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Friday TOON Roundup - Election

babylonsister

Paul Krugman: Egos and Immorality

(NY Times) But here’s the thing: If Wall Streeters are spoiled brats, they are spoiled brats with immense power and wealth at their disposal. And what they’re trying to do with that power and wealth right now is buy themselves not just policies that serve their interests, but immunity from criticism.

frylock

Trayvon Martin Gets the Shepard Fairey Treatment in Ebony Magazine

DippyDem

Amazon.com Becomes The Eighteenth Group To Drop ALEC

(Think Progress) According to an email ThinkProgress received from the Center for Media and Democracy, one of the leaders of a progressive campaign to push corporations and other funders to break with the American Legislative Exchange Council, online retail giant Amazon.com just announced that it will part ways with ALEC.

Bill USA

Florida Congressman Demands Gov. Rick Scott ‘Immediately Suspend’ Voter Purge'

(Think Progress) Florida Congressman Ted Deutch (D) told ThinkProgress today that Gov. Rick Scott was engaging in a “blatant attempt to supress voter turnout.” Scott is currently involved in a massive effort to purge up to 180,000 from the voting rolls.

WI_DEM

PPP: Gay Marriage Likely to Pass in Maryland (Obama endorsement key)

A new Public Policy Polling survey in Maryland finds a significant increase in support for same-sex marriage among African American voters following President Obama’s historic announcement two weeks ago. The referendum to keep the state’s new law legalizing same-sex marriage now appears likely to pass by a healthy margin.

WilliamPitt

NY GOP does not *heart* DU

(NY Caller) Nearly half of the Republicans serving in the New York State Assembly have proposed legislation that would ban anonymous online comments. If enacted, the legislation would require websites — including social networks and online newspapers — to remove all anonymous comments that are brought to the attention of administrators.

ellisonz

Toons: Librul Media Bias, Nutty Time, The Bain Approach to Government and More

racaulk

Strong Support for Gay Marriage Now Exceeds Strong Opposition

(ABC News) Strong public support for same-sex marriage exceeds strong opposition by a significant margin for the first time in ABC News/Washington Post polls, and African-Americans have moved more in favor, perhaps taking their lead from Barack Obama on the issue. Overall, 53 percent of Americans say gay marriage should be legal, steady the past year but up from 36 percent in just 2006. Thirty-nine percent “strongly” support it, while 32 percent are strongly opposed – the first time strong sentiment has tilted positive. Six years ago, by contrast, strong views on the issue were negative by a broad 27-point margin.

NNN0LHI

Biden: Romney’s Bain experience ‘no more qualifies you to be president than being a plumber’

(WaPo) Vice President Biden on Tuesday weighed in on the ongoing debate over Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital, arguing at a New Hampshire campaign event that the presumptive GOP nominee’s investment-firm background no more qualifies him to serve as president than would experience working as a plumber. “Your job as president is to promote the common good,” he said, comparing the job of a president to that of a private equity mogul. “That doesn’t mean that private equity guys are bad guys; they’re not. But that no more qualifies you to be president than being a plumber!”