Private Emails From Texas Speaker Joe Straus’s Office Reveal War Against Conservatives

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 4th at 03:33 PM  | 

“These e-mails from the redistricting process shed new light on just how dismissive the Straus team was of Republican Party and conservative efforts to draw more fair districts – and should serve as a warning bell to the new House that it is time for Straus to go.” RedState has uncovered never-before-seen, profanity-laden e-mails between senior staff and legislative lieutenants of Texas’ liberal GOP House | Read More »

So, The IBEW Really Did Put Unionization Ahead of Hurricane Recovery Efforts #ObamasKatrina

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 4th at 02:00 PM  | 

There’s been a lot of denials going on since last Friday when it came to light that the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) may have turned away non-union crews from helping in hurricane ravaged New Jersey because they did not carry union cards. Despite a denial by the union’s international president, Ed Hill, a statement made by New Jersey’s governor Chris Chistie, it turns | Read More »

Final Obama Campaign E-mails Berate, Blame Supporters

By: briansikma (Diary)  |  November 4th at 01:37 PM  | 

Depending on who you are, if you receive e-mail updates from the Obama-Biden campaign you may have gotten a few strident notes in your inbox over the last week. In making the closing pitch to supporters and potential donors, the President’s campaign has struck a negative tone attempting to shame supporters who haven’t done enough into doing more. “You’ve waited until the last minute here,” | Read More »

Obama’s Katrina? America’s Northeast Suffers As President Puts Re-Election Ahead Of Relief

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 4th at 11:00 AM  | 

Powered by a gas-rationed generator on Saturday night, a quick glance at the Drudge Report shed little light on what many in the Northeast are experiencing first hand: Devastated communities left in the dark, thirsty New Yorkers ‘dumpster diving‘ for food, many faced with looting, fear of nightfall, and a President who, rather than leading at a time of crisis, continues his stump speeches and demonizing ordinary | Read More »

Dem playbook in action, voting machines stealing Colorado

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  November 4th at 10:23 AM  | 

Some of you may remember how much fun the vote count was in Florida back in 2000. It seemed destined to go on forever until the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in. More of you may remember 2004 the last time we had a brutal get out the vote fight down to the wire. The DNC’s 2004 Colorado Election Manual is a helpful reminder of what Democrats can be expected to do to try win President Obama’s reelection. Page 54 of the manual instructs:

“If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a pre-emptive strike…”

With the presidential contest too close to call, Obama’s Justice Department dispatching hundreds of lawyers to 23 states and Democrats having 2,500 lawyers stationed across Ohio, 600 in Cuyahoga County alone, to “monitor” elections there are bound to be more shenanigans than we can imagine. Don’t forget Obama’s Attorney General decided not to go after the New Black Panther Party members who were intimidating voters in 2008.

So it is troubling that we are hearing numerous reports of voting machines recording votes intended for Romney as votes for Obama.

Colorado’s KRDO NewsChannel 13 reports that the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office is investigating after more than a dozen Pueblo voters say voting machines switched their pick from Mitt Romney to Barack Obama.

One Romney voter, told KRDO that when she hit the touchscreen for Romney, a check mark appeared next to Obama’s name. She said she asked for help to fix the problem, but still feels unsure about her vote:

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RS Interview: Sean Bielat (R CAND, MA-04).

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 3rd at 06:14 PM  | 

This is Barney Frank’s old district, more or less… and it is an interesting choice of candidates.  On the one hand, we have Sean Bielat: businessman and Marine officer.  On the other hand, we have Joe Kennedy III: …um, Kennedy. No.  That’s pretty much it.  He’s a Kennedy.  He also thinks that Osama bin Laden was killed via drone strike, but never mind that right | Read More »

FieldWorks, SEIU, AFL-CIO, Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable, and Colorado’s ACORN Ground Game

By: Aaron Gardner (Diary)  |  November 3rd at 05:00 PM  | 

A coalition of unions has coordinated with FieldWorks, a Washington-based consulting firm, to provide ground support for President Obama and liberal Colorado candidates. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), AFL-CIO and the Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable have retained FieldWorks, an organization with many similarities to the now-defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), according to documents uncovered by Media Trackers.

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Wisconsin Early Voting Gains Solid in GOP Areas

By: briansikma (Diary)  |  November 3rd at 09:53 AM  | 

MILWAUKEE, WI - Preliminary and limited data samples indicate that in Wisconsin early voting has increased more in Republican leaning areas than Democratic leaning areas headed into the November 6th election. Wisconsin does not track voters with partisan voter registration and all early voting reporting is done at the municipal level, making it difficult to gather broad samples of early voting data headed into the final weekend of the campaign. What the limited data does show is that early voters in traditional GOP strongholds are turning out in higher numbers than in 2008, while Democratic strongholds are turning out a statistically smaller increase.

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Tech at Night: Obama’s Cybersecurity is the new Global Warming

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  November 3rd at 04:35 AM  | 

Surprise:Obama’s cybersecurity plans don’t actually fix anything, they just expand government. And yet the administration shamelessly attempts to use the crisis of storm Sandy to try to achieve this end.

At this point the administration’s cybersecurity efforts are as delusional and straw-grasping as its global warming efforts. Though what’s sad is that unlike global warming, there actually is a kernel of truth there that we as a nation could be acting on, but Obama is distracting us with his attempts to expand government.

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50,000 Feet Looking Down

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 2nd at 10:36 PM  | 

I believe Mitt Romney will win on election day. I’m somewhat stunned to be writing that as I never really thought he could win until about the moment Clint Eastwood trotted out on stage at the Republican National Convention with that empty chair. Even now I waver by the hour, but if forced to predict, I think Romney wins Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado, Wisconsin, | Read More »

Howie Politics refuses to release full internals on Donnelly +11 (:rolling eyes:) IN-SEN poll.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 2nd at 05:26 PM  | 

[UPDATE] Hey, they released the results! …And, yeah: Question 26.  9% of their LVs voted in the Indiana GOP primary. :pause: Okaaaay…] You’ve probably heard by now that Howey Politics has put out a shock poll on the Indiana Senate race indicating that Democrat Joe Donnelly was up eleven points on Richard Mourdock (the guy who beat Richard Lugar out for the Republican nomination: this | Read More »

Broward County Commissioner and Lobbyist Husband accost Media Trackers investigator

By: Drew Ryun (Diary)  |  November 2nd at 04:51 PM  | 

This is cross posted from our Florida Media Trackers’ site. 2ND NOV 2012 AT 12:25 | BY TOM LAUDER In the midst of a close re-election campaign, Broward Commissioner Stacy Ritter and her lobbyist husband Russ Klenet aggressively engaged a Media Trackers Florida correspondent investigating voting irregularities at an early voting location in Coral Springs, Florida. While speaking with local firefighters and sheriff’s representatives in the | Read More »

Obama Surrogate Ted Strickland Berates Romney’s “Fake Compassion”

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  November 2nd at 04:15 PM  | 

During a speech at an Obama for America campaign event in Hilliard on Friday morning, former Oho governor Ted Strickland accused Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney of trying to “fake compassion” for victims of Hurricane Sandy, Fox Nation reported.

A clip of Strickland’s speech recorded by CNN follows.

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ProgressOhio Accuses True The Vote of Conducting Illegal Training

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  November 2nd at 03:50 PM  | 

ProgressOhio Executive Director Brian Rothenberg was quoted in an October 29 AlterNet story accusing True The Vote (TTV) of conducting illegal poll worker training, continuing a liberal assault on the election integrity group.  AlterNet writer Steven Rosenfeld began his story with an assertion that TTV “may be pushing their anti-democratic agenda into illegal territory in Ohio by interfering with that state’s official poll worker training regimen.”

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No, Independents Are Not Just Discouraged Republicans

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  November 2nd at 02:08 PM  | 

The centerpiece of my thesis (discussed here and here) that Mitt Romney will win Tuesday’s election is his consistently strong showing among independent voters (ie, voters who identify as neither Republicans nor Democrats) across the majority of national and state polls, pretty much regardless of whether those are polls he’s winning or losing. On that score, I believe the polls; if they’re wrong about the | Read More »