by Aaron Klein
17. Fay Voshell, “FDR Redux: Obama Challenges SCOTUS,” American Thinker, April 4, 2012, http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/04/fdr_redux_obama_challenges_scotus.html.
18. “Governor Deval Patrick, Governor Jim Doyle and Neera Tanden Announce new health care organization,” WisconsinHealthNews.com, April 14, 2011, http://wisconsinhealthnews.com/press-releases/governor-deval-patrick-governor-jim-doyle-and-neera-tanden-announce-new-health-care-organization.
19. Michael Levenson, “Patrick Helps Kick Off Twin Efforts to Defend US Health Care Law,” Boston Globe, April 11, 2011, http://articles.boston.com/2011-04-15/news/29422332_1_health-care-law-governor-romney-mitt-romney.
20. Michael McAuliff and Sam Stein, “Paul Ryan’s Budget Becomes Bogeyman Uniting Progressives, Democrats,” Huffington Post, April 25, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/25/paul-ryans-budget-angry-democrats-town-halls_n_853553.html.
21. Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott, Red Army. The Radical Network That Must Be Defeated to Save America (New York: Broadside Books, 2011), 77.
22. Michael D. Shear, “New Groups Form to Raise Millions for Democrats,” New York Times, April 14, 2011, http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/new-groups-form-to-raise-millions-for-democrats/.
23. Stephen Koff, “Group with Obama Ties Will Fight Repeal of Health Reform in Ohio,” Plain Dealer (Cleveland), July 12, 2011, http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2011/07/national_political_group_will.html.
24. About, Protect Your Care, http://www.protectyourcare.org/about/.
25. Profile: Neera Tanden, Center for American Progress, http://www.americanprogress.org/experts/TandenNeera.html.
26. “Governor Deval Patrick, Governor Jim Doyle and Neera Tanden Announce New Health Care Organization.”
27. Ibid.
28. Profile: Paul Tewes, NewPartners.com, http://www.newpartners.com/meet-our-partners/paul-tewes.php. “Governor Deval Patrick, Governor Jim Doyle and Neera Tanden Announce New Health Care Organization.”
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. Profile: Ami Copeland, NewPartners.com, http://www.newpartners.com/meet-our-partners/ami-copeland.php.
32. “Governor Deval Patrick, Governor Jim Doyle and Neera Tanden Announce New Health Care Organization.”
33. Profile: Ami Copeland, http://amicopeland.com/.
34. “Governor Deval Patrick, Governor Jim Doyle and Neera Tanden Announce New Health Care Organization.”
35. Levenson, “Patrick Helps Kick Off Twin Efforts to Defend US Health Care Law,” April 11, 2011.
36. Sam Stein, “New Health Care Advocacy Group Launches With $5 Million in the Bank (EXCLUSIVE),” Huffington Post, April 14, 2011, http://www.huffington post.com/2011/04/14/new-health-care-advocacy-group_n_849391.html.
37. Lisa Marzilli and Beth Bell, “‘Protect Your Care’ Protests GOP Plans to Cut to Medicare, Medicaid,” WMNF.org, September 23, 2011, http://www.wmnf.org/news_stories protect-your-care-protests-gop-plans-to-cut-to-medicare-medicaid.
38. Profile: Darden Rice, LinkedIn, http://www.linkedin.com/pub/darden-rice/8/973/857.
39. “Governor Deval Patrick, Governor Jim Doyle and Neera Tanden Announce New Health Care Organization.”
40. Profile: Jim Margolis (2007), http://www.buyingofthepresident.org/index.php/interviews/jim_margolis/.
41. “Governor Deval Patrick, Governor Jim Doyle and Neera Tanden Announce New Health Care Organization.”
42. Ibid.
43. Profile: John Anzalone, Politico, http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/john_anzalone.html.
44. Ben Smith, “Common Purpose,” Politico, April 8, 2009, http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0409/Common_Purpose.html.
45. Mission Statement, Common Purpose Project, http://www.commonpurposeproject.org/.
46. Meet the Team, Common Purpose Project, http://www.commonpurpose project.org/team/.
47. Alexander Burns, “Defending Health Care Reform in Iowa,” Politico, April 14, 2011, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61005.html.
48. “HCAN, PLAN and Protect Your Care Rally Outside the Office of US Senator Dean Heller (NV),” YouTube, July 29, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1hJCEXZmJc.
49. Press Release: “Protect Your Care Launches First TV Ad. At First Republican Presidential Debate Will Be Defending Medicare and Medicaid, Romneycare and the Affordable Care Act,” p2012.org, July 13, 2011, http://www.p2012.org/chrnprep/pyc061311pr.html.
50. Sam Stein, “GOP Tea Party Debate: Audience Cheers, Says Society Should Let Uninsured Patient Die,” Huffington Post, September 12, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/12/tea-party-debate-health-care_n_959354.html?1315931933.
51. “Protect Your Care Targets Republicans with ‘Let Him Die?’ Campaign,” Huffington Post, September 14, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/protect-your-care-campaign-uninsured_n_962115.html.
52. Michael Muskal, “Support at GOP Debate for Letting the Uninsured Die,” Los Angeles Times, September 13, 2011, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/13/news/la-pn-ron-paul-gop-debate-20110913.
53. “LetHimDie.com, http://www.lethimdie.com/.
54. Shira Schoenberg, “Advocacy Group Challenges GOP Candidates on ‘Let Him Die’ Question,” Boston Globe, September 14, 2011, http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2011/09/advocacy-group-challenges-gop-candidates-let-him-die-question/mZYv67JNKnzMlnysx73WBL/index.html.
55. Katrina Trinko, “Column: The Truth Behind the ‘Let Him Die’ Nonsense,” USA Today, September 16, 2011, http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2011-09-16/health-care-tea-party-conservatives-die/50433598/1.
56. Profile: Americans United for Change, “Discover the Networks,” http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7475.
57. Robert Farley, [Profile] Americans United for Change, FactCheck.org, October 20, 2011, http://www.factcheck.org/2011/10/americans-united-for-change-2/.
58. Profile: Americans United for Change, “Discover the Networks.”
59. Farley, [Profile] Americans United for Change.
60. Profile: Caren Benjamin, LinkedIn, http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Caren/Benjamin.
61. Farley, [Profile] Americans United for Change, October 20, 2011.
62. David Nakamura, “Obama Offers 2012 Election Supporters Change They Can Believe in—Next Term,” Washington Post, August 26, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-offers-2012-election-supporters-change-they-can-believe-in--next-term/2011/08/25/gIQAJz9AhJ_story.html.
63. Profile: Robert Creamer, Strategic Consulting Group, http://www.stratcongroup.com/publication/about.php.
64. Klein and Elliott, Red Army, 319, 327.
65. Profile: Midwest Academy, Undue Influence, http://www.undueinfluence.com/midwest_academy.htm.
66. “Creamer Curdles ‘Obama Camp’,” IllinoisReview, July 13, 2007, http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2007/07/creamer-curdles.html. Credit goes to Tom Roeser for the discovery.
67. John Ruberry, “Fundraiser Tonight for Admitted Check-Kiter and Tax Cheat Robert Creamer (Husband of Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky),” Marathon Pundit, September 14, 2005, http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2005/09/fundraiser-tonight-for-admitted-check.html.
68. Klein and Elliott, Red Army, 327.
69. Zaid Jilani, “VIDEO: Students at Elite Wharton Business School Mock 99 Percent Movement: ‘Get a Job! Get a Job!’” Think Progress, October 21, 2011, http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/21/350747/video-students-at-elite-wharton-business-school-mock-99-percent-movement-get-a-job-get-a-job/.
70. Kathleen Hennessey, “Eric Cantor Cancels Wharton Speech After Protests Planned,” Los Angeles Times, October 21, 2011, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/21/news/la-pn-cantor-cancels-speech-20111021.
71. Quan Nguye, “‘Occupy Philadelphia’ Keeps Growing as Move Looms,” Philly.com, October 20, 2011, http://articles.philly.com/2011-10-20/news/30301755_1_protesters-tents-encampment.
72. Jennifer Sun and Kelsey Matevish, “Prote
sters Storm Campus After Cantor Cancels Visit. Cantor’s Office Was Told Thursday That Penn Could Not Ensure ‘Attendance Policy’,” The Daily Pennsylvanian, http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2011/10/cantor_cancels_huntsman_hall_visit.
73. Jilani, “Students at Elite Wharton Business School Mock 99 Percent Movement.”
74. McAuliff and Stein, “Paul Ryan’s Budget Becomes Bogeyman Uniting Progressives, Democrats.”
75. Profile: Ramirez Group, http://ramirezgroup.com/.
76. Profile: Andres Ramirez, President, Ramirez Group.com, http://ramirezgroup.com/pr/andres-ramirez.
77. Profile: Jacqueline Ramirez, Principal, Ramirez Group, http://ramirezgroup.com/pr/jacqueline-ramirez.
78. Marco Rauda, Associate, Ramirez Group, http://ramirezgroup.com/pr/marco-rauda.
79. Profile: Warren Flood, Principal, Ramirez Group, http://ramirezgroup.com/pr/warren-flood.
80. John Anzalone, Jeff Liszt, and Matt Hogan, “Key Findings and Message Recommendations from Latest Herndon/Know Your Care Poll,” Herndon Alliance, June 6, 2011, http://www.anzaloneresearch.com/Symba/UploadedMedia/SUMMARY%20MEMO%20--%20MAY%20 2011%20HERNDON--KYC%20POLL.pdf.
81. Byron Tau, “Health Care Law Popular Among Hispanics,” Politico, December 14, 2011, http://www.politico.com/politico44/2011/12/health-care-law-popular-among-hispanics-107416.html.
82. John Anzalone, Jeff Liszt, and Matt Hogan, “Hispanic Voters and the ACA—Key Findings and Message Recommendations,” Herndon Alliance, December 20, 2011, http://www.familiesusa.org/conference/health-action-2012/conference-materials/SAT-AM-PLENARY-Herndon-Latinos-Summary.pdf.
83. Robert Pear, “White House Works to Shape Debate over Health Law,” New York Times, March 9, 2012, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/us/politics/white-house-works-to-shape-debate-over-health-law.html.
84. Ibid.
85. Ibid.
86. Robert Bluey, “Strategy Memo Details Liberal PR Plan to Promote ObamaCare,” Heritage Foundation, March 13, 2012, http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/13/strategy-memo-details-liberal-pr-plan-to-promote-obamacare/.
87. Pear, “White House Works to Shape Debate Over Health Law.”
88. Jim Pethokoukis, “CBO: ObamaCare Could Cost $2.1 Trillion Through 2022,” The Enterprise blog/American Enterprise, March 15, 2012, http://blog.american.com/2012/03/cbo-obamcare-could-cost-2-1-trillion-through-2022/.
89. Tom Curry, “Why the Health Care Cost Estimate Keeps Changing,” msnbc.com, March 14, 2012, http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/14/10689322-why-the-health-care-cost-estimate-keeps-changing.
90. “Updated Estimates for the Insurance Coverage Provisions of the Affordable Care Act,” Congressional Budget Office, March 13, 2012, https://www.cbo.gov/publication/43076.
91. Philip Klein, “CBO: ObamaCare to Cost $1.76 Trillion over 10 Yrs,” Washington Examiner, March 13, 2012, http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/cbo-obamacare-cost-176-trillion-over-10-yrs/425831. Remarks by the President to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care, Office of the White House Press Secretary, September 9, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-to-a-Joint-Session-of-Congress-on-Health-Care.
92. Rick Moran, “Obama’s Lies on ObamaCare Catching Up to Him,” American Thinker, March 14, 2012, http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/03/obamas_lies_on_obamacare_catching_up_to_him.html.
93. H.R. 4872, Reconciliation Act of 2010, March 18, 2010, Congressional Budget Office, https://www.cbo.gov/publication/21327.
94. Klein, “CBO: ObamaCare to Cost $1.76 Trillion over 10 Yrs.”
Chapter Nine: Elections: Stealing the Future
1. Pamela M. Prah, “Will States Topple Electoral College?” Stateline.org, June 9, 2008, http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=316080.
2. U.S. Electoral College, National Archives and Records Administration, http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/about.html.
3. William C. Kimberling, “The Electoral College,” Federal Elections Commission, revised May 1992, http://www.fec.gov/pdf/eleccoll.pdf.
4. The Electoral College, National Popular Vote, http://nationalpopularvote.com/pages/electoralcollege.php. Election Results 2008, President Map, New York Times, http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html. In the 2008 election, Obama won Calif. 55, N.Y. 31, Fla. 27, Ill. 21, Pa. 21, Ohio 20, Wash. 17, N.C. 15, N.J. 15, Va. 13, Mass. 12, Ind. 11, Minn. 10, and Wis. 10, which would put him over the required 270 electoral votes. He also won several smaller states with fewer Electoral Votes each.
5. Jacquerie, “Warning! Progressives’ NPV Plan for White House Control, 2012 and Permanently,” October 21, 2011.
6. About, National Popular Vote, http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/pages/about.php.
7. Jacquerie, “Warning!”
8. Ibid.
9. Neetal Parekh, “What Is a 501(c)(4) Non Profit Organization?” Free Enterprise blog/Findlaw.com, September 23, 2009, http://blogs.findlaw.com/free_enterprise/2009/09/what-is-a-501c4-non-profit-organization.html.
10. About, http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/pages/about.php.
11. Tara Ross and Trent England, “George Soros Supports the Tea Party? What the National Popular Vote Wants You to Believe,” Weekly Standard, August 16, 2011, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/george-soros-supports-tea-party_590271.html.
12. Joan, “NPV and the Battle for Michigan,” GrassrootsMichigan.com, November 3, 2011, http://grassrootsmichigan.com/?p=1161. Eliza Newlin Carney, “GOP Nonprofit Backs Electoral College,” Roll Call, December 7, 2011, http://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_71/GOP-Nonprofit-Backs-Electoral-College-210872-1.html?zkMobileView=true.
13. Staff: Robert Ritchie, FairVote.org, http://www.fairvote.org/staff/.
14. Members, Bretton Woods Committee, http://www.brettonwoods.org/members/.
15. Overview, FairVote.org, http://www.fairvote.org/overview.
16. Steven Hill, “Beyond the 2004 Elections: Democracy, Anyone?” FairVote.org, August 2004, http://archive.fairvote.org/articles/progpopaug04.htm.
17. Jonathan Soros, “It’s Time to Junk the Electoral College,” Wall Street Journal, December 15, 2008, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122930124441705413.html.
18. Ross and England, “George Soros Supports the Tea Party?
19. Endorsers, FairVote.org, http://www.fairvote.org/endorsers-of-the-npv-plan.
20. Prah, “Will States Topple Electoral College?”
21. Progress by State, National Popular Vote, accessed March 11, 2012, http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/map.php.
22. Scott, “Progressives Attempt to Destroy Our Republic with Soros Funded Popular Vote Group,” UpstateVoice.com (S.C.), August 9, 2011, http://upstatevoice.com/progressives-attempt-to-destroy-our-republic-with-soros-funded-popular-vote-group/.
23. Robert Bennett, “Popular Election of the President Without a Constitutional Amendment” (Abstract), Social Science Research Network, March 27, 2001, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=261057.
24. Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram David Amar, “How to Achieve Direct National Election of the President Without Amending the Constitution. Part Three of a Three-Part Series on the 2000 Election and the Electoral College,” FindLaw.com, December 28, 2001, http://writ.lp.findlaw.com/amar/20011228.html.
25. See footnote 28 in Robert W. Bennett, “Democracy as a Meaningful Conversation,” Constitutional Commentary 14, no. 3 (1997), 481–533.
26. Ibid.
27. “Fix System Before We Elect ‘Loser President’,” Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 26, 2000, http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-66477727.html.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Staff Editorial, “Electoral Votes Must Go,” University Wire/Independent Florida Gator, October 31, 2000, http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-36089171.html.
31. “Fix System Before We Elect ‘Loser President.’”
32. Michael Stokes Paulsen, “Dirty Harry and the Real Constitution,” The Un
iversity of Chicago Law Review 64, no. 4 (Autumn, 1997), 1457–91, http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1600223?uid=3739800&uid=2&u id=4&uid=3739256&sid=55874682723.
33. Todd Gitlin, “A Principled Ruling to Some, a Disaster to Others. Legal Experts and Cultural Critics Debate the Supreme Court’s Decisive Findings,” Salon.com, December 14, 2000, http://www.salon.com/2000/12/14/reacts_17/.
34. Cathy Newman, “Keeping an Eye on the Votes That Count; Federal Monitor Ready If Snags Hit Electoral College,” Washington Post, October 27, 2000, http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-561513.html.
35. “Indian American Aids White House defense,” India Abroad, February 12, 1999, http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-23055548.html.
36. Ibid.
37. “The National Law Journal Names 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America,” PRNewswire, June 5, 2000, http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-62499003.html.
38. Profile: Vikram David Amar, http://writ.news.findlaw.com/amar/index.html.
39. Michael Stokes Paulsen, “How to Interpret the Constitution,” Yale Law Journal 115, no. 8 (2006), 2037ff.
40. Profile: Vikram David Amar.
41. Ibid.
42. Ann Coulter, “The Professorial Contingent of the Rainbow Coalition,” Human Events 54, no. 43 (November 13, 1998), 6.
43. “Empowering Jurists: Democratizing the Judicial System” in Karl G. Trautman, ed., The New Populist Reader (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997), 196.
44. Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram David Amar, “Unlocking the Jury Box,” Policy Review, May/June 1996, reprinted with permission in Karl G. Trautman, ed., The New Populist Reader, 197.
45. Ibid., 199.
46. Michael Lind, “Do the People Rule?” Wilson Quarterly 26, no. 1 (Winter 2002), 40ff.
47. Ibid.
48. Study Guide: Summary and Analysis of Essay 39, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, The Federalist Papers, Gradesaver.com, http://www.gradesaver.com/the-federalist-papers/study-guide/section39/.
49. Samuel H. Beer, “[On] Who Rules?” Wilson Quarterly 26, No. 2 (Spring 2002) 3ff.
50. Scott, “Progressives Attempt to Destroy Our Republic With Soros Funded Popular Vote Group.”
51. “CYTL Acquires SOE Software, Becoming the Leading Election Software Provider,” Market Watch, January 11, 2012, http://www.marketwatch.com/story/scytl-acquires-soe-software-becoming-the-leading-election-software-provider-2012-01-11.
