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How the So-Called Liberal Media Defeated Voter IDnew

Relentless and accurate media coverage was decisive in bringing about the judicial defeat of Pennsylvania's voter ID law.

Philadelphia City Paper | Daniel Denvir | 10-02-2012 | Elections

Tags: PA Voter ID

Is Hillary Next?new

From Hillary Clinton's days as an intense, influential, and essentially inept co-president to husband Bill, to her establishment as a successful senator from New York, through the bitter trench warfare of the 2008 presidential primaries, and throughout her tenure as a majestic secretary of state, I have always kept the words of my high-school history teacher Dan Leary in mind.

Boston Phoenix | PETER KADZIS | 09-29-2012 | Politics

Tags: Hillary Clinton, Democrat

Who Are the 47 Percent?new

Regardless of where you stand politically on Romney's "inelegant" statement, as he called it later, a big question looms: Do 47 percent of Americans not pay federal income tax? The short answer is yes.

Jackson Free Press | Ronni Mott | 09-29-2012 | Commentary

The Real Paul Ryannew

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan got booed at the AARP meeting last week while he tried to explain that his plan for Medicare—and his desire to repeal Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA)—would actually help seniors.

Shepherd Express | Lisa Kaiser | 09-27-2012 | Politics

Tags: Medicare, Paul Ryan, Republican

Full-Court Suppressionnew

You could be on the list of the new disenfranchised.

Folio Weekly | Denise Reagan | 09-25-2012 | Commentary

Tags: Democrats, voting

“I Consider Myself the Obamamobile”new

For one Democrat, making phone calls and stuffing campaign envelopes just isn’t enough.

Santa Fe Reporter | Enrique Limón | 09-24-2012 | Politics

Tags: Campaigns

Polling Place Changes Hit Older Omaha Hardernew

On Primary Election Day, 82-year-old Robert Wright drove to Evans Tower on 24th Street in north Omaha from his home at 9th and Fort Streets. He heard on television that Evans Towers was a polling place. Because he hadn’t received a card in the mail telling him where to cast his vote, he figured someone at Evans Towers could at least give him that information, as he did not have internet access to look it up. Poll workers told him to drive to the pavilion at Miller Park. He used to vote at Sherman School, about five blocks from his home. His new polling location at Miller Park was 3 miles away.

The Reader | John Heaston | 09-24-2012 | Elections

Chasing Endeavournew

Here was this incredible device, a testimony to the liberating power of science, and what government can do when its power for good is unleashed. This is a contraption that wouldn’t exist without science and technology and the combined power of people’s collective will that in a democracy is called government.

Random Lengths News | Lionel Rolfe | 09-24-2012 | Commentary

An Open Letter to Mr. Romney From a Latinanew

Just because you talk the talk doesn't mean you walk the walk.

Creative Loafing (Charlotte) | Ailen J. Arreaza | 09-21-2012 | Commentary

Tags: Arizona, Spanish, president, Cuban, News, White House, cumbia, Latin, healthcare, Mexico, 47 percent, Aileen Arreaza, Cuban-American, jalapeño

Pitfall! How Voter ID Trips Up Votersnew

Final arguments will be held Sept. 24 in a federal court case about South Carolina’s Voter ID law. Pitfalls for voters abound regardless of how the court rules, and that could be just the intention of those who passed the law.

Columbia Free Times | Corey Hutchins | 09-20-2012 | Politics

Tags: voting rights act

The Money Conundrum: Campaign Finance and Local Electionsnew

Sometimes the money behind the political marketing says as much about a given race as the ads themselves, offering insights into candidates' views — not to mention their chances of winning.

Mountain Xpress | Jake Frankel | 09-19-2012 | Elections

Tags: North Carolina, local elections, campaign finance