midterm elections
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Media Advisory: Media Misreading Midterms. As usual, press urge a move to the right
With the Democrats suffering substantial losses in Tuesday’s midterms, many journalists and pundits were offering a familiar diagnosis: The Democrats had misread their mandate and governed too far to the left. The solution, as always, is for Democrats to move to the right and reclaim “the center.” But this conventional wisdom falls apart under scrutiny. Continue reading
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How Safe Is Your Ballot? Tracking Voter Suppression, Intimidation on Election Day
As millions of voters head to the polls, Democratic and progressive groups are concerned with reports of voter intimidation and efforts to suppress minority and poor voters from casting their ballots. They point to the mushrooming of Republicans and Tea Party-affiliated groups who are raising the specter of voter fraud in states across the country.… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 