) - President Obama is dying to do the Grand Bargain. He will do it at any cost. In fact, he actively wants to cut Social Security and Medicare. He can't wait for that pat on the back from the establishment when they finally call him post-partisan, above party politics, and a statesman for screwing over his own voters. This is by far his greatest wish.

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Strassel: The GOP Turnout Myth

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - Nov. 23 (Opinion) - To win future elections, Republicans will need more than better get-out-the-vote software.

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Won Direction

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Bill Maher - Nov. 21 (Comedy News) - New Rule: Now that he's been reelected, President Obama must get back at all those right wing hacks who tried to paint him as an angry black man pushing a liberal agenda by becoming an angry black man who's pushing a liberal agenda.

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Anonymous claims to have blocked GOP election theft with Ohio firewall

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Examiner - By Michael Santo - Nov. 18 (News Report) - according to the report, Anonymous stopped any voter fraud from happening. The hacker group put up firewalls on election night to any data from flowing out of Ohio. Anonymous, according to their "letter," could instead have tried to capture the data and then expose the criminals, but that would have been far too risky. Instead, they closed the hole that Rove was going to use and blocked the theft of the election.

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How Super PACs Warped the 2012 Election

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Steven Rosenfeld - Nov. 11 (News Analysis) - When facing an avalanche of outside spending, candidates had to spend even more time raising money, less time with their constituents, and small donors voices were drowned out,” he continued. “Voters despise the non-stop negative ads from billionaire-backed super PACs. Candidates fear them and are forced to depend on deep-pocketed donors to keep up. These are not insignificant impacts.”

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Defeated Right-Wing Media Wage War On Voters

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Eric Boehler - Nov. 11 (News Analysis) - Having spent the last four years smearing and denouncing the president with every passing breath on the radio and on Fox News, Hannity was faced with the humiliating reality that most voters paid him no mind. "Americans, you get the government you deserve," the talker told listeners yesterday, his words dripping with contempt.

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FiveThirtyEight: Which Polls Fared Best (and Worst) in the 2012 Presidential Race

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Nate Silver - Nov. 11 (Opinion) - A number of firms that conduct their polls online had strong results. Some telephone polls also did well. But others, especially those that took methodological shortcuts, performed poorly.

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Media fight on the right over GOP

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - Nov. 11 (Opinion) - Rush Limbaugh couldn’t have been more right. Months before the election, the conservative radio host made a prediction: “If Obama wins, the Republican Party is going to try to maneuver things so conservatives get blamed.”

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Post Democalypse 2012 - America Takes a Shower - Karl Rove's Math

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Show - By Jon Stewart - Nov. 10 (Comedy News) - (video)

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Beyond the Dead End of American Electoral Politics: Rethinking the Crisis of Politics

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

truth-out.org - By Henry A. Giroux - Nov. 09 (Opinion) - The first assumption is that these elections actually provide a real set of choices for the American public. Nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, the choice is between Mitt Romney who is the titular head of a Republican party that is now largely controlled by a range of extremists. This cast of rouges includes ultra-conservative advocates of market fundamentalism and extreme religious zealots along with a mix of right-wing billionaires - all of whom are intent on destroying any vestige of the welfare state while quashing gay rights, attacking women’s rights, and suppressing voter registration turnout. On the other hand, Barack Obama is a conservative centrist who has repeatedly compromised his liberal policies on domestic issues while legitimating a range of foreign and domestic policies that have shredded civil liberties, expanded the permanent warfare state and increased the domestic reach of the punitive surveillance state.

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Winning the Outside Chance

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

truth-out.org - By William Rivers Pitt - Nov. 09 (Opinion) - Mr. Obama gets four more years, which was the best possible outcome given the choice at hand. Mr. Romney gets shame and ignominy, likely in large doses after the simmering GOP civil war breaks wide open in the aftermath of all this. In the meantime, all the huge, bleeding problems we had on Monday remain with us. Afghanistan grinds on, the drones are still killing children, the dark-money barons still hold sway despite this setback, and while Mr. Obama got a nice cheer for mentioning "our warming planet" during his victory speech, the fact remains that a very large clock is ticking down to a very present deadline regarding our ability to survive the ravaged environment we have unleashed on ourselves. Don't be smug. All we won on Tuesday night was the outside chance of not losing. What is made of that very slim margin is entirely up to you.

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