FairVote’s Election Analyses & Prescriptions for the Future
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We thought we’d share our view of this historic election through ten surprising stories about Election ’08. They are:
Electoral Reform on the Ballot – New Victories and Implementations for Instant Runoff Voting
The 2008 Spoiler Effect – Key Non-Majority Winners (and non-winners)
Closer Than You [...]
Immediately after Barack Obama was pronounced the victor in the 2008 presidential election, corporate media began to tell him how he ought to govern–in most cases, urging him to hew toward the center.
Narrated by Martin Sheen
The Israel Defense Forces has asked the Shin Bet security service and the police to provide it with information on left-wing figures active in the West Bank so it will be easier to issue restraining orders against them, Haaretz has learned.
For Immediate Release
November 8, 2008
Contact: Mary Hughes, Cyprus +357 96 75 00 59
Greta Berlin, Cyprus: +357 99 08 17 67
Osama Qashoo, +44 78 33 38 16 60
Angela Godfrey Goldstein, Jerusalem: +972 547 366 393
Larnaca: The DIGNITY pulled into Gaza at 9:15 a.m. Gaza time after an uneventful trip from Larnaca, Cyprus. The 23 passengers and [...]
How Will He Transform an Economy In Free-Fall?
By Danny Schechter
Author of Plunder
After Barack Obama’s inspirational address to the adoring minions in Sweet Home Chicago, the loudspeakers erupted with Bruce Springsteen’s prayerful post-911 anthem, “The Rising.”
Yes, he had risen, but now he has to steer clear of a threatening crucifixion on the cross of an [...]
Republicans, and some journalists, had spent months (falsely) saying Obama is the single most liberal member of the U.S. Senate — and maybe even a socialist. The American people responded by electing him in a landslide.
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