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"A Great Night for US Democracy" by Robert Parry at Consortium News
A Great Night for US Democracyby Robert Parry at Consortium News
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/11/07/a-great-night-for-us-democracy/
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In doing so, the voters not only rejected the GOP scheme of taking the U.S. economy hostage (by obstructing Obama’s proposals to create jobs and forcing a crisis over the nation’s credit rating last year), but they withstood Republican efforts to suppress their votes, and they rebuffed the unprecedented expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars lavished on attack ads mostly paid for by pro-Republican billionaires.
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