What we get from the Victory: Immigration, Wage Action, Student Loans, Infrastructure, Etc

DC Politics Financial Justice Foreclosure Health Care Immigration Reform National Politics

New Orleans     We had this, and I’m with Nate Silver of the 538 column and blog of the Times: this was not “too close to call” unless we got rid of the Electoral College and didn’t tell anyone. Watching Obama win every single battleground state except North Carolina, pretty much cheek and jowl with all …

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“Picking Up ACORN’s Pieces:” The Voter Registration Deficiency

ACORN DC Politics Organizing Voting Rights

New Orleans    Rob “Biko” Baker, the executive director of the League of Young Voters, wrote an interesting story in the Summer 2012 issue of Shelterforce daring to state plainly what has been obvious to virtually everyone concerned and biting their fingernails as the USA Election Day looms before us.  His article, entitled “Picking up ACORN’s …

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