Tag archive for ‘voting’
My First Presidential Election and a New Face for America
I was pan-frying ground turkey when it happened. I added some basil and a pinch of pepper, and turned to glance at the TV. Plastered in red and blue lettering across the bottom half of the screen: “CNN Prediction: Obama Wins Presidential Election.” I turned the gas off—turkey be damned—and stood with my hand over [...]
The First-Time Voter: Why She’s Voting for Obama
Ruthann Perry, 50, of Virginia Beach, Va. is a first-time voter. Originally from Providence, Rhode Island, the mother of four girls and 10 grandchildren will cast her first vote in the 2008 election on Tuesday, Nov. 4. Perry now owns a daycare center in Virginia Beach. Her center keeps five kids, all of whom she [...]
Discrimination ‘08: Ex-Offender Disenfranchisement
America has a long history of depriving entire groups of people the right to vote. Before the Civil Rights Act, black citizens were ridiculed, threatened with lynching, and even given a disposable paper ballot when they expressed interest in making their voices heard.
With a candidate such as Barack Obama running for president in this election, [...]
Osama or Obama: Freudian Slip, Intentional Jab or Honest Mistake?
New York State’s Freudian Slip: Osama for Prez
Lawyers Gear Up for an Election Day Fight
As the American public ponders who they’ll vote for in the 2008 presidential election, lawyers behind the scenes are gearing up to ensure that everyone’s vote counts.
In the battleground states like Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Virginia, and Nevada, the Democratic and Republican parties are deploying teams of lawyers at the polls to ensure that bureaucracy and [...]
Limbaugh endorses Hillary?
What do Sanjaya Malakar and Hillary Clinton have in common? More than an astounding penchant for sounding shrill and one-note, apparently.
With the news Monday that Rush Limbaugh is telling his Texas listeners to take advantage of the open primary rules in their state by voting for Hillary, he has essentially taken on the Howard Stern [...]
That swing (vote)
If you’re a registered independent in California, leaning left in this 2008 Presidential election, but feeling left out of the super-hyped Super Tuesday festivities, this post is for you. Come to the polls Tuesday because… you can vote! In 2004, Democrats changed the rules to allow independents to participate in their party’s presidential primary. That’s [...]
diebold!
On the Diebold Election Systems website you could find, until yesterday morning, the photo below of the little keys that open ALL of their e-voting machines. Could a hacker create a duplicate key from the Diebold website photo? Gee, I wonder…
Concerned citizen Ross Kinard of SploitCast decided to find out:
“I bought three blank [...]
Obama forms exploratory committee
The Barack Obama for President 2008 campaign is all but officially on after his online announcement this morning of the creation of a Presidential exploratory committee.
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Grass roots action is already rolling at Draft Obama, MeetUp, and [...]
midterm webpower
When people talk about the power of the internet to transform the American political process, they usually point to the fundraising success of sites like moveon.org or to the enormous support generated online for Howard Dean in the 2004 presidential primaries. This election season a perfect storm of technological and political factors have developed [...]
zippity do-da
The George Allen versus Jim Webb Senate race in Virginia is as close and dirty as they come. The up-side is that Republican Allen’s bungles— his “macaca” references, his quoting Webb’s war novels out of context, his hired goons beating up bloggers— have generated some hilarious Web material, like this old crackup at ridiculopathy.com and [...]
Election Observers
In the hood, it was throwback, sweet old ladies and none of the high-tech voting machines everybody’s buzzing about.
the volunteer state
He’s a bible-thumping, anti-gay marriage, privileged son of the south. He’s Harold Ford Jr, and he’s the key to the midterm elections and a barometer in many ways for the future of the country.
He wants to change course in Iraq, proposing to divide the country, former-Yugoslavia-style, into three roughly independent cantons or states. He attacks [...]
Boo!
Salon’s video blog offers a gem today: a Republican National Committee ad that ran on CNN this weekend, featuring no candidate positions, no policy info, no attack on rival candidates, nothing but grainy footage of Osama and other men in Arab garb doing “scary” things that look like maybe combat training or parody martial arts [...]
and they’re off…
The 2008 presidential race is already heating up. On Tuesday Senator John McCain responded to his potential rival Senator Hillary Clinton’s suggestion that George W. Bush bears some responsibility for North Korea’s nuclear status by turning the blame back on her husband.
According to the Washington Post, in a campaign speech in Michigan McCain said:
“I would [...]
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