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Wendy discusses the latest voter suppression efforts with Rachel Maddow on NBC.
As David Brooks points out, Mitt Romney’s remarks describing 47 percent of the population as, in effect, moochers who would vote for Obama because they got government benefits were not “off the cuff,” as he described them today. There is a carefully developed theory behind his words, which has seen expression in previous Romney speeches, such ...
In the past 12 hours or so, the American presidential election campaign has been dominated by a video recording of Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s comments at a closed-door fundraiser this past May that was just made public by Mother Jones magazine. The comment that is getting the most attention is: “[T]here are 47 percent who are with him, who ...
Big money is a big story—arguably the big story—in the 2012 presidential campaign and nonprofit groups are in the middle of it. The new “Super PACs” spawned by Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions are getting hundreds of millions of dollars from 501(c) organizations like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Republican strategist Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS, the Mitt ...
Keesha Gaskins joins Tova Andrea Wang and other panelist as they discuss the recent onslaught against voter rights throughout the country at the Century Foundation on September 13th, 2012.
As the 2000 election showed, a handful of voters can swing the outcome of a presidential contest. That year, just 537 votes in Florida elected George W. Bush president. In 2012, the outcome of the presidential election might come down to another subset of the electorate: the jobless. I do not mean “the jobless” as a stand ...
When the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, my first, quite parochial, reaction was: “There goes the Voting Rights Act.” Prior to that decision, the political scientist in me had thought that Citizens United was the best thing that could have happened to the VRA (specifically Section 5). The blowback from that controversial campaign finance case (heightened ...
President Barack Obama owes a lot to the Democrats of South Carolina. After his breakthrough win in the Iowa caucuses in January 2008, he lost to Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire and broke even in the Nevada caucuses. South Carolina represented the last sanctioned primary before 22 states voted on February 5th. With Clinton’s greater ...
Texas has had problems with redistricting – yet again. Last week’s federal court ruling that Texas’s 2011 plans for congressional districts and state legislative districts had both the purpose and effect of further reducing the representation of Texas’s already underrepresented racial minority populations is just the state’s latest salvo in the redistricting wars. Texas has found itself ...
Inimai Chettiar discusses the racial and voting implications of recent voter id laws with Michelle Alexander and Arianna Huffington on Huff Po Live September 4th, 2012.
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