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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg picked quite a few winners with his election giving. Politico notes that some candidates that the billionaire mayor’s Super PAC supported beat candidates backed by the National Rifle Association (Bloomberg’s a gun control advocate). Other Bloomberg-backed winners included ballot battles related to same-sex marriage (Bloomberg’s a supporter) and independent […]

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It has been only two days since the election campaign in the U.S. (finally) came to an end, but for some people, campaigning just never stops. After being an avid and somewhat outspoken supporter of President Obama and the Democratic Party, Jewish comedian Sarah Silverman is moving on to her next target — Israeli politics. Last […]

Writing in the Forward, Samuel Freedman makes the most provocative post-election argument that I’ve read so far. The thesis is more or less what I wrote in this post’s headline. Freedman argues that casino kingpin Sheldon Adelson’s lavish funding of Newt Gingrich’s doomed Republican primary campaign split the conservative anti-Romney vote and helped to “deny […]

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