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Labor Day greetings from Mitt Romney
The labor movement, as its supporters rightly say, is just the folks who brought you the weekend. Now as Americans mark this Labor Day, it seems that Mitt Romney wants to take it back. After all, the...
View ArticleLabor Day in Cleveland
Well over 30 years ago (I'm unsure of the exact number), Congressman Louis Stokes, who was representing a swath of the East Side of Cleveland then known as the 21st district, started the tradition of...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: West Virginia Democrats continue to romp...
Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here. Leading Off: • WV-Sen, WV-Gov: We've finally gotten some new numbers in the downballot...
View ArticlePolitical Geography, Part 3: The Midwest
This is part three of my series looking at the political geography of elections at the state level. In it, I present maps and data for the average of statewide races from 2004 to present by county...
View ArticleWe are losing...time to turn it around
First things first. I have been pretty sure Obama will win for months now. I see no reason to revise that prediction. But I see us losing ground in Congress. THIS is what keeps me up at night. As of...
View ArticleCharlotte: EXCELLENT choice for DNC site
An extremely short diary, but important today before events at the convention begin and the volume of content begins to overwhelm us, that: Huge HAT TIP to Team Obama for picking Charlotte, NC for the...
View ArticleHusted, OH Early Voting - The Obama Campaign Responds
Short diary (at least for the moment). You may recall that John Husted chose to ignore the plain meaning of the court's reinstatement of early voting in Ohio. Today the Obama for America campaign...
View ArticleOhio voter suppression update
I'm not a writer so this will be brief. http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/... It isn't just the Obama campaign that is upset over Ohio's decision to ignore a federal court order instructing them...
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Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Raft of House polls amid very quiet...
Perhaps we owe it to the "inter-convention" lull. Perhaps we owe it to the three-day holiday weekend. Whatever the reason, if it weren't for a very quirky deluge of downballot polls in Florida, this...
View ArticleFinal week to crowdfund Ohio clean energy jobs
Well, Kossacks, we're in the home stretch to crowdfund clean energy jobs in Ohio by deploying mobile power to developing countries with no electrical grid. Hop over the orange flourish of awesomeness...
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Judge orders Ohio secretary of state to show up personally to explain why...
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted ordered to explain himself in federal court. As you may have read here previously, Ohio's Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted has been doing everything he can...
View ArticleOhio Vote up for grabs: Help me Convince My Swing Voter Friend
So I usually never talk politics to this person. But I was fired up after Clinton's speech. I don't because I assumed he would vote for Kerry so helped him register (his father is in a Union, middle...
View ArticleRomney Off the Air in Ohio?
I don't know what to make of this, but the LA Times is reporting that Romney is currently off the air in at least large parts of Ohio. While withdrawing from Michigan and Pennsylvania might make a...
View ArticleIs Mitt Romney really going to ignore Wisconsin?
We know that the GOP has conceded Pennsylvania and Michigan. But if you are the Republicans, the obvious pivot is to Wisconsin, where the choice of Rep. Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney's running mate has...
View ArticleODNR official: we'll let the public know what's happening after you can no...
The public's right to know what is happening in its communities is only as real as its ability to exercise that right. Sometimes, though, it is an exercise in futility. Cross posted from Pruning...
View ArticleBREAKING: Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) backs down from blocking...
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) has just backed off from blocking early voting hours in violation of a federal court order!! Husted responded to the ruling by refusing to comply with the court...
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Romney goes dark in Ohio, because who the hell knows
We know that the Mitt Romney campaign has ceded Michigan and Pennsylvania. I wrote this morning that they were bizarrely ignoring (at least for the moment) Wisconsin. I didn't mention it in that...
View ArticleRomney Campaign Admits: Down in Ohio by "High Single Digits"
Is Romney down by 9 in Ohio? A few days ago, David Shuster reported: The Obama campaign, I'm told, did internal polling in Ohio the past two days and found President Obama beating Mitt Romney in the...
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Romney campaign admits it: they're losing
Pres. Barack Obama in Akron, Ohio. They can read the polling too. President Barack Obama heads out of the national political conventions with a much clearer path to winning, top advisers to Mitt...
View ArticleIf You Do Not Want a Provisional Ballot, Don't Make Them Give You One.
Very sound advice for Ohio voters, courtesy of Kay at Balloon Juice: If you request an absentee ballot in Ohio your name is marked on a poll book in your precinct as having done so. Thus, if you fill...
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