Midterms

GOP Senator Gives $500,000 To Corporate Welfare Recipient's Super PAC

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 03.24.2012

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) on Tuesday led a conservative Senate bloc opposing a government loan program on the grounds that it functioned ...

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Stop Making Sense: Obama's Useless Appeals to Reason

Mark Olmsted | Posted 09.11.2011

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Anyone who has suffered from addiction or is close to someone who has knows how immune to reason the disease is.

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What's So Wrong with Young Voters?

David D. Burstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Ignorance is a major issue facing our democracy and it is a bipartisan epidemic. But the real culprit in political ignorance is our education system.

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Obama Poll Watch -- December, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama once again charted an unbelievably stable month in terms of approval ratings. The mildly good news was in his disapproval rating, which dropped significantly over the course of December.

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President Obama Has Impressed Me

Billie Jean King | Posted 05.25.2011

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While President Obama has taken his share of knocks this year and things did not look particularly good for him after the mid-term elections, he has risen to the occasion

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Obama Poll Watch -- November, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama just had his most stable month ever in the public opinion polls, capping off a remarkable year of polling stability. Were you to just read the headlines or listen to the soundbites, you may have a different impression.

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Obama's Plan B? You Decide!

Erich Origen and Gan Golan | Posted 05.25.2011

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In this image from the hit graphic novel, THE ADVENTURES OF UNEMPLOYED MAN, we see Obama (Hero-in-Chief), Unemployed Man, and perennial sidekick, P...

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New Data: Top Reporters Stress GOP, Not Tea Party, After Midterms

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Elections have a way of setting agendas, and the political world is already adopting the language of the midterms. To get a snapshot, I counted up the most frequent words reporters used in their questions during three post-election sessions.

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Abandoned Children

Nida Khan | Posted 05.25.2011

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'Young people know thinking is patriotic' These six words, etched on a giant handmade poster board, accompanied a group of 20-somethings last weekend...

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The Lame Duck Window

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Democrats have the choice of making a final push to see some of their agenda items pass before Republicans take over the House, or they can shrug their shoulders and not even try.

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Power and Passion

Trey Ellis | Posted 05.25.2011

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What the White House still seems to have forgotten, even after the recent "shellacking," is that we elected a commander-in-chief, not mediator-in-chief. A mediator rarely offers his own opinions but steers both sides toward civility.

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What "Center?"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Any pundit who advises Obama to "move to the center" must be required to define exactly what he or she means by "center." The political "center" of American politics is a moving target.

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Shameless liberal bloggers vote to extend tax cuts for the rich

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's really been cracking me up to witness the extent denialists are willing to go to blame the House Democrats' defeats on liberal bloggers -- as if ...

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Weekly Mulch: Climate Deniers Set to Freeze Progress in Congress

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger A chill is coming to Washington. A wave of climate change deniers were elected to office this week, and co...

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A Sixteen Year Old's Hopeful Frustration

Ami Fields-Meyer | Posted 05.25.2011

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I can't vote; I'm only sixteen. Sure, I spend my time writing on my friends' Facebook walls and suffering through my cross-country meets, but I'm not completely caught up in the present. Like other high schoolers, I'm anxious about the future.

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Infrastructure as Monument

Chris Matthews | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yes, Lincoln spoke well, Mr. President, but he also built the intercontinental railways. Kennedy spoke well, but he also got us to the moon! What are you going to leave as your monument?

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Call McConnell's Bluff

Mark Olmsted | Posted 05.25.2011

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R- Ky.) insists his primary goal is to make Barack Obama a one-term President. He has given you the magic form...

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New Congress Among 3 Major Situations Affecting 2011 Stock Market

AP | DAVID K. RANDALL | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Next year will be a year unlike any other for the stock market. The Republican takeover of the House of Representatives on Tuesday m...

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Obama Poll Watch -- October 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama's approval rating ended the month on somewhat of an upswing, at 46.1 percent.Obama's approval rating stayed remarkably steady all month long.

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Premature Celebration by Republicans?

Lanny Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Despite Tuesday's bleak results for Democrats, Barack Obama and the Democrats can both get a lot done to achieve their progressive agenda.

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Mandate to Repeal Health Care Is a Republican Pipe Dream

Richard Kirsch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Democrats shouldn't be cowed when the Republicans claim last night's elections were a mandate for repeal. The voters, even this frustrated, angry bunch, said no such thing.

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The Future Might Still Be Democratic Blue

Jordan Michael Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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With results from last night seemingly devastating to the Democratic Party and the cause of liberalism, it's worth keeping in mind the good news: this...

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Voters Make The Call On Tough State Education Measures

Posted 05.25.2011

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As millions of Americans filled out their midterm ballots, they had difficult decisions to make about K-12 education policy in their respective states...

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Obama's Choice: Compromise or Fight

Bob Samuels | Posted 05.25.2011

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Let's hope that Obama becomes more like FDR and less like Bill Clinton. In other words, he should push through a progressive agenda that helps the majority of Americans.

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Lessons of the Blue Dog Blowout

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Blue Dog caucus was literally cut in half yesterday, from 54 to 26 members. Now people can argue whether that is good or bad -- but no serious political observer can say the strategy worked.

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