by Rev. William Barber | Nov 5, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
DURHAM, NC: Now that the 2014 Midterm election results are in for North Carolina, the North Carolina NAACP and Forward Together Moral Movement have released the following statement: The diverse coalition that makes up the Forward Together Moral Monday movement came...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 5, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
Politics is about delivering for your constituents. Underneath it all, this election was a statement by people against an economy that is not working for them. We've heard the story but here it is again. Most people say the country is still in a recession as far as...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 5, 2014 | Blog, Democracy, Progressive Vision
Debacle. Bloodbath. Call it what you will. Democrats, as expected, fared poorly in red states in an off-year election. Worse, unpopular Republican governors survived. This was ugly. Yes, the electorate was as skewed as was the map. Many Republicans won office with the...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 4, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
[fve]http://youtu.be/kh87T9v460A[/fve] Sean McElwee discusses voter turnout and its impact on democracy with Richard Eskow Sean McElwee, a writer and a research assistant at Demos, wrote an excellent piece laying out the importance of voter turnout in four charts....
by Dave Johnson | Nov 4, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Why bother voting today? Conventional wisdom and history say that a lot of people won't bother – and that more of them will be Democrats than Republicans. Again and again, polls show that the public prefers Democrats and the policies that Democrats favor, but the...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 3, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision
Even on election eve, campaign 2014 is too close to call. Control of the U.S. Senate may not be determined until run-offs are held in January. Conservative Republican governors like Wisconsin’s Scott Walker are in frenzied, pitched battles to survive. Millions in...
