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Charles Pierce, while writing on the demise of pro-austerity “centrist” group Americans Elect, notes: If there was ever a time when the country needed “centrist” solutions less, and a vigorous and raucous class-based debate over who should profit from the American system, it’s right now. This is indeed a fact.

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Matt Stoller has a long and thought-provoking post on two recent Democratic primary elections where ostensibly progressive candidates with strong support from online progressive organizations were handed crushing defeats. The whole post is worth reading, as it’s a chilling look in the mirror that reveals a lack of effective progressive infrastructure. Noting that the IL-10 [...]

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As if the Gods of Excitement hadn’t done enough already with this month Chevy Truck Month and the beginning of the March Madness tournament, today is Super Tuesday. Ten states will primary or caucus today, accounting for nearly 20% of the delegates. Up for grabs are Georgia, Massachusetts, Idaho, North Dakota, Alaska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, [...]

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Originally posted at AMERICAblog Elections: The Right’s Field Jonathan Karl, ABC News, February 17, 2012: A prominent Republican senator just told me that if Romney can’t win in Michigan, the Republican Party needs to go back to the drawing board and convince somebody new to get into the race. “If Romney cannot win Michigan, we [...]

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It’s debate day – today the remaining major candidates will debate in Arizona, days before the Arizona and Michigan primaries. There hasn’t been a debate in a while, something that one could rarely write before this month, and the landscape has shifted dramatically since Santorum swept Colorado, Missouri, and Minnesota. He is now the front-runner [...]

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Cross-posted from AMERICAblog Elections: The Right’s Field NH Results: Mitt Romney 39.4% (94,255) Ron Paul: 22.8% (54,513) Jon Huntsman: 16.9% (40,388) Newt Gingrich: 9.4% (22,518) Rick Santorum: 9.3% (22,293) Rick Perry: 0.7% (1,688) A few thoughts… Attention reporters: Mitt Romney is not the first Republican non-incumbent to win Iowa and New Hampshire, as Romney neither [...]

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Matt Taibbi on the 2012 elections: Most likely, it’ll be Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama, meaning the voters’ choices in the midst of a massive global economic crisis brought on in large part by corruption in the financial services industry will be a private equity parasite who has been a lifelong champion of the Gordon [...]

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Originally posted at AMERICAblog Elections: The Right’s Field The final Iowa results: Romney, 24.55% (30,015 votes) Santorum, 24.54% (30,007 votes) Ron Paul, 21.45% (26,219 votes) Gingrich, 13.29% (16,251 votes) Perry, 10.3% (12,604 votes) Bachmann, 4.97% (6,073 votes) Huntsman (745 votes) No preference (135 votes) Other (117 votes) Cain (58 votes) Roemer (31 votes) Kombiz and [...]

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For what it’s worth, yesterday’s post on Ron Paul and the debate he has sparked in the progressive blogosphere focused on the fact that Paul was the only major party candidate holding positions traditionally held by liberals regarding civil liberties, war and peace, domestic surveillance, and drug policy. While this is true, Gary Johnson, the [...]

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There’s been a recent debate in the progressive blogosphere, elevated out of numerous conversations on Twitter, about Ron Paul, which have in turn surfaced major questions about what it means to be a liberal in America today and how ideological views are expressed in the electoral context. These are hard questions, in part because so [...]

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