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  • 01
    Obama is the first president in U.S. history to acknowledge the right of gay couples to marry and enjoy the full benefits of marriage in the eyes of the law. read essay →
    — Ben Gibbard
  • 02
    President Obama faced down the GOP and the health industry to finally reform American healthcare. read essay →
    — Roger Ebert
  • 03
    Obama has fully funded the Violence Against Women Act. read essay →
    — George Saunders
  • 04
    Obama is the first President in a generation to make a car go farther on a gallon of gas. read essay →
    — Adam Werbach
  • 05
    Supreme Court Supreme Court Supreme Court. read essay →
    — Andrew Sean Greer
  • 06
    Obama teaches us to believe hope can lead to real change. read essay →
    — Roxane Gay
  • 07
    President Obama understands the world writ large. read essay →
    — Jesse Eisenberg
  • 08
    Obama understands the promise and perils of the new global order in a way his opponent does not. read essay →
    — Reza Aslan
  • 09
    President Obama will create support for at-risk youth, addressing juvenile crime and school drop-outs. read essay →
    — John Prendergast
    & Sia Sanneh
  • 10
    Barack Obama is not a robot.
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    — Jim James
  • 11
    Obama cares about women's health and he proved it. read essay →
    — Thao Nguyen
  • 12
    During his second term we will not hear the following things from President Obama—although we may have heard them from his political opponents.
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    — Lemony Snicket
  • 13
    I LIKE WINNING.
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    — John Hodgman
  • 14
    Because this is an election with existential implications. read essay →
    — Paul Simon
  • 15
    Obama has made financing higher education easier. read essay →
    — Emily Raboteau
  • 16
    Obama has worked to curb urban violence. read essay →
    — Russell Simmons
  • 17
    I’m voting for Obama because I love money, but I’m not money’s b----.
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    — Patton Oswalt
  • 18
    Mitt Romney opposes marriage equality. read essay →
    — Rick Moody
  • 19
    Obama turned our state blue.
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    — Mac McCaughan
  • 20
    Think of the alternative.
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    — David Cross
  • 21
    President Obama promotes an openness that his opponent hopes to quash.
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    — Molly Shannon
  • 22
    Vote for Obama—because the Republicans don’t even want you to vote.
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    — Majora Carter
  • 23
    Republicans seek to have America run by and for a permanent aristocracy.
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    — Michael Stipe & Tom Gilroy
  • 24
    Obama demonstrated prudent and effective leadership in helping bring about the fall of Muammar Gadhafi.
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    — Khaled Hosseini
  • 25
    Obama has supported and cultivated the rights of Americans with disabilities.
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    — Colin Meloy
  • 26
    President Obama supports women’s right to choose.
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    — Jamaica Kincaid
  • 27
    Romney wants to nullify the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
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    — Jonathan Franzen
  • 28
    Because corporations are not people. People are better.
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    — Nate Mendel
  • 29
    Barack Obama supports equal pay for equal work.
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    — Judd Apatow
  • 30
    Because the liberal Messiah does not exist.
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    — Sherman Alexie
  • 31
    Because the Republican Party is pre-Galilean.
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    — Ishmael Reed
  • 32
    President Obama supports the DREAM act.
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    — Edwidge Danticat
  • 33
    Barack Obama believes the American Dream should be open to everyone, not just the elite.
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    — Craig Newmark
  • 34
    Leadership begins with character.
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    — Elizabeth Gilbert
  • 35
    Obama repealed Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
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    — Dana Spiotta
  • 36
    Mitt Romney plans to remove regulations on air and water quality and cut off funding for the National Labor Relations Board.
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    — Marilynne Robinson
  • 37
    Romney is hiding millions in tax havens around the world.
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    — Michael Ian Black
  • 38
    I am voting to re-elect Barack Obama because of what he represents to the children of color in this country.
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    — Gerald Richards
  • 39
    President Obama has taken the first step toward bold immigration reform.
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    — Miguel Arteta
  • 40
    Because I love the social contract.
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    — Emily Barton
  • 41
    I’m voting for Obama, the storyteller, the wordsmith.
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    — Julia Alvarez
  • 42
    President Obama has done something about mountaintop removal.
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    — Jedediah Purdy
  • 43
    It’s not my job to worry about those people.
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    — Mitt Romney
  • 44
    Thanks to President Obama, nearly 50 million American women have access to contraception and preventive health services.
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    — Isabel Allende
  • 45
    Mitt Romney will approve the proposed Keystone Pipeline.
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    — Bill McKibben
  • 46
    Obama signed legislation to protect consumers from the predatory lending practices of credit card companies.
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    — Whitney Pastorek
  • 47
    If Romney is elected, affordable healthcare reverts to an aspirational, unachievable goal for millions of Americans.
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    — Tom Scharpling
  • 48
    Mitt Romney is disdainful of “government assistance,” because he’s never known anyone who needed it.
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    — Moby
  • 49
    Obama still has some respect for the truth.
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    — John Sayles
  • 50
    Globally, fewer people will suffer with Obama in office.
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    — Michelle Tea
  • 51
    Obama is on the right side of land use and transportation policy.
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    — Tim Halbur
  • 52
    I have noticed something in Mitt Romney’s name.
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    — David Lynch
  • 53
    If Mitt Romney is elected, insurance companies will continue to discriminate against Americans with pre-existing conditions.
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    — Charles C. Mann
  • 54
    President Obama understands the voiceless.
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    — Dee-1
  • 55
    Barack Obama understands the threat of climate change.
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    — Jack Johnson
  • 56
    Mitt Romney lacks a sensitivity chip.
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    — Elizabeth George
  • 57
    Obama increased funding for National Parks by ten percent.
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    — Mary Williams
  • 58
    It is absolutely the role of government to invest in education and jobs.
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    — Kal Penn
  • 59
    I’m voting for Obama because he makes the world safer.
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    — Stephen Elliott
  • 60
    President Obama appointed the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice in US history.
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    — Ben Jaffe
  • 61
    Big Bird’s response to Mitt Romney, as told to Teddy Wayne.
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    — Big Bird
  • 62
    He has the power of three eagles.
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    — Reggie Watts
  • 63
    Obama expanded the lungs of our ongoing identity.
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    — Colum McCann
  • 64
    I support Obama because, despite enormous pressure, he refused to publicize a picture of Bin Laden’s corpse.
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    — Etgar Keret
  • 65
    President Obama ended stop-loss.
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    — Jess Walter
  • 66
    Barack Obama supports Planned Parenthood while Mitt Romney would destroy it.
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    — Tayari Jones
  • 67
    Because Obama opposes the Supreme Court’s Citizens United Decision.
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    — Karen Fowler
  • 68
    I am voting for Obama because the rest of the world measures us by our president.
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    — Ben Marcus
  • 69
    President Obama has improved conditions for our active and retired military.
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    — Ben Stiller
  • 70
    Years of progress will be undone if Mitt Romney appoints our next Supreme Court justices.
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    — Daniel Alarcón
  • 71
    Obama understands that education and healthcare are the foundations of a strong economy.
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    — Rob Delaney
  • 72
    Obama signed the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act, a bipartisan bill that brings greater accountability to American defense spending.
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    — Téa Obreht
  • 73
    A President Romney would possess a tool you might not even know exists.
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    — Justin Ruben
  • 74
    Barack Obama would reinstate the 1994 assault weapons ban.
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    — Mona Simpson
  • 75
    President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
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    — Emma Straub
  • 76
    Life is a pre-existing condition.
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    — Mike McCready and
    Jesse Dylan
  • 77
    President Obama proposed the Veterans Job Corps Act, which was blocked by Republican senators.
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    — Kevin Powers
  • 78
    President Obama is serious about reintegrating our soldiers into civilian life—and he proved it.
    read essay →
    — Karen Russell
  • 79
    Because President Obama supports stem cell research, while Romney’s position is, er, wiggly.
    read essay →
    — Jonathan Lethem
  • 80
    Romney has called the Arizona immigration law SB 1070 a model for the nation.
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    — Margaret Cho
  • 81
    I am voting for Barack Obama because I’ve seen The Wire.
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    — Paul F. Tompkins
  • 82
    President Obama supports increased funding for national service.
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    — Sarah Stewart Taylor and Matt Dunne
  • 83
    I’m an idealist in my personal life, but a pragmatist when it comes to presidential politics.
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    — Michael Franti
  • 84
    I’m voting for Obama because I believe progress is possible.
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    — Shepard Fairey
  • 85
    President Obama is steady at the helm.
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    — Al Franken
  • 86
    Barack Obama is perhaps the greatest president of modern times at communicating directly with foreign populations.
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    — Win Butler
  • 87
    Because it’s okay for foreign countries to like America, and it’s better to not live in constant fear of shadowy foreign threats.
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    — Will Butler
  • 88
    Obama has worked to end the war on drug users.
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    — Ana Marie Cox
  • 89
    I’m voting for Barack Obama for my sister.
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    — Joshua Ferris
  • 90
    Obama expanded the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act to include leave for domestic violence and sexual assault.
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    — Miranda July
  • 91
    I do not believe that suffering in America is a result of people not applying themselves.
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    — Jim Adkins
  • 92
    I am voting for Obama because he supports stem cell research.
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    — Steve Aoki
  • 93
    Because the Obama administration’s stimulus package put $9 billion toward green energy.
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    — Megan Mayhew Bergman
  • 94
    Barack Obama has made America a better place for women.
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    — Anne Hathaway
  • 95
    The play is over, let’s go home.
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    — Nick Flynn
  • 96
    We Hold These Truths
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    — Edward Norton and Bennett Miller
  • 97
    President Obama cut taxes for almost all working Americans.
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    — 90 Days, 90 Reasons Staff
  • 98
    The last three Republican presidents have started wars.
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    — 90 Days, 90 Reasons Staff
  • 99
    Colin Powell endorses Barack Obama.
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    — 90 Days, 90 Reasons Staff
  • 100
    Democratic presidents have lowered the national debt more than Republican presidents. read essay →
    — 90 Days, 90 Reasons Staff
  • 101
    We’ve seen this economic plan before.
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    — 90 Days, 90 Reasons Staff
  • 102
    The Truth About Obamacare
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    — 90 Days, 90 Reasons Staff
  • 103
    Mitt Romney is out of touch with the average American. read essay →
    — 90 Days, 90 Reasons Staff
  • 104
    Romney would give millionaires $265,000 on top of the Bush-era tax cuts. read essay →
    — 90 Days, 90 Reasons Staff

  • 105
    Obama has increased government transparency. read essay →
    — 90 Days, 90 Reasons Staff
  • 106
    President Obama funded the Federal Aviation Administration.
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    — 90 Days, 90 Reasons Staff
  • 107
    Obama has worked to combat Alzheimer’s. read essay →
    — 90 Days, 90 Reasons Staff
  • 108
    Obama has reduced our dependence on foreign oil. read essay →
    — 90 Days, 90 Reasons Staff
  • 109
    The math of the Republican ticket does not add up. read essay →
    — 90 Days, 90 Reasons Staff
  • 110
    Romney wants to undo progress Obama made. read essay →
    — Bill Clinton