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What Coakley's Defeat Means for Healthcare Reform (Healthcare Policy, Campaigns and Elections, Politics)

Healthcare is in jeopardy, but it's not dead--especially if Democrats drag their feet on swearing in Brown.

Lindsay Beyerstein
Coakley's Loss: Pie in the President's Face (Barack Obama, Campaigns and Elections, States, Senate, Politics)

Martha Coakley's loss in Massachusetts put on display the monumental miscalculations by which Obama has governed.

William Greider
What Massachusetts Got Right (Barack Obama, Healthcare Policy, Campaigns and Elections, Politics)

Obama's opportunistic search for win-win solutions to our healthcare concerns and our larger economic problems is leading to a lose-lose outcome for the president and the country.

Robert Scheer
The Nation Interviews David Plouffe (Barack Obama, Campaigns and Elections, The Left, Politics)

In an exclusive interview with The Nation, David Plouffe, former campaign manager of Obama for America, talks healthcare, messaging, and organizing after election day.

Ari Melber
Plouffe Counters Obama's Healthcare Critics (Barack Obama, Campaigns and Elections, The Left, Politics)

In an exclusive interview with The Nation, David Plouffe, former campaign manager of Obama for America, talks healthcare, messaging, and organizing after election day.

Ari Melber
Election Tea Leaves (US Politics, Gubernatorial Campaigns and Elections, Campaigns and Elections, Politics)

What did we learn from the off-year elections?

John Nichols
Slide Show: The Nation's 2009 Elections (Campaigns and Elections, Politics)
GOP Shuns Palin; Will Obama Help Dems? (Campaigns and Elections, Politics)

Nation blogger Melissa Harris-Lacewell on the GOP's love/hate relationship with Sarah Palin, and Democratic dynamics since Obama's victory in 2008.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Media Misses Mark on Truman's Election (Historical Events, Campaigns and Elections, Politics)

The only person in 1948 who thought Truman had a chance in 1948 was Harry, and even he wasn't all that convinced.

The Editors
Fair Elections Now! (Campaigns and Elections, Politics)

The moment is ripe for major campaign-finance reform.

Nick Nyhart and David Donnelly

Blogs

How to Make Voting Easier
Ari Berman

On the twentieth anniversary of the National Voter Registration Act, voting rights are under attack 

May 20, 2013
Washington Misses the Point on the Tea Party and the IRS
Rick Perlstein

How do you travel from a tax-exempt “non-political” Tea Party rally to a political one? You walk across a park.

May 16, 2013
Congressmen Seek Constitutional Guarantee of the Right to Vote
John Nichols

The amendment declares, “Every citizen of the United States, who is of legal voting age, shall have the fundamental right to vote.”

May 13, 2013
Our Elections Really Are Rigged—by Gerrymandering and Districting Abuses
John Nichols

Once Mark Sanford won the Republican primary, he was all but certain to win in a district drawn to elect Republicans. That’s how it works in America.

May 8, 2013
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Voters Rejected Romney's Policies, Now the GOP Needs to Get a Clue
Nation in the News

Mitt Romney blames bad messaging, but the reality is his proposals were out of touch, especially with minorities.

March 5, 2013
Virginia Legislators Approve Voter ID Law, May Kill Chances for Federal Bailout
Voting Rights Watch

Will Virginia be the latest case for proving why the Voting Rights Act is still needed?

February 22, 2013
Despite Longest Lines in the Nation, Florida State Secretary Calls Elections 'Fair'
Voting Rights Watch

Florida blames all its elections problems on its counties, while missing major problems in its elections improvement report.

February 6, 2013
Three Strategies to Block the Gerrymandering of the Electoral College
John Nichols

Name and shame those who would rig elections, embrace the popular vote, challenge gerrymandering.

January 25, 2013
Three Strategies to Stop the Gerrymandering of the Electoral College
John Nichols

Name and shame those who would rig elections, embrace the popular vote, challenge gerrymandering.

January 25, 2013
A Constitutional Case Against Felony Disenfranchisement Laws
Voting Rights Watch

Obama's recent court victory on early voting may have carved a legal path for fighting down felony disenfranchisement laws.

December 14, 2012
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