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Block the vote
The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sent us Block The Vote! Oh No You Didn’t!: Be Careful how you vote! This article and the one below it highlights the subtle, not so subtle, and beyond annoying rules, regs, and procedures that Robert Kennedy Jr. believes are part of a Voter Deterrence Strategy that could tip this…
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Not over till
The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sent us this message: Make no mistake, all this punditry predicting that this election is as good as over is not a good thing. As a woman of a certain age who has disected the predicted and actual outcome of every election since 1972 all this outcome predicting is endangering…
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CBS election broadcast news
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Follow all instructions when you vote
My friend Tamara recently alerted me to this diary over at DailyKos. The diarist is sounding the alarm over a potential source of confusion with the voting systems in North Carolina. The gist of it is that, under North Carolina law, voting a straight party ticket doesn’t register any vote for president or vice president.…
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Gen. Powell endorses Sen. Obama
‘Meet the Press’ transcript for Oct. 19, 2008: Guests — Former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell (Ret.), Chuck Todd, David Brooks, Jon Meacham, Andrea Mitchell, Joe Scarborough MR. TOM BROKAW: Our issues this Sunday: He served as President George W. Bush’s secretary of state and was once called the man most likely to become…
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Meet in St. Louis
Day’s Campaigning Shows an Inverted Political Plane By MICHAEL POWELL and MICHAEL COOPER ST. LOUIS — There was the feel of a political world turned upside down on Saturday as Senator John McCain found himself defending North Carolina and Virginia, while SenatorBarack Obama was greeted by huge crowds in Missouri, which Republicans had also considered…
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Tribune endorsement
FROM THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE EDITORIAL BOARD Barack Obama for president 2:33 PM CDT, October 17, 2008 Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama campaigns in Roanoke, Va. today. (Getty photo by Joe Raedle / October 17, 2008) However this election turns out, it will dramatically advance America’s slow progress toward equality and inclusion. It took Abraham Lincoln’s…
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NYT Editorial-The Acorn Story
In Wednesday night’s debate, John McCain warned that a group called Acorn is “on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history” and “may be destroying the fabric of democracy.” Viewers may have been wondering what Mr. McCain was talking about. So were we. Acorn is a nonprofit group that…
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Read blogs, not newspapers
Certainly blogs are the way to go if you want the real story behind the sudden discovery by the United States Justice Department and the FBI that the community organizing group, ACORN, may have perpetrated voter registration fraud. Josh Marshall over at TalkingPointsMemo really covered the hell out of the U.S. attorney firings story last.…
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Conyers’ letter
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr., (D-Michigan), wrote a letter to AG Michael Mukasey and FBI Director John Mueller on Thursday to let them know that he’s watching their disgraceful investigation of the community organizing group ACORN. Here’s a link to the letter: conyers081016 Excerpts: It is with shock and disappointment that I read…