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Freddie De Boer: I could never vote for Ron Paul, for a thousand reasons. I have been arguing against many of his policies and the worldview that generated them for the entirety of my adult life. But I have to value his voice in the national debate because almost no other national political figures will [...]

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Tim Wise is one of the most dynamic and smart anti-racism theorists out there. I deeply respect his work, which is why I have a lot of trouble with his latest post, going after Glenn Greenwald and others on the liberal side of the aisle for discussing the positive aspects of Ron Paul’s presidential campaign. [...]

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The half-hour documentary on Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital, When Mitt Romney Came To Town, is a huge story this week. Watch it – it’s devastating and the interviews of workers who lost their jobs after Romney’s Bain came in and broke their companies are heart-breaking. “When Mitt Romney Came To Town” is the [...]

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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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Glenn Greenwald has another must-read post in the ongoing debate about the ways in which Ron Paul may or may not be better than President Obama on particular issues and the subsequent mania which these ideas bring forth within many parts of the liberal blogosphere. Greenwald is kind enough to quote a passage from a [...]

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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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Originally posted at AMERICAblog Elections: The Right’s Field Jon Ward at Huffington Post has a fantastic piece on the shifting political narrative that has happened while Newt Gingrich has overtaken Mitt Romney for the lead in the Republican presidential primary. At issue is while Romney has been running on a platform of inevitability, large swaths [...]

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Originally posted at AMERICAblog Elections: The Right’s Field Rut-roh. Bloomberg is reporting that Newt Gingrich “made between $1.6 million and $1.8 million in consulting fees from two contracts with mortgage company Freddie Mac.” Gingrich worked with Freddie Mac from 1999 to 2002, as the housing bubble was beginning to rapidly expand. What’s remarkable about this [...]

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In last night’s debate, Rick Perry had a big gaffe while trying to name three federal agencies that he would flat-out cut if elected President. He was quick to name Education and Commerce, but couldn’t remember the third one over the course of over 50 seconds. The EPA was suggested to him by his colleagues [...]

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