The Obama campaign has released a video on how horrible Romney would be for American women. I certainly don’t need convincing - but if I did, this would likely do it.
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Daily Kos: Obama leads Mitt Romney by landslide numbers
The big difference from 2008, when Obama got 365 EVs to John McCain’s 173 is that Obama loses Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska’s single electoral vote from its Omaha-based district. But that’s it. The end result is still a 341-197 landslide.
And with Romney losing Latinos and women by landslide numbers, any effort to turn this slide and claw back some of these states will be particularly difficult—and he still has to hold on to those few states in which he currently leads.
So what do Republicans have to say about all this? Gas prices! Gas prices! Gas prices!
Last time I checked, gas prices were high now. It ain’t doing Romney a lick of good.
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WATCH LIVE: Rick Santorum to speak from Gettysburg, PA, suspends his 2012 presidential campaign.
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Bernie Sanders Takes Down Every Single GOP Presidential Candidate
In a masterful take down, Sen. Bernie Sanders took apart the 2012 GOP presidential field and called them the fringe of American society.
On HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher asked about a question about the Republican primary and Sen. Sanders went off,
One of the problems that I see in the Republican primaries is that these guys are so out of touch with the reality that the American people are going through that it is really quite amazing. We are seeing a middle class collapsing. We are seeing poverty increasing. We’re seeing a nation in which the rich are getting richer and we have the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country.
Do they have one word to say about this issue?
We have 50 million people without any health insurance. We are the only country, major country on earth that does not guarantee healthcare to every man, woman, and child as a right. Do you know what their solution is? Cut Medicare cut Medicaid. You got Social Security, the most successful government program in the history of our country. A program which has not resulted in one penny of deficit for this country, and you know what they want to do? They want to cut Medicaid. They want to cut Social Security. They want to privatize these important programs.
These guys are way, way out of touch from where the American people are, and I think when you look at them issue by issue, tax breaks for the rich, cut Social Security, more money on defense spending, they are literally a fringe element in American society.
Last but not least, you’ve got virtually every scientist in this world who studies the issue who tells us global warming is a huge, huge problem. We’ve got to move in a very aggressive way to break our dependence on fossil fuel, move to sustainable energy, energy efficiency. These guys don’t even acknowledge the reality of global warming.
More U.S. soldiers killed themselves than died in combat in 2010
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FACT: In 2011, California spent $9.6 billion on prisons, but just $5.7 billion on higher education.
California has built just one college campus since 1980, but it’s created 21 prisons.
(Source: CNN, via michaelisbored)
Contraceptive Coverage Lowers Taxes →
Social conservatives say you can’t put a price tag on human life, but are they aware that curbing reproductive rights for women translates to higher taxes? According to the nonprofit National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, contraceptive use saves nearly $19 billion in annual medical costs and reduces abortion rates. “There’s a simple math in place: more unintended pregnancies mean more public costs,” said the campaign’s chief program officer. “Especially for the deficit hawks, it is a pennywise-pound-foolish strategy.” A report from the nonprofit found that employers who offer birth-control coverage end up saving more money than those who don’t.
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(Source: lipsgallagher, via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)
Racist homophobes keeping themselves busy →
National Organization for Marriage is a vile, monstrous hate group.
Their actual plan is to encourage self-segregation as a way of ghettoizing people of color and encouraging POC to focus their frustrations on gays, which will also ensure that POC remain the focus of discussions of cultural homophobia.
One doesn’t need to tease out intersections of oppression or divide and conquer strategies. They are out in the open.
From documents obtained from the National Organization for Marriage (‘cept the gayz obvi):
“The strategic goal of this project is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks—two key Democratic constituencies. Find, equip, energize and connect African American spokespeople for marriage, develop a media campaign around their objections to gay marriage as a civil right; provoke the gay marriage base into responding by denouncing these spokesmen and women as bigots…”
“The Latino vote in America is a key swing vote, and will be so even more so in the future, both because of demographic growth and inherent uncertainty: Will the process of assimilation to the dominant Anglo culture lead Hispanics to abandon traditional family values? We must interrupt this process of assimilation by making support for marriage a key badge of Latino identity - a symbol of resistance to inappropriate assimilation.”
Wow. JUST. Wow.
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