Month: October 2012

Vote Early

In the 2010 midterm elections, the overall turnout of eligible voters was forty-one percent. Do you want to know which states had 50% turnout or better? Here they are, with their rules for early voting: Minnesota: 55.4% –...

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Court Order Bans GOP Voter Suppression

Update: Here is the link to Judge Debevoise’s 2009 opinion modifying the original 1982 consent order, binding on the RNC and all Republican state committees, that was upheld by the Third Circuit. ### In addition to this...

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Bruce Springsteen For Ambassador

For a guy who dropped out of community college and didn’t pay attention to politics for the first 25 years of his life, Bruce Springsteen has moments that demonstrate he could have had—in some alternate...

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Sen. Scott Brown is Full of It

I haven’t been following the day to day developments in the Massachusetts Senate race between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren, so I was only dimly aware of the fact that asbestos had become a campaign issue. Elizabeth...

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Romney: Vote for Obama, You Lose Your Job

The guy who wants jetliners with windows that can be opened to prevent faintness by his wife Ann … spoke to the Small Bussiness owners and talked policy when he enters the White House in January 2013. [God forbid!]...

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