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Latest Articles: (s)Elections
Working Class White Voters Are Ditching McCain (PA)
Post Date: 2008-10-10 13:56:10 by angle
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Georgia Lutz, right, sits with Darryl Hendon on the stoop outside their home in Beaver Falls, Pa. Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Lutz said she's voting for Obama, as did Hendon, 50, both Democrats. Hendon said he thinks some white Democrats in the region are reluctant to back Obama simply because of his race. KITTANNING, Pa. — The steel mills and coal mines of western Pennsylvania helped fuel the nation's economic engine. Today, old factory shells and boarded-up storefronts stand as bleak reminders of those once-prosperous times. But the voters in working-class enclaves such as this still are a sought-after prize in presidential politics, and many are belatedly backing Democratic ...
I Smell a Rat
Post Date: 2008-10-10 06:26:48 by Ada
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I smell a rat in the indictment and trial of Ted Stevens, the senator from Alaska. Sarah Palin had fought with him for control of the Alaska Republican Party, and by refusing to endorse him for reelection, she looks like an anti-corruption fighter, the maverick who takes on the powerful in the interests of the common people. But all of a sudden, the judge in the case has thrown out critical evidence because of prosecutorial misconduct involving the use of evidence it knew was false. There is no way to know what the outcome of the trial will be, but it is starting to look more and more like a political hatchet job to the benefit of Palin. This would not be the first time the Justice ...
McCain Follows Obama Down the Same Socialist Road
Post Date: 2008-10-09 20:54:04 by christine
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It is terrifying to see our financial system crumbling because of corruption on Wall Street, aided and abetted by government policies of too much federal spending, debt, and intervention in the economy. But it is also troubling to see our economic system of free enterprise slipping away as the candidates of both major political parties propose more federal intervention, spending and debt as solutions to these problems. Our media have an obligation to inform the American people that we are moving into a full-blown socialist economy. At this point, with the financial crisis continuing to grow, isn’t it apparent that the “bailout” plan was in no real sense a “rescue,” ...
The Race for Third Place
Post Date: 2008-10-09 19:09:41 by Ada
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It’s beginning to look a lot like 2000. A prominent conservative bolts the GOP and wins the presidential nomination of an established third party. Early on, the poll numbers are encouraging and the media coverage respectful. Soon, however, his insurgent campaign is lost in the shuffle of a competitive two-party race. There is even competition for the dissident Right’s support, as the Constitution Party runs its own presidential candidate. Infighting, missteps, and misfortunes further erode any possibility of a major breakthrough. Even Russ Verney makes an appearance. This election cycle was an even bigger missed opportunity than 2000. The issues Pat Buchanan ran on—foreign ...
McCain Considering Conceding Election Soon?
Post Date: 2008-10-09 17:35:09 by statusquobuster
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McCain Considering Conceding Election Soon? Joel S. Hirschhorn In highly secret discussions John McCain is seeking feedback on the bold, historically unique idea of conceding the presidential election BEFORE Election Day! Here are the main discussion points framing the conversations with his closest, long-time supporters, including his wife, but not current campaign staff. First is the argument that taking this move would boldly prove McCain’s goal of always putting the nation first. This is the way for him to achieve a lasting legacy as a true American patriot. Why keep fighting and giving the media the horse race story when shortly it will be crystal clear to everyone that Barack ...
freepers demonstrating thier vast knowledge of the constitution
Post Date: 2008-10-09 17:19:13 by freepatriot32
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101605/posts i was lurking around freerepublic earlier and saw this story about how hard it is for college studentsto register to vote and among the usuall "conservative" responces like i dont want college students voting and voting should be restricted i came across this little gem by a "conservative" legal scholar that is going to vote this election see if you can figure out whats wrong with this statement To: 2ndDivisionVet Good! I’ve been thinking lately that the voting age should be raised to 30 anyway. 18 made sense back when 18-year-olds had already been productive citizens for a few years. I don’t think our ...
Obama supporter favors "deprogramming right-wingnuts"
Post Date: 2008-10-09 14:34:36 by freepatriot32
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From Hillary Clinton Forum Yesterday, 09:44 PM Maddie Kaddison New Member = <100 Posts Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 99 Poster Rank: #454 Obama's supporters scare me. Here is a comment I just read from this story (the story that Dean Reynolds of CBS wrote about Obama's "stinky" plane etc): Quote: I support Obama, but I disagree on some major issues. One is that we need to use major authoritarian measures against wingnuts and theocrats to save this country. That in particular includes deprogramming institutions and a Gitmo like camp to deal with the worst wingnuts. These people should be removed from general society and need to be shut up. I have believed this for ...
Reporter's Notebook: Seeing How The Other Half Lives
Post Date: 2008-10-09 13:08:16 by X-15
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(NASHVILLE, TENN.) - After most of the previous 12 months covering Barack Obama's campaign for the presidency, it was interesting, instructive and, well, relaxing to follow John McCain for the last few days. The differences between the two are striking. Obama is the big time orator, McCain is the guy who struggles with a teleprompter or even note cards strategically placed nearby. Obama's crowds are larger, more enthusiastic. McCain's events are smaller, but to my eye, better choreographed. And now with the addition of Sarah Palin to some of his events, McCain can boast of crowds that match Obama's in energy. There is an urgency to the McCain campaign now that I don't ...
NRA: Hillary Was Right, You Can't Trust Obama With Your Guns
Post Date: 2008-10-09 10:13:29 by christine
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WASHINGTON -- The National Rifle Association is turning to Hillary Rodham Clinton to bolster its criticism of Barack Obama's positions on gun issues. The NRA's Political Victory Fund planned a national newspaper ad Thursday reviving a Clinton mailing that accused Obama of waffling on gun issues. Clinton's campaign sent the mailing when the New York senator was challenging Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. It accuses Obama of changing his statements on gun issues to try to fit the audience he was addressing. "Hillary was right: You can't trust Obama with your guns," says the NRA political action committee's ad, scheduled to run in USA Today. ...
Missouri officials suspect fake voter registration
Post Date: 2008-10-09 00:59:05 by mirage
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states. Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson County, where Kansas City is, said the fraudulent registration forms came from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. She said they were bogging down work Wednesday, the final day Missourians could register to vote. "I don't even know the entire scope of it because registrations are coming in so heavy," Davis said. ...
Indianapolis Has 105% Of Its Population Registered To Vote
Post Date: 2008-10-09 00:43:14 by freepatriot32
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It's the elephant in the room that Indiana election officials don't talk about. Voter registration numbers in the counties have been growing dramatically far above what is possible given the population. In today's Indianapolis Star, Brendan O'Shaughnessy reports that as of Monday evening 677,401 people in Marion County have registered to vote. Many reporters covering voter registration stories will take the population of the state/county and then, by doing some math, the reporter dutifully reports that 75% or so of the population is registered in that state are registered. As I noted previously, this approach fails to consider the under 18 year old voters in that county or ...
Bradley Who? Here Comes the Obama Effect
Post Date: 2008-10-08 16:29:31 by PoliticallyIncorrect
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Everyone knows about the dreaded Bradley Effect: the phenomenon that leaves white voters loath to tell pollsters they won't vote for a black candidate. There's been a lot of fretting about this recently -- fretting, I find, that correlates with age: the older you are, the more likely you are to believe the Bradley Effect will turn up in this election. Here are some reasons Democrats needn't be overly worried, in ascending order of importance: 1. The event that gave the BE its name -- the 1982 California gubernatorial election, when Tom Bradley, the black mayor of Los Angeles, polled well and then lost resoundingly -- took place 26 years ago. Don't you think the world has ...
Cyber Security Expert: Hackers Planning To Steal Election For McCain (video)
Post Date: 2008-10-08 13:50:58 by christine
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Stephen Spoonamore warns in a new interview that electronic voting machines represent a national security threat and that hackers are already planning to steal the 2008 presidential election for John McCain. Spoonamore is a GOP member and a lifelong Republican, having worked on election campaigns with Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg. He also has 20 years worth of experience in enc More..rypted and networked communications systems for banks, TV, telecommunications, EMS, Military and other uses. In an ten part You Tube interview, Spoonamore warns that hackers are planning to steal the election on behalf of the McCain camp and even predicts the margin of victory, that McCain will make a ...
Have No Illusions about Obama
Post Date: 2008-10-08 12:23:32 by Rupert_Pupkin
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Have No Illusions About Obama by Justin Raimondo I have to admit once being not enamored of, but hopeful about the candidacy of Barack Obama. In "The Year of the Insurgents," I underlined why I thought the conventional wisdom about this election year was dead wrong, and I was right about that. But what I wasn't right about was the extent to which Obama would be willing to deviate from the foreign policy elite's party line when it comes to the pressing issues of the day. We all know where Obama is right – or, as we used to say in the Sixties, "right on." The importance of negotiations, the profound strategic and moral wrongness of the Iraq war, the sheer ...
I found new candidates to back in this election
Post Date: 2008-10-08 10:53:48 by freepatriot32
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McCain, Obama clash over economic crisis
Post Date: 2008-10-08 10:13:58 by christine
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Barack Obama and John McCain clashed repeatedly over the causes and cures for the worst economic crisis in 80 years Tuesday night in a debate in which Republican McCain called for sweeping action by the government to directly shield many homeowners from mortgage foreclosure. "It's my proposal. It's not Sen. Obama's proposal, it's not President Bush's proposal," McCain said in the debate that he hoped could revive his fortunes in a presidential race trending toward his rival. In one pointed confrontation on foreign policy, Obama bluntly challenged McCain's steadiness. "This is a guy who sang bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, who called for ...
As Pa. deadline passes, Democratic registration at all-time high
Post Date: 2008-10-07 23:40:01 by angle
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Thousands of new voter applications flooded election offices around the state yesterday, with the number of Democratic voters already at an all-time record as Pennsylvania's registration deadline expired at midnight. Final numbers won't be known until the end of the month, after county election officials have processed all the applications. But registered Democrats in Pennsylvania already outnumber Republicans by an unprecedented 1.17 million voters - considered bad news for presidential candidate John McCain and everyone below him on the Republican ticket. "For the past 15 years, from the early 1990s until last year, there were about half a million more Democrats in the ...
ACORN Office Raided in Fraud Probe
Post Date: 2008-10-07 21:21:36 by freepatriot32
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LAS VEGAS (Oct. 7) - Nevada state authorities are raiding the Las Vegas headquarters of an organization that works to get low-income people to vote. A Nevada secretary of state's office spokesman said Tuesday that investigators are looking for evidence of voter fraud at the office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN. No one was at the ACORN office when state agents arrived with a search warrant and began carting records and documents away. Secretary of State spokesman Bob Walsh says ACORN is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with false and duplicate names. The raid comes two months after state and federal authorities ...
Live from Nashville... IT's THE TUESDAY NIGHT DEBATE!!! [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-10-07 20:13:16 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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This is the official LIVE thread!!! Feel free to express yourself and, of course, ENJOY THE SHOW!
Cindy Sheehan Reveals Plan for New National Party
Post Date: 2008-10-07 19:08:54 by richard9151
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Cindy Sheehan (for the first time to press) reveals intentions in forming a new political party, and reflects on her chances in unseating Nancy Pelosi in her race for Congress. By Stephen Dohnberg 07/10/08 "Digital Journal" Anti War activist and challenger for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Congressional Seat (CD 8, California), Cindy Sheehan has indicated her intention to launch a National political party after the U.S. Election of Nov. 4 Inspired in part by Mark Twain's involvement in The American Anti Imperialist League in reaction to the annexation of the Philippines by the United States in the late 19th Century, Sheehan said that the party will have a progressive ...
McCain linked to group in Iran-Contra affair
Post Date: 2008-10-07 18:35:27 by richard9151
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By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 3 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Barack Obama has his William Ayers connection. Now John McCain may have an Iran-Contra connection. In the 1980s, McCain served on the advisory board to the U.S. chapter of an international group linked to ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America. The U.S. Council for World Freedom aided rebels trying to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua. That landed the group in the middle of the Iran-Contra affair and in legal trouble with the Internal Revenue Service, which revoked the charitable organization's tax exemption. The council created by retired Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub was the U.S. ...
*Why I FEAR Obama like no other, like no other
Post Date: 2008-10-07 17:24:56 by Ninpo
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*Why I FEAR Obama like no other, like no other By Ignorance Isn’t Bliss: Amidst all the potential nasties, I fear one thing most. And this one reason alone is why I’ve deeply felt for some time that he will surely be the one “elected”. And I’ll premptively point out that the list of reasons that precedes this one thing almost wholeheartedly applies to McCain as well (worse in many cases).This won’t be a reason any Liberal or Conservative would ever expect, nor is the preceding list hardly particular in any ‘wedge issue’ topic. Vote None of the Above! So is it… …because he’s calling for a Stasi-like “national security ...
McCain revisiting Keating 5 banking scandal again
Post Date: 2008-10-07 16:05:11 by richard9151
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By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer Tue Oct 7, 8:33 AM ET WASHINGTON - Nearly two decades later, John McCain is still haunted by his role in the Keating Five scandal. His role in the 1980s banking scandal is featured in a new Barack Obama attack video. McCain's presidential campaign quickly moved to limit any damage. The Republican senator's lawyer in the case, John Dowd, told reporters in a conference call Monday that McCain had been the victim of "a political smear job" by Senate Democrats. When a reporter noted that McCain himself has spoken contritely about his role, Dowd responded, "I'm his lawyer and I have a different view of it." McCain ...
Keith Olbermann Special Comment on Sarah Palin
Post Date: 2008-10-07 13:20:00 by angle
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Kenya to Deport American Author of Anti-Obama Book
Post Date: 2008-10-07 09:43:42 by christine
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An American author who penned an anti-Barack Obama book was detained by immigration authorities in Kenya after plans to launch the book there, the Times of London reported. Jerome Corsi, of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth fame, was being held Tuesday morning while his immigration status was checked in a nation where Obama is widely popular. Kenyan airport officials said they plan to deport Corsi. Despite, Joe Farah, a friend of Corsi's, told FOXNews he was still in custody and expected to make a flight to the U.K. later Tuesday. He had been planning to launch his book, entitled "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," before traveling to one of ...
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