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By Debra Satz
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Barack Obama will serve a second term in office, winning the desperately contested battleground state of Ohio, with Florida still too close to call as of this posting.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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As of 8 p.m. Pacific time, the state of Florida was still too close to call, but that didn’t stop former Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore from declaring that the state will go President Obama’s way.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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Rep. Tammy Baldwin made history Tuesday night when Wisconsin residents chose her over former Gov. Tommy Thompson for the U.S. Senate, making her the first openly gay senator in U.S. history at the end of the state’s most expensive Senate race yet.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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As of 10:40 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday, Republicans have retained control of the House of Representatives, winning 144 seats to the Democrats’ 87, CNN reports.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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Claire McCaskill was considered one of the Democrats most likely to lose her seat in the 2012 election race. That is, until her Republican opponent Todd Akin opened his mouth during a television interview and the infamous words came out.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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Huckabee ripped the Republican Party for its efforts to reach out to voters of color during an election night appearance on Fox News.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting’s Peter Hart tweets, “If you have to wait in line for hours to vote, that’s not an accident. Someone wants it to be that way.” Once again we’re hearing reports of long voting waits in some precincts. How long did you stand in line? Let us know in the comments.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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Mourdock, whose candidacy lost traction after he said pregnancy resulting from rape was “something God intended to happen,” has lost his bid for the U.S. Senate to Democrat Joe Donnelly.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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Multiple news media outlets are projecting that Democrat Elizabeth Warren has defeated incumbent Republican Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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He spent only two years in Congress before losing the gig in 2010, and just like that you can drop the “former” from Rep. Alan Grayson’s title. The good people of Orlando, Fla., are sending the sharp-tongued liberal fireball back to work in the Capitol.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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Murphy beat out Republican challenger Linda McMahon for retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman’s place in the Senate, 55 percent to 43 percent, with votes in 14 percent of the state’s precincts counted, The Washington Post reported.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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According to CNN’s interviews, 59 percent of white voters chose Mitt Romney to be their next president. Obama won 93 percent of the African-American vote, along with large majorities of Latino and Asian voters, according to CNN.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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James Jordan (CC-BY-ND)
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The former governor has the option to caucus with Democrats or Republicans. Which side he chooses could tip the balance of power toward that party.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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The FiveThirtyEight blogger accurately predicted the results of 49 of the 50 states in the 2008 presidential election. Here is his last forecast for the 2012 presidential race.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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Trailing in most of the latest polls, Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown spent Tuesday in a last-minute effort to gain the support of blue-collar voters.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, Le Temps, Switzerland —
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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Martin Sutovec, Cagle Cartoons, Slovakia —
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch —
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Kap, Cagle Cartoons, Spain —
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
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Paul Zanetti, Cagle Cartoons, Australia —
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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By Peter Z. Scheer — I suspect that when my life is over I will have had two opportunities to vote in a presidential election for a black man, and I intend to take both of them.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Justice Party presidential candidate Rocky Anderson stood outside the White House on the eve of the election demanding that President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder respond to the stripping away of American rights that began under George W. Bush and accelerated when Obama took office in 2008.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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By Robert Reich — The vitriol of the 2012 election is worse than the previous elections. Worse than the Palin-induced smarmy 2008. Worse than the swift-boat lies of 2004. Worse, even, than the anything-goes craziness of 2000 and its ensuing bitterness.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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By Jeremiah Goulka, TomDispatch —
The consensus among pundits is that foreign policy doesn’t matter in this election. But the consensus is wrong. Romney claims that he would be far tougher on Iran than the president by threatening “a credible military option.” And it’s no hollow threat.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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By Henry Giroux, Truthout —
As Hurricane Sandy swept through the Eastern Seaboard, there was much concern about how it would affect the presidential elections. The implication is that a natural disaster may undermine the electoral process. But the equation of the electoral process with the highest measure of democracy rests on two mistaken assumptions.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including presidential endorsements by a former veep nominee and a “Simpsons” character, plus a bookmaker pays out on the White House race before Election Day.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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By Kim Barker, ProPublica —
Democratic incumbent Jon Tester is trying to keep his seat in a hotly contested race that could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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An old video in which an upset Mitt Romney discusses his faith after a conservative Iowa radio talk show host quizzes him about it is making the Internet rounds a day before the election.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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By Robert Reich — It’s not too early to draw some lessons. Regardless of what happens Tuesday, Democrats should have three big takeaways from the 2012 election.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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The Republican vice presidential nominee warns that “Judeo-Christian” values are at risk if President Obama wins the election on Tuesday.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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Extra long lines, people getting turned away from the polls and having their cars towed—these were just a few of the problems voters in Florida faced as they tried to take advantage of early voting in the Sunshine State.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — I have been a harsh critic of the president, but a vote for Barack Obama in a swing state is a no-brainer.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — I learned at the age of 10, when I was shipped off to a New England boarding school where the hazing of younger boys was the principal form of recreation, that those who hunger for power are psychopathic bastards.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — In a campaign dominated in the final months by the efforts of President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney to win a minority of states, the left and its agenda have been ignored. So have its candidates.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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White House/Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The 2012 campaign began on Aug. 2, 2011, when President Obama signed the deal ending the debt-ceiling fiasco. At that moment, the president relinquished his last illusions that the current, radical version of the Republican Party could be dealt with as a governing partner. From then on, Obama was determined to fight—and to win.
Posted on Nov 4, 2012
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If Mitt Romney loses Tuesday’s election—a very real possibility given that Nate Silver’s latest forecast gives President Obama an 83.7 percent shot at winning—we now know who to blame it on: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Posted on Nov 3, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Nate Silver’s case for why President Obama is the favorite in next week’s election, Richard Mourdock’s drop in the latest Indiana Senate poll and Dick Morris’ election prediction backtrack.
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — Won’t it be great to have someone in the mold of George W. Bush back in the White House?
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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By Joe Conason — When the superstorm destroyed swaths of the Northeast, darkened our largest city and plunged a huge section of the nation into crisis, the anti-government ideology of the tea party Republicans—and its panderers like Mitt Romney—was exposed for what it is.
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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