Since Tax Day, when The Other 98% went head to head with the Tea Party with the, um, FACTS, tens of thousands of Americans have lit up the message boards, joined the Facebook page and written in to say (in the words of one newly minted 98%’er), "This is the kind of politics I’ve been waiting...
It’s just a few percentage points, but that 3% makes a big difference.
First off, as some of you pointed out to us, we actually got our own numbers wrong: 98%, not 95%, of working Americans received a tax cut from President Obama. Admit your mistakes and correct them, that's what our...
Members of The Other 98% who live in or near New York are heading to an action on Wall St. this coming Thursday, April 29th. We will be demanding that Wall St. be placed under adult supervision -- that they accept the strong regulation we need to prevent further economic meltdowns. Below, you can...
Hello (almost) everybody else!
We want to thank everyone for taking part in The Other 95% -- in the streets, on FaceBook and here at TheOther95.com.
Just today, we've hit 26,000 fans on FaceBook (and still growing fast!)
What started as a simple fan page to highlight the striking fact...
Exclusive: Anti-Tea Party group founder deflects ‘astroturf’...
This from Chris Good, the staff editor at TheAtlantic.com:
"It's the best answer yet (to my knowledge) of how many people are actually engaged with the Tea Party...
The vast majority of Americans know that Obama is not some Islamo-Socialist secretly plotting a Fascist takeover. On the other hand, 95% of Working Americans did get a tax cut this year.
The Other 95% of these same Americans are hungry for our country to get past fringe politics so we can tackle...
Many are rightfully angry with a tax system that has been rigged to favor Wall St. at the expense of Main St. Right now that anger is being channeled into passionate participation to serve a narrow political agenda [1] more inclined to protect the broken status quo than change it. It doesn't...