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AFSCME reports earlier Wisconsin, Ohio battles sharply boosted 2012 turnout
November 12, 2012Battles over collective bargaining rights for state and local government workers sharply boosted overall labor enthusiasm and turnout in those two states this year.
Read moreMomentum grows for ending the filibuster
November 12, 2012The newly elected, slightly more Democratic U.S. Senate must tackle comprehensive filibuster reform or it will grind to a dead halt again.
Read moreCT working families defeat Linda’s lies
November 12, 2012Connecticut voters smacked down tea party Republican Linda McMahon on Election Day and chose Rep. Chris Murphy to be their new U.S. Senator.
Read moreVoters give Obama four more years to move nation forward
November 7, 2012Battling an unprecedented barrage of lies, voter suppression laws, racially-charged attacks and fringe ideology on women, immigrants, gays and lesbians, fueled with billions of Wall Street and secretive super PACS dollars, the coalition backing the president...
Read moreObama, Stabenow cruise to victory in Michigan, tea party mayor recalled
November 7, 2012President Obama won by more than eight percentage points in Michigan and Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow crushed her Republican opponent 58 percent to 38 percent.
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