Six Congressional Races Where GOP Extremism Lost

Six Congressional Races Where GOP Extremism Lost: The 2012 House and Senate races were to a significant degree about the GOP’s shift to the far right of the American historical norm — assaults on the fundamentals of the social safety net unseen since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, unprecedented attempts to restrict women’s reproductive freedom, and near-theological devotion to lowering tax [...]/p

Big Agriculture Bankrolls Defeat of California's Proposition 37 | Common Dreams

Big Agriculture Bankrolls Defeat of California's Proposition 37 | Common Dreams
"California's landmark Proposition 37 was soundly and sadly defeated on Tuesday by corporate interests and big money politics. As of Wednesday morning, with more than 94 percent of the precincts reporting, news outlets reported that the measure has been rejected."

'How Do You Think He Got So Rich?' Media Charged For Access

'How Do You Think He Got So Rich?' Media Charged For Access
"The campaign of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney appears to be setting a precedent this election year in charging journalists and news organizations for any access to a presidential campaign headquarters on the night of the election."

GMO Labeling Proposition Fails In California

GMO Labeling Proposition Fails In California: Genetically modified foods will not require labels in California, voters decided Tuesday. Chemical and processed food companies, led by biotech giant Monsanto, injected $46 million into a campaign to defeat Proposition 37, while labeling advocates raised just $9.2 million. Among the biggest spenders in the anti-labeling fight were junk food companies Coca-Cola and Nestle, which [...]/p

5 GOPers Booted for Their Idiotic Rape Comments | Alternet

5 GOPers Booted for Their Idiotic Rape Comments | Alternet
"The 2012 campaign season  came to be defined  by Republican candidates making out of touch, often medically inaccurate comments about sexual assault, women’s reproductive systems, and abortion rights."

Karl Rove, the Biggest Loser | Alternet

Karl Rove, the Biggest Loser | Alternet
"Mitt Romney wasn’t the only big loser last night. For  Karl Rove,  the coup de grace came in the hour just before midnight"

For Obama, a Bigger Win Than for Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Bush or Bush | Common Dreams

For Obama, a Bigger Win Than for Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Bush or Bush | Common Dreams
"By the time Romney conceded at 1 a.m., Obama had a 250,000 popular-vote lead, and it grew to roughly two million by dawn.

He was on track to win a majority of states and more than 300 Electoral Votes – at least 303 and, with the right result in Florida, 332."

Love for All: Marriage Equality Triumphs in Maine, Maryland | Common Dreams

Love for All: Marriage Equality Triumphs in Maine, Maryland | Common Dreams
"Supporters of marriage equality and equal civil rights had much to celebrate in both Maine and Maryland Tuesday night as historic victories took place in both states."

America Elects A Liberal Agenda

America Elects A Liberal Agenda
"It was the liberal agenda that broke out this election. We didn't win on bipartisanship -- hell no! Republicans said that only Romney had a chance to unite this insane Tea Party Congress, so President Obama needs to ride this week out then rally the entire Democratic Party around a strong hand. Demand that Republicans work with him and not the other way around."

Legalize It! Historic Night for Marijuana Reform as Colorado and Washington Take the Big Step | Alternet

Legalize It! Historic Night for Marijuana Reform as Colorado and Washington Take the Big Step | Alternet "In an unprecedented popular vote, Colorado and Washington have approved ballot initiatives to legalize the sale of marijuana under regulations somewhat stricter than those for alcohol."

Voter Suppression Tactics Backfire on GOP, Galvanizing Voters' Resolve | Alternet

Voter Suppression Tactics Backfire on GOP, Galvanizing Voters' Resolve | Alternet
"From shortened early voting hours in Ohio to mayhem in Florida, voters held their ground for hours, demanding their right to vote -- in record numbers."

OBAMA'S BIG NIGHT - The Atlantic

OBAMA'S BIG NIGHT - The Atlantic
"In the end, it wasn't particularly close. Assuming his late leads hold in Florida and Ohio, Obama will have lost just two states from his 2008 sweep, Indiana and North Carolina. Every other swing state -- from Ohio, Iowa and New Hampshire to Virginia, Florida, Colorado and Nevada -- fell for Obama. The Democratic-leaning states Romney tried to put on the board, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, never came close."

Voters approve I-502 legalizing marijuana | Local News | The Seattle Times

Voters approve I-502 legalizing marijuana | Local News | The Seattle Times
"Washington enthusiastically leapt into history Tuesday, becoming the first state, with Colorado, to reject federal drug-control policy and legalize recreational marijuana use."

Need to tell somebody where to vote? Run into a hassle at the polls? Here is some help

Need to tell somebody where to vote? Run into a hassle at the polls? Here is some help
• California: 1-855-OFA-VOTE
• Florida: 1-855-VOTE-214
• Iowa: 1-855-VOTE-174
• Michigan: 1-877-271-1672
• Minnesota: 1-877-257-0643
• Nevada: 1-855-868-3175
• New Hampshire: 1-866-2-VOTE-22
• New Mexico: 1-877-271-5058
• North Carolina: 1-855-VOTE-171
• Ohio: 1-855-VOTE-199
• Oregon: 877-257-6154
• Pennsylvania: 1-855-834-VOTE
• Virginia: 1-855-VOTE-213
• Washington: 1-877-271-3509
• Wisconsin: 1-855-VOTE-177
• Other states* can call 1-800-311-VOTE (1-800-311-8683) and visitvote.barackobama.com
Now get out there and vote! Be patient, wait in line but get that vote in. The higher the turnout the harder it will be to steal.

PERRspectives: 72 Billion Reasons Not to Vote for Mitt Romney

PERRspectives: 72 Billion Reasons Not to Vote for Mitt Romney
"There are plenty of reasons not to vote for Mitt Romney, but here are 72 billion more. If President Romney gets his way, his massive tax cut for the wealthy would not only produce a huge payday each year for the richest living Americans. As it turns out, Romney's plan to eliminate the estate tax would divert billions from the United States Treasury to their heirs after they're gone. And for 42 billionaire backers of Mitt Romney's Restore Our Future Super PAC, that one change to the tax code could be worth almost $72 billion."

Pinellas County, Florida, makes thousands of robo-calls telling voters the election is Wednesday

Pinellas County, Florida, makes thousands of robo-calls telling voters the election is Wednesday
"The supervisor of elections for Pinellas County is Deborah Clark, a Republican, who has worked for the elections office for more than 30 years, and held its top post for 12."

Linda McMahon pulls WWE-style dirty tricks out of the bag

Linda McMahon pulls WWE-style dirty tricks out of the bag
"If she can't buy her way into the Senate, she'll cheat her way into the Senate. And she's trying convince voters she's not a Republican? Good luck with that."

Need to tell somebody where to vote? Run into a hassle at the polls? Here is some help

Need to tell somebody where to vote? Run into a hassle at the polls? Here is some help
"Here are some links and phone numbers to help with troubleshooting the voting that have been tested and found to work." Now get out there and vote!!!!!

With Fiscal Cliff Looming, Boehner Takes Millionaires’ Tax Off The Table

With Fiscal Cliff Looming, Boehner Takes Millionaires’ Tax Off The Table: Regardless of how today’s elections shake out, the next president and Congress will have to deal with the so-called “fiscal cliff”: the set of tax increases and spending cuts that were scheduled to hit on January 1st by the 2011 debt ceiling deal. The amount of fiscal contraction included in that deal would be larger [...]/p

Why the GOP and Right Wing 'Don't Want Everybody to Vote'

Why the GOP and Right Wing 'Don't Want Everybody to Vote'
"Speaking more than 30 years ago at a right-wing conference in Dallas, Weyrich set out the case for voter suppression. The right-wing and GOP are still acting on it to this day."

Voting an 'Act of Defiance Against Malicious Political Forces'

Voting an 'Act of Defiance Against Malicious Political Forces'
"voting is more than just the core responsibility of citizenship; it is an act of defiance against malicious political forces determined to reduce access to democracy. Millions of ballots on Tuesday — along with those already turned in — will be cast despite the best efforts of Republican officials around the country to prevent them from playing a role in the 2012 election."

REPORT: Israeli Security Officials Say Netanyahu ‘Tried To Steal A War’ With Iran In 2010

REPORT: Israeli Security Officials Say Netanyahu ‘Tried To Steal A War’ With Iran In 2010: In 2010, two top Israeli security chiefs denied Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s request to “have the military ready to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities within hours if necessary.” This new information comes from an Israeli TV documentary airing today that cites sources close to Israel’s former intelligence head Meir [...]/p

How Republicans Are Trying to Steal the Election | Alternet

How Republicans Are Trying to Steal the Election | Alternet
"Voting barriers erected by the GOP more than tested the patience of thousands of people in Ohio and Florida on the last weekend of early voting, leaving voters waiting for hours outdoors in long lines and then stranded in hallways before casting a vote."

Harry Reid Was Right About Romney's Taxes. Who Is Going To Apologize First?

Harry Reid Was Right About Romney's Taxes. Who Is Going To Apologize First?
"MITT ROMNEY PAID NO TAXES FOR (MORE THAN) TEN YEARS!!!!!"

Media Fails to Report Solar, Wind Successes from Obama's Policies

Media Fails to Report Solar, Wind Successes from Obama's Policies
"The stakes for inaction could not be higher. One of the consequences that we face in the 21st century is rising sea levels, which will inundate coastal cities. Our civilization is literally in danger of drowning. And if we do drown in the 21st century, we will be able to say that we drowned as the result of ignorance as much as anything."

Mitt Romney’s Team Would Let Loose Dogs of War in Iran | Common Dreams

Mitt Romney’s Team Would Let Loose Dogs of War in Iran | Common Dreams
"The Republican nominee has surrounded himself with advisors who are committed to military action and regime change against Iran, the same people who brought us the Global War on Terror and the Iraq War.  Along with their colleagues in hawkish think tanks, they have spent years priming the public to believe that Iran has an ongoing nuclear weapons program, making ludicrous claims about “crazy” mullahs nuking Israel and the United States, pooh-poohing diplomacy -- and getting ever shriller each time credible officials and analysts disagree."

Nate Silver: Obama Has 86.3 Percent Chance of Winning Election | Alternet

Nate Silver: Obama Has 86.3 Percent Chance of Winning Election | Alternet
"Silver explained why his forecast shows Obama winning ina recent column . “Friday’s polling should make it easy to discern why Mr. Obama has the Electoral College advantage. There were 22 polls of swing states published Friday,” Silver writes. “Of these, Mr. Obama led in 19 polls, and two showed a tie. Mitt Romney led in just one of the surveys, a Mason-Dixon poll of Florida"." Now get out there and VOTE!!!!! The higher the turnout the harder it is to steal. Remember republicans have not won a presidential election (except by cheating Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004) since 1988. (Silver's final 2008 presidential election forecast accurately predicted the winner of 49 of the 50 states as well as the District of Columbia (missing only the prediction for Indiana). He also correctly predicted the winners of every U.S. Senate race.)

Are Pennsylvania Republicans Targeting African American Precincts For Voter Intimidation?

Are Pennsylvania Republicans Targeting African American Precincts For Voter Intimidation?: A coalition of civil rights groups have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to monitor an effort by the state Republican Party and a local Tea Party group to send poll watchers disproportionately to predominately African American precincts, the Philadelphia City Paper reported Monday. A partial list of targeted precincts, obtained by the groups, suggests [...]/p

Florida early voting hassles happening 'by partisan design.' Ohio's Husted creates more problems

Florida early voting hassles happening 'by partisan design.' Ohio's Husted creates more problems
"Perhaps someday in some distant election of the future, we won't have to view the vote in Florida and Ohio with such trepidation."

PERRspectives: Mitt Romney by the Numbers

PERRspectives: Mitt Romney by the Numbers
"For years, Mitt Romney has been telling Americans "I love data." As he bragged to the Wall Street Journal:

"I used to call it 'wallowing in the data.' Let me see the data. I want to see the client's data, the competitors' data. I want to see all the data."

But the man who would be America's 45th President doesn't want voters to see any of his. In early 2007, the Massachusetts Governor's aides scrubbed his administration's computer records as he was heading out the door in Boston. Determined to avoid becoming the poster boy for gaming the IRS, Romney's tax returns remain a mystery because, as he put it, "I don't put out which tooth paste I use either." As for own tax plan, Romney boasts that "it can't be scored" because the "details will have to be worked out with Congress." As for which tax breaks he would end to offset the $5 trillion in revenue his tax cut scheme would drain from the U.S. Treasury, Mitt Romney won't name a single one in public. Otherwise, he told the Wall Street Journal last year, "you're gonna get hit by the demagogues in the general election."

But what Mitt Romney calls demagogues, most Americans call "voters." And despite Romney's perpetual--and perpetually cynical--efforts to keep his data secret, on the eve of the 2012 election there are some things we do know. Here, then, is Mitt Romney by the numbers."

Republicans begin blame game for possible Romney loss

Arizona GOP Senate Candidate Robocalls Democrats And Tells Them To Vote In The Wrong Place

Arizona GOP Senate Candidate Robocalls Democrats And Tells Them To Vote In The Wrong Place: According to a report by Phoenix, Arizona’s NBC affiliate, Rep. Jeff Flake’s (R-AZ) U.S. Senate campaign called Democratic voters telling them to vote in the wrong precinct — in some cases as much as 11 miles away from their actual polling place. After telling the Democratic voters to vote in the wrong place, the calls [...]/p

5 Signs Romney is Getting Desperate | Alternet

5 Signs Romney is Getting Desperate | Alternet
"The polls, though, continue show a solid lead for President Obama, particularly in the Electoral College race. And that means it’s time for the Romney-Ryan campaign to get desperate--which is exactly what they’ve been doing."

Romney's big miscalculation on the Jeep-to-China lie

Romney's big miscalculation on the Jeep-to-China lie
"By now there's no real doubt that Mitt Romney's lies about Chrysler and General Motors moving jobs from the United States to China thanks to the auto bailout hurt rather than helped him."

5 Questions Mitt Romney Should Answer About His Mormonism | Alternet

5 Questions Mitt Romney Should Answer About His Mormonism | Alternet
"Reviewing Romney's statements - and "inelegant misstatements" - throughout this campaign, we have now come to feel that full disclosure about the shaping influence of religion on his character is of even greater urgency to the voter. It is no longer about the postponed Mormon Moment, for that has been lost. It is about Romney himself. Who is this man? What settled convictions does he have? Is Romney the face of Mormonism? Or, as some Mormons have come to feel, has he so far distanced himself from core values of his religion that they feel constrained to emphasize that he is not that face?"

A Vote for the Republicans is a Vote Against Yourself: 5 Reasons Why | Common Dreams

A Vote for the Republicans is a Vote Against Yourself: 5 Reasons Why | Common Dreams
"To be more precise, it's a vote against yourself as long as you're making less than $250,000 a year, which includes about 99% of us. The Republicans have repeatedly turned against middle-class and low-income Americans in their legislative proposals over the past two years. Here are some of the sordid details"

Four Ways Ohio’s GOP Secretary Of State Is Trying To Swing The Election For Mitt Romney

Four Ways Ohio’s GOP Secretary Of State Is Trying To Swing The Election For Mitt Romney: In the lead up to the 2000 presidential election, Florida’s Republican Secretary of State Katherine Harris hired a private company to create an error-laden “scrub list” of so-called ineligible voters, eventually wrongly purging as many as 7000 voters from Florida’s rolls — or 13 times George W. Bush’s post-Supreme Court margin of victory. Moreover, because [...]/p

Ohio Gov. Refutes Romney: ‘Chrysler Is The One Automaker That Has Increased Employment’

Ohio Gov. Refutes Romney: ‘Chrysler Is The One Automaker That Has Increased Employment’: Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) is the latest Republican to refute one of Mitt Romney’s biggest talking points in the state, as he told CBS Monday morning that Chrysler is adding jobs in Ohio, not shipping them to China as Romney has claimed both on the campaign trail and in radio and television ads: ANCHOR: [...]/p

Office of Eric Cantor's Democratic Opponent Vandalized With "Baby-Killer," "Nigger-Lover" | Alternet

Office of Eric Cantor's Democratic Opponent Vandalized With "Baby-Killer," "Nigger-Lover" | Alternet
"A notably ugly election just keeps getting uglier"

President Of Florida-Based Company Threatens To Fire Employees If Romney Loses

President Of Florida-Based Company Threatens To Fire Employees If Romney Loses: With fewer than 72 hours before polls begin to close, another report has emerged of a company owner strongly urging his employees to vote for Mitt Romney over Barack Obama, claiming that their jobs are potentially on the line if Obama wins re-election. Cliff Otto, president of the Florida-based Saddle Creek Corporation, circulated an email [...]/p

What You Can Expect From FEMA During A GOP Administration

What You Can Expect From FEMA During A GOP Administration
"Republican attitudes towards FEMA and disaster aid, just in case you were wondering:"

Bomb Scares, Belligerent Tea Partiers and Last-Minute Disenfranchisement – This Election Is Already Ugly | Alternet

Bomb Scares, Belligerent Tea Partiers and Last-Minute Disenfranchisement – This Election Is Already Ugly | Alternet
"We're seeing all the right-wing nonsense about our elections bear fruit."

South Florida County Extends Early Voting — But Only In One GOP Stronghold

South Florida County Extends Early Voting — But Only In One GOP Stronghold: Last night, voters in Miami-Dade County were forced to wait in line up to six hours to vote. In some precincts voters who arrived at 7PM were not able to cast their ballots until 1AM. In response, Republican-affiliated election officials in Miami-Dade have effectively extended early voting from 1PM to 5PM today by allowing “in-person” [...]/p

What's at stake: The Supreme Court

What's at stake: The Supreme Court
"If you care about women's rights, civil rights, economic justice, the environment, and any number of important issues, nothing is more important to the progressive cause than that."

The Road to November 6th: President Obama in Bristow, VA

The choice in this election is clear: it's between two fundamentally different visions of how to grow the economy, create middle-class jobs and restore middle-class economic security. The President believes the only way to create an economy built to last is to build it from the middle out, not the top down.

President Clinton Introduces President Obama in Bristow, VA

President Clinton joined President Obama on the road in Bristow, VA and shared why President Obama is the clear choice in this election. The choice in this election is clear: it's between two fundamentally different visions of how to grow the economy, create middle-class jobs and restore middle-class economic security. The President believes the only way to create an economy built to last is to build it from the middle out, not the top down.

500 reasons to vote against Mitt Romney and for Barack Obama

500 reasons to vote against Mitt Romney and for Barack Obama
"This is, for the most part, straight up policy, compiled to present to why Barack Obama not only deserves your vote but needs it to keep moving our country forward."

KBR Negligent, Ordered to Pay $85 Million to Soldiers | Common Dreams

KBR Negligent, Ordered to Pay $85 Million to Soldiers | Common Dreams
"On Friday, a federal jury found notorious defense contractor KBR (Kellogg Brown and Root) negligent of exposing soldiers to the carcinogen hexavalent chromium at the Qarmat Ali water facility in Iraq in 2003."

After Republicans Restrict Early Voting Hours, Floridians Wait More Than 6 Hours To Vote

After Republicans Restrict Early Voting Hours, Floridians Wait More Than 6 Hours To Vote: Last year, Florida’s Republican dominated legislature “rolled back the number of early-voting days from a maximum of 14 days to eight days.” The result? Floridians are finding it much more difficult to vote, with voters in some counties waiting in line for hours: Long lines were reported across the state, including a six-hour wait time [...]/p

5 Disturbing Signs Romney Would Steer Us to Towards a Capitalist Dictatorship | Alternet

5 Disturbing Signs Romney Would Steer Us to Towards a Capitalist Dictatorship | Alternet
"The mainstream media and even Democrats have been slow to call Mitt Romney's deliberate falsehoods "lies." But after just calling them what they are, it is also important to analyze their meaning. Lies on Romney's scale do not simply show contempt for the intelligence of American voters. They show contempt for democracy, and display some of the features of capitalist dictatorship of a sort that was common in the late twentieth century."

Last-Minute Ohio Directive Could Trash Legal Votes And Impact The Election | Alternet

Last-Minute Ohio Directive Could Trash Legal Votes And Impact The Election | Alternet
"Republican Secretary of State John Husted is doing everything in his power to be the Katharine Harris of 2012."

Did Mitt Romney Profit From Corruption, Fraud and Racketeering at Bain Capital? | Alternet

Did Mitt Romney Profit From Corruption, Fraud and Racketeering at Bain Capital? | Alternet
"Romney was head of Bain Capital while his team of conspirators committed fraud on the court, and when they were reported to the Department of Justice  he “retroactively retired” to conceal his involvement and avoid a Department of Justice investigation. George W. Bush’s appointment of a lawyer from Bain Capital’s secret law firm as U.S. Attorney guaranteed Romney would not be investigated, but retroactive retiring does not change public docket records or FEC and SEC filings showing he profited from corruption, fraud, and racketeering (RICO) as head of Bain Capital, and as he was a corrupt vulture capitalist, he will be a corrupt president."

Florida suffers under manmade voting disaster

The traitors are at it again in Florida. This just means get out the vote. Higher turnout makes it harder for republicans to steal the election. Don't let these cowards and crooks get away with it. Vote! Remember, republicans have not won a Presidential election fair and square (except by cheating Florida 2000 and Ohio in 2004) since 1988.

Florida 'Glitch' Wipes Out 1000 Early Votes In Black Area

Florida 'Glitch' Wipes Out 1000 Early Votes In Black Area
"And why is it always Florida? Why always in a heavily Democratic precinct, and why do the errors always help the other guy? Remember that Florida is already dealing with a widespread GOP voter fraud scandal."

Prop 37 and Corporate Lies in the Post Truth Era | Common Dreams

Prop 37 and Corporate Lies in the Post Truth Era | Common Dreams
"As a historic vote with profound implications for the future of our food system nears, the question becomes whether a campaign with limitless resources and a disdain for the truth can defeat an overwhelmingly popular idea supported by a grassroots army, and over 3000 public interest organizations: the right to know what's in the food we eat and feed our families."

Solid employment growth in October but still a lot of ground to make up | Economic Policy Institute

Solid employment growth in October but still a lot of ground to make up | Economic Policy Institute
"The October Employment Situation report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows solid employment growth from both the payroll and household survey."

Republicans Try to Hide Study That Shows Tax Cuts for the Rich Spur Inequality | Alternet

Republicans Try to Hide Study That Shows Tax Cuts for the Rich Spur Inequality | Alternet
"Despite Republican efforts to block the findings of the CRS study, others have  shown similar results. Even Republicans have admitted in the past that the Bush tax cuts didn’t spur the job and economic growth the party promised, and if nonpartisan studies aren’t enough, history makes the same case."

Volunteers For Voter Suppression Group Installed As Election Officials In Ohio

Volunteers For Voter Suppression Group Installed As Election Officials In Ohio: Conservative poll observers are gearing up for Election Day, when they will watch for possible instances of voter fraud and challenge voters they find suspicious. As ThinkProgress reported, many of these volunteers have been fed false or misleading information about voting rights by the Romney campaign and independent Tea Party groups like True the Vote. [...]/p

Another good Obama polling day

Another good Obama polling day
"Update: And the polls keep coming in, and not a one of them has Romney in the lead. A Denver Post/SUSA poll in Colorado has Obama up 47-45."

Swing States Virginia and Florida Lead The Nation In Disenfranchisement

Swing States Virginia and Florida Lead The Nation In Disenfranchisement: Virginia and Florida, high-population swing states that could decide this presidential election, have the harshest disenfranchisement laws and bar more former and current felons from voting than any other state, a problem illustrated in a graphic from the Prison Policy Initiative. As the Brennan Center for Justice explains in its report out this week, “Disenfranchisement after criminal [...]/p

Oregon County Elections Official Under Investigation For Ballot Tampering

Oregon County Elections Official Under Investigation For Ballot Tampering: The Clackamas County Elections Office is under investigation by the Oregon Department of Justice for possible ballot tampering, reports the Oregonian. A temporary election worker allegedly filled in a straight Republican ticket where voters had left blank preferences. It is unclear how many ballots were affected, but, as Blue Oregon notes, this is not the [...]/p

Obama: Romney trying to scare Jeep workers with false ad

President Obama in Hilliard, Ohio, earlier Friday, slamming Mitt Romney's for falsely claiming that Chrysler plans to move their jobs to China in an effort to scare Jeep workers—and contrasting Romney's calculated dishonesty with his own record of pushing through his auto industry rescue package even when it was politically risky

CIA Says They Responded to Benghazi Attack in Just 25 Minutes

CIA Says They Responded to Benghazi Attack in Just 25 Minutes
"Sorry Fox. Following an investigation into the embassy attack in Benghazi, Libya last September, U.S. Intelligence has revealed in their report that the CIA was dispatched from their Benghazi office within just 25 minutes, followed soon after by a second team sent from their Tripoli office (in Western Libya) to the embassy in Benghazi (in Eastern Libya, 400 miles away), quashing Republican accusations that the Obama Administration ignored the embassy's pleas for help and whose "delayed response" cost the lives of four Americans."

Watch Mitt Romney Explain How Jesus Will Reign for 1,000 Years When He Returns, Jerusalem... and Missouri | Alternet

Watch Mitt Romney Explain How Jesus Will Reign for 1,000 Years When He Returns, Jerusalem... and Missouri | Alternet
"Video emerges of Romney citing the thinking of a wildly fringe conspiracy theorist and his belief in the strange intricacies of the Mormon faith."

Massive Surge of Republican Money in Last Ditch Effort to Sink Obama | Alternet

Massive Surge of Republican Money in Last Ditch Effort to Sink Obama | Alternet
"Since October 17, the big GOP Superpacs appear to be outspending Priorities USA on media by at least three to one."

Ohio Romney Rally - Interviews with Supporters

recent video includes interviews with Romney supporters in Ohio, and it doesn’t disappoint. If you needed any other incentive to vote, please watch this video and remember, these people WILL be voting.

In First 45 Months In Office, Obama Created 750,000 Private Sector Jobs, Bush Lost More Than One Million

In First 45 Months In Office, Obama Created 750,000 Private Sector Jobs, Bush Lost More Than One Million: Today’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the economy added 171,000 jobs last month, beating analysts’ expectations. The private sector added 184,000 jobs (offset by some public sector losses), making this the 32nd consecutive month that the private sector has grown. Overall, even accounting for the horrific month for jobs that was [...]/p

George W. Bush in Caymans today to visit with Mitt's money

George W. Bush in Caymans today to visit with Mitt's money
"George W. Bush has been given a very special job to do, one that I'm sure Mitt Romney himself tasked him with. The former president is today off in the Cayman Islands, where he will be giving a keynote address at the Cayman Alternative Investment Summitand no doubt popping in to say hello to some of Mitt's many investments."

How Fox News Created a New Culture of Idiots | Alternet

How Fox News Created a New Culture of Idiots | Alternet
"Cable news has created an entirely new breed of blowhards -- and the style has infected banking and even the arts."

Mitt Hits the Panic Button | Alternet

Mitt Hits the Panic Button | Alternet
"Of course, the state polls say something else, and state polls are what really count.  Obama is ahead , if marginally, in almost every swing state. This means that Obama can afford to lose in a few states he’s currently winning, while Romney has to win every single state he’s currently winning plus steal a bunch of states from Obama, especially Ohio, where he’s never fared well. Some recent polls even show Obama leading Virginia and Florida, both of which Romney needs. These numbers have made Nate Silver confident enough to  bet $1,000 that Obama wins (his model gives Obama a 79 percent chance of victory at the moment)."

How Obamacare Will Help Low-Wage Workers Afford Their Health Coverage

How Obamacare Will Help Low-Wage Workers Afford Their Health Coverage: The Commonwealth Fund is out with a new study that highlights how Obamacare will help the low-income wage earners — who typically have significantly less access to health insurance than their higher-paid co-workers, or the employees who work in larger firms — afford the critical health coverage they need. Contrary to unfounded conservative hysteria about [...]/p

PERRspectives: GOP Protest Forces Congressional Research Service to Withdraw Tax Report

PERRspectives: GOP Protest Forces Congressional Research Service to Withdraw Tax Report
"The truth will set you free. Unless, that is, you're a Republican and the subject in taxes. As the New York Times reported on Thursday, "The Congressional Research Service has withdrawn an economic report that found no correlation between top tax rates and economic growth, a central tenet of conservative economy theory, after Senate Republicans raised concerns about the paper's findings and wording"."

More extraordinary returns: Public investments outside of “core” infrastructure | Economic Policy Institute

More extraordinary returns: Public investments outside of “core” infrastructure | Economic Policy Institute "A large body of research argues that the returns to public investment in the U.S. economy are likely very large—substantially larger than the returns to most forms of private investment (see Bivens 2012 for a compilation of this evidence)."

Fired up, let's close it out!

Fired up, let's close it out!
"Bottom line, the 2012 campaign is days from being over, and so is your chance to help deliver big progressive victories next Tuesday."

The Nonpartisan Study On High-Income Tax Cuts The GOP Doesn’t Want You To Read

The Nonpartisan Study On High-Income Tax Cuts The GOP Doesn’t Want You To Read: The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a report in September that showed that cutting tax rates for the wealthiest Americans did not spur economic or job growth, refuting a key Republican justification for the party’s continued obsession with maintaining the tax cuts for the wealthy they passed in 2003. But when Senate Republicans aired [...]/p

NYC Mayor Bloomberg Endorses Obama, Cites Sandy and Climate Change as Deciding Factors | Alternet

NYC Mayor Bloomberg Endorses Obama, Cites Sandy and Climate Change as Deciding Factors | Alternet   "today brought more kind words for Obama from an unexpected source -- New York City's mayor Michael Bloomberg."

PERRspectives: Elderly Will Be Hit Hard by Romney's Medicare, Medicaid Plans

PERRspectives: Elderly Will Be Hit Hard by Romney's Medicare, Medicaid Plans
"As the Congressional Budget Office and a recent Kaiser Family Foundation study confirmed, the Romney-Ryan plan to "voucherize and privatize" Medicare will invariably lead to much higher health care costs for future recipients. But today's elderly voters will feel a double sting under President Romney as well. After all, his pledge to "kill Obamacare dead" will erase hard-won drug benefits and health services those over 65 have gained under the Affordable Care Act. And as it turns out, Romney's proposal to slash Medicaid spending by more than a third over the next decade and give what remains as block grants to the states could jeopardize nursing home care for millions of American seniors."

Republicans distancing themselves from Todd Akin is so two months ago

Republicans distancing themselves from Todd Akin is so two months ago
"Remember that one time when whackadoodle Todd Akin (R-of course) explained that women have magic lady parts that can detect rape sperm and "shut that whole thing down" to prevent pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape"?"

Mitt Romney's so called 'Disaster Relief' effort, put to shame

Mitt Romney's so called "Disaster Relief" effort around the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, put to shame.

Following Mourdock Controversy, Bachmann Dodges Questions On Abortion

Following Mourdock Controversy, Bachmann Dodges Questions On Abortion: Tea Party standard-bearer Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) today refused to state her position on legal abortion access for rape victims, repeatedly dodging questions from the debate moderator during a radio debate with challenger Jim Graves. Bachmann has been a longtime supporter of the so-called “Personhood Amendment,” a measure that would outlaw all abortions, some types [...]/p

Desperate GOP Showers Random People With Anti-Obama Text Messages

Desperate GOP Showers Random People With Anti-Obama Text Messages
"Meanwhile, the Romney campaign adamantly denies any involvement. If their track record with the truth is any indication, you can count on them being in up to their necks.

As for me, I want to know how Gabriel Joseph, III and ccAdvertising got the cell phone number of a 13-year old girl. That's just wrong."

Top Oil Giants Exxon And Shell Earn $54 Billion So Far In 2012, After Taking $800 Million In Annual Tax Breaks

Top Oil Giants Exxon And Shell Earn $54 Billion So Far In 2012, After Taking $800 Million In Annual Tax Breaks: by Rebecca Leber and Jackie Weidman ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, No. 1 and No. 2 on the Fortune 500 Global companies list, announced their third-quarter earnings on Thursday. Compared to last year’s earnings, both companies’ profits are down slightly — 7 percent for Exxon and 15 percent for Shell — on weaker oil prices. [...]/p

Romney rewrites disaster relief

How low can Romney go?

GOP Deregulation Equals Meningitis Deaths

Mitt Romney's role in deregulating the pharmaceutical companies in Massachusetts, which in turn led to the recent string of deaths from meningitis

Battleground snapshot: Romney losing big ground

Battleground snapshot: Romney losing big ground
"Obama isn't just winning, the trendlines are moving in his direction. Rather than tighten the final week, the opposite is happening."

GM, Chrysler Have Best October In Five Years

GM, Chrysler Have Best October In Five Years: Chrysler and General Motors, the American automakers that were rescued by the federal government in 2009, each had their best October in five years last month, according to monthly sales reports. Chrysler sales rose 10 percent, with its four major brands — Dodge, Ram, Chrysler, and Fiat — all posting gains over the same month [...]/p

Romney’s Tax Secrecy: Did He Get Away With It? | Common Dreams

Romney’s Tax Secrecy: Did He Get Away With It? | Common Dreams
"As tax experts have noted, there are any number of reasons why Romney doesn’t want to release more of his taxes—it’s possible he participated in an IRS amnesty program for secret foreign bank accounts; it’s more possible he gamed the system to avoid taxes on his huge retirement account and his sons’ $100 million trust fund, or that he paid very, very low rates these past couple years as a result of a tax code that favors people like him whose income is mainly taxed as capital gains."

Romney burned by own lie to Ohioans

Out of desperation, Mitt Romney triples down on his lie in Ohio.

Leaked Florida GOP Memo:

Leaked Florida GOP Memo: "The memo cites a Democratic lead in early voting "60-22 in PBC, similar to 08. If you add returned Absentee ballots to EV by party, Dems like by 30k in PBC". It also describes the Democratic turnout machine as "cleaning our clock", and warns about the effect on down-ticket races."

Romney camp claims they're ahead in the polls

This is a bluff. Romney is carefully attempting to project an atmosphere of momentum, in the hopes of winning positive media coverage and, thus, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

How Mitt Romney Would Screw the Red States That Support Him | Alternet

How Mitt Romney Would Screw the Red States That Support Him | Alternet
"Most voters are probably unaware of just how radical the Romney-Ryan vision for our future really is."