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Latest Articles: (s)Elections
Obama Will Name Bayh his VP Choice on Wednesday
Post Date: 2008-08-05 14:10:48 by christine
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NOTE: I originally published this on my home blog, The Bilerico Project. I'll keep updating the story over there as more tips come in. I'm going to put my neck out on the line by making a prediction. Barack Obama will announce his vice-presidential choice Wednesday morning It will be Indiana Senator Evan Bayh. While Washington Post columnist Chris Cillizza has positioned Bayh at the top of the heap for a few weeks now, after getting tips to Bilerico-Indiana and making some logical conclusions the choice is obvious. Why? Multiple reasons - including an inside scoop from an Obama staffer on an upcoming event. Here's my reasoning: The Olympics start on Friday and run until ...
BATTLEGROUNDS: THE REGISTRATION NUMBERS
Post Date: 2008-08-05 12:21:59 by CAPPSMADNESS
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The New York Times looks at the problem facing the Republican Party -- and the advantage for the Democrats -- regarding registration. "In several states, including the traditional battlegrounds of Nevada and Iowa, Democrats have surprised their own party officials with significant gains in registration. In both of those states, there are now more registered Democrats than Republicans, a flip from 2004. No states have switched to the Republicans over the same period, according to data from 26 of the 29 states in which voters register by party. (Three of the states did not have complete data.)” “In six states, including Iowa, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, the Democratic ...
Illegal Immigrants Are Voting in American Elections
Post Date: 2008-08-05 04:47:53 by Disgusted
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In 2005, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that up to 3 percent of the 30,000 individuals called for jury duty from voter registration rolls over a two-year period in just one U.S. district court were not U.S. citizens. While that may not seem like many, just 3 percent of registered voters would have been more than enough to provide the winning presidential vote margin in Florida in 2000. Indeed, the Census Bureau estimates that there are over a million illegal aliens in Florida, and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has prosecuted more non-citizen voting cases in Florida than in any other state. Florida is not unique. Thousands of non-citizens are registered to ...
Obama backs some drilling, tapping oil stockpile
Post Date: 2008-08-04 21:11:44 by Rotara
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By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer 19 minutes ago LANSING, Mich. - Barack Obama put forward a broad energy plan Monday designed to end U.S. reliance on imported oil within 10 years and shore up his standing amid a tightening White House race and high anxiety over gas prices. Obama's proposal, though, includes two significant reversals of past positions: He had steadfastly fought the idea of limited new offshore drilling and had been against tapping the nation's emergency oil stockpile to relieve pump prices that have stubbornly hovered around $4 a gallon. In a speech in Michigan, the Democratic presidential nominee-in-waiting also endorsed long-term work on hybrid cars and ...
Book links Obama to massacre of Christians, Senator's continuing ally launches genocidal tribal violence (The Obama Nation: Jerome Corsi)
Post Date: 2008-08-04 14:27:37 by PoliticallyIncorrect
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U.S. Sen. Barack Obama has continued to support Kenya's Raila Odinga, even after Odinga has been blamed for inciting tribal violence and slaughtering Christians, according to an explosive new book written by WND senior staff reporter Jerome R. Corsi. In "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," Corsi argues that Odinga's protests following his loss to U.S.-backed Mwai Kibaki in Kenya's 2007 presidential election led to a wave of tribal and religious violence aimed against Kibaki's majority Kikuyu tribe. The violence Obama's ally was blamed for included the slaughter of some 50 Pentecostal Christians. As WND reported earlier, during ...
The Race Issue Isn't Going Away
Post Date: 2008-08-04 14:08:21 by Jethro Tull
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The Race Issue Isn't Going Away By JUAN WILLIAMS August 4, 2008 With polls showing the presidential contest between John McCain and Barack Obama getting closer, a question is now looming larger and larger. Is skin color going to be the deciding factor? Just last week, Sen. Obama warned voters that Sen. McCain's campaign will exploit the race issue by telling voters that "he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills." A few weeks earlier, he said they will attack his lack of experience but also added, "And did I mention he's black?" AP The McCain campaign did not counter the first punch, but after last week's jab -- fearing ...
Barak's accomplishments (Videos)
Post Date: 2008-08-04 11:50:12 by TwentyTwelve
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Barak's accomplishments explained by a fellow politician. Next, Barak's accomplishments explained by average voters. And last, Barak's actual accomplishments explained by news reporters. Click for Full Text!
O-Force One
Post Date: 2008-08-04 10:21:26 by christine
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Barack Obama’s new campaign plane is nothing short of grand. Well, for the candidate that is. Obama’s section of the plane rivals that of any first class. Recently the front cabin of the Boeing 757 was retrofitted to install four individual chairs that resemble La-Z-Boys. They are free-standing and made of plush leather with pockets on the sides. There is also a booth which seats four for a meeting or a meal. His chair has his name and campaign logo embroidered on the back top -- “Obama ‘08” on one line and “President” underneath. To one side is a small table stacked with newspapers ready for the candidate’s arrival. The table of the booth is always ...
Will Oboma Loose the Black Vote?
Post Date: 2008-08-04 00:05:04 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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In veep search, McCain asks Cantor for Records
Post Date: 2008-08-03 12:40:06 by Rupert_Pupkin
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In veep search, McCain asks Cantor for records By BOB LEWIS, Associated Press Writer 39 minutes ago John McCain's campaign has asked Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor for personal documents as the Republican presidential candidate steps up his search for a running mate, The Associated Press has learned. Cantor, 45, the chief deputy minority whip in the House, has been mentioned among several Republicans as a possible running mate for McCain. A Republican familiar with the conversations between Cantor and the McCain campaign said Cantor has been asked to turn over documents, but did not know specifically what records were sought. The individual spoke on the condition of anonymity because ...
Voter fraud cases leave Hale County, Alabama, wary
Post Date: 2008-08-03 10:36:38 by Jethro Tull
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Voter fraud cases leave Hale County wary By Robert DeWitt Staff Writer Published: Sunday, March 23, 2008 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 11:16 p.m. GREENSBORO | It seems only natural that the arrest of former Hale County Circuit Clerk Gay Nell Tinker on charges of voter fraud would be the talk of the town. Staff photo | Robert DeWitt Mike Jeffries, shown washing a pickup outside his detail shop in Greensboro on Thursday, says he doesn’t think the former Circuit Clerk Gay Nell Tinker did anything wrong and that the voter fraud investigation was racially motivated.But a lot of people in Hale County aren't talking. Outside the Sawyerville Convenience ...
GOP convention attracting array of demonstrators
Post Date: 2008-08-03 10:12:23 by christine
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A 73-year-old retired surgeon marching in silence with a tombstone picturing a soldier killed in Iraq. A philosophy professor calling for a new investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A long-haul trucker from Texas protesting the price of oil. Those are just a few of the images that demonstrators hope will capture the attention of delegates, journalists and others attending the Republican National Convention. Tens of thousands—from anarchists and immigrants to advocates for the poor—plan to use the streets outside the Xcel Center as a national podium, transforming downtown St. Paul into a marketplace of ideas. "There are some groups that are ...
McCain security ousts reporter
Post Date: 2008-08-03 07:34:39 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Tallahassee Democrat senior writer Stephen Price on Friday was singled out and asked to leave a media area at the Panama City rally of presidential candidate Sen. John McCain. Price was among at least three other reporters, and the only black reporter, surrounding McCain's campaign bus — Gov. Charlie Crist and his fiancee, Carole Rome, were already aboard — when a member of the Arizona senator's security detail asked the reporter to identify himself. Price had shown his media credentials to enter the area. Price showed his employee identification as well as his credentials for the Friday event. "I explained I was with the state press, but the Secret Service man ...
Nigger Hatin Me
Post Date: 2008-08-02 17:09:55 by HOUNDDAWG
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: I like sugar, and I like tea But I don't like niggers...no siree! There's two known things that'll make me puke And that's a hog eatin' slop, and a big, black spook! You know it...cause I show it Like a barn-yard rooster I crow it! And the NAACP Would sure like to get a-hold of nigger-hatin' me! Roses are red, and violet's are blue And nigger's are black, you know that's true But they don't mind, cause what the heck! You gotta be black to get a welfare check! And I'm broke...no joke I ain't got a nickel for a coke! And I ain't black, you see So Uncle Sam won't help poor nigger-hatin' me. Jig-A-Boo, ...
Delaware GOP's Ting pays price for supporting Obama
Post Date: 2008-08-02 16:17:43 by HOUNDDAWG
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The Delaware Republican Party's standard-bearer in the 2006 race for U.S. Senate has been expelled from his position in the state GOP. Advertisement His crime? Quietly supporting Democrat Barack Obama for president. "Evidently someone went online and saw that I had been making contributions to Obama," Jan Ting said Friday. Ting also was captured in a photograph at an Obama rally in Wilmington in February that drew record crowds to Rodney Square. At the time, Ting declined to comment about why he was there. But apparently that appearance, and about $250 in donations to the Illinois senator, who is now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, was enough for the ...
Obama says McCain campaign is cynical, not racist
Post Date: 2008-08-02 12:33:24 by Rotara
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3 minutes ago CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Democratic candidate Barack Obama said Saturday that Republican rival John McCain's campaign is not racist but is cynical in trying to divert voter attention from the real issues of the presidential campaign. Obama met with reporters for the first time since the McCain campaign claimed that the Illinois Democrat had "played the race card" by warning that McCain would try to scare voters about how Obama looks unlike "all those other presidents on the dollar bills" — all of whom are white men. In the ensuing debate, a McCain spokesman suggested that the Arizona Republican was being painted as a racist. That's an attempt ...
Obama says he opposes slavery reparations, apology [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-08-02 10:15:47 by christine
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama opposes offering reparations to the descendants of slaves, putting him at odds with some black groups and leaders. The man with a serious chance to become the nation's first black president argues that government should instead combat the legacy of slavery by improving schools, health care and the economy for all. "I have said in the past—and I'll repeat again—that the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed," the Illinois Democrat said recently. Some two dozen members of Congress are co-sponsors of legislation to create a ...
Hecklers greet Barack Obama in Florida
Post Date: 2008-08-02 07:39:59 by Disgusted
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Hecklers greet Barack Obama in Florida | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times link="#163F68" alink="#666666" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" vlink="#666666"> LAT Home|My LATimes|Print Edition|All Sections More Classifieds|Real Estate|Cars.com|Jobs Blogs SEARCH You are here: LAT Home > Blogs > Top of the Ticket « 'Hey, dude, where's my job?' | Main | Progressives put bug in Barack Obama's (left) ear » Hecklers greet Barack Obama in Florida Our colleague Steve Braun, traveling with Barack Obama's campaign, reports that Obama was just ...
Obama shifts, says he may back offshore drilling
Post Date: 2008-08-01 19:43:54 by Rotara
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33 minutes ago ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday he would be willing to support limited additional offshore oil drilling if that's what it takes to enact a comprehensive policy to foster fuel-efficient autos and develop alternate energy sources. ADVERTISEMENT if(window.yzq_d==null)window.yzq_d=new Object(); window.yzq_d['JCavA9j8Ym8-']='&U=13f203iu5%2fN%3dJCavA9j8Ym8-%2fC%3d674272.12808316.13086308.1442997%2fD%3dLREC%2fB%3d5406809%2fV%3d1'; Shifting from his previous opposition to expanded offshore drilling, the Illinois senator told a Florida newspaper he could get behind a compromise with Republicans and oil ...
'TUBE - Barack Obama: The Child - The Messiah - The Obamessiah
Post Date: 2008-08-01 18:39:39 by Jethro Tull
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Hecklers question Obama's position on black issues (Video)
Post Date: 2008-08-01 15:43:16 by Rotara
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WATCH
Obama's 'emergency' economic plan
Post Date: 2008-08-01 12:46:23 by Horse
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Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Friday announced an “Emergency Economic Plan” that would give families a stimulus check of $1,000 each, funded in part by what his presidential campaign calls “windfall profits from Big Oil.” The first part of Obama’s plan is an emergency energy rebate ($500 to individual workers, $1,000 to families) as soon as this fall. “This rebate will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next four months,” Obama said. “Or, if you live in a state where it gets very cold in the winter, it will be enough to cover the entire increase in your heating bills. Or you could use the rebate for any of ...
C-SPAN Slates Convention Coverage (gavel to gavel coverage of Ron Paul's rally too!)
Post Date: 2008-08-01 09:41:18 by christine
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C-SPAN and C-SPAN 2 unveiled their Republican and Democratic National Convention plans Wednesday. Republican elephant and Democratic donkey C-SPAN’s DNC coverage will air Aug. 25-29 and its RNC coverage Aug. 31-Sept. 5. The political party conventions are right in the wheelhouse of the cable networks, which are offering “gavel-to-gavel” coverage of the events, as well as ancillary events such as Ron Paul’s Rally for the Republic. Before the conventions begin, C-SPAN will carry live coverage of the parties’ platform meetings, with the Democratic meetings Aug. 9 and the Republicans Aug. 26 and 27. Convention coverage will begin at 7 a.m. every day with Washington ...
Is John McCain Stupid? / Wall Street Journal Article
Post Date: 2008-07-31 20:41:19 by TwentyTwelve
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Wall Street Journal Article July 31, 2008; Page A13 Is John McCain Stupid? Is John McCain losing it? On Sunday, he said on national television that to solve Social Security "everything's on the table," which of course means raising payroll taxes. On July 7 in Denver he said: "Senator Obama will raise your taxes. I won't." This isn't a flip-flop. It's a sex-change operation. Recent remarks by John McCain has some Republicans stewing. Wonder Land columnist Dan Henninger of the WSJ Editorial page talks with Kelsey Hubbard about McCain's need for a new strategy to beat Barack Obama. (July 31) He got back to the subject Tuesday in Reno, Nev. ...
ABC: McCain seriously considering Lieberman for VP
Post Date: 2008-07-31 11:40:58 by Rupert_Pupkin
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McCain's New Strategy Email Share July 30, 2008 7:59 PM
ABC News' Jan Crawford Greenburg Reports: McCain's tough new "celebrity" ad campaign, designed to portray Obama as an empty suit who -- like Paris Hilton -- is devoid of substance, is the first part of a broader strategy that ultimately could have ramifications for McCain's VP selection.
The campaign will continue to hit hard that Obama is not an agent of change -- but a man who merely plays to his audience and is unwilling to risk losing his adoring crowds by making the tough decisions. This is only the first volley, sources close to McCain tell ABC News.
There's a bigger point -- and this initial volley, they say, lays ...
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