More on today’s DOMA decision, including a photo of the 83-year-old lesbian plaintiff in the case.
We’re into day #3 of the Romney camp not being sure of Romney’s position on the Lily Ledbetter equal pay act. Which is understandable since Romney’s position is that he didn’t oppose it during the GOP primary and doesn’t support it now.
That didn’t take long. Dinesh D’Souza spends most of his time purveying hate and nonsense and obsessing about the failings of black people in addition to producing the anti-Obama (anti-colonial Kenyan mentality) movie showing in theaters around the country this season. Read More
Irving Berlin, Helen Hayes, Dwight Eisenhower and other celebs at the Alfred E. Smith charity dinner in 1952 — take a look. The 67th installment of the dinner is tonight in New York City.
As the polls get tighter, we move into what I call the MoS, the Margin of Suppression, the range of closeness in which voter suppression tactics could mean the margin of victory in states across the country or maybe the election as a whole. With that in mind, we’re hosting a live chat right now at TPMPrime with one of the national experts on the issue Michael Waldman, President of the Brennan Center at NYU. Click here to join in and ask your question.
You’ve probably noticed that there’s been a rash of uncovered emails with hyper-conservative CEOs trying to tell their employees how to vote in the presidential election or suggesting that an Obama reelection victory could end up losing them their jobs. Now In These Times has gotten a hold of an audio recording of Mitt Romney talking to “small-business owners” (remember, Romney considers himself a small-business owner) in which he asks them to tell their employees how they should vote. Read More
A new poll out this morning puts Elizabeth Warren up by 9 points over Scott Brown in Massachusetts. That’s ahead of other recent polls but not dramatically. The trend in Massachusetts seems all in her favor.