How Obamacare Will Allow Women To Be Less Dependent On Their Spouses’ Health Coverage

How Obamacare Will Allow Women To Be Less Dependent On Their Spouses’ Health Coverage: President Obama’s landmark health care reform includes multiple provisions with significant positive implications for women, including putting an end to discriminatory gender-based insurance costs and ensuring affordable access to contraceptive services and maternity care. But Obamacare could also have another unexpected effect on women’s lives: helping ensure they don’t have to rely on a spouse [...]/p

It's The "Jobs Cliff" Stupid...

Beware of con men bearing slogans. The oldest trick in the book is for conservatives -- cons -- to create hysteria around something, and then get all of us to give them billions of our tax dollars to fix the problem they've gotten us all hysterical about.

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Romney cements his legacy as poster boy for the spoiled and callous rich

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Romney cements his legacy as poster boy for the spoiled and callous rich
"Watching Mitt Romney struggle with keeping his spoiled, out-of-touch rich guy persona from rearing its perfectly-coiffed head during the campaign was like watching Romney's best Gollum impression. However, with the election over, Romney, as one pundit below notes, has decided to join the "sore losers club," and is removing all doubt about the sincerity of his everyman pitch along the way."

The Sore Losers Club Welcomes New Members Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan | Alternet

The Sore Losers Club Welcomes New Members Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan | Alternet
"Romney was roundly defeated last week, and the man who defeated him has now publicly saluted him  twice. This is the time for Romney to show grace, humility and maybe some humor too. Instead, he’s coming across like a sore loser, one who’d rather make excuses than give his opponent any real credit."

How the Middle Class Rose Up to Defeat the Vulture Capitalist from Bain | Alternet

How the Middle Class Rose Up to Defeat the Vulture Capitalist from Bain | Alternet
"Republicans learned once more the shortcomings of a stale, male, pale, Southern-based party in a nation of diversity. The GOP “legitimate rape” caucus helped give away two Senate seats. But too little attention has been paid to the new emerging reality. This was the first class warfare election of the new Gilded Age — and the middle class won big.

The Republican nominee Mitt Romney was inescapably the candidate of, by and for the 1 percent."

BP To Pay Largest Criminal Fine In U.S. History For Deepwater Horizon Disaster

BP To Pay Largest Criminal Fine In U.S. History For Deepwater Horizon Disaster: BP has agreed to pay a historic $4.5 billion criminal fine over a six-year period, after pleading guilty to 11 felony counts and criminal charges for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 workers. After two years, the litigation is not yet over since BP faces damages from Gulf states and additional civil charges [...]/p

It's the "Jobs Cliff," Stupid! | Common Dreams

It's the "Jobs Cliff," Stupid! | Common Dreams
"In other words, the “fiscal cliff” is another classic example of what Naomi Klein called “Disaster Capitalism.” Create a panic, and then profit from it. For example, Wall Street is helping fund groups like the Third Way that are pushing hard for us to give our Social Security Trust Fund – which has over two and a half trillion dollars in it – to Goldman Sachs and Citibank so they can take care of it for us. Doesn’t that make you feel all safe, and warm-and-fuzzy?"

350 Economists Call On Congress To Invest In Job Growth Instead Of Austerity

350 Economists Call On Congress To Invest In Job Growth Instead Of Austerity: America’s fledgling economic recovery is being threatened by “obsessive concern with cutting deficits that has infected both parties,” a group of 350 economists wrote in a letter to lawmakers this week. Instead of focusing on deficit-reducing austerity measures that will do nothing to fix the “mass unemployment, rising poverty, and declining wages” that are holding [...]/p

POLL: Voters Hate Super PACs, Want More Campaign Finance Disclosure

POLL: Voters Hate Super PACs, Want More Campaign Finance Disclosure: A new poll of 2012 voters by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps and Public Campaign Action Fund shows huge national concern with the growing role of money in politics and the lack of disclosure thereof. Fully 61 percent of voters (60 percent of Romney voters and 62 percent of Obama voters) oppose the current [...]/p

Navigating the fiscal obstacle course: Supporting job creation with savings from ending the upper-income Bush-era tax cuts | Economic Policy Institute

Navigating the fiscal obstacle course: Supporting job creation with savings from ending the upper-income Bush-era tax cuts | Economic Policy Institute
"Policymakers have finally acknowledged and demonstrated concern that the budget deficit closing too quickly jeopardizes recovery; accordingly, they should slow the pace of deficit reduction while prioritizing efficient policies for boosting economic growth and employment. This paper’s policy recommendations offer a template for doing just that."

GOP in Arizona Attempts to Disenfranchise Latinos to Win Neck-and-Neck Race | Alternet

GOP in Arizona Attempts to Disenfranchise Latinos to Win Neck-and-Neck Race | Alternet
"The GOP’s voter suppression tactics failed epically at the presidential level, but, in Arizona, one Republican candidate is still trying to use the tactics to eek out a win in a neck-and-neck state congressional race."

Drudge Goes All in With "Secession" Meme as the Republican War on the Constitution Escalates | Alternet

Drudge Goes All in With "Secession" Meme as the Republican War on the Constitution Escalates | Alternet
"There is no greater oxymoron in America's political discourse than the “Constitutional conservative"."

Obama Starts "Fiscal Cliff" Negotiations With Pitch to Raise $1.6 Trillion in Taxes on Corporations and the Rich | Alternet

Obama Starts "Fiscal Cliff" Negotiations With Pitch to Raise $1.6 Trillion in Taxes on Corporations and the Rich | Alternet
"President Obama is taking a tough opening stance in talks over deficit reduction, pushing Republicans to accept a plan that calls for $1.6 trillion in new tax revenue over the next ten years, according to reports."

More accurate than Nate Silver

More accurate than Nate Silver
"According to the Atlantic's Rebecca Greenfield, there were only three pundits, out of 74 she tracked, who called the 2012 Electoral College correctly—Nate Silver, Drew Lizner, and me."

Workers Want Retirement Security More Than Raises, Bonuses, Or Extra Vacation Time

Workers Want Retirement Security More Than Raises, Bonuses, Or Extra Vacation Time: According to a survey by the benefits consulting firm Towers Watson, workers would rather have retirement security than a vast array of other benefits, including larger salaries, more vacation time, and bigger bonuses: In several head-to-head questions, researchers asked whether workers would prefer it if their employers offered them a guaranteed retirement benefit (essentially a [...]/p

Fox News Re-Ups Swift Boat Attacks On John Kerry

Fox News Re-Ups Swift Boat Attacks On John Kerry: From the liars at Fox. The same right wing propaganda channel that brought you the chikenhawk Bush and the draft dodger Romney. Now they are back using debunked lies from 2004 to attack someone who actually served in a combat zone.

You Want to Raise the Retirement Age? Walk a Mile In Our Shoes First

You Want to Raise the Retirement Age? Walk a Mile In Our Shoes First
"I don't know about anyone else, but as someone who has actually worked at one of those jobs where you take a shower at the end of the work day and not before you go in, I'm sick to death of watching these overpaid television pundits and their counterparts in the Congress, nonchalantly discussing raising the retirement age. It may not matter much to them, but there are real economic hardships involved when you force the average wage earner out there to continue to work until they drop dead if the retirement age is raised any higher than it already is now."

How Republicans Stole the Election... Again

How Republicans Stole the Election... Again
"Except that’s not quite true, Mr King, and you know it. The American people didn’t vote for a Republican House, the Republicans didn’t actually win the House, and therefore there is no mandate. 53,952,240 votes were cast for a Democratic House candidate compared to 53,402,643 cast for a Republican; in other words, over half a million more Americans voted for Democratic House candidates than for Republican candidates. Republicans received less than half of the vote for members of the House of Representatives, and even lost seats in the House this election. Yet Republicans still took 55 percent of the seats in the House. In effect, they had to steal the House. Here’s how:"

Super-PACs Already Planning for 2014 | Common Dreams

Super-PACs Already Planning for 2014 | Common Dreams
"The heads of the outside spending groups that pumped more than $1 billion into the 2012 election are already making plans for 2014."

Hurricane Sandy First Responders Win Health Benefits After Viral Online Campaign

Hurricane Sandy First Responders Win Health Benefits After Viral Online Campaign: Last week, Dena Patrick of Wishadoo! — an online charitable organization — posted a Change.org petition calling for the federal government to provide Hurricane Sandy first responders with health benefits, since thousands of disaster relief workers do not currently qualify for coverage. Today, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) granted her request, announcing that it [...]/p

OWS launches Rolling Jubilee

All across the nation - Americans are suffering from crippling amounts of debt - whether they're drowning in underwater mortgages or facing outrageous student loan bills. What is Occupy Wall Street doing to relieve all the pressure - and lift America out of the doldrums of debt?

America has NEVER been a center right nation

When does the Democratic Party do best? When it champions the progressive policies and causes that will build a stronger America. With the fiscal cliff negotiations heating up - will Democrats heed the advice of FDR - and stick to the party's progressive roots?

Rise of the Bacterial Superbug: Systemic Misuse of Antibiotics to Blame | Common Dreams

Rise of the Bacterial Superbug: Systemic Misuse of Antibiotics to Blame | Common Dreams
"A new health report shows that bacterial superbugs are on the rise while health and consumer advocacy groups blame overuse among both humans and livestock as the root cause."

How Factory Farms Quietly Defeated Food Safety In North Dakota

How Factory Farms Quietly Defeated Food Safety In North Dakota: While the defeat of California’s GMO labeling proposition was widely mourned by the food safety movement, a far more insidious ballot initiative that passed in North Dakota on Election Day has been largely overlooked. North Dakotans quietly voted through a “Farm Amendment” last Tuesday banning any regulation that “abridges the right of farmers and ranchers [...]/p

Danger Ahead: The Oligarchs Don't Understand That Economic Collapse Happens When They Get All the Money | Alternet

Danger Ahead: The Oligarchs Don't Understand That Economic Collapse Happens When They Get All the Money | Alternet
"Let’s face it, if your opponent in Monopoly scoops up Boardwalk, Park Place, North Carolina Avenue, Pacific Avenue, both utilities, and the four railroads – that’s game over."

Grand or otherwise, there's no bargaining with these Republicans

Grand or otherwise, there's no bargaining with these Republicans
"No compromise. No Grand Bargain. No cuts to Social Security or Medicare or Medicaid. No enabling a Republican Party that is spiraling toward oblivion. Let the Bush tax cuts expire and force the Republicans to decide whether they want to oppose the Obama middle class tax cuts. The false Republican narratives of fiscal crisis and runaway entitlements must be called for the lies they are. The false Republican politicians and pundits must be revealed as the frauds they are. The Democrats need only speak the truth, seize the moment, and ride the electoral and demographic tide that has them ascendant and still rising. History is there for the making. History is there for the taking."

PERRspectives: CBO: No Tax Cuts for the Rich, No Problem

PERRspectives: CBO: No Tax Cuts for the Rich, No Problem
"For the second time in as many weeks, an analysis by a nonpartisan agency of Congress has demolished the GOP myth of upper-income taxes and so-called "job creators"."

The Candidates Who Ran And Won On Obamacare

The Candidates Who Ran And Won On Obamacare: Throughout President Obama’s first term, House Republicans spent over 80 hours on more than 30 different votes attempting to repeal health care reform. Altogether, GOP lawmakers wasted over $50 million on their repeated failed attempts to take away health care from 30 million additional Americans — and that trend continued during this year’s campaign season, [...]/p

Obama Swept States With The Most Educated Workforces And The Highest Paid Teachers

Obama Swept States With The Most Educated Workforces And The Highest Paid Teachers: Barack Obama fared well across the country Tuesday night, winning 332 electoral votes en route to a second term as president. Nowhere did he perform better, however, than in states that place the highest emphasis on education. Of the 10 most educated states, measured by the percentage of residents over 25 years old who have [...]/p

Brief Rundown of Just How Big a Victory Tuesday Was for Democrats

Brief Rundown of Just How Big a Victory Tuesday Was for Democrats
"After being told for six months how close the race was, turns out, No. No it wasn't. How big of a win was it? In the end, it wasn't even close. President Obama won BOTH the Electoral College AND the Popular Vote... and not just by a little, but by A LOT... 126 Electoral votes and nearly 3 Million in the Popular Vote"

Obama Won, But He Still Has to Contend with Millions of Americans Taught to Hate Their Own Government | Alternet

Obama Won, But He Still Has to Contend with Millions of Americans Taught to Hate Their Own Government | Alternet
"It's no small obstacle that tens of millions of voters think government is the problem."

Ohio’s GOP Secretary of State Already Has A Plan To Rig The 2016 Election For Republicans

Ohio’s GOP Secretary of State Already Has A Plan To Rig The 2016 Election For Republicans: Last year, Pennsylvania’s Republican Gov. Tom Corbett proposed rigging the Electoral College vote in his state through a plan that would have given the majority of the state’s electors to Romney even after President Obama carried the state. Under Corbett’s plan, the winner of each congressional district within Pennsylvania would receive a single electoral vote, [...]/p

Crossroads' $175 Million Strikeout | Common Dreams

Crossroads' $175 Million Strikeout | Common Dreams
"Just because George W. Bush has been out of the White House for four years doesn't mean Karl Rove has stopped trying to influence who controls Washington."

Crossroads' $175 Million Strikeout | Common Dreams

Crossroads' $175 Million Strikeout | Common Dreams
"Just because George W. Bush has been out of the White House for four years doesn't mean Karl Rove has stopped trying to influence who controls Washington."

Uncounted Votes Complicate Arizona Races

Uncounted Votes Complicate Arizona Races
"Nearly 460,000 votes in Maricopa County and more than 600,000 statewide had yet to be counted as of late Wednesday, clouding the outcome of several close Arizona races."

Did Monsanto Trick California Voters? | Alternet

Did Monsanto Trick California Voters? | Alternet
"Monsanto and their peeps didn't just spend $46 million promoting their opinion. They also lied and got away with it."

How Wall Street Tried, And Failed, To Elect Lawmakers Hostile To Financial Reform

How Wall Street Tried, And Failed, To Elect Lawmakers Hostile To Financial Reform: Wall Street, after giving more to President Obama during the 2008 election than to his opponent Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), flipped during the 2012 election to give the vast majority of its campaign donations to Mitt Romney. As Matt Phillips outlined at Quartz, “individuals affiliated with the banking and finance industries overwhelmingly channeled money towards [...]/p

Republican Party is going to have to leave their proverbial bubble to remain viable

The Republican Party is going to have to leave their proverbial bubble to remain viable. Facts matter. Terrific breakdown of election night.The national results were predicted by fact-based models while the right wing media failed as usual.

Progressive Democrat Tammy Baldwin Wins U.S. Senate Seat in Wisconsin

Progressive Democrat Tammy Baldwin Wins U.S. Senate Seat in Wisconsin
"Wisconsin has upheld its reputation as a truly purple state by electing Democrat Tammy Baldwin to the U.S. Senate, by a solid margin of 51 to 46, and reelecting President Barack Obama to a second term, just months after handing the Tea Party and out-of-state special interests a victory by voting to keep far-right GovernorScott Walker in office. Baldwin's victory, along with Elizabeth Warren's win in Massachusetts and Sherrod Brown's win in Ohio, helps ensure Democrats keep control of the U.S. Senate."

'Corporations Are Not People' in Montana, Colorado | Common Dreams

'Corporations Are Not People' in Montana, Colorado | Common Dreams
"In a landslide victory Tuesday night, Montana voters approved an initiative stating "that corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights because they are not human beings" -- corporations are not people."

Obama Won A Mandate On Election Day To Take America Further Forward | The New Republic

Obama Won A Mandate On Election Day To Take America Further Forward | The New Republic
"But, whatever happens over the next four years, Obama’s reelection guarantees that the laws passed during his first term stay on the books. That instantly makes him one of the most accomplished presidents of modern times. Already Obama and his allies have shaped this country in ways that will last for generations—making life more secure, and creating new opportunities, for tens of millions of Americans."

How Grover Norquist’s Radical Anti-Tax Pledge Sunk Top Tier Republican Senate Candidates

How Grover Norquist’s Radical Anti-Tax Pledge Sunk Top Tier Republican Senate Candidates: Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform boasted that 279 Congressional incumbents — and another 286 challengers — signed his “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” to never vote for any tax increases under any circumstances. But when Democrats fought back against the anti-tax zealotry of Norquist and his Republican minions, many voters reacted positively, rejecting the pledge and [...]/p

Social Security: It Ain't Broke | Common Dreams

Social Security: It Ain't Broke | Common Dreams
"Social Security is more popular than sliced bread. And it should be. Our Social Security system is the foundation of our families' security: We work hard and pay into it with every paycheck so each of us can retire with dignity."

Six Congressional Races Where GOP Extremism Lost

Six Congressional Races Where GOP Extremism Lost: The 2012 House and Senate races were to a significant degree about the GOP’s shift to the far right of the American historical norm — assaults on the fundamentals of the social safety net unseen since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, unprecedented attempts to restrict women’s reproductive freedom, and near-theological devotion to lowering tax [...]/p

Big Agriculture Bankrolls Defeat of California's Proposition 37 | Common Dreams

Big Agriculture Bankrolls Defeat of California's Proposition 37 | Common Dreams
"California's landmark Proposition 37 was soundly and sadly defeated on Tuesday by corporate interests and big money politics. As of Wednesday morning, with more than 94 percent of the precincts reporting, news outlets reported that the measure has been rejected."

Karl Rove, the Biggest Loser | Alternet

Karl Rove, the Biggest Loser | Alternet
"Mitt Romney wasn’t the only big loser last night. For  Karl Rove,  the coup de grace came in the hour just before midnight"

For Obama, a Bigger Win Than for Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Bush or Bush | Common Dreams

For Obama, a Bigger Win Than for Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Bush or Bush | Common Dreams
"By the time Romney conceded at 1 a.m., Obama had a 250,000 popular-vote lead, and it grew to roughly two million by dawn.
He was on track to win a majority of states and more than 300 Electoral Votes – at least 303 and, with the right result in Florida, 332."

America Elects A Liberal Agenda

America Elects A Liberal Agenda
"It was the liberal agenda that broke out this election. We didn't win on bipartisanship -- hell no! Republicans said that only Romney had a chance to unite this insane Tea Party Congress, so President Obama needs to ride this week out then rally the entire Democratic Party around a strong hand. Demand that Republicans work with him and not the other way around."

Voter Suppression Tactics Backfire on GOP, Galvanizing Voters' Resolve | Alternet

Voter Suppression Tactics Backfire on GOP, Galvanizing Voters' Resolve | Alternet
"From shortened early voting hours in Ohio to mayhem in Florida, voters held their ground for hours, demanding their right to vote -- in record numbers."

OBAMA'S BIG NIGHT - The Atlantic

OBAMA'S BIG NIGHT - The Atlantic
"In the end, it wasn't particularly close. Assuming his late leads hold in Florida and Ohio, Obama will have lost just two states from his 2008 sweep, Indiana and North Carolina. Every other swing state -- from Ohio, Iowa and New Hampshire to Virginia, Florida, Colorado and Nevada -- fell for Obama. The Democratic-leaning states Romney tried to put on the board, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, never came close."

CNN Reporter: Romney Campaign Internal Polling - Obama Plus Five in Ohio

CNN Reporter: Romney Campaign Internal Polling - Obama Plus Five in Ohio
"Good news for the Obama campaign. CNN's Peter Hamby tells Candy Crowley that the Romney campaign's most recent internal polling showed President Obama up by five in the crucial swing state of Ohio."

Need to tell somebody where to vote? Run into a hassle at the polls? Here is some help

Need to tell somebody where to vote? Run into a hassle at the polls? Here is some help
• California: 1-855-OFA-VOTE
• Florida: 1-855-VOTE-214
• Iowa: 1-855-VOTE-174
• Michigan: 1-877-271-1672
• Minnesota: 1-877-257-0643
• Nevada: 1-855-868-3175
• New Hampshire: 1-866-2-VOTE-22
• New Mexico: 1-877-271-5058
• North Carolina: 1-855-VOTE-171
• Ohio: 1-855-VOTE-199
• Oregon: 877-257-6154
• Pennsylvania: 1-855-834-VOTE
• Virginia: 1-855-VOTE-213
• Washington: 1-877-271-3509
• Wisconsin: 1-855-VOTE-177
• Other states* can call 1-800-311-VOTE (1-800-311-8683) and visitvote.barackobama.com
Now get out there and vote! Be patient, wait in line but get that vote in. The higher the turnout the harder it will be to steal.

PERRspectives: 72 Billion Reasons Not to Vote for Mitt Romney

PERRspectives: 72 Billion Reasons Not to Vote for Mitt Romney
"There are plenty of reasons not to vote for Mitt Romney, but here are 72 billion more. If President Romney gets his way, his massive tax cut for the wealthy would not only produce a huge payday each year for the richest living Americans. As it turns out, Romney's plan to eliminate the estate tax would divert billions from the United States Treasury to their heirs after they're gone. And for 42 billionaire backers of Mitt Romney's Restore Our Future Super PAC, that one change to the tax code could be worth almost $72 billion."

Linda McMahon pulls WWE-style dirty tricks out of the bag

Linda McMahon pulls WWE-style dirty tricks out of the bag
"If she can't buy her way into the Senate, she'll cheat her way into the Senate. And she's trying convince voters she's not a Republican? Good luck with that."

Need to tell somebody where to vote? Run into a hassle at the polls? Here is some help

Need to tell somebody where to vote? Run into a hassle at the polls? Here is some help
"Here are some links and phone numbers to help with troubleshooting the voting that have been tested and found to work." Now get out there and vote!!!!!

Voting an 'Act of Defiance Against Malicious Political Forces'

Voting an 'Act of Defiance Against Malicious Political Forces'
"voting is more than just the core responsibility of citizenship; it is an act of defiance against malicious political forces determined to reduce access to democracy. Millions of ballots on Tuesday — along with those already turned in — will be cast despite the best efforts of Republican officials around the country to prevent them from playing a role in the 2012 election."

How Republicans Are Trying to Steal the Election | Alternet

How Republicans Are Trying to Steal the Election | Alternet
"Voting barriers erected by the GOP more than tested the patience of thousands of people in Ohio and Florida on the last weekend of early voting, leaving voters waiting for hours outdoors in long lines and then stranded in hallways before casting a vote."

Harry Reid Was Right About Romney's Taxes. Who Is Going To Apologize First?

Harry Reid Was Right About Romney's Taxes. Who Is Going To Apologize First?
"MITT ROMNEY PAID NO TAXES FOR (MORE THAN) TEN YEARS!!!!!"

Mitt Romney’s Team Would Let Loose Dogs of War in Iran | Common Dreams

Mitt Romney’s Team Would Let Loose Dogs of War in Iran | Common Dreams
"The Republican nominee has surrounded himself with advisors who are committed to military action and regime change against Iran, the same people who brought us the Global War on Terror and the Iraq War.  Along with their colleagues in hawkish think tanks, they have spent years priming the public to believe that Iran has an ongoing nuclear weapons program, making ludicrous claims about “crazy” mullahs nuking Israel and the United States, pooh-poohing diplomacy -- and getting ever shriller each time credible officials and analysts disagree."

Nate Silver: Obama Has 86.3 Percent Chance of Winning Election | Alternet

Nate Silver: Obama Has 86.3 Percent Chance of Winning Election | Alternet
"Silver explained why his forecast shows Obama winning ina recent column . “Friday’s polling should make it easy to discern why Mr. Obama has the Electoral College advantage. There were 22 polls of swing states published Friday,” Silver writes. “Of these, Mr. Obama led in 19 polls, and two showed a tie. Mitt Romney led in just one of the surveys, a Mason-Dixon poll of Florida"." Now get out there and VOTE!!!!! The higher the turnout the harder it is to steal. Remember republicans have not won a presidential election (except by cheating Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004) since 1988. (Silver's final 2008 presidential election forecast accurately predicted the winner of 49 of the 50 states as well as the District of Columbia (missing only the prediction for Indiana). He also correctly predicted the winners of every U.S. Senate race.)

Are Pennsylvania Republicans Targeting African American Precincts For Voter Intimidation?

Are Pennsylvania Republicans Targeting African American Precincts For Voter Intimidation?: A coalition of civil rights groups have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to monitor an effort by the state Republican Party and a local Tea Party group to send poll watchers disproportionately to predominately African American precincts, the Philadelphia City Paper reported Monday. A partial list of targeted precincts, obtained by the groups, suggests [...]/p

PERRspectives: Mitt Romney by the Numbers

PERRspectives: Mitt Romney by the Numbers
"For years, Mitt Romney has been telling Americans "I love data." As he bragged to the Wall Street Journal:

"I used to call it 'wallowing in the data.' Let me see the data. I want to see the client's data, the competitors' data. I want to see all the data."

But the man who would be America's 45th President doesn't want voters to see any of his. In early 2007, the Massachusetts Governor's aides scrubbed his administration's computer records as he was heading out the door in Boston. Determined to avoid becoming the poster boy for gaming the IRS, Romney's tax returns remain a mystery because, as he put it, "I don't put out which tooth paste I use either." As for own tax plan, Romney boasts that "it can't be scored" because the "details will have to be worked out with Congress." As for which tax breaks he would end to offset the $5 trillion in revenue his tax cut scheme would drain from the U.S. Treasury, Mitt Romney won't name a single one in public. Otherwise, he told the Wall Street Journal last year, "you're gonna get hit by the demagogues in the general election."

But what Mitt Romney calls demagogues, most Americans call "voters." And despite Romney's perpetual--and perpetually cynical--efforts to keep his data secret, on the eve of the 2012 election there are some things we do know. Here, then, is Mitt Romney by the numbers."

The Road to November 6th: President Obama in Bristow, VA

The choice in this election is clear: it's between two fundamentally different visions of how to grow the economy, create middle-class jobs and restore middle-class economic security. The President believes the only way to create an economy built to last is to build it from the middle out, not the top down.

Republicans begin blame game for possible Romney loss

Arizona GOP Senate Candidate Robocalls Democrats And Tells Them To Vote In The Wrong Place

Arizona GOP Senate Candidate Robocalls Democrats And Tells Them To Vote In The Wrong Place: According to a report by Phoenix, Arizona’s NBC affiliate, Rep. Jeff Flake’s (R-AZ) U.S. Senate campaign called Democratic voters telling them to vote in the wrong precinct — in some cases as much as 11 miles away from their actual polling place. After telling the Democratic voters to vote in the wrong place, the calls [...]/p

5 Signs Romney is Getting Desperate | Alternet

5 Signs Romney is Getting Desperate | Alternet
"The polls, though, continue show a solid lead for President Obama, particularly in the Electoral College race. And that means it’s time for the Romney-Ryan campaign to get desperate--which is exactly what they’ve been doing."

Romney's big miscalculation on the Jeep-to-China lie

Romney's big miscalculation on the Jeep-to-China lie
"By now there's no real doubt that Mitt Romney's lies about Chrysler and General Motors moving jobs from the United States to China thanks to the auto bailout hurt rather than helped him."

A Vote for the Republicans is a Vote Against Yourself: 5 Reasons Why | Common Dreams

A Vote for the Republicans is a Vote Against Yourself: 5 Reasons Why | Common Dreams
"To be more precise, it's a vote against yourself as long as you're making less than $250,000 a year, which includes about 99% of us. The Republicans have repeatedly turned against middle-class and low-income Americans in their legislative proposals over the past two years. Here are some of the sordid details"

Four Ways Ohio’s GOP Secretary Of State Is Trying To Swing The Election For Mitt Romney

Four Ways Ohio’s GOP Secretary Of State Is Trying To Swing The Election For Mitt Romney: In the lead up to the 2000 presidential election, Florida’s Republican Secretary of State Katherine Harris hired a private company to create an error-laden “scrub list” of so-called ineligible voters, eventually wrongly purging as many as 7000 voters from Florida’s rolls — or 13 times George W. Bush’s post-Supreme Court margin of victory. Moreover, because [...]/p

Ohio Gov. Refutes Romney: ‘Chrysler Is The One Automaker That Has Increased Employment’

Ohio Gov. Refutes Romney: ‘Chrysler Is The One Automaker That Has Increased Employment’: Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) is the latest Republican to refute one of Mitt Romney’s biggest talking points in the state, as he told CBS Monday morning that Chrysler is adding jobs in Ohio, not shipping them to China as Romney has claimed both on the campaign trail and in radio and television ads: ANCHOR: [...]/p