It’s a grim day for those of us who held out hope that the polls were wrong, for those of us who see the stranglehold that corporate money has on American politics. It’s an even grimmer day for those who will most keenly feel the effects of that stranglehold.
~~Lady Grey~~
To everyone who voted, I want you to know, I hear you. To the two thirds of voters who chose not to participate, I hear you too.”
Republicans are unnervingly adept at convincing large swaths of the public that up is down, or that night is, in fact, day. They have attempted this right now, on a grand scale. “Why won’t President Obama and Democrats just negotiate with us?” they bewail. They’re hoping that the public (and the media which is supposed to inform the public) has absolutely no memory of what has taken place all year long, as they have blocked — over and over again.
Dare we hope they do their job when they return to “work”?
“I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” ~~George S. McGovern~~
George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American historian, author, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election.
Midterm Election 2014 Results: GOP Takes Stronger Grip on the House
Republicans have strengthened their majority control of the House of Representatives. Now, the only question remaining is how big that majority will grow.
While majority control of the Senate has been the primary point of discussion through the midterm elections, President Obama could face the largest House majority since the Great Depression if Republicans win a net-gain of 13 seats in the lower chamber today.
With House Republicans adding to their current 34-seat majority, it will possibly diminish some of the power of a conservative wing of lawmakers who have challenged House Speaker John Boehner’s leadership on issues like health care, immigration reform and government spending.
Born in 1941 in Brooklyn, Bernie was the younger of two sons in a modest-income family. After graduation from the University of Chicago in 1964, he moved to Vermont. Early in his career, Sanders was director of the American People’s Historical Society. Elected Mayor of Burlington by 10 votes in 1981, he served four terms.
Before his 1990 election as Vermont’s at-large member in Congress, Sanders lectured at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and at Hamilton College in upstate New York.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly known as Jack Kennedy, or by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. Notable events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race — by initiating Project Apollo (which later culminated in the moon landings), the building of the Berlin Wall, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and increased US involvement in the Vietnam War.
The day after November 5, 2014. I can’t comprehend and don’t intend to. There are better bloggers who can dissect, discuss, present, tabulate, extrapolate what happened. My post today comes from my heart and my soul.
I don’t have the words. Let pictures speak for me.
Election day is here and the main event is the battle for the Senate.
Elections in the United States are being held throughout 2014, with the general elections scheduled for Tuesday, November 4, 2014.
During this midterm election year, all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 33 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested; along with 38 state and territorial governorships, 46 state legislatures (except Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia), four territorial legislatures and numerous state and local races.
Born in 1941 in Brooklyn, Bernie was the younger of two sons in a modest-income family. After graduation from the University of Chicago in 1964, he moved to Vermont. Early in his career, Sanders was director of the American People’s Historical Society. Elected Mayor of Burlington by 10 votes in 1981, he served four terms.
Before his 1990 election as Vermont’s at-large member in Congress, Sanders lectured at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and at Hamilton College in upstate New York.
Election day is here and the main event is the battle for the Senate.
Elections in the United States are being held throughout 2014, with the general elections scheduled for Tuesday, November 4, 2014.
During this midterm election year, all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 33 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested; along with 38 state and territorial governorships, 46 state legislatures (except Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia), four territorial legislatures and numerous state and local races.
Born in 1941 in Brooklyn, Bernie was the younger of two sons in a modest-income family. After graduation from the University of Chicago in 1964, he moved to Vermont. Early in his career, Sanders was director of the American People’s Historical Society. Elected Mayor of Burlington by 10 votes in 1981, he served four terms.
Before his 1990 election as Vermont’s at-large member in Congress, Sanders lectured at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and at Hamilton College in upstate New York.
Election day is here and the main event is the battle for the Senate.
Elections in the United States are being held throughout 2014, with the general elections scheduled for Tuesday, November 4, 2014.
During this midterm election year, all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 33 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested; along with 38 state and territorial governorships, 46 state legislatures (except Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia), four territorial legislatures and numerous state and local races.
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is the longest serving independent in U.S. congressional history.
The American middle class is a social class in the United States. While the concept is typically ambiguous in popular opinion and common language use, contemporary social scientists have put forward several more or less congruent theories on the American middle class. Depending on the class model used, the middle class constitutes anywhere from 25% to 66% of households.
“Everyone wants to believe they are middle class … But this eagerness … has led the definition to be stretched like a bungee cord — used to defend/attack/describe everything …The Drum Major Institute … places the range for middle class at individuals making between $25,000 and $100,000 a year.
Ah yes, there’s a group of people bound to run into each other while house-hunting.”
Born in 1941 in Brooklyn, Bernie was the younger of two sons in a modest-income family. After graduation from the University of Chicago in 1964, he moved to Vermont. Early in his career, Sanders was director of the American People’s Historical Society. Elected Mayor of Burlington by 10 votes in 1981, he served four terms.
Before his 1990 election as Vermont’s at-large member in Congress, Sanders lectured at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and at Hamilton College in upstate New York.
