The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Even McCutcheon Supreme Court Case Won't Alter Money's Influence on Politics
If the court were to axe the current overall contribution limits posed in McCutcheon v. FEC, some predict that fewer than 500 people could fund all of electoral politics, creating a government run of, by and for those 500 people.
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Billionaires Unchained: The New Pay-As-You-Go Landscape of American “Democracy”
There is no limit to the amount of money billionaires can give to influence the political discussion in this country.
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Barack Romney: The Second-Term Scorecard So Far
If Mitt Romney had prevailed last November, would things really be that much worse than they already are? Since Obama's re-election 19 weeks ago, big banks, fossil fuels and drone warfare have been the favorites.
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Thinking Before Doing: In Defense of the Armchair Activist
Occupy Wall Street is not something you support, it’s something you do. But we are missing the obligatory framework that sustains the opposition between supporting something and doing something.
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This Is the Worst Election for Wall Street in Decades
The combination of President Obama, Elizabeth Warren and a newly invigorated Democratic Party should make some bankers very, very nervous.
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A Retired NSA Analyst Proves the GOP Is Stealing Elections
We are being victimized by systemic election fraud on a coordinated and massive scale which, in another country, would lead to calls for international election monitors.
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Biting the Hand That Fed Them, Wall Street Banks Abandon Obama
In contrast to 2008, when Wall Street's biggest financial firms donated heavily to elect Barack Obama, this year just one Wall Street bank, Wells Fargo, is listed among Obama’s top 20 largest donors.
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Questions Unlikely to be Answered by Tonight's Debate
President Obama: You have spoken eloquently of the need to reduce the influence of big money in politics...
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The Romney-Koch Handshake: Network TV Censors Revealing Moment
When Mitt Romney walked down the aisle toward the stage at the Republican National Convention, among the people whose hands he shook was the conservative billionaire and major political donor David Koch. But it was a moment missed by the tens of millions of viewers at home.
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Romney in the Hamptons: The View From Outside the Gates
Here's what the hoi polloi outside the GOP presidential candidate's fancy Hamptons fundraisers had to say.
