Adam McKay, 11/05/12

Film director; Co-Founder, Funny or Die

Objections to Obama are nonsense and lies at best. This isn't a "liberal" POV. It's just the truth. Obama does have real failings as a president, but being a socialist big spender is not remotely one of them.

Dean Baker, 11/05/12

Co-director, CEPR; author, 'The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive'

When Gov. Romney gave his acceptance speech at the Republican convention he quipped that President Obama wants to slow the rise of the oceans and that he, by contrast, wanted to help American families. It would be interesting to see if Romney would care to repeat this line today.

Michael Smerconish, 11/04/12

Radio host

I objected when George W. Bush was the subject of undeserved, hyperbolic criticism, but the baseless scorn heaped upon President Obama makes Bush's detractors look diplomatic. The president, the office, and our nation deserve better.

Helen C. Whitney and Gregory A. Prince, Ph.D., 11/03/12

Is Romney the face of Mormonism? Or has he so far distanced himself from core values of his religion that Mormons feel constrained to emphasize that he is not that face?

Eugene Jarecki, 11/05/12

Award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker

As elections take place tomorrow all around the country, Californians will vote on Prop 36, whose passage would be a vital step forward in reducing the senseless severity of California's notorious Three Strikes law.

Michael Moore, 11/05/12

Oscar and Emmy-winning director

The bankers and corporate chiefs are planning an historic victory party. If Romney wins, their goal of complete corporate control of the three branches of government will be complete. Trust me, if they succeed, we may never get it back.

Benjamin Todd Jealous, 11/05/12

President and Chief Executive Officer of the NAACP

To date, nearly six million formerly-incarcerated Americans are disenfranchised. This is a massive injustice, to be sure, but the real story is that these felony disenfranchisement laws that target former offenders are being enforced in 2012 in key states where they were not in 2008.

Howard Fineman, 11/04/12

Editorial director, Huffington Post Media Group

The way both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have campaigned this year makes me wonder. Is there something about the presidency -- or the pursuit of it -- that attacks the character of men and women under its spell?

Jim Wallis, 11/05/12

Christian leader for social change

During this presidential campaign, we lament the way in which religious faith has been abused, manipulated and neglected in the heated, focus-group-tested sound bites that fill our airwaves and pass for "substantive" policy debates.

David Wild, 11/05/12

TV Writer; Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone; Co-Author, 'Diary of a Player"'

Here's my 2012 Election Day Playlist, with a few democratically selected suggestions from my followers of all political persuasions @Wildaboutmusic.

Beth Broderick, 11/04/12

Actress, founding member of MOMENTUM

Who would launch a hate campaign against an organization that provides clean safe drinking water to impoverished people in places like Swaziland? What's to hate and who would hate it?

Robert Reich, 11/05/12

Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; Author, 'Beyond Outrage'

We're coming to the end of a bitter election feeling as if we're two nations rather than one. The challenge -- not only for our president and representatives in Washington but for all of us -- is to rediscover the public good.

Dr. Michael J. Breus, 11/05/12

Clinical Psychologist; Board Certified Sleep Specialist

Our culture says tiredness is to be ignored; it says the need for sleep is a weakness to be overcome if success is to be achieved. In many corners of the medical world, admitting to being tired is akin to admitting you're less than committed to your work.

Marty Kaplan, 11/04/12

Director, Norman Lear Center and Professor at the USC Annenberg School

I was against Chris Christie before I was for him. If Obama wins, when all the exit polling gets sorted through, it's those images of the Democratic president touring the hurricane damage arm-in-arm with the Republican governor that may turn out to have given him his advantage.

Michael Hogan and Christopher Rosen, 11/05/12

Best Actress has nothing on Best Actor. Consider the lineup of male performers with a legitimate chance of being nominated: Daniel Day-Lewis, Joaquin Phoenix, Denzel Washington, John Hawkes, Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Jackman, Bradley Cooper, Ben Affleck and Jamie Foxx.

Annmarie Kelly-Harbaugh, 11/05/12

Writer, mom, and high school teacher

At dinner, my daughter Katie asked, "Mommy, who are you voting for?"

Adam Levin, 11/05/12

Founder, Credit.com and former director NJ Division of Consumer Affairs

It's hard to miss the coincidence: those who want to limit voting hours and demand stricter voter ID protocols also believe that corporations are people.

Josh Horwitz, 11/05/12

Executive Director, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence

As a nation, we decry al Qaeda as terrorists for using improvised explosive devices to kill and disfigure the brave men and women in our armed forces. It is both horrific and unspeakable to see pro-gun activists advocating the same type of violence on our own soil.

Chris Weigant, 11/05/12

Political writer and blogger at ChrisWeigant.com

Today, we're just going to throw caution to the wind, and go ahead and predict the outcome of tomorrow night's returns.

Deepak Chopra, 11/05/12

Author, 'God: A Story of Revelation'; founder, The Chopra Foundation

Under the most trying conditions he has held the tide against disheartening reactionary opposition. It took character to do that without descending to the level of right-wing ideologues, for whom no tactic is too low.

Jonathan Weiler, 11/05/12

Director of Undergraduate Studies in Global Studies, UNC Chapel Hill

That one party goes to such lengths to keep people from voting should be a major national scandal and it's disgraceful that it's part of the landscape in which people vote in this country.

Robert Kuttner, 11/04/12

Co-founder and co-editor, 'The American Prospect'

The enormity of last week's super-storm is just beginning to sink into political consciousness. Hurricane Sandy should transform what Americans expect from their government, and give the party of government activism new force.

Danny Glover and Mike Farrell, 11/04/12

the death penalty is broken beyond repair, and it's time to replace it with life in prison without the possibility of parole. We support Prop 34 -- and we encourage California voters to get the facts and vote YES on 34 on Tuesday.

Jamie McGonnigal, 11/05/12

Founder, TalkAboutEquality.com

Ten-year-old Sophia penned a letter to Obama telling him how happy she is that he agrees with her on the topic of marriage equality. You see, young Sophia has two dads. Well, in the middle of his fight to be reelected, the president took some time to share a little advice with a little girl.