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Today, as President Obama signed health care reform into law, a new opinion poll was released which was taken yesterday (the first full day after health care reform passed the House) and the results are good news for President Obama and the Democrats. Despite all of the claims from the Republicans that a majority of [...]

Update: I’ve set up this ActBlue fundraising page to donate to the opponents of 20 of these 21 (I left off MI-3 so it would only be districts where Obama won by at least 4%.) Following up on my previous posts today, this is a list of 21 Republican House seats that the Democrats may [...]

As I wrote in my last post, there are (or were as of last year, I don’t have an updated number based on retirees etc) 37 House Republicans from districts where Obama won the ’08 vote. All of these Republicans (just like all other Republicans) voted against health care reform. From this post over at [...]

It seems we’re always hearing about the “blue dog” Democrats who are often from the south in districts where John McCain won in 2008. Most recently we’ve heard about how hard a vote for health care reform is for them. But why do we never hear about the 37 Republican House members who are from [...]

1. Once reform is fully implemented, over 95% of Americans will have health insurance coverage, including 32 million who are currently uninsured. 2. Health insurance companies will no longer be allowed to deny people coverage because of preexisting conditions—or to drop coverage when people become sick. 3. Just like members of Congress, individuals and small [...]

Now that health care reform is becoming a reality the Republicans are moving from all of the lies (“death panels,” “government takeover” etc) they told trying to stop it from happening in the first place to new lies about how they are going to be able to repeal health care reform if they win back [...]

President Obama had fallen to as low as 46% approval this week but today Gallup shows a big jump from 47% approval (and 47% disapproval) to 50% approval with just 43% disapproval. This jump seems to coincide with the news that health care reform is getting closer and closer to being a reality. It will [...]

For the past year health care reform has been a fuzzy image in a darkened room and the Republicans/Tea Party/Fox News/Health Insurance Industry have the made most of the dark by spreading fear about what that fuzzy image might actually be (it may even be a “socialist” “death panel” !?) It’s easy to get people [...]

Yes. The Coffee Party is now bigger than The Tea Party. Well, at least it is on Facebook where the Coffee Party Movement currently has 109,606 fans while the Tea Party Patriots have 108,658 fans. Considering the Tea Party Patriots page has been up for almost a year longer, that seems quite meaningful. What it [...]