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Donald Trump’s War Against the GOP Establishment Has Breitbart Written All Over it
Fox News’ Laura Ingraham complains, “The Republican Party is led by people who have more in common with the Clintons than with the GOP base”
Tagged 2012 election
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The Republicans Have Quit on America; It’s Time for Americans to Quit on Them
Republicans have quit on America. They’re putting forth no effort, and most importantly at all, they haven’t even bothered to show up for the past two years.
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A Revealing Look at Racism’s Role in Which Party White People Support
Ever since Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act and championed policies supporting minorities, whites have been defecting from the party.
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In the End, Obama’s Compassion for All Routed the GOP’s Greed and Contempt
In rejecting the Draconian agenda Romney and Ryan proposed, the majority of Americans expressed the compassion President Obama demonstrates in working for all Americans.
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Democracy Won in 2012 and That’s Thanks to You
All this and more happened because Americans across the country spent hours in lines, after surviving the Republican obstacle course, and voted.
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What You Need to Do if You are Harassed or Denied Your Vote
This is your Election Day check list, providing you with information on everything from what to do before you leave for the polls, to what to do if you are harassed or denied your vote
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Proving He’s Not Fit to Lead, Romney Blames Others for His Failure
Romney surrogates are busy blaming Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie, which is really the perfect way for them to flame out.
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Saturday Night Shocker: Behind The Spin the Romney Camp Admits They’re Losing
Behind their attempted Saturday night media spin was a dose of read between the lines truth. The Romney campaign admitted that they are losing this election.
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Why It Was an Honor to Vote for Obama for a Second Term
Sarah Jones explains why she voted for President Obama’s second term with more entusiasm than in 2008.
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Post Sandy Obama Returns to Campaigning with a Blistering Vengeance
President Obama returning the campaign trail in Wisconsin with a blistering attack on the kind of change Mitt Romney would bring, and making his case for what real change will look like if he is reelected.
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Ohio’s Election Nightmare – Courtesy of Jon Husted
Many are saying that this election hinges on Ohio. Well, if that is true, thanks to Jon Husted’s new program, we may not know the results of the election until late November.
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Would You Buy a Used Car From This Man: Why Romney’s Sketchy Deal is Shady
Most people wouldn’t buy a car without test driving it first and knowing what it cost, but Romney wants to sell us a presidency without telling us anything.
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Racists Create Their Own Super PAC to Accuse Obama of Racism Against Whites
By accusing Obama of racism toward white people, the Fight Bigotry Super PAC is the perfect haven for real racists to invest their money.
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Is Romney Taking A Dive and Throwing the Election?
As a clear picture of Paul Ryan comes into focus so has a question. Is it possible that bright and early last Saturday morning Mitt Romney threw the 2012 presidential election?
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The Dreams of Romney-Ryan Are Dangerous to Nearly Everyone
This ticket will absolutely depend on low-information voters enamored with right wing media. In point of fact, the vast majority of this country would be harmed by the policies these men represent.
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Occupy Inspires me to Vote, Voting Inspires me to Occupy
The choice has never been either popular democracy or institutional change–the choice has always been do both or get neither.
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Marriage Equality Verdict is In: God is a Whiny Little Bitch
The verdict is in: based on fundamentalist Christian response to the Democratic Party’s marriage equality platform, God is a whiny little bitch
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Mitt, Who Wanted Detroit to go Bankrupt, Blames Obama for not ALL Auto Dealers Surviving
Romney, who wanted Detroit to go bankrupt, is angry that some auto dealers went bankrupt even though a bankrupt Detroit would have meant bankruptcy for all auto dealers
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Mitt Romney’s Scourge of Private Equity Vampirism
We like people who contribute to our society, people who build, who create goods and services, who create jobs. We have a word for people who suck the life’s blood out of others: vampires. Vampires are parasites. Vampires do not sparkle. We don’t like vampires. We want to protect ourselves from them. If private equity’s…
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What History Says About Romney’s Conservative Anglo-Saxon Parochialism
Romney’s parochial GOP attitudes seem to give him an almost childlike understanding of a world that represents the evils of globalization
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Lesson to Mitt Romney: Life Doesn’t Happen Retroactively in the Real World
The Romney Time Machine is amazing: you can now be exonerated retroactively, invaliding evidence that might appear later to the contrary
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Fox News Calls Young People Dumb for Supporting Obama
In their attempt to explain away why 80% of young people don’t like Mitt Romney, Fox News proclaimed that only those who don’t know anything support Obama.
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Colbert Nails it: ‘None of the Above’ is a Better Choice Than Romney for Republicans
Republicans have discovered that the candidate they got is not the candidate they wanted, or needed. Nevada’s ballot offers a solution
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Obama Tells Romney to Take His Apology Demand and Shove It
The Obama campaign has responded to Mitt Romney’s demands for an apology with a new video that tells him to shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.
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Televangelist Tells Christians to Write in ‘Jesus’ on Election Day
Televangelist Bill Keller doesn’t like Mormons or Romney and he doesn’t like Obama so he says you should vote for Jesus on Election Day
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Will Nikki Haley be Mitt Romney’s VP Mystery Date?
Surely, there’s sufficient sleaze to qualify Nikki Haley to be Mitt Romney’s Vice President/bookkeeper.
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Let’s Nudge Republicans Off Their Shaky Healthcare Cliff
Tea Party Republicans are on such shaky ground with their opposition to Obamacare that it would be a sin not to nudge and send them sprawling into the dirt.
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A Bunch of Very Hot Days and Global Warming
I’m sure glad anthropogenic global warming is a myth because after a couple of days in the wake of storm-induced power-outages and going on the third day of +100 heat indexes including record breaking temperatures yesterday (set in 1968) I hate to think what the temperature would be like if we had global warming to…
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Republican ‘Patriots’ Terrorize America with Calls for Armed Insurrection
After the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional, the ignorance, stupidity, and racism of the far right exposed the threat of a violent uprising against the government..
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The Republicans’ Bad Day and What it Means for America
Yesterday was a bad day for the GOP but we should remember they’ve had many bad days recently and that its fun to watch their heads explode
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GOP Reality Check: Reagan Added Public Sector Jobs During a Recession
This is a huge reason for the stubborn unemployment! President Obama doesn’t have the benefit of adding public workers to the payroll, like Reagan did.
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The GOP and the Limits of Positive Thinking
When bad news piles on bad news, how does a person carry on, and how far can positive thinking carry you in the face of insurmountable odds?
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PFAW Says If You Don’t Give Them Money, You Support Mitt Romney
I like PFAW and the work they do; I do not like getting fundraising letters accusing me of supporting Mitt Romney if I don’t give them money
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Shut Up, Know Your Role, or Die – the GOP’s 2012 Platform
The conservative mind is focused on a sense of privilege and possession of rights nobody else gets to enjoy, whatever the Constitution says
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Obama Drops the Gloves and Delivers an Epic Middle Class Beatdown to Mitt Romney
President Obama offered his vision for America’s future in Cleveland, and he wiped the floor with Romney by defining him as a man with no plan, but to make himself and his friends even richer.
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Dr. James Dobson: Another Presidential Campaign, Another Chance to Hate Obama
Dr. James Dobson is an Obama-basher of long standing, and his behavior demonstrates why this country can never compromise the separation of church and state.
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Sorry Media, This Election Won’t be About the Economy and Jobs
The mainstream media’s constructed storyline is that the 2012 election is all about the economy and jobs, but this election will hinge not on the economy but one simple question.
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The Dirty Thirty – June 2012 Edition
Today marks a new format in the Dirty Thirty, which will now include only updates (the entire updated list will be posted on its own page)
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Elizabeth Warren a Communist Because She Supports Everything Conservatives Hate
Hate group president Brian Carmenker says that Elizabeth Warren is a communist because she supports everything conservatives hate
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America’s Choice: Why Obama in 2012?
There are many reasons to vote for Barack Obama in 2012, and very few to vote against him, given the alternatives
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Christopher Monckton: The Man Who Lies About His Credentials Question’s Obama’s
Christopher Monckton tells many lies about his own credentials so its no surprise that he has jumped on Joe Arpaio’s birther bandwagon
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Demonize It! The Fundamentalist Obsession with Demons
Most 21st century Americans deal with the world they see and give no thought to an underlying reality full of demons and demonic influences
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Sure, the Christian Right Champions Religious Freedom – For Themselves
The Christian Right pretends to be champions of religious freedom; but the only freedom they care about is their freedom to ignore ours
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The Mitt Romney Ken Doll Interview Strategy: Look Good, Say Nothing
A Ken doll could give more substantive answers to questions, but then maybe that’s Mitt Romney’s intent.
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Romney to Speak at Ralph Reed’s 2012 FFC Conference & Strategy Briefing
Ralph Reed wants to play Kingmaker like he did in 1994 and he has Mitt Romney lined up to slobber over his ring this year in Washington, DC
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Obama: Mitt Romney is the Opposite of Robin Hood
While attending the NATO summit in Chicago, President Obama kept up the pressure on Romney and his self-enrichment record at Bain Capital
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Barack Obama Demands that Mitt Romney Show Us the Money
In order to avoid paying income taxes Mitt Romney is hiding his wealth all over the world, and now the Obama campaign is calling on Mitt to show us the money.
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What Would A Romney Presidency be Like? It’s Anyone’s Guess
Mitt Romney wants Americans to know what the first day of a Romney presidency would look like, based on his most recent position flip-flops
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Scrutiny of Mitt Romney’s Character Reveals Psychopathic Tendencies
Between his inability to stop laughing when he causes misery to others and his chronic deceitfulness, Mitt Romney is almost a psychopath.
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Family Values: Why The Right is Attacking Barack and Michelle Obama’s Marriage
The right wing rumor that Barack and Michelle Obama almost got a divorce goes beyond irrational hatred of this president and ties into a specific Republican objective for 2012.
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Republicans Label Obama a Metrosexual, Black Abe Lincoln
A GOP Super PAC had a genius plan to destroy Obama by connecting him (again) to his once-upon-a-time pastor Jeremiah Wright and accusing him of being a metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln.
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Obama Opens Up a General Election Can of Whoop Ass on Romney
After Obama’s rousing start to what is sure to be a long general election campaign, before the boredom of the Romney veepstakes could set in, two very awesome things occurred.
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Obama Adding a Faith Vote Director to Campaign
Obama has a religion problem. His answer to that problem is a Faith Vote Director. He has already shown that the Bible is not the exclusive property of the GOP
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Seven Reasons Why Obama Is the Obvious Choice for Women
All women have to do to emphatically support Obama in 2012 is compare his policies to the Romney and the Republicans, but here are 7 reason why the president is the obvious choice.
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If We Must Fight, Let it Be Now
Increasingly the GOP is talking about Second Amendment remedies and even armed insurrection if Obama wins in 2012, threatening the survival of our Constitution
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Kate Beckinsale Talks about Republicans in Her Vagina
The Republicans want to get into your vagina, and in this humorously mocking piece Kate Beckinsale and others make the arguments in favor of letting them in
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Obama Hits Ohio Fired Up, Firing Away and Romney is in Big Trouble
President Obama launched his 2012 reelection campaign in Ohio, not only fired up with a positive vision for the future, but also firing away on Mitt Romney and the Republican Party.
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Romney Runs Virtually Unopposed and Watches Obama’s Lead Grow
Mitt Romney ran virtually unopposed in Pennsylvania, and saw President Obama’s lead grow to eight points. Demonstrating again that the more voters see of Romney, the less they like him.
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Champion the Vote Champions Faith-Based Bigotry
Bill Dallas of Champion the Vote is upset that he has to explain about gays to his little daughter. His solution is to get out the vote to vote the gay away
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Seriously Media? CNN and NBC Whine about Obama’s Negative Campaign against Romney
Only in the bizarro world of the mainstream media will you find CNN and NBC ignoring Mitt Romney’s endless negativity and complaining about the Obama campaign being negative.
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The War on Women is No Joke, But The Denials of the Right Are
Matthew Continetti, founder of the Washington Free Beacon, thinks the Republican war on women is a joke without victims or perpetrators
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I Think That Belongs to Me, Said the Elephant
The Republican Party has staked its claim to women’s vaginas, as should be obvious by now to all
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What it Means if Dick Lugar is a Centrist
If Lugar is a centrist than the true centrist position is an extreme left position just as Republicans insist and everything the left of that is beyond the pale
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Obama Drops the Hammer on Mitt Romney’s Lies
In an interview with Telemundo, President Obama dropped the hammer and served notice to Mitt Romney that his lies will not go unchallenged.
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According to the Right, You Are Afraid of Ann Romney!
According to a couple of Republican women writing for CNN, the left is afraid of Ann Romney because she is somehow every woman.
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Hilary Rosen Was Right: Ann Romney Is Not the Average Woman
Hilary Rosen called it correctly. Ann Romney has no idea of the struggles the average American experiences every day and she is a pandering elitist just like her husband.
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Republicans Try To Rid Themselves Of Romney’s Mormon Problem By Blaming Obama
Republicans are so worried about what an examination of Mormonism can and will do to Romney’s campaign that they are already blaming Obama.
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The Candidate Without Pants
Mitt Romney has exposed himself to the American people; the question heading toward Election Day is have the American people noticed?
The Bible – The False Premise of American Theocracy
The GOP wants us to believe that we must all collectively and individually do as their God wants or suffer the consequences, but how to know what God wants when the Bible was written and what we are supposed to believe decided by fallible humans?
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The Dirty Thirty – April Fool’s Edition
The Republican assault on American liberties has continued in 2012 with continued emphasis on the reproductive rights of women and women’s health
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Unions Fight Back with Largest Political Mobilization Ever For Obama
Trumka’s decision to throw the full force of the nation’s largest union behind Obama will go a long way toward providing the margin of victory that Obama and the other Democratic 2012 contenders will need to get the job done.
Santorum Ignores Economy – Makes his Religion a Problem for Voters
The media is slowly becoming wise to the fact that Rick Santorum’s campaign is fueled by religion, not the economy. His stance on issues is religious, his rhetoric is religious and his appeal is not to fiscal conservatives but to social conservatives, to those on the religious right who menace our democracy with the specter of theocracy.
A Russian Role Model for America’s Politicians
Republicans go through life trying to find excuses to avoid the responsibility of shared humanity and citizenship. Ms. Sobchak, like many other women both here and in Russia, demonstrates the ability to not only embrace that shared humanity, but by doing so to become a better human being, and a better citizen
Rick Santorum is a Hateful Master of Deceit
Rick Santorum is fast setting new lows in his disdain for honesty, choosing instead the path of deceit, expressing hatred to sow hatred of our president and of us
Santorum Tells Puerto Ricans They Must Speak English for Statehood
With typical Republican ignorance of the U.S. Constitution, Rick Santorum tells Puerto Ricans they have to speak English to achieve statehood
2012: What is the GOP Really After? It’s the Congressional Seats
Perhaps we have been too dismissive of the strategy that currently prevails both in Congress, the current Tea/Republican primaries and in the Presidential campaign warm ups. Surely within the halls of the Grand Old Party there had to be someone who doesn’t look and sound like the caricature of a clown from a bad comedy. …
Romney, Not Americans, Have Made Wealth His Problem
Mitt Romney is as divorced from economic reality as a French aristocrat of the eighteenth century, and he is no more likely than they to become a darling of the people
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High Pucker Factors Are Not Just for Caliphates Anymore
Republicans insist we must fear the specter of an world Islamic Caliphate while ignoring the dangers of a Christian theocracy at home
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Obama’s Constitution-friendly Religion
Jeffrey T. Kuhner of the Edmund Burke Institute, who last year accused President Obama of having “black nationalist sympathies” (whatever those are) wrote a column for the Washington Times on February 23, which he entitled Obama’s pseudo-religion, arguing that the “President’s secular moves” are “out of step with Judeo-Christian culture.” His claim is that “Mr. Obama is…
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Santorum and Gingrich Lies Dangerously Throw Gas On The Obama Hate Fire
Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are utilizing lies about President Obama in a dangerously divisive manner designed to reach a boiling point.
Unions Betray Their Economic Self-Interest By Supporting Brown Over Elizabeth Warren
There was a time when union members voted in their own economic self-interest. Unfortunately, this seems to be changing in Massachusetts where Scott Brown leads Elizabeth Warren with union members.
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Christian Right’s 2012 Meme: Atheist Dictatorship or Secular Theocracy
The more Rick Santorum pushes for an American theocracy the more the Christian Right accuses liberals of plotting an atheist dictatorship
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2012 Primer: The Unbelievable Truth
When the truth conflicts with our belief set or paradigms, will we embrace it anyway, no matter how uncomfortable, or simply “shoot” the messenger, thinking that by doing so the message will also die?
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Be Afraid Of Michigan, Mitt, Be Very Afraid
If Mitt has to spend millions to beat Santorum in Michigan, what do you figure it’s gonna take to beat President Barack Obama?
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Obama Popularity Rising While Republican Enthusiasm Falls
Recent polls show Obama’s popularity on the rise, even among Independents and Republicans, while enthusiasm among the GOP base is falling.
Elizabeth Warren Leads Scott Brown In Massachusetts Senate Nail-biter
A new WMUR poll of Massachusetts finds Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren holding a narrow lead over Republican Senator Scott Brown, 46%-43%. The WMUR poll shows the race between Warren and Brown to be as close as close can be. Not only is Warren’s three point lead within the poll’s margin of error, but both candidates…
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Independents Embrace Obama As They Flee Romney And The GOP
According to the new Pew Research poll, Independents are fleeing Mitt Romney and embracing
President Obama at a brisk clip.
Santorum Surge Thanks to Power of Shared Idiocy
Rick Santorum has something in common with the base: shared idiocy about an America that never was, and the culture war cred to go with it
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The 2012 CPAC Awards for Insanity in Politics
Each year, CPAC brings you the most insane things Republican can think of saying. We present you here with a sampling of 2012’s offerings
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2012 Primer: Wearing Down The Masses With Anti-Obama Propaganda
In the years after the President Obama’s inauguration, America has been bombarded with insinuations, unfounded allegations, that are designed to wear down the masses.
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A Desperate GOP Hopes A Brokered Convention Will Deliver A Savior
Talk about a brokered 2012 GOP nominating convention is growing – but do the Republicans have to bargain with?
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As Voters Come Home To Obama, 2012 Begins To Look A Lot Like 2008
A comparison of recent polls in Ohio, Michigan, and Virginia with 2008 polling shows that voters who supported President Obama last time are starting to come back home to him in 2012.
Rick Santorum’s False Claim that Christian Marriage is About Children
Santorum says gays don’t deserve the right to get married because gay marriage doesn’t benefit society but Saint Paul says marriage and family distracts people from God
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The Problem with Republican Voters
The problem with Republican voters is that they are ill-informed. Worse, this ignorance seems to be a self-imposed state since they have access to the same information as Democratic voters.
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Republicans Face A Do Or Die Decision If Obama Wins A Second Term
If Obama wins reelection the GOP will have a choice, either snatch back the reins from the inmates or prepare to spend a long time viewing America from behind the walls of the asylum.
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Republicans Not Feeling the Love from Musicians
GOP politicians have not had much luck over the years finding inspiring music to play at their events because of their small tent politics
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Simply Unelectable: How Romney’s Deal With Donald Trump Helps Obama
By cutting a deal for Donald Trump’s endorsement, Mitt Romney has done his part today to get President Obama reelected.
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Polling Shows Obama Heading For Huge Victory Over Romney
It is early, but an analysis of state by state polling data reveals that President Obama may be heading for a huge victory over Mitt Romney.