From Institute for Southern Studies: Last month, officials in South Carolina, facing resistance from the Department of Justice to their new voter ID law, concocted a ghoulish tale of dead voters taking over the state’s elections. As was suspected from the beginning, the fevered stories of “zombie voters” turned out…
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From ThinkProgress: [A] broad coalition of religious organizations filed an amicus brief supporting the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion that should give the lie to any claim that the faith community opposes the ACA. The brief includes a number of major religious denominations, including the policy arm of the United…
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From CAP: President Barack Obama is not a “food stamp president.” According to recent figures, more food stamp recipients were actually added under President George W. Bush than under President Obama. Under President Bush the number of recipients rose by nearly 14.7 million. Blacks are not the primary recipients of…
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From TPM: Mitt Romney’s never exactly set the grassroots on fire. But his latest fundraising numbers drive home just how weak his small donor appeal is compared to his rivals — and especially President Obama. One good measure of fundraising strength with the masses is contributors who have given less…
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Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. This is…
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Forty percent of America identifies as conservative, 36 percent as moderate, and 21 percent as liberal. But how people politically “identify” and what people actually believe and practice doesn’t always add up. From CAP: According to a Pew survey released this month, more than half (57 percent) of lower-income Republicans…
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From Metroweekly: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) supports the 2012 Democratic Party platform including, for the first time, language in full support of marriage equality, her spokesman told Metro Weekly on Tuesday evening, Feb. 14. The former House speaker’s support for the move comes in response to Freedom to…
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From Slate: Prominent Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel wants Mitt Romney to urge the Mormon church to abandon its practice of posthumously baptizing Jews, some of whom died in concentration camps during World War II. In an interview with the Huffington Post, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Wiesel said that Romney “should…
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