DKos Community Power to Crowdsource the Rebuilding of the 50 State Strategy
As we watch the election results come in tonight we as a party and a movement need to reflect on the fact that we actually need candidates on the ballot to win elections.Steven D has an excellent...
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How the Ohio legislature blocked marijuana decriminalization for the next 20...
All of the attention in yesterday's Ohio election was on Issue 3, the proposal to legalize marijuana.However, Issue 2, a proposal to protect "the initiative process from being used for personal...
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OH-Sen: Ohio College Students Back Strickland (D), Go After Portman (R) On...
Received this e-mail today from former Governor Ted Strickland's (D. OH) U.S. Senate campaign: I am a 3rd year junior at the University of Akron. I work full time all summer long and 30 hours a week...
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Questioning the Unverified Computer Results of Kentucky's Governor's Race:...
GUEST: Karoli Kuns of CrooksAndLiars.com...It is a primal scream of a BradCast today, following what happened -- once again -- on Election Day yesterday. We see, again, the nightmare scenario I've...
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OH marijuana legalization support, Franklin County
Issue 3, the marijuana legalization issue in Ohio, failed on Tuesday 36% to 64% statewide. The vote in Franklin County, population 1.2 million and home to Ohio State University, was similar to the...
View ArticleDo Black Lives Matter? A Chilling Story Out of Cleveland
This one hit a little too close to home for many of us here in Cleveland.After a good election night in which things generally went well for Democrats in Ohio, this appeared in my Facebook feed Tuesday...
View ArticleGreed Killed Ohio Issue 3...But Whose?
The postmortem is in now for Ohio Issue 3 (legalizing marijuana possession and limited cultivation), and the findings are pretty unanimous: The cause of death was greed. My own observation is that...
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"Legalize marijuana the right way, or not at all" is the voice of privilege.
We all know what the chief flaw of Ohio's Issue 3 was: limiting commercial production of marijuana to 10 sites that are all backed by wealthy investors. Ideally, that provision would have not been in...
View ArticleLast night on her show Rachel Maddow said it feels like the Democratic Party...
Today we left the voters of 4 House districts with no Democratic choice to vote for.That is conceding nearly 1% of US House on the first day of the first state’s congressional filing deadline.We are...
View ArticleNV, MO, OH & NH-Sen: Meet Al Franken's (D. MN) 2016 MVP Picks
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Al Franken (D. MN):I wanted to give you an update on some of our MVPs. You remember our MVPs, right? They’re the Democrats running in must-win Senate races...
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CO, FL, OH & WI-Sen: Greenberg Poll Has Dems Leading In CO & WI,...
Greenberg Quinlan Rosner released a new poll today conducted on behalf of the Women's Voices Women Vote Action Fund and Democracy Corps that polled the 2012 Obama coalition known as the Rising American...
View ArticleExpanding the National Parks System -#35- Ohio
This is the thirty-fifth diary in the Expanding the National Parks series, and the first under the new DK5 diary system.. Prior diaries are linked and located at the bottom of the diary. this time,...
View ArticleWas Ohio's Issue 3 Loss Due to Fraud?
This is fascinating — and disturbing. I just read the following story on the website “Raw Story” that raises troubling issues about the vote count for Issue 3, Ohio’s Marijuana legalization initiative...
View ArticleImpossible Election Results for Ohio's Marijuana Ballot Initiative?:...
Screenshots suggests disappearing 'Yes' votes on Election Night; OH Sec. of State's office offers us an explanation, downplays concerns | PLUS: Citizen calls for hand-count grows in Kentucky; And...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing the 50 State Strategy: Put down the pie
A movement is building here (and here and here and here and here ) on DKos to fix a major problem in our party --regardless of whether Hillary, Bernie, or Martin wins the Presidential nomination.We...
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WI, CA, IL, OH & NV-Sen: Former St. Paul Mayor Jim Scheibel Helps These...
Received this e-mail today from former Saint Paul Mayor, Jim Scheibel (D. MN) on behalf of the progressive group, 21st Century Democrats:Former Governor Ted Strickland (D. OH) & Former Senator Russ...
View ArticleNina Turner, former Clinton supporter, endorses Sanders!
Some good news for the Bernie Sanders campaign. Nina Turner, the former state senator from Cleveland and a top Ohio Democratic Party official, is ditching Hillary Clinton in favor of Bernie...
View ArticleWhy regulations increase when you privatize government
Every now and then some politician pulls a stunt where they print out a list of regulations from some agency or other to try to make the point about the “burden” of regulation.What they don’t talk...
View ArticleNina Turner Shares Why She 'Feels the Bern' In Front of Thousands of Cheering...
Former Ohio State Senator, and former Hillary Clinton supporter Nina Turner on Monday introduced Bernie Sanders, now her choice for President, at a rally in Cleveland, Ohio. But this was no ordinary...
View ArticleBNR - 'Sanders Gets A Rockstar Welcome In Cleveland'& 'Bernie Speaks...
Bernie Makes A Stop in ClevelandDemocratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders railed against the political and economic establishment he contends has failed the middle class during a campaign...
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