by Bill Scher | Nov 16, 2012 | Blog
One of the most populist Senate campaigns in the 2012 election season was the successful campaign of Elizabeth Warren. Her bread and butter strategy for overcoming Sen. Scott Brown's lead in the polls is ably recounted over at WageClassWar.org. In Massachusetts,...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 16, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Last week the voters delivered their verdict on what has come to be known as "the Republican War on Women": They're against it. We've had decades of relentless class warfare from above, in the form of wealth distribution from the many to the few. Finally,...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 15, 2012 | Blog
In a night that was full of sweet victories, few were sweeter than Democrat Tammy Baldwin's successful bid for Wisconsin's senate seat. As she said in her acceptance speech, it was "a huge victory for Wisconsin's middle class." Baldwin's victory was all that and more....
by Steve Cobble | Nov 15, 2012 | Blog
In his "Fact Checker" column last week, Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post wrote that "Negative ads often work. But clearly some negative ads work better than others." He then listed two examples of Obama team ads that worked, and one set of Romney team negative ads...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 15, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown won reelection by "waging class warfare" using middle-class populism. Here is how. Today the Campaign for America’s Future launches a new website – WageClassWar.org – to detail the new terrain of American politics. The site tells the story...
by Steve Cobble | Nov 15, 2012 | Blog
In his brilliant, day-after summation of the "new majority" that made up Barack Obama's winning re-election vote, E. J. Dionne wrote this paragraph: "It cannot be forgotten that saving General Motors and Chrysler was the most 'interventionist' and 'intrusive' economic...
