Ohio SoS Picks Feud With BoE Over Early Voting
For those of you who didn’t hear already, or missed Meteor Blades' diary on the subject, on Wednesday Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted caved under a barrage of national bad publicity and outrage,...
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Upd. - "Voter ID which is going to allow Governor Romney to win the State of...
This started out as a comment last night in an open thread. At MB's suggestion, I'm re-posting it in expanded form in the diary. If you've been watching cable news the past few days, you must have...
View ArticleUPDATE: Ohio GOP Election Board Member: Our Voting Process Shouldn’t...
Ohio Secretary of State John Husted recently issued a decision to restrict early voting in all counties to weekdays only. This has some people concerned as to the possible effect on voter turnout in...
View ArticleWe should not accomodate black voters says Ohio
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted’s recent decision to prohibit early voting on nights and weekends in all districts has many concerned about the effect on voter turnout in the state, particularly...
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Ohio Republican opposes 'contorting the voting process to accommodate' black...
Doug Preisse After tens of thousands of voters were effectively turned away from the polls in Ohio in 2004, extensive early voting hours were established so that everyone who wanted to vote would get...
View ArticleI need to remember..
That I'm not supposed to post about what I was posting about. So I won't. But I will post about general ideas and problems I have with elections, voter and civic participation. I'm watching Maddow...
View ArticleHelp Crowdfund Ohio Mobile Clean Energy for Crises
Hi again Kossacks! We last told you about our Indiegogo campaign to crowdfund Mobile Clean Energy a couple weeks ago. We're about halfway through our campaign, closing in on $7K, and need your help....
View ArticleObama in Columbus, 8-21-2012 (Update)
I attended the Obama rally in Columbus today. The weather was nice, the energy from the crowd of mainly Obama supporters was uplifting, and this was the first time I’ve seen a sitting president. (I...
View ArticleFour Ways Ohio Republicans are Already Stealing the 2012 Election
Four Ways Ohio Republicans are Already Stealing the 2012 election by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman August 23, 2012 The Ohio Republican Party has moved four ways to steal America's 2012 election....
View ArticleReality check: seniors back Romney over Obama on Medicare in Florida and Ohio
I hate to be the bearer of any bad news, but I think it's important to discuss the bad as well as the good. As Greg Sargent explains at his blog, while today’s big New York Times/CBS/Quinnipiac poll...
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Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Early signs of an 'Akin Effect' in...
So, as it happened, Thursday was the day when pretty much every November race got polled. And, for the first time, a few of those polls were ones conducted after a weekend and early week dominated by...
View ArticleShow some anger
I feel the need to highlight something. The recent voter ID laws and other suppression efforts across the country, as has been admitted by some, are specifically made to prevent black people, Latinos,...
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How to edit an article to 'back page' the science: a case study from today's...
If you read the top quote from an article in today's Enquirer (picture above), what would your first thought be about what the article is about? I think the Enquirer does a great job of presenting...
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Is our military "Going Rogue"?
While returning from an appointment with my socialized medical care provider at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, I was driving through the on-base brick officers quarters when I was stunned to...
View ArticleWhere did Bill Clinton do well in 1992 and 1996? The Partial Myth of Bubba....
Lawton Chiles famously said that Bill Clinton "knows how to speak cracker", and Clinton's drawling persona and successful performances in the 1992 and 1996 Presidential elections have contributed to...
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Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Pre-convention polls present a very mixed...
For a Monday, this is actually a fairly busy edition of the Polling Wrap, which might have something to do with the fact that the convention season is upon us. PRESIDENTIAL GENERAL ELECTION TRIAL...
View ArticleOhio Lawsuit Demands Voter Roll Purge
Taken from the Cincinnati Enquirer, we have a story of organization by in and out of state groups to demand a purge of Ohio's voter rolls in a manner similar to that being performed in Florida. What...
View ArticleRomney tells miners 'you've got a great boss.' That boss made them lose pay...
"You've got a great boss, he runs a great operation here," Mitt Romney told a group of Ohio coal miners at a Murray Energy mine on Aug. 14, before launching into an attack on President Obama's...
View ArticleOhio Coal Miners Lose Pay, Forced to Attend Romney Rally
This is some pretty shocking news. Earlier this month, when Mitt Romney visited an Ohio coal mine to promote jobs, something very unethical happened. Miners were required to attend and were not...
View ArticleUPDATEX2! Ohio SOS Husted Just Fired Dem Election Board Members for Allowing...
Update: I just threw this diary up when I saw the post at Rachel's blog because I thought this community would be interested. There are a lot of questions showing up in the comments. I think a big...
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