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Proposition 19 Headed Toward Defeat
The sticky icky will continue to grow and exchange hands, but not with California’s consent. California voters appear to have rejected Proposition 19, an effort to legalize marijuana and allow local governments to tax the sale of the drug. Prop. 19 received national attention, but relatively little money was spent on the campaign. While millions…
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Voters Reject Rhode Island Name Change
The controversy over the official name of Rhode Island has ended. The voters weighed in tonight, defeating the measure with 170 of 539 precincts reporting. The results indicate that 72,723 voters rejected the proposed name change to just “The State of Rhode Island,” while 20,792 approved of keeping “State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.”…
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GOP Gains House, Seating New Black Members
Despite efforts by President Barack Obama and the Democrats to rally their base at the eleventh hour, voter anger about the shabby state of the economy swept through Congress on Tuesday, leaving in its wake a Republican-controlled House of Representatives. As of 11 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, CNN was predicting that the GOP…
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How Barack Obama Became a Republican
On their way to wresting control of the House of Representatives and consolidating their ranks in the U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s midterm elections, conservative Republicans managed to turn a self-described former witch into a “constitutional conservative” while calling Barack Obama — a former constitutional lawyer — an enemy of the Constitution. They got indignant when…
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Obama's New Reality
Barack Obama and black America wake up today to a new political reality: a House of Representatives under control of the Republican Party and a U.S. Senate with a slim Democratic majority. The White House started putting its spin on the shift of power in the week before the election. There were hints that Obama…
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Dems Hold the Senate — Barely
If the United States is a car broken down on the edge of a highway somewhere, the Senate is its dry, ill-maintained, crapped-out engine. Since the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama, our nation’s 100-member upper house has been, thanks to a monolithic block of obstructionist Republicans, a largely useless body of angry white men, many…
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Poll: Kamala Harris Leading Opponent by 1 Percentage Point
Well, well, well, what do we have here? According to the Suffolk Poll of California last week, the attorney general race in Cali could be closer than what pollsters predicted. Democrat Kamala Harris was leading Republican Steve Cooley 35 percent to 34 percent in the pre-election poll. Although the lead is slight, it does suggest that Cooley may not…
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IMPACT Hosts an Election Party
Lauren is a former Deputy Editor of The Root. Paris Dennard of the Republican National Committee; the NAACP’s Stephanie Brown; Gary Flowers of the Black Leadership Forum; Charles Ellison, host of The New School on XM/Sirius radio; panel moderator and BET White House correspondent Andre Showall; and communications professional and 2008 Barack Obama campaign aide…
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Exit Poll: 4 out of 10 Voters Support the Tea Party Movement
According to an exit poll conducted by the Associated Press, four out of 10 voters support the Tea Party movement. Voters across the nation Tuesday said they were intensely worried about the future of the economy and unhappy with the way President Barack Obama and Congress are running things. Voters in overwhelming numbers were dissatisfied…