Mid Term Elections

Drop the Ethics Case Against Waters

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Mid Term Elections, House Democrats, Taint, House Republicans, Maxine Waters Ethics Committee, Maxine Waters, Maxine Waters Scandal, Maxine Waters Ethics Charges, Politics News

The non-case against Waters has meandered off and on for far too long for anyone to take the probe or, for that matter, the ethics committee that's supposedly probing her seriously.

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Dems Fear Losing House Would 'Devastate California'

Los Angeles Magazine | Rick Jacobs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Elections, Mid-Term Elections, 2010 Election News, 2010 Elections, 2010 Election, Elections 2010, Los Angeles News

For most of the 20th century, California had virtually no role in congressional leadership. The all-powerful committee chairs were from the South, the...

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Obama Now in No Mans Land

Ben Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, Recession, Mid-Term Elections, Obama, Republicans, Barack Obama, Economy, Politics News

If it were my job to advise President Obama on what to do over the next two years to ensure his reelection, I'd probably quit. The political situation...

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The 10 Most Overrated Things About 2010

Mark Juddery | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birthers, Mid-Term Elections, Avatar, Christine O'donnell, Obama, Acai Berries, Over Rated 2010, William and Kate, Overrated, 2010, Mark Juddery, Decision, Great Recession, Tiger Woods, Slidepollajax, Underrated, Republicans, Justin Bieber, Books News

This has been a vintage year for overrated things and people. Sure, every year is a vintage for that, but as some people have noted, it's especially f...

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Time to Give Thanks for Profiles in Political Courage

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cap and Trade, Mid-Term Elections, Wall Street Reform, Health Care Reform, Blue Dogs, Thanksgiving 2010, Profiles in Courage, Progressive Agenda, Politics News

This Thanksgiving, I want to thank those Democrats from moderate districts who voted to do what they thought was right for the country, even though they knew there might be negative short-term political consequences.

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The New Start Treaty: A Question of Conscience for the GOP

Barbara Leaming | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arms Control Treaty, Senator Jon Kyl, Mid-Term Elections, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Russia, Adolf Hitler, New Start Treaty, Barack Obama, Politics News

The G.O.P. has pledged to make Obama a one-term President and it seems ready to do anything, no matter how damaging to the nation, to accomplish that end. Where will this kind of unabashedly cynical behavior take us in the course of the next two years?

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Why the Anti-immigrant Dog Did Not Bark in Illinois

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Immigrant Voters, Mid-Term Elections, Immigration, New Americans Democracy Project, Politics News

In the current environment of racialized fear and polarization against immigrants across the U.S., the hard work of immigrant advocates in Illinois provides some crucial lessons.

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America Wants Jobs, and "Jobs" Means "Science"

James M. Gentile | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Science and Technology, New York Times, Yale University, Mid-Term Elections, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, David Brooks, Foreign Affairs, Politics News

While the immediate impact of the mid-term elections was clearly political, the overriding message of the elections was not. It was about jobs. Americ...

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When Voters Find Out They've Been Conned

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Breaking News, Mid-Term Elections, Snake Oil, Unemployement Insurance, Con Artists, Middle Class Anger, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News

The same people who paid for the midterm election ads playing on middle class economic insecurity are the people who made the middle class insecure in the first place. This will become cruelly obvious with the new Congress.

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One-Term Obama: Should He Bow Out?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mid Term Elections, Hilary Clinton, Obama One Term President, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Obama Administration, Jimmy Carter, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News

We need a fix-it president, but far more we need a president who can erase an image of weakness. Images have a way of turning into reality, and right now, the two are beginning to merge quite dangerously.

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Dear Tea Party: You Will Now Get Yours

Mark Morford | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Republican Agenda, Tea Party Movement, Mid-Term Elections, John Boehner, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Politics News

Hot on the heels of our recent letter to whiny young Democrats, a loving shout-out to all those moderates and independents, confused conservatives and...

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America's Got Talent

Alyson Renaldo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: America's Got Talent, United States, Mid-Term Elections, Activism, Nbc, Impact News

Approximately 85.2 million Americans displayed their talent for optimism by voting in the 2010, midterm elections. To my mind this speaks well of America's use of talent.

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Anger Management

Edward Flattau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Politics, Mid-Term Elections, Midterm Elections, Alternative Energy, Fossil Fuels, Gop, Election Results, Energy Policy, Voting, Partisan Politics, Green News

The GOP won the 2010 election by prioritizing fiscal concerns above public health. Sure, money is important, but is that all that America is about?

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Reap What Ye Sow

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deficit, Mid-Term Elections, Tea Party, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, National Debt, Tarps, Health Care Reform, Obama, Stimulus, Bush, Politics News

We blame Obama for not cleaning up Bush's mess fast enough. Our solution is to re-elect the very people who caused the original problem to reinstitute the same policies that led to the crisis. We have collectively gone insane.

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Confessions of a Young Organizer: Why the Democrats Lost the Midterm Elections

Biko Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mid-Term Elections, Black Youth, Black Votes, Politics News

It is my wholehearted belief that Democrats could have picked up another 5 to 7 percent if they had made a strategic investment in young people and communities of color.

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Latinos Prevent Republicans From Seizing Control of Senate

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senator Harry Reid, Immigration Reform, Mid-Term Elections, 2010 Presidential Election, Latino Turnout, Politics News

The consequences of the Republican anti-immigrant rhetoric will likely spread far beyond last Tuesday's election. A quick look at the numbers tells the tale.

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After National Losses, Progressives Should Focus on the City

John Petro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Minimum Wage, Mid-Term Elections, John Boehner, Progressive Agenda, Progressives, Paid Sick Leave, Partnership for New York City, Cities, Barack Obama, Politics News

There is still hope for those who worry about rising inequality, social justice, and sustainability. By focusing on advancing a progressive agenda in cities, we can pave the road for future gains at the federal level.

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WATCH: Doris Kearns Goodwin And Stephen Colbert

Posted 05.25.2011

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, biographer, historian and the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt," said to Steph...

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The Morning After the Day Before

David Coates | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mid-Term Elections, Rand Paul, Liberals, Progressives, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Tea Party, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

We have a clash of philosophies here, not just an incompatibility of personalities or policies. You can't duck that clash.

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Have Democrats Lost Faith In Faith-Based Outreach?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democratic Convention, Democrats Election, Religion and Democrats, Faith-Based Outreach, Mid-Term Elections, God Gap, Religion and 2010 Election, Democratic Party, Catholic Voters, Election 2010 Campaign, Elections 2010, Democratic National Committee, Election Results, DNC Religious Outreach, Democratic Party Outreach, Religion News

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) As Democrats conduct a grim postmortem on Tuesday's (Nov. 2) elections, some liberal leaders s...

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The Coming Showdown Over America's Energy Future

Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Elections, Mid-Term Elections, Blowout, Bp, Energy Policy, Green News

The change of control of the House of Representatives yesterday changed the political landscape in Washington and diminished the chance for meaningful progress on comprehensive energy policy any time soon.

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Thank You, Class of 2008

Chris Campbell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Mid-Term Elections, Democratic Congress, Economic Stimulus Package, Unemployment, 99 Weeks, Roger Cohen, COBRA Legislation, Health Care Reform, C-Span, New York Times, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News

When Barack Obama won the presidency and Democrats took firm holds of both Houses for the first time in a decade, my obsessive interest in politics be...

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Letter to a Whiny Young Democrat

Mark Morford | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dumbing Down, Young Voters, Mid-Term Elections, Tea Party, John Boehner, Liberals, Barack Obama, Politics News

See what happens when you young liberal voters get so disgruntled and disillusioned that you drop all your party's newborn, hard-won ideas without giving them sufficient time to mature?

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What Yesterday's Election Means for Progressives

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Breaking News, Economic Recovery, Jobs, Filibuster, Republican House Victories, Republicans, Democrats, Progressives, Mid-Term Elections, Politics News

The same forces that created the economic crisis, and profited from it, turned around and played off the fear that the crisis created to convince voters to vote out Democrats who reined them in.

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Revolt of the Radical Center, Act III

Will Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011

Political handicappers are so intent on trying to quantify Democratic losses in the midterm elections that they are missing the bigger picture: America's radical center is in a permanent state of revolt.

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