Election Day

Sorry Has Nothing to Be Sorry For

The Public mounts Richard Nelson's moving new play

Voter Fraud: A New York Tradition. Here's Who To Call To Report Any Election Day Scumbaggery

Today is Election Day, which means two things: you are expected to perform your civic duty by participating in the Democratic process, and you can expect the possibility that slimeball political-types will be looking to cheat the system by doing things like getting your dead uncle to cast his vote f ... More >>

The Post-Sandy Voting Compromise: Cuomo Declares New Yorkers Can Vote Anywhere In State

"Just because you're displaced doesn't mean you're disenfranchised."It's evident that, a week after Sandy, thousands of New Yorkers are still reeling from her aftermath, many of them without homes, power or, particularly on Election Day, the ability to get anywhere near their assigned polling statio ... More >>

Accused UWS Nanny Might Have Murdered Children Over Her Pay

This is not exactly the story we want to hear again after Sandy or on Election Day.According to the Wall Street Journal, Yoselyn Ortegas, the 50-year-old nanny charged with the first- and second-degree murder of two children, Lucia Krim, 6, and Leo Krim, 2, in an Upper West Side apartment two w ... More >>

A Few Lessons We Learned From The 2012 Election Season

Election Day is upon us, people. We cannot even begin to count the minutes, hours, days and months since this whole boondaggle started to consume the media's attention but it's safe to say that it's been way too long. And, once it's over, we can return to normalcy, which is a prolonged period of tim ... More >>

The Pros of a Billionaire-as-Mayor: Bloomberg to Donate $500k to Same-Sex Marriage Campaigns

After twelve years of Bloomberg, we all have more or less assimilated and/or recognized the personal wealth of the citizen-in-chief. His announcement on Day One to accept a dollar-a-year salary and opt out of living in Gracie Mansion was the beginning of a long-term acceptance that, yes, our Mayor h ... More >>

Republican Richy Garcia Is Challenging Vito Lopez Now Because, Like, Why Not?

On Election Day, Assemblyman Vito Lopez, amidst a sex scandal, sexual harassment accusation and maybe even a cover-up by the higher-ups, will go for re-election in his district of Bushwick. Usually, in these occasions, the incumbent is knocked out and replaced with whatever the public can get its ha ... More >>

Political Animals

Both Your Houses gets a revival

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #20: Far East Movement featuring Ryan Tedder, "Rocketeer"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​The sensitive-guy song from this Los Angeles group, which reached the summit of the Billboard Hot 100 with its ode to its members' intoxicating qualities "Like A G6," is a wan bit of treacle that doesn't really go a ... More >>

The Do's and Don'ts of NYC Election Day 2010

​Election Day! It's the opportunity for We, The People to have our voices heard, as we vote for people who likely have nothing but contempt for us and self-interest at heart, who aren't even the best people for the job, because anyone with a functioning brain knows the Good Money and the Good ... More >>

Behold "Rent Is Too Damn High" Party Leader Jimmy McMillan's New Single, "What Is This"

​You may have been surprised to learn, in our chat last week with NY gubernatorial candidate/Internet sensation Jimmy McMillan, a/k/a the "Rent Is Too Damn High" guy, that he's got both a soul-singer background and a brand-new album, The Rent Is Too DAMN High, v. 1, due out tomorrow, a/k/a Ele ... More >>

THANKSGIVING BLUES

Memories of a bitter 2000

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

After the parade. Twitpic by Mzthicknflychic. Theeeee Yankees won! Doooooouuug Hoffman lost! The week was a mixed bag -- half fire, half dog poo. How 'bout them Yanks? They won one in Philly, then another, and were back home at the climax. Local merchants didn't get much out of it -- nor, Tom R ... More >>

Election Day 2009: 6 Losers to Watch!

It's Election Day and, this being New York, no surprises are expected. As Runnin' Scared has no influence to peddle, we can afford to be brutally honest about this. The Mayor's reelection is treated as a foregone conclusion and, down-ticket, the Democrats are expected to romp (except in Staten Islan ... More >>

NYC Voters Still Pulling Levers On Those Ancient Machines

Sure, it's 2009, well into the new century, but as us New Yorkers head to the polls today, we're still using the same clunky, decades old lever voting machines we always have. That's because an effort to purchase newer, more technologically advanced machines is still bogged down in Albany. The sta ... More >>

Bloomberg Tweets Election Day, Sporadically

​On the Bloomberg campaign website, the staff announces that -- as he did one magical day in August -- the Mayor will be personally using Twitter throughout Election Day. "Mike will personally take over our campaign's twitter account," the ad says. So far, we've hardly had any tweets from Mi ... More >>

Mos Def

JOLLY GOOD

It's a knees-up in Brooklyn

AND THE WINNER IS . . .

Where to watch the election results

A SIGN OF THE TIMES

Something to spice up the Ikea furniture

GROOVE TO THIS

Taye Diggs's latest explores the election season

November 2 through 8, 2007

Letters

Serph's Up

Friendly Democrats forget muscle, fumble state senate again

Rockie Weekly Horoscope November 3-9

'. . . So Goes the Nation'

Can We Replace Congress With Politically Minded Authors?

You Be the Judge

Supreme court-watching at these fine locations

The Case of the Ohio Recount

In the whodunit over who won it, the true villain is slipping away

Lowlight Reel

A richness of televisual embarrassments: The annual duds

Unfinished Biz

Bush's bulge, poll fraud, and other rumors at the conspiracy-theory frontier

It's the Wealth, Stupid

Right-wing class warfare swung the 2004 election

Bloc Like Me

Gay marriage and abortion tug African Americans toward the Republican Party

Voting in the Rain

In one of the poorest corners of America, voters turned out in droves

Union Square's Cut-Rate Consolations

Bright stores open in a dark time

Justice Song at Twilight

Rose's ancient TV play may not be great drama, but it's a great set of opportunities for actors

Voter's Digest

The latest election fraud warnings

Reading Voters

Tagging along on Operation Ohio in pursuit of the college vote

The End of Democracy

Losing America's birthright, the George Bush way

Defeat Bush: The Guide

No one is overqualified to work for John Kerry

Give Us Moore: Braving the Firestorm From Fahrenheit 9/11

Sunday in the Park Without George

Democracy in the Park puts the grass in grassroots organizing

Bashing Back at Bush's Anti-Gay Crusade

Lies, Damned Lies, and Campaign Promises

Pataki Spins Houdini Math

Purple-Shirt Politics

Passage of Displaced-Workers Bill Is Victory for 32B-J

Labor’s Election Day Flop

The Union Coalition That Wasn’t

Pass the Remote: Fifty Percent of Voters Stayed Home

Even Close Races Fail to Draw Big

Report: Far Fewer Florida Absentee Ballots Than Expected

Numbers May Not Be Great Enough to Tip Presidential Election

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