“Thank you. This is your victory.” – Words posted beneath the video above on Barack Obama’s YouTube channel ONE THING people who never get close to campaigns or ever meet candidates, including those who lose, ever get to see is the toll of a long election cycle. What candidates go through on the presidential level [...]
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Women Must Build on Banner Year
Women also helped elect the country’s first pro-choice governor, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, who was voted in with 60 percent of women supporting her. New Hampshire, in fact, is national headquarters for the Year of the Woman, with an all-female Congressional delegation, a female governor, and a woman-controlled state legislature. [Forbes] ANOTHER MOMENTOUS election [...]
Fox News Debacle, Network Humiliation in Prime Time *Video Update*
IT WAS a remarkable spectacle on Fox News Channel once Ohio was called for President Obama and he was reelected the 44th president of the United States. It began when Chris Wallace announced that the Romney campaign was disputing the numbers coming out of Ohio. Moments later Karl Rove starts spinning out the names of [...]
Tommy Thompson’s Son: Send Obama Back “to Chicago or Kenya!” [Video]
IT MAKES you root for Tammy Baldwin all the more. From Daniel Brice: Jason Thompson, the son of former Gov. Tommy Thompson, was caught on video Sunday suggesting at a Republican event that voters this fall could send President Barack Obama back “to Kenya.” “We have the opportunity to send President Obama back to Chicago [...]
Tommy Thompson Gives Tammy Baldwin a Gift
THIS ISN’T going to go over well with most people. Talking to a Tea Party group back in June, Thompson preens he got rid of one entitlement program, so he’s just the guy to finish off the rest. From JSonline: “… change Medicare and Medicaid like I did (to welfare) and who better than me, [...]
Queer Talk: Tammy Baldwin – LPAC, eQuality Giving Endorse Her Senate Run
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Will Romney’s Wisconsin VP pick have an effect on Tammy Baldwin’s run for the Senate in that state? More directly, of course, is how her recently determined Republican opponent for the Wisconsin Senate seat – Tommy Thompson – will do. Baldwin picked up the endorsement [...]
Progressive Notes: Sheyman’s Big Loss in IL-10, a Case of GOTV
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. The loss of Ilya Sheyman, a 25 year old charismatic progressive community organizer in Illinois’ 10th congressional district primary to Brad Schneider, the establishment favorite backed by Rep. Hoyer, has heads shaking. Schneider raised the ire of progressives due to his “centrist” stands, his support for [...]
Progressive Notes: Feingold Backs Baldwin, Enviros Plan Keystone Protests, FDR and OWS, and Other Doings
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Great news! Former Senator Russ Feingold has endorsed Rep. Tammy Baldwin in the Wisconsin senate race. This is a huge deal and makes Baldwin the front runner for the party nomination and perhaps the general election. Feingold is very respected and popular in Wisconsin these days [...]
Progressive Notes: BREAKING Elizabeth Warren Enters MA Senate Race!
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Some cheerful news. Elizabeth Warren has announced she will run for U.S. Senate against incumbent Sen. Scott Brown in MA. Warren is and will be backed by key unions, progressive groups and by Democrats across America. She is a hero for speaking up for the middle [...]
Progressive Notes: Tammy Baldwin a Go, Perry ‘On Fire,’ and Other Happenings
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Rep. Grijalva on MSNBC urging a bolder jobs plan. He says nothing will happen with Boehner, but the debate over a bold plan will be a boon to Dems in 2012. He will and has been ignored tragically: Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin announced this week she is [...]
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