Nation Topics - Election 2012 | The Nation

It's time we kick the “lesser of two evils” excuse and engage in a true political conversation. 

Under the radar, the pseudo-grassroots group Americans for Prosperity is pulling out the stops to defeat Obama.

Highlights from the Voting Rights Watch 2012 blog, from Brentin Mock, Aura Bogado and Maegan E. Ortiz

Even if Obama wins, he won’t be able to accomplish much if progressives don’t do well in legislative races. Here are ten worthy contenders.

Many of Florida’s ex-felons are receiving conflicting information on their voting rights. That could spell disaster in November.

Democrats have a rich opportunity to push electoral reform at the state level.

Forget Mitt Romney. With the foreign policy crisis in the Middle East, can the president make it to November 7?

Election politics today are little more than advertising. But it wasn't always that way. 

The GOP candidate’s disastrous response to the incendiary “Innocence of Muslims” video should come as no surprise in light of his Islamophobic connections.

This is the most polarized presidential choice since 1980. Yet issues fundamental to the nation’s future have been excluded from the debate.