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Voters Tuning Out Flood of 2012 Super PAC, Campaign Ads
Tweet Share on Facebook May 24, 2012 CommentWhat would happen if the political operatives and political consultants running the presidential campaigns and so called super PACs threw a party and no one came? We may find out this fall.
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Equal Rights for Gay Americans Are Inevitable
Tweet Share on Facebook May 17, 2012 Comment (21)Thursday is big day that celebrates the eternal American quest for equality. On this day in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring that racial segregation was a violation of the equal protection clause in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. Today is also the anniversary of the day in 2004 when the first gay couple in the United States was legally married due to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Council's ruling that the state could not discriminate against gay residents.
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Obama Should Go After Romney's Flip-Flops, Not His Extremism
Tweet Share on Facebook May 9, 2012 Comment (12)So many choices so little time. This is the dilemma that faces the Obama strategy team. The choice they must make is whether to go after Mitt Romney as a right-wing extremist or as a serial flip-flopper. God knows there's plenty of ammo for either argument but I vote for the flip-flop.
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Romney Is Winning Young Voters ... For Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook May 4, 2012 Comment (26)Why is Barack Obama officially kicking off his presidential campaign this weekend at Virginia Commonwealth University and Ohio State University?
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Paul Ryan's Budget Inspired by Ayn Rand, Not Jesus Christ
Tweet Share on Facebook April 27, 2012 Comment (30)Republican politicians like to wear their faith on their sleeves and talk about their Christian values. But when it comes to practicing what you preach, the GOP has a long way to go.
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The Arizona Immigration Law is a Constitutional Nightmare
Tweet Share on Facebook April 19, 2012 Comment (23)You thought the healthcare case created a storm. Well you haven't seen anything yet. Next week the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the constitutionality of SB 1070, the Arizona immigration law. Any case that involves race creates political fireworks.
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Mitt Romney's Coming Etch A Sketch Moment
Tweet Share on Facebook April 12, 2012 Comment (6)With Rick Santorum out of the way, Mitt Romney will finally have his Etch A Sketch moment. He will need to clear the screen quickly of just about anything he said in the primary season to pacify the Tea Partyers and the social conservatives so he can reach the moderate independent voters that he needs in the fall.
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Republican Race-Baiting Will Come Back to Haunt Them
Tweet Share on Facebook April 5, 2012 Comment (17)On the wonderful night of November 4, 2008, thousands of people, white, black, and Latino, gathered in Grant Park in Chicago to celebrate the election of our first black president. For many Americans, Barack Obama's election was the beginning of a new era when there would be cooperation not conflict between races. Finally the racial conflict which had plagued America for centuries would come to an end. Fat chance!
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The Supreme Court and the GOP's Healthcare Hypocrisy
Tweet Share on Facebook March 29, 2012 Comment (14)There’s always hypocrisy in Washington but past and present Republican presidential candidates have used the debate on healthcare to take it to heights unimaginable even in the nation’s capital. This week the Supreme Court heard arguments on the Affordable Care Act and the GOP tried again to cripple Medicare, the federal health insurance program for seniors.
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Supreme Court Has Made Ugly U.S. Politics Even Uglier
Tweet Share on Facebook March 22, 2012 Comment (3)The Supreme Court has done the impossible by making American politics even worse than it already was. The bomb that the court dropped on campaigns was the infamous Citizens United decision.
