First Time Voters

By Accepting the Conventional Wisdom on the Deficit, Obama Is Ignoring the Lessons of 2008

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.02.2012

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Arianna Huffington

Obama didn't win in 2008 by swerving to the middle. Instead of fighting for the ever-dwindling number of swing voters, Obama fought to win over the much larger number of voters who had turned their backs on the process.

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Red the Book: Ticket Snubbed at the Inauguration

Amy Goldwasser | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amy Goldwasser

We held up our purple tickets to prove that we all deserved a place on the other side of the gates, and watched with envy as anyone who made it through ran in with joy.

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World to Obama: Thanks for Giving Us Back Our America

Rebecca Novick | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rebecca Novick

It's the immigrants who really know the fragility of liberty; how it can be won and lost, and won and lost again. For them freedom is not a parade. It's a flower in a storm.

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Voting Therapy and Al-Qaeda's Presidential Endorsement

Sumbul Ali-Karamali | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sumbul Ali-Karamali

The first time I could finally vote, I spent twenty minutes in the voting booth, agonizing over every question, double-checking to make sure I turned in my first ballot exactly the way I wanted it.

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First-Time North Carolina Voters Confused By Straight-Ticket Ballots

Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kelly Nuxoll

In North Carolina, where voters can register and cast their ballots on the same day during early voting, Obama volunteers have been bringing first-tim...

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New to Political Campaigns, Volunteer Goes All the Way

Jennifer Treuting | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jennifer Treuting

Frank Schlupp is a volunteer with the Obama campaign in Ward 58 of Northeast Philadelphia, an area that went heavily for Hillary Clinton in the primar...

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Six Ways McCain Could Still Win

Jon Wiener | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jon Wiener

Possibility #5: Sarah Palin reveals secret past as Rhodes Scholar; admits "hockey mom" thing was just a ruse -- to avoid being called an "elitist."

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More Than 3.5 Million New Voters, AP Survey Finds

Posted 05.25.2011

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