Claims it was urged to postpone announcement until after 2010 elections.

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Solyndra: White House Asked to Hide Layoffs

L ike Poe’s purloined letter, the Republican plan to heist the 2012 presidential election sits before us in plain view. And going Poe one better, it is perfectly legal. The first part of the strategy has been unfolding for months. Since the 2010 elections brought Republicans to power in numerous swing states, officials in many of those states have made it harder for minority, poor and young voters to cast their ballots. GOP governments have been curtailing early voting (in Ohio and Florida) and requiring voters to produce official photo-identification cards (in Wisconsin). In South Carolina, the poll tax lives again: Voters who want an official photo-ID card must present a passport or a birth certificate, neither of which can be obtained for free. Read full article > >

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The GOP is trying to rig the electoral college

MPs repaid expenses totalling £1.46m in 12 months before the 2010 election – but some got cash back, it has emerged.

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MPs repaid total £1.46m expenses

Former Labour MP Phil Woolas will not face a criminal trial over his controversial 2010 election leaflets, the Crown Prosecution Service says.

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Prosecution of Woolas ruled out

Back in September, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) guessed that his state was facing a $10-11 billion budget shortfall for its fiscal 2012-2013 budget, and refused to entertain reports that his budget gap might be larger until he received the state Comptroller’s official report. He even poo-pooed pronouncements from his 2010 election opponent, Houston Mayor Bill White, that Texas’ deficit may be twice what he was estimating. read more

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After Lecturing DC on His "Prudent Fiscal Decisions," Perry’s Deficit More Than Twice What He Thought

This is one ranking Fox News doesn’t want to top. Viewers of the top-rated cable news channel are the most ill-informed news consumers out there, according to the University of Maryland. The study, called “Misinformation and the 2010 Election,” found…

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Study: Fox News Viewers Most Misinformed

Murkowski’s win in Alaska shows what the 2010 election was really about.

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What Murkowski’s write-in win says about the electorate

The 2010 elections revealed yet again the peculiar habits of the US electorate. The majority of eligible voters – about 60% – did not vote despite the months of endless media hype devoted to the campaigns, politicians, funding groups, and even to some of the issues they raised. Many elections were very close, thus pitting 20% of voters on one side against a roughly equal number on the other. The exit polls indicated that the overwhelmingly dominant issue on most actual voters’ minds was the ongoing economic crisis. read more

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Rick Wolff | US Voters Depressed and Disenfranchised

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The American Electorate

The 2010 election season was good for Design Cuisine of Arlington, which took in more than $500,000 in catering fees. The Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert, Calif., made about $50,000 holding Republican fundraisers.

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For these businesses, midterms were a winning campaign

The 2010 election showed that embarrassing moments trapped in the Internet’s amber forever on sites like Facebook are already proving dangerous for candidates seeking office. In Virginia, Congressional candidate Krystal Ball was photographed simulating…

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Facebook Foibles Haunting Pols

The old proverb “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” is one way to describe the 2010 election — especially when explaining the complicated alliance between Tea Party activists and the Republican establishment.

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Tea Party may become key voting bloc

The 2010 election campaign – as seen from the roof of a motorhome

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On the campaign trail