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Election 2012 Watch Parties in Miami: Free Beer, DJs, Bands, and More

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If there’s anything we can say comfortably about Election Day today, it’s that it’s sure to be an anxiety-riddled proposition for anybody who cares. Whether you voted early or not, or still have to hit the booth today, we’ve all got a long night to ride out glued to the polls. Why not share the [...]

Danation: There Will Be 11 State Constitutional Amendments on the Ballot This November. You Should Vote No on All of Them.

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Right, I’m going to just get right into this because we have a lot of ground to cover. In the decade or so I have been covering Florida politics, I cannot ever remember so many state constitutional amendments being on the ballot. So let’s just run through all of them and I’ll explain to you [...]

Danation: Romney Lied, Broke the Rules, and Won

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Mexican-American presidential candidate Willard M. Romney had a great night last night. Even over at MSNBC, the most-liberal of the cable news operations, the immediate concession among everyone on the post-debate panel was that Romney had won, the lone exception being the Rev. Al Sharpton, who will concede nothing to Republicans, even if they were [...]

Danation: The Third Pipe Dream — Democratic Control of the House

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Last week, we discussed the doomed prospects of Mexican-American presidential candidate Willard M. Romney and a Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate. Not much has been written about the other takeover prospect, the idea that the Democrats will take the House. This is because it has been greeted with the appropriate dismissiveness, though that hasn’t [...]

Danation: The Prospects of Republicans Seizing Control of the Senate Have Evaporated

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Last time, we talked about the losing campaign of Mexican-American presidential candidate Willard M. Romney. This time, let’s look through the other losing prospect facing Republicans — control of the U.S. Senate. Over the summer, especially prior to the conventions, back in June and July, all the speculation was that the GOP would wrest control [...]

Democrats’ Position on Gender Isn’t Perfect

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When Michelle Obama spoke at the DNC earlier this week, I got more than a little pissed off by her remarks. Sure, both Dems and GOPers are courting the much-coveted “mom” vote, but I felt alienated — and almost betrayed — by the seeming emphasis on traditional family roles from the U.S.’s more liberal political [...]

Democratic National Convention, Night One: Sikhs, Gays, and Grace

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5 p.m.: Convention opens with a blast of funk, and a huge scrim displaying a pastoral, and the words “Democratic National Convention: Americans Coming Together.” Debbie Wasserman Schultz looks gorgeous. Hair, white dress, makeup — this is the least tired she’s looked in a year or so. “Welcome to our deliberations,” she says. “We shall hold [...]

Report From the Republican National Convention: Is the GOP Committing Suicide?

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Seventy-two hours before the Republican National Convention kicked off at the Tampa Bay Times Arena, I decided that I had to be there. Not because I wanted to go party for Mitt Romney, of course, but because it appeared that a movement of people, many anti-Republican, and others just anti-Romney, would be prepared to make [...]

Republican National Convention: Observations From My Couch

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Tuesday afternoon: Provisions: two six-packs of Flying Dog Brewery’s “Raging Bitch” Belgian-style pale ale. Carton of cigarettes. A well-charged phone and access to GrubHub. TV on C-SPAN. Click! Some kind of huge young Republican male is talking angrily about how Obama’s screwed his generation. And now a similarly huge young Republican female is doing likewise, giving [...]

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