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Obama Wins Third Debate The snap polls are in and President Obama clearly won last night’s debate. The CBS poll of uncommitted voters gave President Obama a decisive 53% to 23% victory. The CNN poll of debate watchers also put Obama ahead, albeit by a smaller margin, 48% to 40%. PPP ran a snap poll […]

One of the fundamental problems with the current corporate structure is that for-profit corporations are legally required to maximize profits. With profit as the primary objective, anything that takes away from it (like higher wages or stronger environmental practices) leaves the corporation vulnerable to being sued by its shareholders. Henry Ford was famously sued in […]

Analyzing “10 high-quality polls” that have been conducted since the Denver debate, Nate Silver observed on Sunday that Obama holds a 9-point advantage among women, and Romney holds a 9-point advantage among men. Put another way, if only women decided, Silver says Obama would “be on track for a landslide re-election.” And if it were […]

The credit reporting industry has given us plenty to complain about: credit reports too often contain errors, the errors are fiendishly hard to fix, reports and scores are not accessible enough to consumers, and credit information is increasingly being used for a variety of extraneous purposes, among numerous other problems (for the full bill of […]

The new Gilded Age is roaring down on us – an uncaged tiger on a rampage. Walk out to the street in front of our office here in Manhattan, look to the right and you can see the symbol of it: a fancy new skyscraper going up two blocks away. When finished, this high rise […]

The Final Debate is Tonight The third and final presidential debate will take place tonight at Lynn University in Boca Raton, FL. It will be about international relations and foreign policy. The format will be the same “parallel job interviews” format used in the first debate. Bob Schieffer of CBS will try to moderate it. […]

Could Popular Vote Winner Lose the Election? In 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote by half a million votes but ultimately lost the electoral college after abitter dispute about Florida’s 27 electoral votes.Could a split happen again? In much current polling, Mitt Romney has asmall lead in the national polls, but our electoral vote […]

Obama Coins a New Word: Romnesia President Obama campaigned in Virginia yesterday and repeatedly used a new word he had just coined:Romnesia. It refers to Mitt Romney’s forgetting what he has been saying all year and adopting new positions on many issues in the past 2 weeks. When addressing women, Obama said: “If you say […]

The Roberts Court’s campaign finance jurisprudence has one over-arching theme: morphing the First Amendment into a tool for powerful interests and wealthy individuals to use to dominate the political process. This has tied the hands of advocates and policymakers working to curb the influence of big money. There are still plenty of reforms worth pursuing […]

Other outside dark money groups get the press, but the U.S. Chamber of Commerce gets results. That’s because the Chamber, the biggest lobbying organization in the country, doesn’t disclose its donors, among whom are the most powerful companies in the country. Those corporations use the Chamber’s to anonymously funnell money into competitive races. In the […]