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Sunday Train: Faster Trains Yields More Services Per Day
Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Independence Back in the 29 Nov 2009 Sunday Train, Frequency and Waiting on a Train, I reacted to a point made in John McCommon's book, Waiting on a Train:...
View ArticleWinning Combinations to 270 electoral votes
270 to win has added a cool new feature listing different combinations that add up to 270 electoral votes when there are 12 or fewer swing states. www.270towin.com Let us begin with some absurdly...
View ArticleBiden to attack Bain
In just-released excerpts of Joe Biden's planned speech today in Youngstown, Ohio, the vice president takes aim at Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital and goes into rather more detail about the...
View ArticleDennis Kucinich will not run for Congress in Washington State
In an email to his supporters, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH10) has decided that he will not run for further Congressional office in the State of Washington, saying that he would work for change outside...
View ArticleOhio Gov. John Kasich can't quite embrace Mitt Romney's gloomy economic message
It's tough out there for a Republican governor like Ohio's John Kasich, wanting to make himself look good by touting his state's economic growth and job gains, but also wanting to leave room for his...
View ArticleNew NBC/Marist polls: Obama ahead in Ohio, Virginia, and Florida
New NBC/Marist polls are out this morning and they show that Obama is ahead of Romney in Ohio, Virginia, and Florida. http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/... The margins are slimmer then we saw earlier in...
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Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Wisconsin, and the road map to victory for...
Thursday brought with it a veritable poll-a-palooza of November trial heats, with NBC/Marist dropping a six-pack of new polls at the presidential and Senate levels, and acting as a counterweight to...
View ArticlePublic Pensions at Risk: Redefining Fraud in US Court Serving the 1%
Check out the story below about a lawsuit that puts every public pension plan at risk. I might be out on a limb here but I think this is how the financial industry and their willing servants in...
View ArticleSherrod Brown continues to weather Super PAC assault
No one has been on the receiving end of as much Super PAC filth as Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown. Six weeks ago he had faced $5.1 million in such attacks, and they haven't let up since. In February, Marist...
View ArticleOhio to Execute Abdul-Hamead Despite 4 Circuit Ct Judges Questions of Sanity
On June 6th 2012, the State of Ohio is planning to Execute Abdul-Hamead, Awkal for the 1992 murders of his wife and her brother. Awkal has already served 18 years in prison and has asked for...
View ArticleWhat Chesapeake Energy's Financial Scandals Mean For The Rest of Us
Given radioactive wastewater, earthquakes, and flammable tap water, one might think that drilling and fracking could not possibly have any more dirty secrets. But here’s the biggest secret of all:...
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Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Coin flips all around, according to new...
Finally, a consistent theme from a day's worth of polling. From Nevada to Iowa, and from the national tracking polls to the generic old national polls, the theme was the same: For now, this thing...
View ArticleThe Key Progressive Candidates of 2012
I posted this some time back but really think it is worth posting again since these are the races that get ignored and yet THESE are the races we can have the most impact on. These are the races that...
View ArticleWisconsin is Dead! Long Live Wisconsin
By sheer coincidence I am about to board a flight to Madison, WI. Going to a conference. I am making sure to wear my "We are the 99%" and my "Heartland Revolution" and my "Liberal American" T-shirts...
View ArticleREMEMBER you/unions still won Ohio’s SB5 battle, Stop the hand-wringing
Eddie Murphy had a routine about a wife who would divorce him, because despite all the great things he had done in the past for her, she always asked “what have you done for me lately” Unions answered...
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Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: New presidential state polling presents...
One theme that has marked this week thus far, and a theme most Democrats will find amenable, has been one in which Barack Obama has done marginally better in trial heats with Mitt Romney than he had...
View ArticleFirst Diary: The Lay of the Land
Starting a nonprofit organization from scratch isn't easy. It's even not-easier when you have to change horses in the middle of the race. A few months ago, I finally received IRS approval for my...
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6 to 1 Super PAC Advantage in Ohio: What to do Sherrod?
I've written about this before and been shut down. But over the weekend at Netroots, after hearing Sherrod Brown speak about the effects of Citizens' United in Ohio, I'm going to bring it up again....
View ArticleCleveland Rocks -- Obama spells out the Clear Choice
There were dueling speeches in Ohio today. I thought Romney did pretty good -- compared to his normal word-salad fare. But then I heard the President spell out his economic vision for America. He...
View ArticleFinding New Enthusiasm in Wisconsin
Just recently got back from a great conference in Madison, Wisconsin. The conference coincidentally took place mere days after the recall elections we all were watching...so I kind of wondered how the...
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