As exit polling data begins to be released, remember this pithy quote from Sam Feist, political director at CNN: “Exit poll information in the hands of trained professionals is perfectly fine. Exit poll information in the hand of the general public, who may not understand what it means or stands for, can be dangerous.”
“I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car, I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage…” So what happens when her car runs out of gas and her house is foreclosed on, and Obama doesn’t pick her up on the side of the road or pay her mortgage for her? Will the result just be more anger at the White Man, | Read More »
Update: This hasn’t been limited to a single polling location, nor apparently a single state. The video below shows the nightstick-wielding man from the FOX news report, and there have been reports of Black Panther wannabes intimidating voters from as far away as Tennessee. Perhaps this is what Sen. Obama was referring to when he boasted of a civilian homeland defense force during his campaign? | Read More »
A special Milwaukee, WI police unit that practically wrote the book on vote fraud and how to prevent it has been told not to go near polling locations today, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.
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Washington state set a new voter registration record this year, and voters have turned out en masse to cast their ballots early. However, despite the conventional wisdom that new and early voters are Democrats in this virulently anti-Republican year, Republican areas in Washington state are seeing far higher voter turnout than traditionally Democratic strongholds. Gregoire Needs “Universal Participation” According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: With voter | Read More »
Inspired by the Obama campaign’s decision to kick reporters from three McCain-endorsing newspapers off his campaign plane, cartoonist Will Warren has produced this latest in his ongoing line of editorial cartoon gems:
Former Georgia Senator Max Cleland and a number of his fellow Democrats are clearly still obsessing over the ad run six years ago that dared pointed out Cleland’s refusal, in the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, to vote for new homeland security measures proposed by the Bush administration. Cleland – who appeared to lose his mind after convincing himself that his patriotism had been | Read More »
The Obama campaign has bumped representatives from three major newspapers that endorsed John McCain for president over Obama off of its campaign plane for the final days of the race. The Dallas Morning News, Washington Times, and New York Post “have all been told to move out by Sunday to make room for network bigwigs — and possibly for the inclusion of reporters from two | Read More »
Origninally mentioned here. Dear Friends, After decades of fighting for this country and our troops, I am up against the right-wing attack machine again. Because of my work to end the Iraq war, they have thrown hundreds of thousands of dollars behind my opponent, who lives in Virginia with his family, not in my district in Pennsylvania. Now, I am suddenly being outspent 3 to | Read More »
Embattled Democrat porker (and current defendant in a pair of slander lawsuits stemming from his repeated shouting from rooftops that U.S. Marines are “cold-blooded killers”) John Murtha (PA-12) sent a message to MoveOn.org’s email list asking members to remember his “chip in” to his surprisingly difficult reelection bid. Further, a Murtha fundraiser sent an urgent request this afternoon to “defense industry lobbyists” which read: Cong. | Read More »
In 2006, the Los Angeles Times decided an audio tape it had obtained of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, an apologetic Republican, in which he said of latina Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia (R-80), “She seems to me like Cuban … She maybe is Puerto Rican or the same thing as Cuban. I mean, they are all very hot. They have the, you know, part of the black | Read More »
Two weeks ago, John Murtha (D-PA), the Vietnam veteran who is currently being sued by two former Marines for slandering them on national television as “cold-blooded killers,” let his “tolerant man of the people” mask slip and told his constituents outright what he thought of them: that they’re pathetic, dirty, unrepentant and unvarnished racists (video below). Now, Congressional Democrat leaders are fighting to save his | Read More »
“It has become crystal clear throughout this race that Jeanne Shaheen’s entire campaign is scripted from Washington,” wrote the New Hampshire Union Leader of the Granite state’s Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate earlier this week. “If the national Democratic Party leadership doesn’t have a talking point on it, then she doesn’t have a position on it. In short, Jeanne Shaheen is an empty pantsuit.” Clearly | Read More »
NBC News and Election Protection, identified by NBC as “the nation’s largest nonpartisan voter protection coalition, led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law,” announced yesterday that they “will be joining forces to help voters ensure that their vote will count” this election. That “nonpartisan voter protection coalition” counts as its partners over 100 centrist, law-abiding, non-fringe organizations like ACORN, Democraciá USA, the | Read More »
Both candidates looked flat to me, though I was clearly being harder on Sen. McCain than several of my colleagues, whose instant messages and emails seem to overwhelmingly support McCain as the sound winner of this go-round. My thoughts, added as the debate went on, below the fold.
Have you ever heard of Oleg Lyubner? No? I hadn’t either until recently. For background information, Lyubner is a publicist for Workman Publishing, the publishing house responsible for popular books like 1,000 Places to See Before You Die and slightly less mainstream works like The Bathroom Humor Page-a-Day Calendar and Bad President, a “humor” book about George W. Bush. So, why does Lyubner matter — | Read More »
Here’s a nugget from Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA 27), in a floor speech made yesterday just after 7pm CDT: Transcript: Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill, on Monday, the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points in the first day, another couple thousand the second day, and a few members were | Read More »
Update-10/1@1500CDT: A Senate contact just emailed to correct my use of the term “tax earmarks” to describe the tax extenders in the Senate legislation. Brian Johnson of Americans for Tax Reform has a good post below explaining why that term is a misnomer, saying in part: Calling tax cuts “earmarks” is very unhelpful and completely wrong from a fiscal conservative perspective. There is no such | Read More »
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