If the election of 2012 earns one major distinction, it may well be for the volume of negative campaign ads launched by Republican candidates and supportive super PACs against each other.
The heated and frequently tawdry rhetoric of the 2012 presidential campaign offers equal opportunity to average Americans to believe in the reality of the American dream that elevated so many to the middle class, or to conclude that for too many, the dream is increasingly beyond reach.
Many Americans today are angry, frustrated, and panicked about the future.
Contrary to the race-less world of some network programs, we have not created the post-racial society some progressives choose to believe.
Senate Republicans are vehemently opposed to consumer protections while concurrently rejecting any restraints on Wall Street’s documented predations.
