With a landslide election victory Tuesday night. Like every election, it was all going to be determined in the battleground states. Shortly after 11pm, the key battleground state of Ohio was called for President Obama - pushing him over the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. But he didn’t need Ohio. All eight battleground states went the President’s way Tuesday night – he also won the popular vote. Plain and simple – this is a mandate.

As the President said in his victory speech last, “Tonight, you voted for action, not politics as usual.” But as the President also alluded to in his speech, his action will depend on our action. As he said, “The role of citizens in our democracy does not end with your vote.” While the President may have accomplished a lot in his first term in the face of unprecedented, fierce political obstruction – there’s no question he needs to do more and be bolder in a second term. And it’s up to all of us to push him to do just that.

Just as a movement elected the President, movements will be needed to drive legislation on climate change, corporate personhood, union rights, ending the drug war, bringing home our military – you name it. Let’s get to work.

-Thom

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Tuesday's Daily Stack

Quote: "Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Hour One: Subjected to GOP voter intimidation this morning...
- Cliff Schecter, Ohio, Syndicated columnist / Author, "The Real McCain"

Book: "The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him and Why Independents Shouldn't" by Cliff Schecter.

Book: "Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision" by Thom Hartmann.

Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000.

Article: "Journalists Slam Seattle Times For Subsidizing McKenna Campaign" by Mark Taylor-Canfield.

Video: "2012 Voting Machines Altering Votes".

Site: "Report Voting Problems".

Clip: "Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)".

Article: "Election Systems & Software" by Wikipedia.

Election day news
- Lynn Whitfield, Actress

Site: "vote.barackobama.com".

Article: "The ThinkProgress Election Day Live Blog".

Article: "Southfield Twp. voter appears to die, then asks 'Did I vote?'" by Tom Greenwood and Rod Beard.

Article: "Registered Philly voters required to cast provisional ballots in large numbers" by Daniel Denvir.

Quote: "The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do." by Joseph Stalin.

Article: "Hundreds of Florida voters told election is Wednesday" by Brady Dennis.

Get out the vote
- Eric Roberson, R&B singer-songwriter / 2X Grammy Award Nominee/his latest CD Mister Nice Guy

Voter suppression in Ohio
- Greg Palast, Investigative Journalist-BBC News & The Guardian

Article: "Democracy Now: Ohio – Wrong Ballots for Black Voters" by Greg Palast.

Book: "Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps" by Greg Palast.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones, White House Correspondent

Article: "Rep. Cummings: 'Unfair' treatment of Obama fueling black voter turnout" by Mike Lillis.

Article: "Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan & Kevin McCarthy: Plot To Sabotage US Economy with Frank Luntz" by keepemhonest.

Article: "Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: Election...today it's up to us
- Robert Reich, Former U.S. Secretary of Labor (Clinton Admin) & Author of numerous books, latest "Beyond Outrage"

Article: "We the People, and the New American Civil War" by Robert Reich.

Book: "Beyond Outrage: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix them" by Robert B. Reich.

Article: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote" by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, November 12, 2001.

Book: "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.

Article: "U.S. CBO sees worse economic wreckage from "fiscal cliff"" by David Lawder.

Article: "Romneyism" by Robert Reich.

Article: "Nov. 5: Late Poll Gains for Obama Leave Romney With Longer Odds" by Nate Silver.

Article: "The Five Big Policy Changes That Might Happen After The Election" by Josh Israel.

Article: "Sheldon Adelson Is Partying With Mitt Romney on Election Night" by Andy Kroll.

Site: Move to Amend

Article: "Study: Predicted 6ºC Rise by 2100 Should End "Business as Usual"" by Common Dreams.

Article: "Dixville Notch Election Results 2012: Obama And Romney Tie, 5 Votes Apiece" by Jason Linkins.

Article: "Hart's Location Election Results 2012: Obama 23, Romney 9, Johnson 1" by Jason Linkins.

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