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  3. Lupe Fiasco: Art, Propaganda, and the Anti-Obama Rant

    Thus Lupe Fiasco’s performance of a 40-minute song at the inauguration isn’t a spirited rallying cry; it’s a self-righteous dirge. And he eventually runs up against not authoritarian censorship, but the very audience who had paid to hear him. Sometimes, being right isn’t enough; you also need to connect with your audience and build understanding. Or as Rakim once put, “to me, MC means move the crowd.”

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  6. In 13 Philadelphia wards, Obama received 99 percent of the vote or more.

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  7. It was a good week

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  8. The most expensive election in American history drew to a close this week with a price tag estimated at more than $6 billion, propelled by legal and regulatory decisions that allowed wealthy donors to pour record amounts of cash into races around the country.

    But while outside spending affected the election in innumerable ways — reshaping the Republican presidential nominating contest, clogging the airwaves with unprecedented amounts of negative advertising and shoring up embattled Republican incumbents in the House — the prizes most sought by the emerging class of megadonors remained outside their grasp. President Obama will return to the White House in January, and the Democrats have strengthened their lock on the Senate.

    Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, in February. Mr. Adelson, the biggest single donor in political history, supported eight candidates through “super PACs.” All of them lost on Tuesday.

    (Source: wilkinsky.us)

  9. The Pennsylvania victory was secured with significant backing from Philadelphia, where Obama was winning with 84 percent of the vote

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  10. “The Republicans are in a demographic cul-de-sac” 

    - Van Jones

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  11. #THEOBAMATEARDROP

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    (cc @BarackObama) I voted for #BarryBecause _________

  13. I voted for Barry Because ____________________

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  14. I voted for Barry Because _______________

  15. Facebook Predicts the 2012 Presidential Election

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  16. Mayor Cory Booker is such a G. I'm so happy he's one of America's young and hungry politicians

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