Sep 07 Political Checklist: Polls Hold More Bad Midterm News for Democrats By Quinn Bowman In this week's edition of the Political Checklist, Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill spoke with political editor David Chalian about new polls that bring more bad news for Democrats ahead of the midterm elections, as well… Continue reading
Sep 07 At Gov 2.0 Summit, Democratizing Data Is the Watchword The Rundown is covering this week's Gov2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., where a mix of technologists, activists and industry professionals have gathered to talk about methods to run governments in more open and useful manners. Gov2.0 is a catch-all… Continue reading
Sep 07 Australia Cobbles Together New Government It took more than two weeks of horse trading to win the votes of independent members of parliament, but Australia now has a government with the narrowest of majorities. And that is an accurate reflection of the election last… Continue reading
Sep 07 Tuesday: Petraeus Warns Against Quran Burning; Obama to Call for Tax Breaks Indonesian demonstrators rally outside the U.S. embassy in Jakarta to protest a Florida church's plans to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of 9/11. Photo by Aldo Utama/AFP/Getty Images. Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. and… Continue reading
Sep 07 New Polls Show Democrats in Deep Hole President Obama walks to the Oval Office on Monday after returning from a trip to Milwaukee. Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images. The new Washington Post/ABC News and Wall Street Journal/NBC News polls released Tuesday provide a double whammy… Continue reading
Sep 07 Watch Craigslist Drops Adult Services Ads: What's the Real Impact? The world's largest classified ads website, Craigslist.org, shut down its profitable adult services section after accusations that it was being used for prostitution and human trafficking. Judy Woodruff gets two views on the larger legal impact. Continue watching
Sep 06 Watch In Midterm Elections, Economy Is Still Job One Judy Woodruff speaks with local public broadcast correspondents from California, Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania about voter mood and the midterm elections. Continue watching
Sep 06 Watch Obama Touts Infrastructure Plan for Economy President Obama spent Labor Day in the Midwest and introduced a new $50 billion infrastructure proposal that he says will create new jobs. Jeffrey Brown has more. Continue watching
Sep 06 Obama Details Infrastructure Plan, Slams GOP as 'Party of No' By News Desk President Obama announced his latest effort to kick-start the economy and create jobs on Monday: a $50 billion infrastructure proposal that would improve the nation's roads, railways and airport runways. The president announced the plan at a town-hall… Continue reading
Sep 06 Trumka: 'Stay Tuned' for Fall Congressional Action on Card Check By Quinn Bowman In the lead up to Labor Day, labor unions, a critical component of the Democratic Party's base, began to reveal their political plans for the fall campaign season. The AFL-CIO, for instance, promised again this Labor Day to activate its… Continue reading