Diary of a Beltway Factotum: No Sleep til Cleveland
Everyone here is pretending to work. Sorry taxpayers, we are only human. Benghazi, Sandy, and Election 2012. Washington, DC has been hit by a psychological Super Storm on an order not experienced,...
View ArticleSo, Mitt, how did that deceptive Jeep ad work out for you?
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View ArticleTomorrow Marks the Start of a New Era (for me anyway)
I was raised in an ultra-conservative Christian home and I continued to follow that path as I went through college, got married, and started a family. In other words I was raising my family the same...
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Florida early voting hassles happening 'by partisan design.' Ohio's Husted...
A Florida judge ordered more early voting hours in Orange County after a polling station was closed for several hours to deal with a portable cooler that a local bomb squad detonated. It turned out...
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Proposition 2 Flashback: Gov Romney Supports Michigan Public Employees Right...
A little known fact: Gov. George W. Romney signed into law PERA – The Public Employees Rights Act in 1965 – that protected the right of collective bargaining in Michigan.The critical question for...
View ArticleWhy I Would Make a Lousy President, and Why I Voted for Obama
As we get close to tomorrow's election, it has become increasingly clear that its all coming down to Ohio. More-so, its looking like Obama is going to win Ohio, and the reason Obama is going to win is...
View ArticleFair Warning from Mt. Pleasant 15
Fair Warning- I am the President of Mount Pleasant, SC Pct. 15. I have personal charge of 304 active Democrats. I have given every one of them and hundreds of other people outside my precinct full...
View ArticleHelp Us Monitor Voting in Ohio
There has been considerable concern over voter suppression in Ohio, as there should be. Should we also be concerned about the former Diebold (now ES&S) voting machines in Ohio, that some people...
View Article"Unspeakably stupid, excessively complex and insanely risky"
So says the affidavit filed in the injunction against the Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted by Bob Fitrakis of the Ohio Free Press and his attorney Cliff Arnebeck.Brad Freidman reporting via Salon.com...
View ArticleRomneys huge auto bailout fantasy
Mitt Romney has not only denied he advocated for bankruptcy for the USA car manufacturers, NO Mitt Romney has gone far beyond that and brazenly taken credit for the recovery suggesting this was his...
View ArticleAn urgent call to action re: Ohio
This great diary by astral66 highlights the plight of voters in Ohio.http://www.dailykos.com/...A quick summary:At 9am Election Day, a federal judge will decide whether untested and uncertified secret...
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Pres. Obama with Bruce and Jay-Z in Ohio yesterday
Some photos and videos from Pres. Obama's campaign rally yesterday in Columbus, Ohio at Nationwide Arena. Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z warmed up the crowd.Here's a panorama of the crowd outside the...
View ArticleI made a decision to be an American....
Today, I completed a long journey which began in a small village in a coalfield. This coalfield wasn't in West Virginia or Ohio or Kentucky, however, it was in the dying coalfield of the East Midlands...
View ArticleMatt Drudge - A Liar or Just an Idiot?
This will be short and to the point. Occasionally I check Drudge to see what crap he's shoveling and I did so today. No big surprise, his top headline is a blatant lie.A President's Last Race, Win or...
View ArticleRomney Blimp in Columbus, OH
I suppose since the airwaves are already bought out, the only thing left to do is... launch a blimp? Right now Mitt Romney's face is plastered on a silver blimp hovering above downtown Columbus, Ohio....
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Chrysler gives workers the day off to vote
Oops. Something Chrysler is not doing: shifting Jeep production and jobs to China. Something Chrysler is doing: giving workers the day off to vote. The auto manufacturer's vice president of design...
View ArticleThose Ohio Early Voting Numbers are Fake!
This is going to be short, but the GOP Twittersphere is blowing up about Ohio early voting numbers showing Romney with a lead in Ohio. This is as a result of an early morning story on the front page of...
View ArticleTrue the Vote booted from Columbus
Franklin County officials this morning denied the right-wing vote suppression group True the Vote the right to monitor 30 election sites because their appointments were improperly filed.What a shame...
View ArticleGood News: True the Vote rejected as observers
According to an article in The Columbus Dispatch, True the Vote that wanted to monitor 30 Franklin County polling places for potential voter fraud was thwarted by county elections officials because...
View ArticleCan we talk about vote rigging now? Federal Courts are.
With the Christian Science Monitor reporting that a federal court is hearing a complaint today about unauthorized software updates to Ohio's vote-counting software....Can we finally talk about...
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