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.
AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman has withdrawn his concession in a close special election for a U.S. House seat, and New...
Brad Friedman | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York
A narrowing margin in the post-election canvass raises hopes for GOP/Conservatives, but recent Republican-set precedent may well dash that hope.
AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — The special election last week for the 23rd Congressional District seat in New York may not be over after all. Though Conservati...
Washington Post | Jason Horowitz | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Over Halloween weekend, Dede Scozzafava morphed from a rosy-cheeked Republican mom to a political figure of speech. "My name's a verb now," she said....
John Zogby | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
In a recent New York Times piece, David Brooks divided the electorate into liberals, conservatives and independents. This view mistakes a lack of party affiliation for ideological innocence.
Susan J. Demas | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
When extremists are a (vocal) minority, reasonable Republicans and independents come out of the woodwork. And the spoils go to the Democrats, who look comparatively sane.
New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration does not seem to understand that this rage, left unaddressed, could consume it. It has pushed aside the entreaties of many --...
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.
Neil McCarthy | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York
My daughter, a freshman in college, called earlier in the semester to report that she had gotten a high mark on an English essay. The professor had ev...
M. Tracey Brooks | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York
The GOP failed to back its own candidate and allowed outside influences such as the Conservative Party and the Club for Growth to hijack the election. This is not good for the GOP or for women.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York
After the flood of last-minute attention forcing the Republican nominee out, and the loss of a seat they had held for over a century, the Republicans should be discouraged, right? Wrong.
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...
The Daily Beast | Max Blumenthal | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
On a night when conservatives expected a landmark victory in New York's 23rd congressional district, the movement's anointed candidate, Doug Hoffman, ...
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 11.05.2009 | Comedy
The 2009 elections that have been dominating cable news coverage of late consisted of two gubernatorial races and two congressional seats. Of course, ...
Chris Kelly | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York
Doug Hoffman lost his election last night in NY-23. He was supported by a plurality of talk radio entertainers, and a majority of former half-term governors of Alaska -- just not voters who actually live there.
AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — President Barack Obama's decision in June to appoint a Republican congressman to a Pentagon post has paid dividends in November n...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
UPDATE: Democrat Bill Owens has been declared the winner in the race for the 23rd District. ******* The nation focused on a rural swath of north...
AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
ALBANY, N.Y. — Democrat Bill Owens held a slim lead in a special congressional election in northern New York that grabbed national headlines in ...
Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
While Rush Limbaugh was out proclaiming former GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava "guilty of widespread bestiality," Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoff...
Josh Nelson | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Doug Hoffman is dangerously out of touch. Recent false statements he made on cap-and-trade tell it all.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
In some ways, in some elections, at some times, centrism and swing voters are closely connected. But the connection is growing more and more tenuous.
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 ...
Rob Diamond | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
We are witnessing today an unmistakable emergence of deep fissures within the Republican Party. It begs the question, are we watching the beginning of the end -- the long, slow death of the GOP?
Tom Matzzie | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
The irony of a grassroots movement -- supposedly angry about being victimized by the financial crisis -- supporting the Wall Street candidate in the special election in upstate New York couldn't be more obvious.
Edwin D. Hill | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics