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Seismic shift seen in Florida Cuban American vote

November 10, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Despite winning the gubernatorial race in Florida last week, exit polling shows that Gov. Rick Scott lost Cuban-Americans to his Democratic opponent, 50 to 46 percent.

Muslims worldwide denounce ISIS – but Islamophobes aren’t listening

November 10, 2014 By Henry Millstein

Authoritative Muslim voices from all quarters are denouncing ISIS, as they have denounced al-Qaeda and terrorism in general for years.

Today in labor history: IWW comic strip Mr. Block appears

November 7, 2014

The character with a wooden block head and no class consciousness was created by Ernest Riebe and commemorated in a song written by Joe Hill.

The fog that blinded the electorate

November 7, 2014 By Rick Nagin

There were local and geographical peculiarities, but when an election was as uniformly one-sided as this one was, deeper explanations are required.

California bucks national GOP election wave

November 7, 2014 By Eric A. Gordon

By an impressive vote of 58.5 percent to 41.5 percent, with a majority in every county in the state, Prop 47 passed, truly a huge people's victory.