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JaneyVee's JournalBREAKING: White House: Obama will veto any bill extending tax cuts for those making more than $250K.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/266984601086459907
Pres.Obama Sheds Some Tears Thanking His Campaign HQ Volunteers
Heartwarming. Inspirational.
Welcome To Liberal America
Barack Obama, gay marriage, weed, and a new focus on climate change. This is the country, and the Republican Party has to adapt.President Barack Obama’s sweeping victory in the 2012 election, his party’s wide win in the Senate, and the first ever triumph of marriage equality at the polls cemented the reality of a changed America that emerged in 2008.
The shape of that changed country was obscured by the Republican revival of 2010, but the 2012 vote means both the survival of Obama’s policy project and the clear emergence of a new demographic picture and electoral map.
The first post-baby boomer president was returned to the White House with the widest, clearest re-election win since Ronald Reagan won 49 states in 1984, yet a smaller mandate than his own his 2008 victory. And Democrats now have, in Obama, their Reagan: A figure both historic and ideological, who can carry, if not quite fulfill, a liberal vision of activist government and soft but sometimes deadly power abroad that will define his party for a generation.
Obama lacks Reagan’s sweeping victory, and presides over a more deeply divided country than when he took office. But the breadth of his accomplishments have been validated by Tuesday’s vote. ObamaCare is now a firmly rooted component of the nation’s social compact. Americans appear to have accepted his campaign’s argument that he deserves more credit for a nascent economic recovery than blame for it’s slow pace.
Rest: http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/welcome-to-liberal-america
It Should Not Take More Than 15 Minutes To Vote In The United States.
If it does, (and IT does) then we are doing elections all wrong. We live in a country that can't even properly hold elections. And not just that, but we can barely hold elections with only around 60% of eligible voters even voting. Imagine we actually ever had an 80% turnout, voting would have to be weeks long. Also, there should be UN officials monitoring ballot counting.
We should make voting a National Holiday, triple the number of precincts, make voting quicker/easier. There MUST be a better way. I've never waited more than 10 minutes to vote here in NYC, but some states really need to get it together. 5 HOUR LINES?!
PSA Just a friendly reminder to GOTV for Pres.Obama because Mitt Romney is the Anti-Christ with cold, soulless eyes.
I Survived The Storm Of The Century & Would Like To Personally Thank...
First & foremost our incredibly brave public sector union workers who not only did an amazing job pre-crisis with evacuation, shelter preparations, and literally shutting down the city that never sleeps, but also post-crisis of search & rescue, and putting themselves in harm's way to save lives. From nurses transferring patients & newborns, the sick & the elderly, to police & firefighters, & first responders. It breaks my heart to see these people get villainized by the right-wing. These people ARE the middle class. There is no cash bonus for putting yourself in harm's way but they do it day in and day out, and make on average in 1 year what Mitt Romney makes per day ($56,000). And how do they get re-paid? By being demonized and told their pensions and health benefits are too much. I can't believe I live in a country where billionaires are jealous of the middle class.
Second, I would like to thank Gov. Cuomo & Pres. Obama. The response has been amazing. The red tape has been cut and every sector from state to federal has the tools and equipment needed to aid & rebuild. I would also like to thank my community who as always came together like one big family. We all came together today and helped one another. It's really my favorite part about my neighborhood, the overwhelming sense of community. As I write this the hurricane will still cause damage to other states, but I am so grateful to have Pres.Obama in command and hearing our voices and our needs.
And third, but certainly not last, everyone here at DU for your tips & advice. I anticipated losing power so I charged my laptop and opened numerous DU tips & advice pages to read. It REALLY came in handy. From preparation for the storm and what to expect, to even one persons post about brewing coffee for everyone the night before, which I did, and when I was able to offer delicious iced coffee to my neighbors at 6am they looked at me like I was the messiah. I had about 25 pages opened, prepared for a long night of reading on my laptop, about 15 of them were DU pages. Power back on now. Just wanted to give a quick shout-out before going back out and helping neighbors. Thank You everyone at DU. Now we have an election to win.
☮ ❤ Solidarity,
Janey Vee
"Governor, You've Been Asked 14 Times...Why Are You Refusing To Answer The Question?"
Mitt Romney is not a man who deserves to lead this nation, through thin and especially not through thick. During one of the most severe storms in the Northeast ever, one which has caused Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer to declare in an e-mail just now, "Our subway system experienced the worst disaster in its 108-year history", Mitt Romney repeatedly refuses to answer journalists' questions regarding his policy stances on FEMA, or regarding whether or not he believes FEMA should be gutted as he already said he thinks it ought to:
Read the rest: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/30/1152589/--Governor-You-ve-Been-Asked-14-Times-Why-Are-You-Refusing-To-Answer-The-Question
An Interesting Parallel
Here is the 2008 Electoral Map:
Here is a map of Free States in blue & slave States in red, pre-Civil War (1861):
No wonder why every election seems like it's just a battle for the same 4 states.
Republicans Desperate to Spin Romney as the Front-Runner Are Becoming 'Nate Silver Truthers'
What do you do when reality doesn't look good for your team? Republicans just create their own alternate reality.October 24, 2012
We are looking at a very tight race right now, with a virtual tie in national polling. But we don't elect presidents by popular vote, and Obama has enjoyed a lead in the race to get 270 votes in the Electoral College every single day of this campaign – Romney has never led in any of the Electoral College projections.
But in recent days, the Romney-Ryan campaign has claimed that it's moving ahead. As Jonathan Chait noted, “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.” Despite zero evidence that Romney has made any gains since receiving a healthy bounce from the first debate, reporters appear to be buying it, with a raft of lazy stories about Mitt Romney's supposed “momentum.”
A significant problem for conservatives bent on spinning this alternate reality is New York Times ' polling guru Nate Silver and his 538 forecast model, which called 49 out of 50 states accurately in 2008 and is considered the industry's gold standard (the model also pretty much nailed the 2010 mid-terms). As I write, Silver's model gives Barack Obama a 68 percent chance of winning reelection, with a projected 288 Electoral College votes.
As one might expect in such circumstances, Silver is now becoming a target of the Right. We've seen 'poll truthers' who think all the big pollsters are intentionally skewing their results in Obama's favor, and 'debate truthers” who insist that moderators are in the tank and the questions are rigged to make Romney look bad. Now we're seeing the emergence of 'Nate Silver truthers,' who attack the numbers-cruncher as if he's a pundit expressing a personal opinion rather than a statistics geek who developed a very robust computer model. And they're using the same tactics they deploy to deny climate change – launching ad hominem attacks on an expert -- calling him corrupt -- rather than offering a criticism of the methodology of his model, a criticism they don't have the technical knowledge to come up with.
The Rest: http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/republicans-desperate-spin-romney-front-runner-are-becoming-nate-silver-truthers?akid=9582.1086515.7ZJyL9&rd=1&src=newsletter732753&t=5
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