October 2, 2012
The Remarkably Sheltered Presidential Candidacy of Mitt Romney
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October 2, 2012
Judge Orders A Halt To Pennsylvania Voter ID Enforcement Before Election
Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson ruled Tuesday that Pennsylvania cannot enforce it’s voter ID law before the election. The ruling can be appealed to the state Supreme Court but that appears to be unlikely since it was the highest court in PA that sent the law back to the lower court with instructions to do what it has now done. This is a big win for voting rights in Pennsylvania and the country. However, the law still exists and could be enforced at a later date. So there is still work to be done.
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October 1, 2012
Left and Right: Do Both Sides Engage in Equal Efforts to Delegitimize?
Both sides do it. That’s the common refrain. You typically hear it from pundits on CNN attempting to appear non-partisan. But when it comes to efforts to delegitimize a sitting president, do both sides play the same game?
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September 30, 2012
Poll Truthers: The Paranoid Delusions Of The Right
Why is everything a conspiracy to conservatives? Now the new paranoid delusion of the right is coming from “poll truthers.” It’s a segment of the right that believes the polls are rigged against Mitt Romney, or are sympathetic to the idea.
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September 29, 2012
Eliot Spitzer – Number of the Day: States Allowing Early Voting
Eliot Spitzer presents his Number of the Day: “32 — That’s how many states, plus the District of Columbia, allow early voting for anyone who wants it.”
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September 29, 2012
Which Candidate Is Winning The 2012 Left Call Bumper Sticker Poll?
The Left Call is actively conducting an unscientific “bumper sticker poll” as part of our election 2012 coverage. So what is the Left Call Bumper Sticker Poll? It’s simple actually — I determine who is leading this election by the number of bumper stickers I see on cars. Whether it’s “Obama – Biden”, “Mitt Romney – Believe In America”, “Obama 2012” or “Romney – Ryan” — I count it and file it away in my cranial data banks for later retrieval and analysis.
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September 27, 2012
Report: Tax Cuts For Wealthy Do Not Stimulate Economy – Cue Collective Facepalm
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September 27, 2012
Net New Jobs: A Republican Distortion That Can No Longer Be Used
For “low information voters,” Republicans have repeatedly used the talking point that President Obama has not created one net new job during his first term. While this was technically true, it ignores the fact that millions of new jobs have been created during Obama’s first four years, post-Great Recession.
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September 26, 2012
Romney’s Biggest Problem Is Romney, He Is Unable To Evoke Emotion
Mitt Romney’s biggest problem is that he has not demonstrated genuine empathy with the electorate. He is either unwilling or unable to effectively use real-life examples of people struggling to get by while providing examples of how he will help. Mitt Romney may simply be incapable of making this emotional connection, and that could be the missing element that sinks his candidacy. Robert Lehrman writes in his book, (“The Political Speechwriter’s Companion”):
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September 26, 2012
In GOP we do not trust
Somewhere between philosophical pessimism and political cynicism lies Republicans’ deep antipathy towards democracy
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