Vote To Move Ahead Or Roll Us Back To Disaster? 0
Things are sure getting mean on the campaign trail, aren’t they? The “I’m not a witch” ad featuring Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell is destined to be a timeless classic, along with Karl Rove’s moaning about President Obama attacking anonymous donors. This bunch of candidates is saying some of the dumbest things I’ve heard since […]
Read MoreAppealing to independent voters 0
The crucial midterm elections are fast approaching, and everyone has a prediction about the outcome. History suggests that the party in control of the White House will lose seats. And for the most part, Democrats are bracing themselves for a tough election cycle.
Read MoreMystery funds undermine democracy 0
Give them credit where credit is due: Republicans know how to spend big dollars. In this election, Republican political strategists and their rich, anonymous supporters are really thinking big.
Read MoreHelp Save the American Dream 0
Only God knows how it has come to be, because I definitely do not. I do know that it has come about that the mantle of Abraham Lincoln has fallen on the shoulders of President Barack Obama.
Read MoreTax cuts aren’t key to creating jobs 0
Neil, one of my neighbors on Capitol Hill, recalled this story to me the other day after watching President Obama’s town hall meeting: “She was recently widowed, about 93, having lost her husband of over 60 years. When I came upon her in a darkened church hallway, standing alone, staring at the floor, I wanted to know what was wrong.
Read MoreMiddle Class Exhaustion Sets In 0
It all started with this simple question at a Town Hall meeting featuring the president of the United States: “Quite frankly, I’m exhausted,” said the questioner. “I’m exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now.”
Read MoreGOP Pledge: Weak Tea 0
This year, the Republican Party has embraced out of the mainstream candidates and ideas, but when it comes to their agenda for America & well, lets just say their agenda is pretty weak tea. Today, Republicans released that agenda, a Pledge to America that simply recycles warmed-over versions of the same failed policies Republicans pursued during the Bush era and injects them with steroids to make their negative consequences even worse.
Read MoreWhat Democrats Have Done for the African American Community 0
In a recent New York Times op-ed, Bob Herbert asks an important question and one that a lot of African American voters are asking this election season: what have Democrats done for our community?
Read MoreWill the Tea Party help or hurt Obama? 0
The Post asked political experts whether the Tea Party will help or hurt President Obama. Below are responses from Robert Shrum, Ed Rogers, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Dan Schnur and Donna Brazile.
Read MoreTea party taking no prisoners 0
Let me tell you an election-night true story.
Three days after the devastating Republican loss of 2008, Steve Schmidt, campaign manager and chief strategist to former GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, offered this blunt assessment to the defeated Republican Party: “The party in the Northeast is all but extinct; the party on the West Coast is all but extinct; the party has lost the mid-South states (and) is in deep trouble in the Rocky Mountain West…there has to be a message and a vision that is compelling to people in order for them to come back…”
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