Election 2012

Are We in for a Shocking October Surprise Like Those of Elections Past?

By Robert Parry / Consortium News

History points to Republican sabotage playing a role in Democratic losses in presidential campaigns.

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How the Ever-Growing Gigantic Nature of Our Elections Is Wrecking Democracy

By Tom Engelhardt / Tom Dispatch

How a Mitt-Style Increase in Military Spending Might Cost You Your Job

By Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Jon Stewart on Fox News' Most Slanderous Lies about the President: "Barack-tose Intolerance"

By AlterNet Staff / AlterNet

Obama Vanquishes Romney With 5 Brutal Quips

By Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

AlterNet Comics: Tom Tomorrow on Republicans' Somber Post-Election Introspection

Republicans' "Plan B" for Tax Hikes Is the Same as Plan A: Lie Through Their Teeth

Maddow Debunks the Post-Election Myths Spun by Paul Ryan and Other GOP Liars

Election 2012

Final Debate: Obama Scores a Win

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Clever, Funny, Snarky: 6-Word Reactions to the Debate

AlterNet

Saudi Arabia Reveals Plans to Be Powered Entirely by Renewables While Fossil Fuels Dictate U.S. Energy Policy

Paul E McGinniss / EcoWatch

Why Don't the Democrats Go After Non-Religious Voters?

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Billionaires Are Busy Subverting California's Once-Great System of Direct Democracy

Roy Ulrich / AlterNet

"Like a Dog?" Nasty GOP Insults Flung at Women Candidates

Alex Kane / AlterNet

How Romney's Business-Pandering Foreign Policy Could Spell Disaster in Libya and the World

Bradley J. Austin / AlterNet

5 Ways Romney and Obama Will Shamelessly Pander to Israel Tonight

Alex Kane / AlterNet

6 Things We Need To Do To Repair America's Crumbling Democracy

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

14 Most Extreme Candidates

Evelyn Schlatter / Southern Poverty Law Center

GOP Voter Registration Scandal Widens, Prosecutors File Criminal Charges

Brad Friedman / The Brad Blog

Inside Bain's Chinese Sensata Factories, Where Workers Put in 12-Hour Days for $.99-$1.35 an Hour

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Ellsberg: Let's Not Have Illusions About Which of the Two Major Candidates Would Be Better

Daniel Ellsberg / AlterNet

Meet Romney's Economic Hitman

Robert Scheer / Truthdig

Neoconservative Jingoism Plus Mormon Delusion Equals Perpetual War

Frank Schaeffer / AlteNet

Onward Mormon Soldiers: Ann Romney Compares Mormon Mission to Military Service

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

Lyin' Ryan Has No Plan to Cut the Deficit - and if He Did, Romney Would Oppose It

William K. Black / Benzinga

I Might Be Disillusioned About Election 2012, But the Stakes for the Country Are Still Huge

Jay Walljasper / On the Commons

Citizens United, Obamacare -- The Roberts Court Is Just Getting Started

David Morris / On the Commons

5 Things You Need to Know About Mitt Romney's Shady Investments Before Election Day

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

7 Brilliant and Funny Ways Critics Panned Romney's 'Binders Full of Women' Gaffe

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

6 Global Issues the Foreign Policy Debate Between Obama and Romney Won't Touch

FPIF Staff / Foreign Policy in Focus

Why Candy Crowley Should Have Asked Obama and Romney About Hemp

Martin A. Lee / AlterNet

Greg Palast: "Mitt Romney’s Bailout Bonanza: How He Made Millions from the Rescue of Detroit"

Amy Goodman, Greg Palast / Democracy Now

How the Media Helped a Flailing Romney Reinvent Himself

Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America

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