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Latest Presidential Polls 2012: Data Shows the Romney 47 Percent Comment Has Taken Serious Toll

Sep 26, 2012 | Class Issues, Conservativism, Economic Policy, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), mic, Plutocracy, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans

Published: PolicyMic (September 26, 2012) Up until now, debate on the political impact of Mitt Romney's "47%" comments has been entirely speculative. That is no longer the case. According to recently released New York Times/CBS/Quinnipiac surveys — the first major polls to be conducted right after the emergence of the controversial video — Romney has suffered enormous setbacks in key swing...

Max Hell Frog Warrior: What A Web Review of a Z List Movie Tells Us About Internet Freedom

Sep 25, 2012 | Arts and Entertainment, Civil Liberties, Internet Culture, mic

Published: PolicyMic (September 25, 2012) The events of the past couple days have compelled me to defend the rights of artists. Before I do that, however, I need to provide some background information on the peculiarities of this particular situation, and explain why an internet critic's review of a martial arts cult film indicates that the internet community must start really talking about what...

Obama vs. Romney: Mitt Romney 47 Percent Gaffe Proves He is Too Conservative to Be President

Sep 23, 2012 | Class Issues, Conservativism, Economic Policy, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), mic, Plutocracy, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans

Published: PolicyMic (September 23, 2012) Conventional political wisdom states that, to become president, you must first acquire your party's nomination by pandering to its radical base. After that, you win the general election by moving back to the ideological center. Keep that axiom in mind as you're reading this editorial. Back in February, Mitt Romney earned the derision of political...

Romney 47 Percent Hot Mic Comments: This Proves Just How Wrong He Is For The American Presidency

Sep 18, 2012 | Class Issues, Conservativism, Economic Policy, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), mic, Plutocracy, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans

Published: PolicyMic (September 18, 2012) Secret video recordings of comments made by Mitt Romney at a private fundraiser are so appalling that it's hard to figure out where to even begin analyzing them. I guess the best way is to look at the three main parts. First there is the Republican presidential nominee's declaration that 47% of the American people will vote for Barack Obama no matter...

Barack Obama Must Ask $2,000 Question

Sep 6, 2012 | Class Issues, Economic Policy, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), mic, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans

Published: The Morning Call (September 6, 2012), PolicyMic (September 6, 2012) More than a month ago, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center revealed that Mitt Romney's proposed tax cuts for the affluent will require him to increase taxes on middle-class families by an average of $2,000 a year. Since then, President Obama has put a calculator on his campaign website to help ordinary citizens...

Who Won the Debate Tonight: Romney is Winner for the Media, Big Loser is Moderator Jim Lehrer

Sep 3, 2012 | Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), Media Issues, mic, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans

Published: PolicyMic (October 3, 2012) Editor's Note: This represents instant analysis of the presidential debate on Wednesday night. For the author's thoughts in the hour immediately before the debate began, see here. [To see who won the third and final presidential debate, see here] Here are my first impressions about the first debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on Wednesday evening:...

Why Media Has Responsibility to Cover RNC Racism”

Aug 29, 2012 | Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), Immigration, Media Issues, mic, Political Parties, Race and Racism, Republicans

Published: PolicyMic (August 29, 2012) If you want to refute the widely-disseminated myth of the media having an anti-Republican bias in this election, one need not look any further than this recent incident at the Republican National Convention: The controversy should have been over the type of partisan parliamentary maneuvers that normally define such major political gatherings, as Ron Paul...

The Digitization of a Historic New Orleans Newspaper

Aug 29, 2012 | Media Issues, mic, Science and Technology

Published: PolicyMic (August 29, 2012) (co-authored with Cady McClain) Editor's Note: This article is written by Matthew Rozsa and Cady McClain When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans seven years ago, 80% of the Crescent City was buried under water, spanning an area approximately eight times the size of Manhattan. Katrina caused “the largest diaspora in the history of the United States,” driving...

A Feminist Interpretation of Catwoman

Aug 28, 2012 | Arts and Entertainment, Gender and Sexism, mic

Published: PolicyMic (August 28, 2012) (co-authored with Cady McClain) When news began to leak that an actress who once played Catwoman had criticized The Dark Knight Rises, which includes the latest incarnation of that character, the blogosphere was naturally all aflutter. Fortunately, Julie Newmar – whose turn with the whip came during the 1960s TV series – quickly corrected those...

Why Tom Head and Todd Akin Contribute to the Dumbing of America

Aug 24, 2012 | Abortion, Conservativism, Elections, Elections - Other, Extremism, Gender and Sexism, mic, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans

Published: PolicyMic (August 24, 2012) It is true that a nation which practices censorship cannot remain free. To this axiom, though, I would add that a society which doesn't respond to inflammatory stupidity with universal contempt cannot remain safe for reasoned discussion, as recent political discussion clearly demonstrates. Over the last week, the Republican Party has provided us with two...

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