Election day is around the corner and, as The New York Times notes, “Republican officials and legislators around the country are battling down to the wire to preserve strict and discriminatory new voting laws that could disenfranchise hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans.” U.S. Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner of Chicago issued a […]
Texas Observer ran an interesting piece over the weekend entitled “Dallas Morning News: Elect Greg Abbott, Pay The Ransom.” In that article the Texas Observer reports that the state’s newspapers have been rolling out their endorsements and on Thursday night The Dallas Morning News became the first major newspaper in the state to give an […]
Republicans say some of the most absurd things, especially when campaigning. Here’s a roundup of some of the most outrageous, ridiculous and idiotic statements made by GOP hopefuls in the 2012 campaign cycle. 1) “Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That’s the kind of spirit that […]
A get-out-the-vote ad by a Florida-based group called Dream Defenders is part of its new “Vest or Vote” campaign, which is rallying voters around police violence against black youth. Shot in black and white, the minute-and-a-half ad shows a young black mother in the kitchen distracting her son from a video game to ask him […]
The 2014 mid-term elections are around the corner and efforts are underway to encourage liberals and progressives to get out and vote, because as we all know: when liberals vote, liberals win. It’s as simple as that. However, voter turnout for mid-term elections is historically weak and with Obamacare, indeed the Obama presidency, at risk […]