2009 Election

Defense: Bloomberg Campaign Operative Gave Slipshod Budget

AP | SAMANTHA GROSS | Posted 12.18.2011

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NEW YORK — A political operative accused of cheating Mayor Michael Bloomberg out of $1.1 million slapped together a slipshod budget for the bill...

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Mayor Bloomberg Likely To Testify At Operative's Trial

AP | SAMANTHA GROSS and JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 12.01.2011

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NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected to testify Monday against a campaign consultant charged with scamming him out of more than $1 mil...

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Bloomberg: Money Transfer Did Not Violate Campaign Laws

Posted 11.13.2011

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By Michael Howard Saul, Wall Street Journal ---- Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday said he did not violate campaign finance laws when he wired more...

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One Year Ago, No Different Than Today: A Political Observation

B.D. Gallof | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Long Island, Incumbents, New York-New York, Hope, 2010 Elections, Elections 2010, Tom Suozzi, Democrats, Tea Party, Barack Obama, New York, Republicans, 2009 Election, 2009 Elections, Politics News

We change now for change's sake, hoping that somehow it is not insanity for us to repeat ourselves but that one of these new leaders will provide anything besides rhetoric and/or going through the motions.

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Post-Election Punditry: It's Perfectly Obvious

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Click. " -- and we're back. Time now to ask our Pack o' Pundits for the big takeaways from Tuesday's election results. What did you guys see in all...

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Boulder's Mock Election

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Waylon Lewis, Hillary Griffith, New Era, 2009 Election, Steve Fenberg, Elephant Journal, Colorado, Boulder, Valerie Mitchell, Denver News

If University of Colorado students had their way, Valerie Mitchell, an unknown candidate running for Boulder City Council, would be the city's new mayor.

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Young Voters Who Helped Obama Stayed Home

AP | DENA POTTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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RICHMOND, Va. — Last year, 23-year-old Rashida Hill watched the presidential debates, visited the college political party meetings and put a Bar...

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The Blame Election

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

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The biggest surprise Tuesday wasn't in the gubernatorial or congressional races, it was Michael Bloomberg's remarkably close re-election.

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The Change We Deserve

Edwin D. Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

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It didn't take long for the anti-worker far right to try to spin the results of the 2009 elections as a mandate for their pro-corporate agenda.

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In Defense of Good Government

Sasha Abramsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Washington Political Culture, Unemployment, Inside Obama's Brain, 2009 Election, Economic Crisis, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News

Was the 2008 election really transformative only of Obama himself, alchemically rendering him government-incarnate, and definitionally making him part of the problem?

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Democrats Suddenly Thinking About Jobs Programs

Washington Post | Michael D. Shear and Paul Kane | Posted 05.25.2011

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Democrats on Capitol Hill began a nervous debate Wednesday about the course President Obama has set for their party, with some questioning whether the...

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Five Reasons Why The Iranian Pre-Election Poll Can't Be Trusted

David Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Poll, Protest Demonstration, 2009 Election, Iran Elections, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Statistics, Polling, Iran Protests, Opinion Polling, Iranian Election, World News

If we can believe the poll, and the authors' arguments, it's plausible that Ahmadinejad did in fact win the election with more than 60 percent of the vote. But don't be fooled.

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