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Latest Articles: (s)Elections
Undecided voters not satisfied with both candidates
Post Date: 2008-09-24 10:43:27 by freepatriot32
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WASHINGTON (AP) — With Wall Street in turmoil and the economy in shambles, whichever presidential candidate convinces a swath of persuadable voters that he gets it — and can be trusted to lead the country back to fiscal stability — could well win the White House. A recent AP-Yahoo! News poll found that 18 percent of likely voters are up for grabs — undecided or willing to change their minds — little more than five weeks before Americans choose between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. A large chunk of these voters say they are hurting on a personal level from the country's economic woes, and, like everyone else, they say the economy is the top ...
Economic Fears Give Obama Clear Lead Over McCain in Poll
Post Date: 2008-09-24 10:10:04 by christine
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Turmoil in the financial industry and growing pessimism about the economy have altered the shape of the presidential race, giving Democratic nominee Barack Obama the first clear lead of the general-election campaign over Republican John McCain, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News national poll. Just 9 percent of those surveyed rated the economy as good or excellent, the first time that number has been in single digits since the days just before the 1992 election. Just 14 percent said the country is heading in the right direction, equaling the record low on that question in polls dating back to 1973. More voters trust Obama to deal with the economy, and he currently has a big ...
Supremacists distribute fliers attacking Obama
Post Date: 2008-09-24 09:48:08 by Jethro Tull
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Supremacists distribute fliers attacking Obama Leaflets are delivered in some Roxbury neighborhoods over weekend Tuesday, September 23, 2008 BY LAWRENCE RAGONESE Star-Ledger Staff Some neighborhoods in Roxbury were blanketed over the weekend with campaign literature from a white supremacist, anti-immigration group that bluntly raised the issue of race regarding presidential candidate Barack Obama, offending some recipients and angering Democratic leaders. A flier left on driveways in a neatly packaged plastic envelope and distributed by a group named the League of American Patriots, with a Butler mailing address, questioned, "Do You Want A Black President?" and stated ...
Learning About the State
Post Date: 2008-09-24 06:55:31 by Ada
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What we've seen in the last week is the state at work – and by the state, I do not mean a particular set of leaders. If we watch carefully, we can gain insight into what the state is and why our fundamental problem extends far above and below the political party system. The moment is complicated by the upcoming election, so some people are distracted by the circus of McCain vs. Obama and all the characters associated with that silly little battle. What they are looking at is really the veneer. It is a covering designed to prevent you from seeing what the state is and why it matters. The party system and the elections lead us to believe that we live under conditions that Martin ...
Palin meets her first world leaders in a tightly controlled diplomatic debut in New York
Post Date: 2008-09-24 01:42:21 by X-15
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Sarah Palin met her first world leaders Tuesday. It was a tightly controlled crash course on foreign policy for the Republican vice presidential candidate, the mayor-turned-governor who has been outside North America just once. Palin sat down with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. The conversations were private, the pictures public, meant to build her resume for voters concerned about her lack of experience in world affairs. "I found her quite a capable woman," Karzai said later. "She asked the right questions on Afghanistan." The self-described "hockey mom" also asked former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for insights ...
Join our Republican team today (not bloody likely!)
Post Date: 2008-09-23 22:00:04 by James Deffenbach
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Dear Friend, McCain got you doing it too, huh? Calling every individual you talk to or write to "my friend" and "dear friend(s)." For whatever it's worth I advise you not to do that. It makes you look and sound phony like McCain and surely you don't want that, do you? I know that John McCain is the right person to lead our great country forward in these challenging times. Republicans across the country and I share his vision for keeping America prosperous and secure and look forward to helping communicate that vision to the American voters. McCain is having "visions," is he? And you are having them too? And you think that McCain is "the right ...
Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
Post Date: 2008-09-23 21:13:36 by Jethro Tull
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Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists. The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s. Among other feats, Mr. Ayers and his cohorts bombed the Pentagon, and he has never expressed regret for his actions. Barack Obama's first run for the Illinois State Senate was launched at a 1995 gathering at Mr. Ayers's home. ...
Evaluating the Security of Electronic Voting Systems
Post Date: 2008-09-23 16:00:35 by Split
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Are your votes really counted? The reportThe paperThe video Electronic voting systems have been introduced to improve the voting process. Since their inception, they have been controversial, because both the technologists and the general public realized that they were losing direct control over an important part of the voting process: counting the votes. A quote attributed to Stalin says: "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." It is clear that voting systems represent a critical component of a democracy. Although the consequences of a malfunctioning electronic voting system are not as readily apparent as those for air traffic ...
Bill: Hillary was best VP pick 'politically'
Post Date: 2008-09-23 10:00:57 by christine
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Former President Bill Clinton said Monday that while Sen. Joe Biden was a “good choice” to be Barack Obama’s running mate, his wife, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, “would have been the best politically.” “It’s a very personal decision, who should be vice president,” Clinton said on ABC’s "The View." “I think that [Obama] felt more comfortable with another choice, and you have to respect that.” “I like Sen. Biden a lot. I think he was a good choice,” the former president said, before adding of his wife, “She would have been the best politically, at least in the short run, because of her enormous support ...
Bill Clinton Says He Understands Palin’s Appeal [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-09-23 08:05:58 by Jethro Tull
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NEW YORK — Former President Bill Clinton said Monday he understands why Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is popular in the American heartland: because people relate to her. “I come from Arkansas, I get why she’s hot out there, why she’s doing well,” said Clinton, who supports the Democratic ticket headed by Barack Obama. Speaking to reporters before his Clinton Global Initiative meeting, the former president described Palin’s appeal by adding, “People look at her, and they say, ‘All those kids. Something that happens in everybody’s family. I’m glad she loves her daughter and she’s not ashamed of her. Glad that ...
Loan Titans Paid McCain Adviser Nearly $2 Million
Post Date: 2008-09-23 01:19:24 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Senator John McCain’s campaign manager was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend them against stricter regulations, current and former officials say. Mr. McCain, the Republican candidate for president, has recently begun campaigning as a critic of the two companies and the lobbying army that helped them evade greater regulation as they began buying riskier mortgages with implicit federal backing. He and his Democratic rival, Senator Barack Obama, have donors and advisers who are tied to the companies. But last week the McCain campaign stepped up a running battle of guilt by ...
I just saw my first McCain/Palin bumpersticker and.....
Post Date: 2008-09-22 15:54:30 by christine
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it read Hillary Supporter for McCain/Palin. amusing.
McCain's VP Pick Sarah Palin - Guess What?
Post Date: 2008-09-22 14:54:23 by nikki
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-- Governor Palin did not sign Alaska's SB 202 to prohibit state funding and implementation of the federal Real ID Act. The bill was allowed to become law (without Palin's signature) and went into effect 8/26/06. -- As a candidate for governor, Palin's response to the question "What role does state government have, if any, in addressing global warming and climate change?" was: "We need to analyze the potential economic costs, needs and opportunities associated with climate change. Let's be cautious in how we react - to make sure we don't overreact. The Alaska Climate Impact Assessment Commission is supposed to assess the situation and issue a report on ...
Poll: Barack Obama could lose six percentage points on election day for being black
Post Date: 2008-09-22 12:17:35 by Jethro Tull
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Six percentage points is the price Barack Obama could pay on election day for being black. That disturbing calculation was found in a groundbreaking new Associated Press-Yahoo News poll conducted with Stanford University which probes the effect of the Democratic presidential candidate's race on his historic campaign for the White House. "There's a penalty for prejudice, and it's not trivial," Stanford University political scientist Paul Sniderman told the AP.
Poster Comment:This is disturbing. Only 6%??? WTF?
Palin draws crowd of 60,000 in The Villages [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-09-22 09:45:58 by christine
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THE VILLAGES -- Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin told wildly cheering, flag-waving, chanting supporters that John McCain is "the only great man in this race" and promised Sunday he will fix the nation's economy if voters give the GOP four more years in the White House. "He won't say this, so I'll say it for him," the Alaska governor said in an almost confidential tone at the close of her first Florida stump speech. "There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you. John McCain wore the uniform of his country for 22 years -- talk about tough." The Villages, a vast, upscale planned community north of Orlando, ...
Update: FBI serves search warrant against UT student in Palin case
Post Date: 2008-09-22 09:40:28 by christine
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The FBI is stepping up its investigation into the possibility that a University of Tennessee student hacked into the personal e-mail of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. A person who identified himself as a witness tells 10 News that agents with the FBI served a federal search warrant at the Fort Sanders residence of David Kernell early Sunday morning. Kernell lives in the Commons apartment complex at 1115 Highland Ave. David Kernell is the son of Mike Kernell, a Democratic state representative from Memphis. A Department of Justice spokesperson confirmed there has been "investigatory activity" in Knoxville regarding the Palin case, but she said there are no ...
Gallup Daily: Obama 50%, McCain 44%
Post Date: 2008-09-22 06:22:13 by Ada
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Obama maintains lead USA Election 2008 Gallup Daily Americas Northern America PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Wednesday through Friday finds Barack Obama maintaining his lead over John McCain among registered voters, by a 50% to 44% margin. Obama has held at least a small margin over McCain in each of the last four daily reports, generally coincident with the start of the Wall Street financial meltdown that began to dominate the news on Monday this past week. Separate Gallup consumer confidence tracking has shown that Americans' views of the economy deteriorated as the week progressed, and that Americans also began to express increased personal worry about their ...
The Trojan Candidate
Post Date: 2008-09-22 04:28:37 by Disgusted
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The Trojan CandidateSeptember 21, 2008 by texasdarlin The Trojan CandidateBy Dr. Kate, Guest Author [Author's Note: I've been working on this article for quite some time and am so concerned about the true agenda of Barack Obama that I wanted to share this now, however incomplete and lengthy. I believe it imperative to defeat Obama for the sake of our country and encourage vigorous dialogue about the ideas presented herein! ] 60;The end of an empire is messy at best And this empire is ending Like all the rest Like the Spanish Armada adrift on the sea We57;re adrift in the land of the brave And the home of the free Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye61; Now why would Chicago educator ...
The Point: Disturbing line Palin tossed off in address
Post Date: 2008-09-21 23:22:27 by Ferret Mike
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At the GOP convention, it had classic lynch-mob slant In the weeks since John McCain introduced Sarah Palin as his running mate, she has become one of the most famous people in America. She has been cunningly impersonated on Saturday Night Live by her look-alike Tina Fey, grilled by ABC's sober anchor Charlie Gibson, and investigated by teams of reporters who by now have hunted down every person in Alaska with a grudge or criticism. We discovered that her teenage daughter is pregnant and watched as the hockey-playing lad who knocked her up was rapidly betrothed, cleaned up and hauled wide-eyed into the national spotlight with his soon-to-be in-laws - a bracingly modern variation of ...
John McCain's 'Coco BonBon' is finally found, Brazilian Maria Gracinda
Post Date: 2008-09-21 19:29:22 by Ferret Mike
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Brazilian former model and dancer Maria Gracinda Teixeira de Jesus, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The 77-year-old former model who was the young love of US Republican presidential candidate John McCain has been found by a newspaper in the South American country. EPA/FABIO GUIMARAES Rio de Janeiro - A 77-year-old Brazilian former model who was the young love of US Republican presidential candidate John McCain has been found by a newspaper in the South American country. Maria Gracinda met McCain in 1957 while he was in Rio de Janeiro on leave from his Navy ship. At the time, he was still a cadet at the US Naval Academy. He spent every free minute with the Brazilian beauty and describes ...
Latest Electoral College forecast shows McCain ahead by as many as 27 votes
Post Date: 2008-09-21 17:59:57 by farmfriend
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Contact: Barry List barry.list@informs.org 443-757-3560 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Latest Electoral College forecast shows McCain ahead by as many as 27 votes D.C. INFORMS workshops show new ways to forecast presidential outcome, target voters A new approach to determining which candidate will win the most electoral votes in the U.S. Presidential race factors in lessons learned from the 2004 election and uses sophisticated math modeling. The research will be presented at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®). As of September 16, the margin in electoral votes could be as high as 282.8 ...
Whoa and Woe: Living In Sarah Palin’s America
Post Date: 2008-09-21 17:38:36 by richard9151
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Whoa and Woe: Living In Sarah Palin’s America By David Michael Green 20/09/08 "ICH" -- -- I can’t tell you how despondent I’ve grown in the last weeks. Is there really no hope for this country, after all? It now appears so. In January of 2003, John Le Carre wrote that, “America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: Worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.” He was surely right then. Except that what once looked like a period now seems like an epoch. Just as I was foolish enough to believe that we could dare to hope ...
Stop Voting
Post Date: 2008-09-21 07:17:18 by Ada
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Just drop the vote and step quietly away from the vehicle. We hope you’ll join us. We are a multitude, and we have been on the increase for forty years. Forty years, and now our time is at hand. You looked for us when you sought an object for your ill-conceived charity, but we quietly sent you away. We who will not vote, who will not gratify you with an opinion of your foolish and indistinguishable pretenders to this or that throne, we infuriated you. You called us apathetic for refusing to play the game. Refusing even to register. You said it was the only game in town. But if we’re so apathetic, why have you sought us so desperately, coveting even our style, asking our barbers ...
Rachel Maddow: John McCain's Bad Week
Post Date: 2008-09-21 07:06:50 by angle
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Sean Hannity: Masons run the COUNTRY [utube]
Post Date: 2008-09-20 20:12:01 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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