For many months the Obama administration and the Democratic majority in the House & Senate have been trying to negotiate a bipartisan health care reform bill with the Republicans. Unfortunately the Republicans have shown time and time again they have no interest in fixing America’s health care system and seem intent instead on destroying health […]

Media Matters makes the point that the mainstream media has been skewing the debate on health care reform by insinuating that the “public option” that President Obama supports is not popular with Americans and that the “public option” is the “liberal position” (it’s not, it is a compromise, the true liberal position is “single payer.”)
The […]

The real solution to the health care problem in America isn’t a convoluted “co-op” scheme or even “the public option” (although that would be better than nothing) the real solution is obvious: Single Payer Health Care.
What’s “single payer”? It’s a true universal health care program that would work basically like “Medicare for all.” And […]

The new CBS/NY Times poll has Barack Obama ahead of John McCain nationally by a big margin: 53% to 39%. While this is likely to be somewhat of an outlier as it’s the largest lead Obama has in any national poll it should be noted that Obama also has a double digit lead in six […]

John McCain has accepted $84 million of tax payer’s money to finance his campaign. Because of this he is not allowed to raise anymore money directly from people (since becoming the official Republican nominee.) Yet his campaign has been raising money through something called the McCain/Palin Compliance Fund.

Read the NY Times story on how this […]

The scarier she becomes. Forget for a second her extreme lack of experience and instead focus on her positions and her history. Sarah Palin is a “wingnut” - an extreme far right wing politician who will appeal to no one but the Pat Robertson wing of the Republican party when her positions and her history […]

NY Times: McCain Lying About Being In “The Cone of Silence”
Pensito Review: McCain’s Cheating At Saddleback.
The Carpet Bagger Report: McCain Will Say Anything To Get Elected.
AlterNet: John McCain Is Far More Dangerous Than George W. Bush.
And a video from JedReport.com: “Would McCain Make Up A Story To Help His Campaign?”

Barack Obama’s numbers have been falling in most national polls recently. Some polls have even shown McCain having pulled into a statistical tie with him. But the newest polls released today show an uptick for Obama.
CBS News/NY Times: Obama 45%, McCain 39%
Gallup Tracking: Obama 47%, McCain 43%

Al Gore appeared with Barack Obama tonight in Michigan. Read the story at the NYTimes.com.
Michigan is also where John Edwards endorsed Obama indicating the importance of the state in Obama’s electoral strategy. Michigan went blue in both 2000 & 2004 but is very close in the polls at this point. Probably mostly because Michigan did […]

The NY Times on John McCain’s lies about Barack Obama’s tax plan.
While McCain is claiming that Obama’s tax plan would increase taxes for most Americans, that is in fact not true. In fact, 89% of Americans will have lower taxes with the Obama tax plan than they would with the McCain tax plan.