US Elections 2010
Lame duck US Congress moves to cut taxes for rich, end benefits for unemployed
By Tom Eley, November 16, 2010
The 111th US Congress has entered its final session, with Democratic leaders signaling their willingness to extend tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
Obama on “60 Minutes”: A servant of big business
By Patrick Martin, November 9, 2010
Obama went on national television to conciliate big business and embrace the concerns of the Tea Party right wing, declaring them politically legitimate.
Obama, Republicans embrace spending cuts and tax breaks for the wealthy
By Patrick Martin, November 8, 2010
Democratic President Barack Obama and leading congressional Republicans have voiced support for significant cuts in domestic social spending and an extension of Bush administration tax breaks for the wealthy.
The apologists for Obama and the Republican “resurgence”
By David Walsh, November 6, 2010
The outcome of the 2010 midterm elections is an indictment of the apologists for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.
Wall Street celebrates Fed credit boost, Obama deal on tax cuts
By Patrick Martin, November 5, 2010
Buoyed by a huge infusion of cheap credit from the Federal Reserve and the guarantee of continued tax cuts for the wealthy after the Republican victory on Tuesday, the US stock market roared upward Thursday.
2010 US elections
The record of the WSWS on Obama
By Tom Eley, November 5, 2010
The WSWS here links articles written during Obama’s campaign for the presidency and in the aftermath of his victory that warned that he would continue and deepen the right-wing policies of the Bush administration.
Right-wing Democrat wins in California gubernatorial election
By Tom Carter, November 5, 2010
California’s highly publicized and heavily-funded gubernatorial race concluded with the victory of right-wing Democrat Jerry Brown amid mass abstention from the polls, especially by young people.
After the 2010 Democratic defeat
Obama, Republicans prepare for joint assault on American workers
By Patrick Martin, November 4, 2010
Victorious congressional Republicans and Democratic President Barack Obama took their first tentative steps towards an open political partnership to pursue a right-wing agenda.
Letters on the Stewart/Colbert rally
November 4, 2010
A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site in response to the article “Stewart/Colbert rally preaches compromise and complacency,” published November 1, 2010
Behind the Democratic debacle
By Joseph Kishore, November 4, 2010
After coming to power by posing as the tribune of “hope” and "change you can believe in," Barack Obama, through his pro-corporate and pro-war policies, has succeeded in alienating and demoralizing large sections of the population that had previously supported him.
The dimensions of the Democratic Party collapse in 2010 election
By Patrick Martin, November 4, 2010
With nearly complete results now available for Tuesday’s federal and state elections in the United States, both the scale and the contradictions of the Republican Party victory have become clear.
Republicans win sweeping victory in US congressional election
By Patrick Martin, November 3, 2010
The US congressional elections have produced a sweeping victory for the Republican Party, which regained control of the House of Representatives and made substantial gains in the Senate.
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