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by Juan Cole
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The 64-year-old salon owner upset with the president’s re-election scrolled “F*** Obama” across his will before taking his own life.
Posted on Nov 14, 2012
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In the 2012 elections, it appears that Democrats won the popular vote for House seats by a narrow margin, 49 percent to 48.2 percent, according to The Washington Post. So how did Republicans expand their margin to win the “second-biggest House majority in 60 years and their third-biggest since the Great Depression”?
Posted on Nov 14, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Paul Ryan’s election loss blame, Nancy Pelosi’s future in the House and a Republican lawmaker’s unusual pay request.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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Residents from nearly 40 states have filed petitions to secede from the United States on the White House’s “We The People” site since President Obama’s re-election.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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The pregnant Arizona woman “hated” President Obama and was upset by last Tuesday’s election result.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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While same-sex marriage is gaining acceptance in the U.S., most states still prohibit gay couples from getting hitched.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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Kyrsten Sinema will represent the good people of Phoenix in the House after emerging victorious from an election-night squeaker. And thanks to the 36-year-old former state senator, the next Congress will feature its first openly bisexual member, as well as its first lesbian senator and first openly LGBT person of color.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a possible surprise pick to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state and a conversation David Petraeus’ mistress had about him during a January appearance on “The Daily Show.”
Posted on Nov 12, 2012
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The presidential election can officially be put to rest now that “Saturday Night Live” has had the chance to weigh in.
Posted on Nov 12, 2012
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Citizens ostensibly upset that President Obama won another four-year term in office are petitioning the White House’s “We The People” site.
Posted on Nov 12, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — It is said after every election that the victors should put politics aside and work for the good of the country. If President Obama believed this pious nonsense, he would put his second term in jeopardy.
Posted on Nov 11, 2012
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Tuesday’s election saw women take a record number of seats in the U.S. Senate. One-fifth of the legislative body no longer belongs to the good old boys.
Posted on Nov 10, 2012
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A Rasmussen poll released Friday shows 68 percent of Americans see global warming as a “serious problem,” up from 46 percent in 2009. In 2010, Gallup reported 48 percent of Americans thought the dangers of global warming were exaggerated.
Posted on Nov 10, 2012
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The election suggests a new political landscape in the United States. With a new American majority, will Barack Obama and Congress really compromise on the impending fiscal cliff? Or will victorious Republican representatives remain committed to the Ryan budget? The “Left, Right & Center” commentators will consider these questions and others on this week’s program.
Posted on Nov 10, 2012
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By The Rev. Madison Shockley — This playlist sums up the winners and losers from the biggest political bash in the last four years.
Posted on Nov 10, 2012
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Mark Takano, a Democrat, has made history by winning his election in California’s new 41st Congressional District.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a CEO who claims he fired employees because of Obama’s victory, and Ted Nugent, who has a meltdown over the election on Twitter.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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According to geography research group Floating Sheep, pinpointing the spike in Twitter hate speech is a “useful reminder that technology reflects the society in which it is based, both the good and the bad.”
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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A “toxic mix of rage and delusion, and its concomitant sense of oppression, have become the defining political features of much of white America today,” writes Harper’s Magazine columnist Kevin Baker, on observing the conservative reaction to the re-election of President Barack Obama this week.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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CounterPunch, the muckraking political newsletter founded in 1994 by investigative journalist Jeffrey St. Clair and recently deceased iconoclast Alexander Cockburn, has paid a “savage price” for maintaining its deeply critical view of President Obama during the 2012 presidential campaign season.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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Republicans will probably say this is yet another instance of the New Jersey governor cozying up to the president and dissing the White House loser.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — Election night was a heck of a party, but morning in America already feels too much like a hangover.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Gay America’s best election yet; Robert Scheer on Obama’s second term; marijuana legalization; and Internet freedom.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Gay America’s best election yet; Robert Scheer on Obama’s second term; marijuana legalization; and Internet freedom.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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The president choked up speaking to his campaign team, reminiscing about his work as a community organizer and saying, “Whatever good we do over the next four years will pale in comparison to what you guys end up accomplishing for years and years to come.”
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — So much for voter suppression. So much for the enthusiasm gap. So much for the idea that smug, self-appointed arbiters of what is genuinely “American” were going to “take back” the country, as if it had somehow been stolen.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — Mike Allen, for those who don’t know, is Washington’s insiders’ insider.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the unofficial winner of the state of Florida and the question being asked about Diane Sawyer after election night.
Posted on Nov 8, 2012
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By Robert Reich — Tea partiers may be more amenable to an agreement now that the electorate has signaled it doesn’t especially like what the tea party has been up to.
Posted on Nov 8, 2012
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Jon Stewart anoints everyone’s favorite election forecasting wizard as the “lord and god of the algorithm” on Wednesday night’s show.
Posted on Nov 8, 2012
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By Joe Conason — What Barack Obama tried to tell America in the hour of his remarkable victory is that the nation’s future won on Election Day.
Posted on Nov 8, 2012
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By William Pfaff — Abroad, the widely noted aspect of Barack Obama’s re-election victory was its social and class character. The president was re-elected by a majority of American minorities.
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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By Robert Reich — When the applause among Democrats and recriminations among Republicans begin to quiet down the president will have to make some big decisions. The biggest is on the economy.
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Obama’s re-election was at once a deeply personal triumph and a victory for the younger, highly diverse and broadly progressive America that rallied to him. It was a result that ought to settle the bitter argument that ground the nation’s government to a near-standstill.
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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North Dakota is a “deeply conservative” state that Mitt Romney won by 20 points, making Heitkamp’s victory there all the more impressive.
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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What will Democrats do with their big election victory? If history is any indication, they’ll do just what they’ve done in years past: declare their opposition to budget cuts before embarking on a campaign of capitulation to the demands of their corporate backers, Glenn Greenwald says.
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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“Democracy Now!” serves up a concise, 10-minute roundup of key election and ballot measure results from Tuesday night. Obama’s winning a second term, Elizabeth Warren’s election to the Senate, marriage equality in four states, the legalization of pot for recreational use in two, and the overcoming of efforts to suppress swing-state voters were among the major victories for liberals.
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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Tea party darling and former presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann squeaked to a fourth term in Minnesota when her victory over Democrat Jim Graves was confirmed Wednesday morning.
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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Silver correctly predicted the results of Tuesday night’s election, as opposed to Dick Morris who was utterly wrong in predicting Mitt Romney would win in a “landslide.”
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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AP/Charles Dharapak
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By Bill Boyarsky — Record numbers of Latino voters almost certainly gave Obama Nevada, Colorado, Pennsylvania and, thus, the presidency.
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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Trump totally lost in on Twitter after major news media outlets projected that President Obama won re-election.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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