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“Make A Difference For President Obama”: No Matter Where You Live, Voting...
Lately I’ve traveled with Bill Clinton as he barnstorms the country to elect Democrats — especially including President Obama. On Sunday night, the former president and the man he is trying to re-elect...
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“A Foundation Of Evasions And Lies”: Can A “Post-Truth” Candidate Be Elected...
Not long ago, Jay Rosen memorably dubbed Mitt Romney’s bid for the presidency a “post truth” campaign. Within 48 hours, we may find out whether a “post truth” candidate can be elected president. If...
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“Pure Partisanship”: The Battle For Voting Rights Isn’t Over
Sean Barry showed up at the same polling place in Mount Airy, Pennsylvania, where he cast his ballot for Barack Obama in 2008. But when he got there, the poll workers informed him that his name was...
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“A New America Speaks”: Multihued And Multicultural, It’s Our Country Too
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...
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“Slick And Slicker: A Gingrich-Santorum Unity Ticket Was Still A Loser
Mitt Romney’s financial and organization advantages in the 2012 Republican primaries were commanding, but conservatives who opposed him had faint cause for hope: Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich...
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“Women’s Health Is In Danger”: A Fiercely Anti-Choice Ohio GOP Redefines...
Last night, Ohio Governor John Kasich took a little time from his weekend to sign a new $65 billion budget for the state. There are many moving parts to the law, including a $2.5 billion tax cut...
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“Public Ninth Amendment Fund?”: Ohio PAC, “We’re Buying George Zimmerman A...
The Buckeye Firearms Association, an Ohio-based political action committee, has issued a startling statement in the wake of the George Zimmerman trial: “We’re buying ZIMMERMAN a NEW GUN – We need your...
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“Hatred Overwhelming Judgment”: The “Refuse To Enroll” Campaign Gets To Work...
When Reuters reported last week that Republicans and their allies “are mobilizing … to dissuade uninsured Americans from obtaining health coverage,” it caused a bit of a stir. After all, what kind of...
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“Purposeful Republican Misrepresentation”: Read This Before You Believe The...
While some states are reporting lower than expected health care premiums in the exchanges established by the Affordable Care Act, a growing number of Republican-controlled states — like South Carolina,...
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“How Stupid Do They Think We Are?”: Women Can Love Puppies And Oppose Men Who...
I feel like a 12-year-old trying to explain why Muffy is no longer dating Binky, but here goes: National Right to Life has broken up with Cleveland Right to Life because Cleveland Right to Life wants...
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“Ohio’s War On Voting Intensifies”: The Kind Of Moves Official’s Make When...
In advance of the 2012 elections, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) launched an aggressive campaign against early voting, most notably targeting Sunday voting, for reasons he struggled to explain....
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“Socialized Education”: Another Republican Who Thinks It’s Time To Close The...
Once in a great while, a conservative policymaker will condemn the existence of public schools in the United States. They’re usually not quite as direct, though, as Ohio state Rep. Andrew Brenner (R),...
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“A Clear Partisan Purpose”: GOP Steps Up Attack On Early Voting In Key Swing...
On Election Night 2012, referring to the long lines in states like Florida and Ohio, Barack Obama declared, “We have to fix that.” The waits in Florida and Ohio were no accident, but rather the direct...
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“Killing Experiments”: It’s Time For A Nationwide Moratorium On The Death...
We still don’t know where the drugs came from. We know they used midazolam and hydromorphone. We know the combination was experimental. And now we know that instead of working, the drugs took nearly...
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“An Important Voting Rights Victory”: Ohio Early Voting Cuts Violate The...
Ohio keeps trying to cut early voting and the federal courts keep striking the cuts down. Last year, Ohio’s Republican-controlled legislature cut a week of early voting and eliminated the “Golden Week”...
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“Blatant And Immediate”: The Supreme Court That Made It Easier To Buy...
In case there was any remaining confusion with regard to the precise political intentions of the US Supreme Court’s activist majority, things were clarified Monday. The same majority that has made it...
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“Real Improvements In People’s Lives”: John Kasich’s Unforgivable Truth About...
When we Washington types sit around and handicap the GOP field for 2016, we tend to talk about the known quantities, the people prancing around before us on a daily basis thrusting their elbows in one...
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“Paths To The Presidency”: John Kasich And The Road Less Taken, Because It...
Last month I spent a few minutes mocking a Cleveland Plain Dealer story that suggested big donors might hunt down Ohio Gov. John Kasich as he traipsed around the Mountain West plumping for a balanced...
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A Debate Confrontation Would Be Enlightening”: Walker, Kasich And The GOP’s...
Republicans won’t win the presidency in 2016 without making inroads in the Midwest. Happily for the GOP, two Midwestern governors are running for their party’s nomination. Both won reelection in 2014....
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“Went Straight For The Billionaire’s Jugular”: John Kasich Doesn’t Want To...
John Kasich had a clear plan in the third GOP presidential debate: Attack Donald Trump. As the curtain rose and the 10 candidates took their podiums, the Ohio governor started out aggressively, as if...
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