By Austin Sarat, Amherst College The state of Michigan, and the United States as a whole, may face a political crisis brought on by President Donald Trump’s continuing efforts to undo the 2020 election results. On Nov. 19, the president invited Republican lawmakers from Michigan to the White House, apparently to pressure them to…
October 28, 2020 by jackrasmus By Dr. Jack Rasmus Copyright 2020 Mainstream media is pounding out an incessant drumbeat: ‘Get Out and Vote! Mail in Your Ballot! Do It Now! Vote Early!’ But what may well determine the outcome of the election on November 3 may not be the current record voter turnout now underway….
Here’s the background you need to know in order to understand the essay below by Thom Hartmann: “Contrary to popular belief, there is not an affirmative right to vote in the U.S. Constitution “While the U.S. Constitution bans the restriction of voting based on race, sex and age, it does not explicitly and affirmatively…
Editor’s Note: The “red shift” Thom Hartmann mentions in this article refers to the discrepancy between exit polls and actual election outcomes (which, up until a couple of decades ago, used to track very closely). If this difference was due to random errors, we would expect it to favor the two parties about equally,…
By Don Pelton A “Bag of Marbles” is another one of those WWII movies that invariably makes me grateful that we in the United States have never lived under a fascist regime … and now I have to say “so far.” It’s that caveat that makes this story still relevant for our perilous time,…