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Bryon Allen: Avoiding a Repeat of 2012 GOP Polling Collapse With Adaptive Sampling

2013-04-16T18:04:48Z

The origin of the problem that plagued Republican pollsters in 2012 (and to a lesser extent Democratic pollsters in 2010 and Republicans in 2008) is that we're really good at what has historically been the big question we've been asked to answer: How are people going to vote?

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Robert Creamer: Obama's Electoral Mandate and Where It Leaves Republicans

2012-11-19T08:12:00Z

Sunday's morning shows featured some astoundingly stupid comments from Republicans who claim to believe that on Election Day voters gave them a "mandate" to continue their attempts to obstruct President Obama's agenda.

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Toni Emerson: Why Integrity Really Really Matters

2012-11-09T12:30:27Z

For the first time in the last few months, I am reassured that the changing face of America has a powerful voice that made itself heard over the out-of-touch and dismissive ideology of the extreme right.

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Abdulrahman El-Sayed: President Obama's Reelection and Progressive Dissonance

2012-11-07T21:56:24Z

For progressives who care about peace, prosperity, civil liberties, and the future of our country, Obama's reelection last night was no victory. It was the rock we chose over the hard place. I have little hope because there has been less change.

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Paul Szep: The Daily Szep -- $1 Billion Sale

2012-11-07T10:59:12Z

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InvestingAnswers: Which Political Party Is Better for Your Stocks?

2012-11-07T10:34:22Z

Although many voters have traditionally seen the Republican Party as "pro-business" and the Democratic Party as "pro-consumer," the reality on the ground isn't quite so clear.

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Sandip Roy: Why They Care: A View of the American elections from India

2012-11-06T08:57:00Z

Obama in 2008 was making history, not just in America but around the world. In 2012 it's just an American election whether Obama wins or Romney pulls a surprise.

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Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm: Fellow Warriors: Get Them to the Polls!

2012-11-05T22:34:32Z

Take that apathetic voter forthwith to the nearest voting booth! There are 90 million eligible voters who won't vote because they can't be bothered. Ninety million people who will choose to stay home, even after all this nation has been through, and all this president has done.

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Jacob Soboroff: The Time Is Now to Change Election Day

2012-11-02T08:11:31Z

The United States is the world's most famous democracy, yet we rank near the bottom of all nations in voter turnout. So why, when U.S. Census data says most Americans don't vote because it's inconvenient, do we vote on Tuesday smack in the middle of the week?

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Jedediah Purdy: What We Have Lost (and What We Are Fighting for)

2012-10-22T12:11:41Z

It's time to fight like hell for the party of the center-right, represented by Barack Obama, against the party of the far right. There is no alternative. It's a time for progressives to be disappointed and resolute.

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Rev. Malcolm Boyd: 3.5 Reasons Obama Will Win

2012-10-02T16:26:56Z

He's got the toughest job in the world. He could cash in, make a fortune, play golf and spend more time with his family. But apparently he doesn't want to.

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Monique Ruffin: Open Your American Heart

2012-08-23T16:30:41Z

Over the last four years I've struggled in my support of President Obama, but my heart continues to tell me that his policies, and not those of today's Republican leadership, are our best option if we want all of our citizens to have a chance at freedom and prosperity.

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David Bromwich: The Strange Bipartisanship of 2009, 2011, and 2013

2012-06-05T16:02:01Z

One sometimes gets a sense of unreality emanating from the White House that is almost a match for the Republicans.

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Long Sentence for Man Who Burned Down Black Church After Obama Election

2011-12-23T13:23:36Z

A Massachusetts man convicted of burning down a black church out of anger over the election of President Barack Obama was sentenced to nearly 14 years...

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Biggest Voter Turnout In 90 Years, Since Women Won The Right

2008-11-04T21:15:24Z

Americans turned out at the polls in record numbers today.

According to MSNBC:

Americans were voting in numbers unprecedented since women were g...

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Bonnie Fuller: Wake Up, Mr. President! You Are the Lindsay Lohan of the Oval Office!

2010-10-21T11:23:18Z

Mr. President -- I'm a big fan but you are suffering from the same mental disease as Lindsay Lohan -- DENIAL!

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David Rees: BREAKING: Bush Pardons Osama bin Laden

2009-01-19T22:55:36Z

In a stunning late-hour development, President George W. Bush has granted Osama bin Laden a pardon for the murder of more than 2,700 Americans in the fall of 2001. "This kinda came out of nowhere," said a White House aide who requested anonymity.

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Federico Manfredi: Cartel Warfare: How Mexico Lost Ciudad Juárez PART 2

2009-07-21T14:42:21Z

Ciudad Juárez acquired the dubious reputation of wild border town during the Prohibition years, and has long been a major transshipment point for drugs entering the United States, but bloody struggles among rival cartels here are a relatively new phenomenon that stems from recent domestic and international developments.

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Amnesty International: That Little Matter of Solving World Poverty, Mr. President

2009-05-28T12:49:18Z

While world leaders are focused on attempts to revive the global economy, they are neglecting deadly conflicts that are spawning massive human rights abuses.

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Casey Gane-McCalla: Malcolm and Barack

2009-05-19T15:44:49Z

Malcolm X grew up in a time of segregation, police brutality, lynchings, and Jim Crow laws. He knew it would take the ballot or the bullet to bring about true change.

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Mike Smith: David Plouffe: Just Wanted Obama Campaign to be "Credible"

2009-05-18T13:36:34Z

"Young people are truly color blind," said Plouffe, "so we ran a non-race-based campaign." The campaign and constituents knew the country wanted change.

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Marissa Moss: Tax Day, Conor Oberst Style - Give to Charity, Give Away a Film

2009-04-15T16:57:28Z

Conor and I had a conversation back before the election about his activism, politics, and, of course, the music.

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Laura Liswood: Expectations for the New President

2009-04-13T16:48:46Z

It does not surprise me that the debate around President Obama includes the issue of how much to expect and what can change.

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Marcia DeSanctis: Professor Obama

2008-11-10T22:03:50Z

Rather than preach, build or spread democracy, we proved that our system works. By winning, Obama did more to teach the Iraqis about democracy than four years of nation building has done.

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Mario Solis-Marich: Some GOP Senators Still Believe They Are Right On Labor. Solis Must Be Confirmed

2009-01-26T02:56:39Z

What gives some in the GOP the real jitters though is not the message as much as the messenger. Solis wears her working class roots on her blue collared shirt sleeve.

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