By David Swanson

WHY HE’LL WIN: Money, Media, Momentum, Mobilization, Madness

MONEY

Barack Obama has more money than Hillary Clinton and is likely to bring in more of it. The money advantage has proved insufficient to Mitt Romney but has benefitted him greatly and will benefit Obama greatly. Obama will run more ads than Clinton, which will bring in still more money. News stories will happily avoid any mention of substantive issues by covering Obama’s money raising. He will have the read more

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By David Swanson

We’ll go vote on February 12th, and the nominees may already have been determined in other states. But we’d still like to know whether our votes are properly counted, and we will have no way of knowing. Charlottesville uses DRE voting machines (directly recording electronic voting machines). While the city brags that these are not touch-screen machines, because we turn a dial instead of touching a screen, the problems are the same. The machines we use have produced read more

By David Swanson

I don’t care right now who you plan to vote for next November. My primary concern is that, after Tuesday, you strive to – as completely as possible – ignore the election until around Halloween, because we have so many much more important things to work on as citizens of this country, not the least of them being the creation of a credible system of hand-counted paper ballots and other election reforms. But my secondary concern is for the Democratic primaries. read more