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Bernie Goldberg: The Media and Obama's 2010 Fall From Grace
By Bernie Goldberg - AOL NewsTwo years ago, during the presidential campaign, the so-called mainstream media threw out all pretenses of objectivity and slobbered all over the candidate they wanted to win, Barack Obama. This year the bill came due for their corruption. And President Obama got stuck with it. It wasn't just Chris Matthews' embarrassing admission that he "felt this thrill going up my leg" when he heard candidate Obama speak. Chris is entitled to comment. He's a commentator, after all. But this wasn't political commentary. This was a man crush. And it wasn't just David Gergen's observation on CNN that Mr. ...
Opinion: Hope, and Change, Ahead for Obama
By Bob Lehrman - AOL News
(Dec. 1) -- "Be upbeat," said Al Gore's likable chief of staff, Jack Quinn, to us staffers as we got up from the enormous table in Old Executive Office Building's Ceremonial Room and headed to our offices. "If you have your private predictions, keep them to yourself." It was Election Day 1994. He seemed embarrassed -- awkward -- about saying something so obvious. But 16 years later, I don't think he'll mind my sharing what I recorded in my journal back then, to answer this month's water-cooler question: Will 2012 be like 1996? Can Barack Obama come back the way Bill Clinton did? That was ...
Opposition Cries Foul as Egyptian Elections Near
By Sarah A. Topol - AOL News
CAIRO (Nov. 22) -- Egypt's streets are festooned with posters of rival candidates competing for seats in Sunday's parliamentary elections. Loudspeakers boom candidate slogans and followers chant their support. But despite the carnival air of competition, activists and opposition groups warn this could be Egypt's most unfair election in a decade. Thousands of candidates are vying for 508 seats, including 64 reserved for women, in the People's Assembly, Egypt's lower house of parliament, but they will likely do so without any substantive independent monitoring. Elections in Egypt are ...
Opinion: The GOP Won't Cut Spending, and That's a Good Thing
By Michael Cohen - AOL News(Nov. 15) -- Throughout the 2010 campaign, there was perhaps one issue that united all Republicans -- and even many Democrats: the need to cut federal spending to trim the country's growing budget deficit. But anyone who thinks a new Republican majority in the House of Representatives is going to really cut spending and balance the budget ... well, don't get your hopes up. Politicians and voters love to complain about government spending in the abstract. But in reality neither group really wants to make the difficult choices to do anything about it. If you don't believe it, consider for a ...
Opinion: 4 Lessons About Voting from the 2010 Elections
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 15) -- Ten years after Bush v. Gore and the spectacle of the nation's most important political contest going into overtime, the country's voting experience this Nov. 2 highlights the changes America has seen since 2000. Here are some key lessons we have learned about election reform -- looking back and forward: New machines aren't the only answer. In the immediate aftermath of the 2000 election, the prime targets for criticism were the machines -- specifically, the punch card ballots whose hanging, swinging and dimpled chads were a source of legal and popular fascination. The Help ...
Conn. Governor's Race Finally Over as Foley Concedes
By J. Richard - AOL News(Nov. 8) -- After taking the weekend to examine election results, Republican Tom Foley conceded the race for governor of Connecticut to Democrat Dannel Malloy during a press conference Monday in Hartford. Foley said that although the outcome of the race made him "happy and disappointed," he believes "the election on Tuesday was a conclusive victory for Dan Malloy and should not be questioned." The winner of the race could not be determined on Election Day because the results were disputed for more than 48 hours, in part because the city of Bridgeport ran out of ballots during the election ...
Voting Appears to Go Well Despite Ballot Shortages in Conn.
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News
(Nov. 2) -- Voting in today's contentious midterm elections appeared to go smoothly for the most part, although ballot shortages led to polling hours being extended in Connecticut's largest city. Elsewhere, there was a sprinkling of reports about malfunctioning machines and other glitches, including confoundingly small type on New York ballots and a man in Ohio who was told he couldn't vote because he was dead. Some polling stations ran out of ballots in Bridgeport, Conn., and Mayor Bill Finch asked the state to extend voting for two hours, until 10 p.m. A spokeswoman for Finch said turnout ...
Where to Vote, No Matter Where You Are
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 2) -- Election Day is finally here. So don't just wander aimlessly around town looking for a polling station. Find your voting location on any of these websites, compliments of Surge Desk: Google Maps Voter Information Vote411.org: Polling Place Finder YourF***ingPollingPlace.com (Disclaimer: You are only old enough for the language on this website if you are old enough to vote.) Once you've voted, check out these sites for live updates. Politics Daily 2010 Elections Results The New York Times Election Center Intrade Political Stock Market And to get you in the mood to ...
Ignore Your Inner Cynic and Vote on Tuesday
By Donna Trussell - Politics Daily"Tribute to Her," uploaded to the Internet on Nov. 7, 2008, is a slideshow of Election Day photographs. YouTube member SailorBrownie described her post as a "dedication to all those Black Americans who went out on Tuesday and voted. We made history." While it's not altogether clear who is the "Her" in the title of the video, it might as well be the woman collapsed on the floor in tears. A girl nearby touches her cheek with a little confusion and a lot tenderness for the woman who is, most likely, her mother. The pictures are set to the Beatles song, "Blackbird" -- a good choice, considering ...
Opinion: Cast Your Ballot Against Electronic Voting
By Brad Friedman - AOL News
(Nov. 1) -- They're easily manipulated, constantly flip votes from one candidate to another, often fail even to turn on at all, and they are never ever verifiable as accurately reflecting the will of the voters who used them. Yet election officials continue to force their constituents to cast their precious votes on them nonetheless. What are they? Direct recording electronic (DRE) voting systems -- usually touch-screen voting machines, though sometimes they have a wheel or push buttons. Either way, they all work -- or don't work -- the same way. Just how problematic are these machines? ...
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