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In the last election the forces of concentrated wealth and corporate power played the same old divide-and-conquer game they have been playing for decades, but this time it didn't work! They tried to divide us by race, religion, sex, sexual preference, class and every...

So, let's get this straight: A Republican President is re-elected in 2004 with 284 electoral votes and the pundits say he has the "political capital" to push an extreme right-wing mandate. A Democratic President gets re-elected in 2012 with 303 electoral votes, and they're telling us he needs to "unite a divided country."

Though the balance of power in the House did not change significantly Tuesday, there is one noteworthy bright spot: As of midday today 10 of the 181 members who received "zero" ratings in TheMiddleClass.org Voter Guide lost their re-election bids, and another four are...

So, let's get this straight: A Republican President is re-elected in 2004 with 284 electoral votes, and the pundits tell us he has the "political capital" to push an extreme right-wing mandate. A Democratic President gets re-elected in 2012 with 303 electoral votes,...

Romney promised that he would act on China's currency manipulation "on his first day." So Republicans can pretend Romney won, and actually act on China's currency manipulation! If they would actually do what they promised to do we could get a lot a lot of "job...

“The one word description of this election is spelled J-E-E-P,” said a friend early Tuesday evening. “This proves you can’t keep giving the finger to the American people and be elected president,” he said, with evident relief.True enough, in the final days of the...

More than 50 years since the Civil Rights Movement and conservatives are still fighting to keep "the wrong kind of people" from voting. A 97-year-old in Georgia -- who has voted in every single election since she was old enough to vote -- is denied her right to vote....

Today Bain Capital's Sensata is laying off all of its workers and moving all of the jobs to China. The workers asked Mitt Romney to help, and he refused. Did Bain Capital choose the day before the election to say "Ha Ha" to the country and our jobs? Are they setting...

Wow, an entire campaign based on lies… Often they were simply ridiculous lies. (Remember when Romney said Obama will take God off our coins"?) The campaign even used doctored audio and video in ads to make people think Obama had said things he never said. So...