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Michael Meurer, Truthout: The ferocity of US presidential campaigns, supposedly proof of a spirited debate between competing ideas and visions, is more accurately seen as evidence of a contest among competing financial interests fighting for influence and market share, not democratic ideals.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12461-the-us-election-as-marketing-spectacle



Campaigns Brace to Sue for Votes in Crucial States

Ethan Bronner, The New York Times News Service: Thousands of lawyers from both presidential campaigns will enter polling places next Tuesday to observe how poll workers behave, where voters are directed, if intimidation appears to be occurring, whether lines are long.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12506-campaigns-brace-to-sue-for-votes-in-crucial-states

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A Campaign Map, Morphed By Money
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/11/02-1

Obama, Romney in Final Push for White House
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/04-0

America s Dismal Choice
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/03-1

7 Things to Tell Your Friends Before Election Day
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/04-0

Seven Things That Could Go Wrong (or Already Have)
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/06-2

Supersized Politics in the 2012 Election
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/11/06

Election Night Coverage 2012
http://www.commondreams.org/election2012

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U.S. Elections: Will the Dead Vote and Voting Machines Be Hacked?
http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts375.html

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US Elections: From the ''Lesser to the Greater Evil'' and the Demise of Critical Liberalism

By James Petras

The support of the progressives will be accepted, but hardly acknowledged, but they will have no influence on future Obama policy after the election.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32931.htm



2012 US Presidential Campaign Cost $7 Billion: Election Commission

By RT

The Democrats and Republicans ended up spending $2 billion, while political committees accounted for $2.1 billion of the spending. Candidate campaigns spent about $3.2 billion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33844.htm



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