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New Orleans Nate Silver takes a hard look at the prospects of the Obama campaign this November in the Times magazine section and concludes its good strategy to ramp up the populism. By his numbers if Obama pushes the pop-buttons hard, the Midwest might fall in line, and then the race is won. First, none of this [...] New Orleans A year ago new Governor Scott Walker led the Wisconsin legislature in a bitter, highly contentious and contested, battle to attack public employee unionization. The headlines a year later focus on labor’s efforts to recall the government. What happened to the workers in Wisconsin in the face of these new laws? Short answer: nothing [...] New Orleans Billionaire Vegas and global casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s 11th hour $5 million contribution to a Super PAC to try to save Newt Gingrich’s campaign for the Republican nomination for US President should become a case study in the influence peddling now allowed by the Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision. Any pretense that politicians [...] New Orleans Republicans, Democrats, or whatever, when something is way, way over the line, it should be roundly understood as out of bounds. A piece in the New York Times Home and Garden section this week by Kate Zernike called “The Houses of the Hopefuls” was appalling on any [...] Missoula The patterns are just too obvious now. The Republicans are into Big Brother and total government control. They are not conservatives at all! It is such a mistake for any of us to get suckered into that slick trick. What they really want it becomes increasingly clear is total government intervention, intrusion, and control [...] Little Rock Visiting with friends and comrades in Little Rock, it wasn’t long before the discussion went to the obvious: how could there be meaningful civic engagement of low-and-moderate income families in the 2012 elections without a huge voter registration effort among the poor? There are still open wounds from too many sources that [...] |
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