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...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 15, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
The following was originally published in The Nation. With the election behind us, President Obama and the lame-duck Congress return to Washington to face a fiscal showdown, occasioned by automatic tax hikes and spending cuts scheduled to kick in after the first of...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 15, 2012 | Blog, Economy
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning. —Warren Buffett In 2012, class warfare broke out in American politics. And from the president to key Senate races, the middle class won. Today the Campaign for...
