OH-Gov: New Gravis Poll Gives Richard Cordray (D) Beating Mike DeWine (R) 48-43
Here’s some good news today out of Ohio:x.@GravisMarketing poll of Ohio:#OHSenðµ@SenSherrodBrown 46%ð´@JimRenacci 37%#OHGovðµ@RichCordray 48%ð´@MikeDeWine...
View ArticleVoting Rights Roundup: Redistricting, voting rights, and election reform are...
Leading Off●Ballot Measures: Republican gerrymandering, voter suppression, and our very electoral system itself often present great challenges to preserving free and fair elections in America, but...
View ArticleWhy 2018's Secretary of State Races Are Key to 2020's Presidential Election:...
Guest: Voting rights journalist Ari Berman on voter suppression and important down-ballot voting; Also: Election Day nightmares previewed in WI, TN, ND?; Third-party pull-outs in AZ, MT U.S. Senate...
View ArticleTrump voter: “Every day that goes by that I don’t see anything happening it...
Today’s Guardian contains a Dominic Rushe article “'He said jobs were coming back': the Trump voters who feel cheated” that’s well worth a read. Rushe’s interviews include one of Trump voter and GM...
View ArticleOur 'county benchmarks' will help you follow along with—and make sense...
Suppose you’re settling in for a nice evening of watching election returns, and upon checking the very early results, you find that your preferred candidate is suddenly trailing by double digits,...
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the last Trump rally before election day as Hannity and Limbaugh make it the...
Fleshy words come to Cape Girardeau, Missouri as the lie-fest manifests itself at the home of Rush Limbaugh. It’s another small venue (Seating Capacity: 2500-7600) hoping for greater media coverage by...
View ArticleNo Democratic flips in Ohio Congressional seats —Republican gerrymandering...
47.0% of voters in Ohio just voted to have a Democratic member of Congress represent them, but Democrats only won 25% of the 16 seats as a result of Republican gerrymandering. Every incumbent was...
View ArticleThe Ohio professor who's suing for the right to violate his LGBTQ students'...
Ohio professor Nicholas Meriwether is going to court to fight for their right to misgender their students based on their extremist views about gender identity. Please note, I am tempted to use “their”...
View ArticlePicks of the Week: Our favorite stories from the Daily Kos Community
What a week, dearest Community! (I feel like I say that every week!) Election results continue to come in, some of them great—Orange County, anyone?—and some of them heartbreaking (she’ll always be...
View ArticleHouse Democrats are right to push for stronger labor protections in Trump's...
Winning a majority in the House of Representatives will affect a whole host of issues. In recent days, House Democrats have stepped forward and declared that one of those issues will be Trump’s revised...
View ArticleTaylor Sappington: Anatomy of Why Democrats' Lost in OH and Other Red States
I found this story on Talking Points Memo, though it originated at Pro Publica. It’s the story of Taylor Sappington, a native of Nelsonville, OH who would seem to be the perfect Democratic candidate...
View ArticleGM announces more 'winning,' will close auto plant in Trump country
Last year, Donald Trump tried to take credit for General Motors’ jobs he didn’t create. He did this on the shoulders of news that General Motors was announcing downturns in their plans to expand...
View ArticleThe Death Penalty for Abortion, and Other News in the War on Women
The Republican assault on women’s humanity follows a very predictable strategy: overwhelm people with bad news, slowly demoralize them, and steadily wear them down. Over time, moves that once seemed...
View ArticleCorrupt GOP power grabs happening TODAY in Wisconsin, *this week* in Ohio and...
You have heard — and have been amply outraged by — the naked partisan power-grabbing being done by sore loser Republicans in Michigan and Wisconsin. In brief, both states saw Democrats swept statewide...
View ArticleWar On Women: Saturday - December 8, 2018: This Week's Digest.
This week’s news continues to confirm that Rightwingers are mired in the determinism of biology is destiny. That is their go to corner for safety from the modern world. Governing by church is something...
View ArticleSome of the lame-duck Republican legislature's most awful bills are just...
The Republican Party has now fully entered the next phase of its all-out war on American democracy — not only are they cheating in an effort to win elections, they'll now disregard the will of voters...
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Hidden History: The Toledo War
Anyone who follows college football knows about the intense rivalry between Michigan and Ohio. But few realize that this enmity dates all the way back to the 19th century, when a dispute over the city...
View ArticleThe Wall Street Protection Bureau
We are less than a month away from ringing in the new year. With a new year comes new challenges. The world is embracing new technology where you can do anything from order a cup of coffee to buying...
View ArticleBanking while black: Ohio man tries to cash paycheck, ends up in handcuffs...
#BankingWhileBlack is the latest way to get the cops called on you, a black man in Cleveland learned this month. Paul McCowns is accusing employees of a local bank of racial profiling after he found...
View ArticleGov. Kasich signs incredibly restrictive abortion ban, worsening reproductive...
Governor John Kasich (R) banned one of the most common abortion procedures in the entire state of Ohio on Friday, when he signed Senate Bill 145 into law. The bill referred to abortions that typically...
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