Five myths about independent voters and the corresponding "facts"- The Washington Post

Myth: 1. Independent voters aren’t really independent. Fact: About half are, swinging from party to party. Myth: 2. Independent voters are less engaged.

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Looting the Lives of the Poor | Barbara Ehrenreich

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month’s rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. But as Business Week helpfully …

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Ordinary citizens protest fracking because it contaminates drinking water and spews carcinogens while President Obama cheers the frackers on

Fracking can provide massive amounts of methane gas to be used domestically and millions of gallons of wastewater containing carcinogens. There are roughly 400,000 of these wells across America and they have created a lot of committed opponents. During Obama's State of the Un …

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How badly has fracking polluted drinking water in Dimock, Pennsylvania

The trouble started in 2008, when the wells used by several Dimock families were contaminated with methane. In 2009, fracking firm Cabot Oil & Gas was fined by state regulators for contaminating the wells with methane while fracking underground. Cabot routinely denies cau …

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Are the Dems blowing it? Barrett trails Walker by 6 points in Wis. recall poll

UPDATE 7:51 PM CDT: Ed Schultz reporting on MSNBC that Walker is outspending Barrett 25-1, and polling shows that 39% of union members are backing Walker.  --------------------------- Read the linked story in conjunction with the following comments and answer the question: …

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The Chamber of Commerce's Dark Money Days May Be Over | Mother Jones

In the annals of loopholes, one that the Federal Election Commission, the nation's election watchdog, created in 2008 could rank as one of the most absurd. The FEC's Republican commissioners decided that shadowy nonprofits running political ads (think: the US Chamber of Commerce) …

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The George Carlin & Scott Walker Clip Every American Needs To See - Democratic Underground

The George Carlin & Scott Walker Clip Every American Needs To See It’s almost like George had a pair of magic, look-into-the-future glasses.Warning: A little bit NSFW.

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The Real Fraud: Second 'Non-Citizen' In James O'Keefe Voter Fraud Video Naturalized In 2011

In conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe’s latest video, he features two “non-citizens” who have supposedly committed voter fraud in North Carolina. As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, one of the men, Zbigniew Gorzkowski, has actually been an American citi …

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BREAKING: The Third Party National Group "Americans Elect" drops out: Is this a Sign of the Demise of Democracy in America?

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