Politico has the story: “Democrats launch plan to turn Texas blue.” I mentioned this to someone (in another state), and the immediate response was: “Texas won’t do that.” I don’t know which annoys me more: people who don’t live in Texas who apparently feel free and informed to make sweeping generalizations that begin with something [...]
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Republican Election-Rigging in Virginia and Beyond
NATIONAL REPUBLICANS who continue to be frustrated that the American voter won’t reward their extremism with handing them the national popular vote have started systematically to take voters out of the equation. It’s been making the news for days in Virginia. American Progress has released a document titled Grand Theft Election. How the Republican election-rigging [...]
Fox News Debacle, Network Humiliation in Prime Time *Video Update*
IT WAS a remarkable spectacle on Fox News Channel once Ohio was called for President Obama and he was reelected the 44th president of the United States. It began when Chris Wallace announced that the Romney campaign was disputing the numbers coming out of Ohio. Moments later Karl Rove starts spinning out the names of [...]
Top Story: Obama’s Winnings and the Unreasonable Liberal
“If you want to pull the party, the major party that is closest to the way you’re thinking to what you’re thinking, you must, you must show them that you’re capable of not voting for them. If you don’t show them you’re capable of not voting for them they don’t have to listen to you, [...]
News Desk: President Obama, Campaigning in Ohio, Speaking Some Truths Worth Remembering [Video]
SANDY PUNCHED the east coast in the gut, with 22 dead being reported in Staten Island so far, New Jersey and New York getting the worst of it, while West Virginia and other areas got pummeled, too. No one escaped nor’easter Sandy if she passed through where you live. Now, it’s the last weekend after [...]
Where Does the Election Stand Today?
THE ILLUSTRATION above goes with what Charlie Cook said today to Andrea Mitchell. Cook said Mitt Romney has to win over 80% (sorry, didn’t catch the exact number) of the battleground state electoral votes to win, while Obama only needs around 18%. Are you hearing me now, Dick toe-sucker Morris? And since the a new [...]
Arguments For Abolishing the Electoral College
I’m not sure if having this conversation a few days before the presidential election is good timing or not, but then, once this voting cycle is over, how many people will pay attention to much of anything related to elections until, maybe, midterm elections, more likely not until the 2016 WH race really kicks off, [...]
Top Story: Al Gore, Time to End the Electoral College
“I’ve seen how these states are written off and ignored, and people are effectively disenfranchised in the presidential race. And I really do now think it is time to change that.” – Former Vice President Al Gore AMEN. …and hallelujah. If you don’t live in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North [...]
Whopping $77 Million CNN Ad Buy from Obama
WE’RE BRACING for what’s about to hit Virginia, which is number 3 on Team Obama’s $77 million ad hit parade. After watching the onslaught of negative ads from Rove, Koch and company, with Pres. Obama’s positive ad currently running a breath of fresh air, no doubt the negative ads are about to begin. It’s really [...]
Obama’s Reelection Made Easier via the Electoral College
MARK HALPERIN PROVIDES what he calls the “informal slogan” of Obama reelect: “be confident, but take nothing for granted.” From his TIME magazine piece, which lays out four problems for Mitt Romney, the view from the ultimate insider’s insider. First, in the view of the Obamans, Romney is still a weak candidate. His stump skills [...]
Progresive Notes: Elizabeth Warren, Hands Off the New Deal!, Progressive Caucus Pushes Own Jobs Bill, GA Tea Party Jaw Dropper and Other Happenings
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Elizabeth Warren will not be outworked. She is campaigning hard. Here are some clips of her stops and note the enthusiasm she draws in Massachusetts:
Liberally Independent: Two Parties, Too Few Choices, Part VIII
Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. Electoral reforms of the Right kind This series of posts began with “Grading the Electoral College”. Given the recent news, via Memeorandum, “Pennsylvania GOP Electoral proposals”, it seemed like a good time to revisit that focus. The Electoral College is a key consideration when thinking about [...]
Grading the Electoral College
Joyce Arnold is a liberal Independent activist whose weekly column “Queer Talk” appears on Saturday. Every four years, at some point in the presidential election cycle, and on a slow news day, stories and explanations about the Electoral College show up. This is probably a bit early in the current cycle, but it’s something I’ve [...]
Naked Justices
It had been an unusually long, hard and acrimonious day at the Supreme Court. The Great Halls still reverberated with echoes of arguments brought on by the historical closeness of the presidential election of 2000. Opinions rendered, written and delivered, one can only imagine (and even fantasize) about the lingering aftermath of what was obviously [...]
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