Cook County Clerks Office | Election News: Two weeks until end of voter registration Oct. 7 registration deadline looming.
Don’t think that this state doesn’t matter. There are important races along the whole length of the ticket!
… Read the restEvent: Illinois Voter Registration Ends October 7th. Read More »
The League of Women Voters is one of the best sources of information about a candidate. It is a nonpartisan group that submits a series of issues questions to candidates along the length of the ticket and allows them to provide a concise response.
… Read the restEvent: The League of Women Voters. Read More »
New York Times: Loan Titans Paid McCain Adviser Nearly $2 Million.
Daily Kos: McCain Campaign Throws Another Tantrum.
Take it for what you will.
… Read the restEvent: Friends in Powerful Places. Read More »
Start from the beginning and move down:
Michigan Messenger: Lose Your House, Lose Your Vote.
Michigan Messenger: GOP has a history of voter ‘caging,’ according to Democrats’ lawsuit.
Michigan Messenger: Messenger rejects GOP plea for retraction.
Gemma discussed this here, with several insightful comments by herself and tyromaven.
… Read the restThe Washington Independent: Obama Laces into McCain’s “No Change Express”
The Flint Journal: Presidential candidate Barack Obama promises at Flint appearance to help auto industry refashion itself.
I wish I could have been at this. I would’ve waited for hours and hours…
It’s icing on the cake that the Journal actually avoided making one of the innumerable puns that presented themselves.
… Read the restEvent: Obama’s Speech in Flint, and Other Good News. Read More »
Thesis: Stop thinking about whether they are likeable or not… there will be time enough for that later.
As much as the presidency is a person, it is also an institution, and we would more accurately make responsible decisions in presidential elections by thinking of the office as a very powerful and ideally coordinated committee, with the ballot in the chairmanship.
Event: The Executive Branch is a Committee, with an Economic Example of Why it Matters. Read More »
I wanted to write about this last week, but ran out of time.
In sum:
New York Times: Mississippi’s Ballot Trick.
Here’s a more local take on the issue:
Biloxi SunHerald: Dems respond to Barbour’s appeal in ballot dispute.
… Read the restEvent: Mississippi’s "Where’s Waldo" Ballot. Read More »
What do we make of this:
Michigan Messenger: Lose Your House, Lose Your Vote.
Or this:
Michigan Messenger: Michiganders see red about voters’ rights threat
And this:
Detroit Free-Press: GOP Won’t Use Foreclosure List to Block Voters.
? ?
… Read the restEvent: Drama in Michigan Read More »
New York Times | Paul Krugman: Blizzard of Lies.
I hope we are not put in a position to see whether Krugman’s thesis that McCain/Palin would be worse than Bush/Cheney is true or not. However I am reminded of something I witnessed in college.
… Read the restEvent: The Current Republican Thesis Is That We Won’t Mind Being Made Fools Of. Read More »
To kick this off, I won’t recap the last year-and-a-half of election drama except to say that this, I believe, is more important than any other election I’ve experienced except perhaps 2000. Which may be a tie. I have many reasons for believing this, and I’m sure you have many thoughts on the subject too, but the most eloquent and trenchant observation I’ve heard on this comes from outside of the United States, in an article my mom sent me yesterday.
… Read the restEvent: Why I am giving Obama my hard earned cash; because I want you to as well. Read More »