The Change We Deserve
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.
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.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media
If Sean Hannity truly wants to be the "great American" he claims to be, he can start by being truthful to his listeners and by not rooting for his supposedly beloved America to fail under the current leadership.
Karl Frisch | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
Back in 2001, conservative media figures were adamant. Democratic Party victories at the ballot boxes during the off-year elections had little national significance.
Peter Henne | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Deeds was nominated because he seemed "electable." Then he lost to McDonnell. This "electability test" has a damaging effect on political discourse and ultimate electoral success.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
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...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
The real picture is anything but rosy for the GOP. The truly big race, in upstate New York, handed them a humiliating defeat in a solidly red district, where a Democrat hasn't won the House seat in over 100 years.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
What you won't hear the spinners crowing about is the shocking punch to the gut the GOP took in upstate New York's 23rd Congressional District, where a Democrat won for the first time in over 100 years.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media
Via Andrew Sullivan, I see that Sarah Palin will be doing a substantial amount of globetrotting, and much like the ones in Harlem, has scheduled match...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media
If you missed out on last night's election, well, don't you know that you missed out on the most important off-off-year election in our lives? It's t...
Beau Friedlander | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
Yesterday's vote on same-sex marriage in Maine was a referendum on our collective humanity, and we don't look so great today. But was it a loss for Obama? Certainly not.
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political co...
Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
To lose badly in Virginia says more than Mr. Deeds was not a good candidate. It says that the president does not have any coat tails, at least not today.
Ben Tribbett | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
If this election serves as a reminder that pandering to right wingers is not a successful electoral strategy -- then Deeds will have done even more good for Democrats than if he had won today.
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political co...
Shannyn Moore | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
If the Republican Party had half a mind, they would look at Palin's history of party divisiveness, polarization and destruction and take heed.
Joe Scarborough | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
All the president's men know that a Republican sweep in New Jersey and Virginia will strike fear in the hearts of those swing state Democrats who now hold the future of health care in their sweaty moderate hands.
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — For Republicans, an election win of any size Tuesday would be a blessing. But victories in Virginia, New Jersey or elsewhere won't ...
Washington Post | Rosalind S. Helderman and Anne E. Kornblut | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Sensing that victory in the race for Virginia governor is slipping away, Democrats at the national level are laying the groundwork to blame a loss in ...
Carl Pope | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
One reason the climate issue has surfaced from the Democratic side in Virginia is that Millennial voters are seen as critical if Deeds is to carry the state -- and young voters care more about climate than any other demographic.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
As the Virginia gubernatorial campaign enters its final weeks, the contest is turning into a dispute over the perils of climate change. The topic wa...
Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
The real problem for Democrats is that by choosing Creigh Deeds they've diluted the Democratic brand as far as it can go. Let's face it, Deeds is no Jim Webb.
New York Times | ADAM NAGOURNEY | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
When State Senator R. Creigh Deeds defeated Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic Party chairman and confidante of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, t...
Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell repeatedly and personally asked former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for help this summer in his campaign f...
Politico | JONATHAN MARTIN | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Sarah Palin stands ready to stump for the Republican gubernatorial candidates running in the two most closely-watched campaigns in the country this fa...
Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York
The NRA is taking aim at Mayor Bloomberg, New Yorkers, and apparently the mafia (who one would think would be some of the gun rights group's biggest s...
Edwin D. Hill | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics