Stories by Steve Cobble
Latinos backed Obama by a 2-to-1 margin on election day and could be the biggest force behind a longterm, center-left political realignment.
Posted on Nov 20, 2008, Source: The Nation
Democrats cannot continue to have two almost-all-white states – Iowa and New Hampshire – determine their presidential nominees. The next nominee must be able to activate and inspire a multi-racial, multi-cultural base.
Posted on Jan 18, 2005, Source: AlterNet
It's time to get prepared for Nov. 3 and the following weeks – the counting and manipulation could really get started after election night.
Posted on Oct 25, 2004, Source: AlterNet
It's time to end the "soft bigotry of low expectations" that President Bush is afforded in presidential debates.
Posted on Sep 30, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The Democratic nominee will have to chart a new path to the White House: through four key states in the Latino Southwest.
Posted on Jan 15, 2004, Source: The Nation
A victory for Lula will mean bottom-up change for Brazil -- and make it clear to the U.S. that Brazilians are not impressed with the free trade experiment.
Posted on Oct 23, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The progressive community's role is not to intervene in the upcoming Brazilian elections, but to keep corporate actors and their allies from mucking up Brazilian democracy.
Posted on Jul 29, 2002, Source: The Nation
The "neutral observers" who tallied votes in Florida's election debacle seemed to miss the fundamental point -- no matter how you slice it, Bush really did lose.
Posted on Jun 12, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Sometime very soon, major media recounts of the Florida vote will show that the election was a fraud; that Bush lost the state and thus the nation. The question is -- how shall citizens respond?
Posted on Apr 3, 2001, Source: AlterNet
