Elections
The Choice: Comment: The New Yorker
Posted by Jenzaka from New Yorker
Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching-that's the quadrennial cliché, as expected as the balloons and the bombast. And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true? When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that a Presidency has-at the levels of competence, vision, and integrity-undermined the country and its ideals?
Is it time to scrap the Electoral College?
Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
Umm, yes! The system can be idiosyncratic. Four times in the nation's history, the winner of the largest number of popular votes did not win the largest number of electoral votes, and therefore did not become president.
McCain uses term ‘tar baby’ - msnbc.com
Posted by theangryindian from MSNBC
Republican presidential contender John McCain on Friday used the term "tar baby," considered by some a racial epithet, and later said he regretted it.
America must look evil if it looks like Obama
Posted by VincebusEruptum from Jazz-from-hell.blogspot
...[T]hat's not Obama. It's Osama bin Laden. Notice how the original photo has been tinted a la the infamous O.J. Simpson photo on the cover of Time...
Is Your Vote Safe?
Posted by Damianmann from Truth Out
"There are about 30 scams the Republicans are deliberately using, particularly in the swing states to get Democratic voters off the rolls. These scams originate in the so-called Help America Vote Act, which was passed after the Florida debacle in the year 2000. It was originally suggested by Democrats and Republicans, but it was passed by a Republican Congress with a Republican Senate and a Republican president. And instead of reforming what happened in Florida, it basically institutionalized all the problems that happened in Florida."
Local Attorney general McKenna sues builders groups over campaign violations
Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
Attorney General Rob McKenna took legal action Friday against two builders groups accused of breaking state campaign-finance laws. McKenna filed a lawsuit against the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties and a second lawsuit against a subsidiary of the Building Industry Association of Washington (BIAW).
Neo-Nazi Magazine to Feature Obama Assassination Cover
Posted by theangryindian from Angryindian.blogspot
Neo-Nazi boss Bill White, long given to swaggering threats and proposals for violence, this week went even further than normal - announcing plans for a magazine cover headlined "Kill This ******?" with a photo of Barack Obama and, two days later, publishing the home address of a juror who helped convict another neo-Nazi leader in a federal conspiracy case.
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