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Cuéntame's Axel Caballero on "TYT on Current," Talks Latino Voter Enthusiasm

Cuéntame's Axel Caballero on "TYT on Current," Talks Latino... more

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Choices? Youtube Ad From "Ya Es Hora" Campaign

Historically, Latino voters face two primary barriers to full political participation:... more

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This Is What Happens When Latinos Don't Vote

"Latinos Don't Vote" is designed to bring these issue to the forefront... more

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Colorado PSA: Who Are You With?

The 2012 election is just a few weeks away. As the polls tighten, it's becoming... more

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Nevada PSA: Who Are You With? (Reno)

The 2012 election is just a few weeks away. As the polls tighten, it's becoming... more

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Captain Voter Rights Lays The Smack Down On Voter ID Laws.

The 2012 election is just a few weeks away. As the polls tighten, it's becoming... more

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This Is How You Fight Voter Suppression!

Watch this video to ensure you know how to register to vote and what to bring with you... more

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Look At All These Badasses Fighting For Your Right To Vote

In 2008, 6 million Americans didn't vote because they missed a registration... more

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GOP Discovers Women Do Indeed Vote, Wonders If Sending Flowers Will Work

Add in some Godiva chocolates, and it's a deal!... more

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Young voters ask: What enthusiasm gap? | Scholars and Rogues

The term “enthusiasm gap” got thrown around a lot this election cycle,... more

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Voters Interviewed at Gun Point, Realize the Shocking Facts of Their Political Views

Do you have a choice not to pay Government programs you don’t like? If you have... more

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Mitt Romney’s Election Campaign Insults Voters

THROUGH ALL THE flip-flops, there has been one consistency in the campaign of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney: a contempt for the electorate.

How else to explain his refusal to disclose essential information? Defying recent bipartisan tradition, he failed to release the names of his bundlers — the high rollers who collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations. He never provided sufficient tax returns to show voters how he became rich.

How, other than an assumption that voters are too dim to remember what Mr. Romney has said across the years and months, to account for his breathtaking ideological shifts? He was a friend of immigrants, then a scourge of immigrants, then again a friend. He was a Kissingerian foreign policy realist, then a McCain-like hawk, then a purveyor of peace. He pioneered Obamacare, he detested Obamacare, then he found elements in it to cherish. Assault weapons were bad, then good. Abortion was okay, then bad. Climate change was an urgent problem; then, not so much. Hurricane cleanup was a job for the states, until it was once again a job for the feds.

The same presumption of gullibility has infused his misleading commercials (see: Jeep jobs to China) and his refusal to lay out an agenda. Mr. Romney promised to replace the Affordable Care Act but never said with what. He promised an alternative to President Obama’s lifeline to young undocumented immigrants but never deigned to describe it.

And then there has been his chronic, baldly dishonest defense of mathematically impossible budget proposals. He promised to cut income tax rates without exploding the deficit or tilting the tax code toward the rich — but he refused to say how he could bring that off. When challenged, he cited “studies” that he maintained proved him right. But the studies were a mix of rhetoric, unrealistic growth projections and more serious economics that actually proved him wrong.

This last is important — maybe the crux of the next four years. History has shown that it’s a lot easier to cut taxes than to reduce spending. Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush promised to do both, managed to do only the first and (with plenty of help from Congress) greatly increased the national debt.

Now Mr. Romney promises to reduce income tax rates by one-fifth — for the rich, that means from 35 percent to 28 percent — and to raise defense spending while balancing the budget. To do so, he would reduce other spending — unspecified — and take away deductions — unspecified. One of the studies he cited, by Harvard economist Martin Feldstein, said Mr. Romney could make the tax math work by depriving every household earning $100,000 or more of all of its charitable deductions, mortgage-interest deductions and deductions for state and local income taxes.

Does Mr. Romney favor ending those popular tax breaks? He won’t say. But he did take issue with Mr. Feldstein’s definition of the middle class: Mr. Romney said he would protect households earning $250,000 or less. In which case the Feldstein study did not vindicate the Romney arithmetic — it refuted it. Yet the candidate has continued to cite the study.

Within limits, all candidates say and do what they have to say and do to win. Mr. Obama also has dodged serious interviews and news conferences. He has offered few specifics for a second-term agenda. He, too, aired commercials that distorted his opponent’s statements.

But Mr. Obama has a record; voters know his priorities. His budget plan is inadequate, but it wouldn’t make things worse.

Mr. Romney, by contrast, seems to be betting that voters have no memories, poor arithmetic skills and a general inability to look behind the curtain. We hope the results Tuesday prove him wrong.THROUGH ALL THE flip-flops, there has been one consistency in the campaign of... more

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“Ann Romney, Release Your COSTCO Records!” — Only Days from Election, Investigation Offers Two Reasons to Support Their Demand

And about Mitt's taxes . . . http://latestbloomer.uskoa.com/?p=1484

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Proof of Existence

I personally don’t know anyone who’s undecided about who they are going to... more

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BINDER-GATE

When all is said and done the one thing that we can take away from the Presidential... more

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Hacking Democracy - Your Vote Doesn't Count

Think your vote counts? Think again. We all live with the expectation that we have... more

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Democrats Play Hardball; Dog Romney Across Ohio

Payback Time from the "47%" -- According to recent reports, Democrats are... more

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Election/Deflection 2012

Obama, Mitt, white dudes with two first names... I know what you're thinking:... more

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Romney’s Optical Illusion: Operatives Bused in for Univision Town Hall

The hot mess known as the Mitt Romney campaign is now suffering through another bad... more

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Reflections of Charlotte: Three Questions for the ‘Obama Lady’ (VIDEO)

As I was walking through the convention arena in Charlotte during the recent DNC, I... more

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