Must Reads - November 10, 2010


Faith-based and community activists met with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to advocate for those threatened by foreclosures:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/04/faith-groups-press-geithn_n_779218.html

 

Analysis of the Midterm from the Pew Research Center, including the Latino vote:
http://pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/Religion-in-the-2010-Election-A-Preliminary-Look.aspx
 
Richard Cohen exposes "Boehner's health mirage" in the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/08/AR2010110804894.html

 

Daniel Burke catalogues how the Democrats dropped the ball on faith outreach since 2008:
http://ncronline.org/news/politics/have-democrats-lost-faith-faith-based-outreach

 

Jennifer Butler and John Gehring of Faith in Public Life offer their take on the election at NCR:
http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/q-election-thoughts-jen-butler-john-gehring


Commonweal's Paul Moses argues that passing health care reform was worth losing the midterms:
http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=10733

 

The San Francisco Chronicle warns that a federal appeals court may be inclined to uphold Arizona's racist anti-immigrant law:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/01/MNDP1G54K0.DTL

 

John Judis, at the New Republic, worries that the midterms were not the worst of it:
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/78890/a-lost-generation

 

The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg on his attempt to attend the Stewart/Colbert Rally:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2010/10/the-fog-of-fun.html#entry-more