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Affordable Care Act Saving Billions for Seniors

By nemski May 1, 2012

Publicizing the success of the Affordable Care Act needs to be a priority of the Obama campaign. Most Americans don’t like the Affordable Care Act, but it’s the specifics that most Americans do like.

More On Polarization of Congress

By nemski May 1, 20121 Comment

Chris Cillizza a over at The Fix is usually quite good, but in today’s post he is just playing the devil’s advocate about Mann and Ornstein’s excellent piece from this past weekend and, quite frankly, it’s quite lame.

Occupy Delaware May Day Event — General Strike

By cassandra_m May 1, 20124 Comments

May 1st is the day that the City of Wilmington has decided that Occupy Delaware must leave Spencer Plaza. Starting at noon today, they are gathering with as many people as possible to stand against this eviction.

The Story of Tagg Romney’s Recent Startup

By nemski May 1, 201229 Comments

After the 2008 failed presidential bid of Mitt Romney, Tagg Romney, Mitt’s eldest son, and Spencer Zwick, the campaign’s top fundraiser, started hitting up Romney donors to invest in a private equity startup.

Real GOP News or The Onion?

By jason330 April 30, 20121 Comment

You’ve heard of gateway drugs — smoking marijuana supposedly leads to harder, more addictive substances. But what about “gateway sexual activity”: the hand-holding, lip-locking and light-grazes that can lead to … other things?

Shameless Politicizing

By nemski April 30, 201231 Comments

The Republicans are crying over the Obama campaign politicizing the death of Bin Laden. Let’s talk about shameless politicizing, shall we?

Forward

By nemski April 30, 2012

The Obama Campaign’s new video.

Polling Report and Electoral Vote Update

By Delaware Dem April 30, 20123 Comments

We have decided to separate the polling and electoral vote map from the Open Thread and give it its own post. Makes sense, since the Open Thread is supposed to be for you, the reader, to offer and discuss something that we are missing, not for us to give you more information. Today, we have a poll out of North Dakota.

School Board Elections Are Political

By pandora April 30, 201227 Comments

I haven't really commented on the upcoming School Board elections, mainly because I can't wrap my head around what's going on. With all the attention on these races - phone…

A Tale of Two Budgets

By cassandra_m April 30, 20124 Comments

The National Priorities Project is a government sunshine project -- making the complexities of the Federal budget and budget process easily comprehensible. If you haven't been to their website before, you should click through and bookmark this great resource. One of their efforts is a series of explainers using You Tube on various budget and policy issues. This one compares the Ryan/Romney/GOP Budget with that proposed by the Congressional Progressive Caucus: