Bob Cesca, 09/20/12

Host of The Bob & Chez Show, Media Producer

Of course Mitt Romney supports redistribution. Everyone supports redistribution to some extent. It's literally how the government collects and spends tax revenue.

James Moore, 09/20/12

Best selling author, Director of Progress Texas PAC

The racial anger isn't just palpable any more; it's manifest. And again, Texas is getting attention for its ignorance instead of its greatness. In an upscale neighborhood of Northwest Austin, a Republican voter has hung an empty chair in effigy from a tree in his front yard.

Andrew Cotto, 09/20/12

Author

Throughout this ordeal my friend felt like a bystander. The doctors wouldn't speak to him, and the nurses treated him like an annoying friend of the family. He was family. This was his partner in terrible pain, thousands of miles from home in an inhospitable hospital.

Joel Simkhai, 09/20/12

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Grindr LLC

We must inform ourselves about who's running to represent us in our states and in our congressional districts -- and how they plan to vote on our rights once they take office. We must fight off disillusionment and apathy.

Stewart J. Lawrence, 09/20/12

Founder and managing director, Puentes & Associates, Inc.; journalist and public policy analyst

Most contemporary analysts seem to have the 2012 Latino vote completely wrong. They're focused on Obama's continuing advantage over Romney, which is real, but they're ignoring the GOP candidate's narrowing of that gap.

Chris Holden, 09/20/12

Community Manager, Recorded Future

While the campaign teams of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama continue punching it out ahead of November, let's look back at each candidate's statements over 20 months.

Leonard Steinhorn, 09/20/12

Author and Professor of Communication at American University

Here's the irony of Mitt Romney's 47 percent: he hails himself as an economic savior because he knows how to create jobs, yet many of the jobs he had a hand in creating through his work at Bain Capital fall right into that 47 percent.

Waymon Hudson, 09/20/12

LGBT rights activist

With the often bloody and hard struggles to win and protect voting, it is amazing, yet perhaps not surprising, given our history, that a new move to roll back these hard-won rights is underway in many states around the country.

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, 09/20/12

CEO, Green for All

It's hard to imagine why anyone in this country would fail to get behind a sector like clean energy, which is putting Americans to work while keeping our air and water healthy. It's even harder to understand why they would actively try to destroy it.

Jeff Biggers, 09/20/12

Author of 'State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream'

Did Mitt Romney intentionally lie about -- or, in the very least, misrepresent or "air brush" -- the history of his ancestors' documented escape from Arizona justice in his 2004 memoir, Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games?

William Hartung and Stephen Miles, 09/20/12

While the president's plan does not go as far as it could or should in scaling back the Pentagon's spending plans, he has drawn a clear distinction between his approach and the one proposed by candidate Romney.

Dan Rather, 09/20/12

Host, 'Dan Rather Reports'

Romney's campaign is reeling and trying desperately to regroup, reboot and rebound. Their candidate's chances have been knocked down -- but not out.

Lex Paulson, 09/20/12

Fmr. Capitol Hill staffer; Ph.D. candidate in classics, Université de Paris-Sorbonne

As he neared his third and final retirement after 45 years of service, George Washington drafted the letter we know as his "Farewell Address," a letter from which Mitt Romney could take two important lessons.

Colin Gordon, 09/20/12

Since World War II, Democratic administrations have, on average, added between 160,000 and 250,000 manufacturing jobs each year they have been in office. Republican administrations have lost manufacturing jobs at about the same rate.

Stephanie Schriock, 09/20/12

President, EMILY's List

While it's bad enough that candidates like Mitt Romney and Tommy Thompson are dismissing half of the American population, they are doing so while spreading false information. Nearly all Americans pay taxes.

Nathaniel Frank, 09/20/12

Author, 'Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America'

Today, on the one-year anniversary of repeal, it is crucial to look back at who said what about DADT repeal, and how it stacks up against empirical reality. Here is a brief summary of both the most dire predictions and the recent findings.

Jeremy Dehn, 09/20/12

Former professor, Art Institute of Colorado

For-profit colleges' alleged support of increased accountability across all colleges and universities is yet another position that reeks of PR posturing by emphasizing some details at the expense of far more pertinent ones.