In most states that allow early voting, there are still two days left, and it's clear that early voting has proceeded from a promising start in 2004 to pretty much transforming the landscape in 2008 ( Read more... )

Start with the fact that, since the Palin bounce tapered off, the Dems' numbers have been looking pretty good. http://www.electoral-vote.com/ , which I've been tracking and graphing since early June, has Obama right now with 364 electoral votes and McCain with 157. According to my ( Read more... )

Okay, people. Most of you know that basically I'm an unshakable optimist, and up until yesterday, I was pretty satisfied that Obama was going to win. Then my friend Jan, who's been a community organizer and union organizer for decades (and my friend ditto) sent this around:
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there is something that I want ( Read more... )

'mornin everybody. Since New Mexico's one of my favorite states, let's give it the spotlight today:

http://tinyurl.com/57s26t

Contrast this with the Democracy Now page to get the full impact. On the one hand, voter suppression by the thousands with hired computers. On the other, voter ( Read more... )

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Kennedy and Palast on the ACORN brouhaha and the cover it's providing for the Reep dirty-tricks operatives:

http://tinyurl.com/6lzp34

Seven days.

Thousands of flagged voters can vote, court rules08:23 PM ET (CNN ( Read more... )

Twofer today since I skipped a day. The first is the White House, through their puppet Attorney General, putting muscle behind disenfranchising all the voters in Ohio that they possibly can -- and didn't we know they would ( Read more... )

"Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America, owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial] regulatory agencies that were designed for the 1930s and ( Read more... )

For this election, voters need to be prepared to fight for their right to cast a ballot. They should try to confirm before Nov. 4 that they are on the rolls - something that in many states can be done on a secretary of state or board of elections Web site. If their state permits it, they should vote early. Any voter who finds that their name has ( Read more... )