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Subscribe to RSSThe AP: “Election Day is already over for more than 3 million Americans, and a surprising number of them are Democrats. Republicans are gaining ground in turning out early voters compared with their showing two years ago, but figures from the first batch of states that offer clues about early-voting patterns still give Democrats an edge in a number of states and counties. ‘If people thought the Democrats were just going to roll over and play dead in this election, that’s not what we’re seeing,’ said Michael McDonald, a George Mason University professor who tracks early voting nationally. ‘They have got to be feeling a little bit better with the numbers that they’re seeing.’”
That said… "More Republicans have cast early ballots than Democrats since early voting got underway Monday in Colorado--a state with one of this cycle's tightest Senate contests," The Hill finds.
“Mississippi Gov. and RGA Chairman Haley Barbour is poised to embark on a whirlwind trip through gubernatorial battlegrounds with a group of top GOP governors, showcasing Republican leadership in the states on what the RGA’s billing the ‘Remember November Tour,’” Politico writes.
The Washington Post reports on the paradox between being a rising Latino star in the Republican Party like Susana Martinez in New Mexico, Brian Sandoval in Nevada, and Marco Rubio in Florida. “The nation's fastest-growing voting bloc - nearly half the voters in New Mexico, for instance, are of Latino origin - has largely shunned the GOP in recent years. Yet those Republican hopes may be difficult to realize, if only because the GOP's anti-immigration rhetoric is a primary reason Latinos have turned away from the party.”
ARIZONA: “White powder delivered in an swastika-covered envelope to the Tucson, Ariz., office of Rep. Raul Grijalva is a toxic substance, the Democratic congressman said the FBI told him Thursday afternoon,” MSNBC.com writes. “Grijalva received death threats in April, shortly after SB1070, the anti-illegal-immigrant law, was signed. He called for a boycott in response. He closed his Tucson and Yuma offices as a result of the threats, the Daily Star said. In July, after he called off the boycott, staffers found a bullet and a shattered window inside his Yuma office, the Daily Star said.”
CALIFORNIA: Mike Bloomberg’s stumping for Meg Whitman today.
CONNECTICUT: A new Suffolk poll shows Blumenthal leading McMahon 57%-39%.
FLORIDA: Former President Bill Clinton campaigned with Democratic gubernatorial nominee Alex Sink yesterday, where he “questioned [Republican nominee Rick] Scott's ethics and called his campaign ‘name-calling contest paid for ... basically in taxpayer money that was funneled through his health care operations.’”
IOWA: Mitt Romney, Haley Barbour, Bob McDonnell, and Tim Pawlenty are all heading to Iowa for Terry Branstad (R). Per the Des Moines Register (via GOP 12: Romney will be there Tuesday, Barbour and McDonnell on Wednesday, and Pawlenty next Sunday.)
KENTUCKY: The Louisville-Journal reports that Bill Clinton will campaign for Senate candidate Jack Conway on election eve.
LOUISIANA: “The father of Rep. Anh ‘Joseph’ Cao died Wednesday at age 78, the Louisiana Republican’s office announced in a statement Thursday,” Roll Call reports.
MAINE: A Critical Insights tracking poll shows Paul LePage with a 32%-19% lead over independent Eliot Cutler, and Democrat Libby Mitchell fading to third with just 11%. And in ME-1, Chellie Pingree was up just 45%-40% over Republican Dean Scontras.
NEVADA: “Republicans are mocking the embattled Nevada Democrat for seeming to take credit for saving the world economy from complete destruction in an interview Thursday,” Politico takes away from Reid’s interview with MSNBC’s Ed Schultz. “People have been hurting -- I understand that,’ Reid told MSNBC's Ed Schultz. ‘And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, 'You know, but for me we'd be in a worldwide depression.' They want to know what I have done for them.’” More: The National Republican Senatorial Committee's Brian Walsh called Reid's statement "either the height of ignorance or arrogance or, most likely, a combination of both."
“Republican Sharron Angle again called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to ‘man up’ and take responsibility for the state's woes as she embraced a new campaign phrase plucked from Nevada's only U.S. Senate race debate,” AP writes. “Angle said Thursday that Reid must accept his share of blame for Nevada's record unemployment, bankruptcy and foreclosure levels and demanded the Nevada Democrat acknowledge Social Security's faults.”
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Apparently the honeymoon is over in Alaska for Joe Miller and the Republican Party. 40 state party leaders have signed to a letter to Mr. Miller demanding that he no longer duck questions about his past, specifically his time at the Fairbanks North Star Borough when he was nearly fired for violations of ethics policy.
Oopsie.
Of the early voting stats in its Oct. 21 report AP says (my bold):
But according to the Maryland State Board of Elections (my bold again):
A businessman is drowning in the ocean.
Stimulus : we should rescue him immediately.
Power first : Nope ! How do we pay for it. Just let him go under much like Lehman Brothers.
Stimulus : He is dying right now.
Power first : Nope ! You can't save his money bag.
Stimulus ( clock is ticking ) : : We can do everything.
Power first : We are serious about jobs. Where are jobs ?
Equation :
Depression : New Deal = Great Recession : Stimulus Package (Groundwork) + Incomplete Energy Independence or A Jobs law
The Problem = The destructive war & military waste + Stimulus Package
Therefore = Incomplete Energy Independence or A Jobs law - The destructive war & military waste
Criticism = Stimulus Package (Groundwork)
Conclusion = Gambling on Iraq Oil + weapon sell Again + Double-dip Depression
Cure = Slashing the destructive war & military waste + Completion of Energy Independence or A Jobs law
Anger at These :
Gambling on Iraq Oil Again : A Drop in the Bucket Vs. Growing Population & Demand World-wide. The Age of Cheap Oil = A Thing of the Past.
1. At this time, it looks like the oil-friendly country is gambling on Iraq oil again, citing a big government & deficit, and therefore the world-wide stimulus package worth trillions and health care reform in America are now at stake.
2. Of the money by the money for the money is getting a society nowhere near prosperity.
Gambling on party of "no idea" is sure to be much like Throwing an Egg of Economy Against a Rock.
The outcome of government take-over :
1. In banking industry, the result of government take-over is big bonus parties backed by the tax-payer's invaluable cash.
2. In healcare reform, the outcome of government take-over is to dump ill children when needed most.
3. In oil spill, the administration should be held responsible for its deregulation, urging a big government
Chanting deficit :
1. Amid chanting deficit, the same old failed policy.
2. Amid chanting deficit, hands-off approach over huge trade deficit from oil money spill & trade imbalance with China from remorseless health care premium.
3. Unfortunately, as a direct consequence of remorseless health care premium, numerous folks have no choice but to hang onto affordable offerings, since one in two households is said to face a hard decision between necessity & drug.
4. Inaction cost in relation to health care reform totals $9trillion over the next decade.
5. Over the next 10 years, total Bush tax cut costs will equal $3.9 trillion, .... the tax cuts would increase deficits by nearly $4 trillion between 2005 and 2014.
The most critical debt : Personal Bankruptcy
1. The current recession came from Personal Bankruptcy largely as a consequence of the relentless health care costs, pain at the pump, and the subsequent subprime mortgage crisis.
Facing huge trade deficit from oil money spill & trade imbalance with China, the primary economic policy of previous administration was " spending baby "to the great delight of republicans' sponsors.
2. By comparison, the recovered stock market value alone, around $1.5 trillion, is nearly twice as much as the stimulus package, set aside all the other benefits.
As always, the republicans and unqualified media let folks locked in a box. ruling out the positive effects.
The most promising deficit-cut of government : Slashing the destructive war & military waste
1. Slashing the destructive war & military waste alone supposedly could be enough to balance the budget.
Energy Independence : An Only Way to Desperately-Needed Job Growth
1. My response to the question : where are jobs ?
In the trade deficit, exactly in the severe and persistent oil money spill, taboo of " do not add to the deficit" party.
2. Under the existing Bush tax cut for lavish bonus parties, a sole job plan for the republicans, the country already saw millions of job cuts.
Early voting always goes to democrats. I mean, it's not like they have anything else to do. Put down the cheetos, get up off the couch, turn off oprah, go outside and check mailbox for welfare check, then head on down town to vote for your big brother lib.
Same thing will happen Nov. 2nd. Early voting will go dem....then the republicans will get off work and it will turn around.
Pray tell o great proud Amerikkkan, and just what is your "job"? Outsourcing the manufacturing sector or are you a hedge fund manager?
proudrepublican, I find your statement extremely offensive.
I am a proud Democrat. I have not missed voting in any election since I turned 18. And I work full-time. My state does not have early voting, so I will get up early to go and vote instead of waiting until after work. My work starts at 8 a.m., and I am usually one of the first 5 people to the polls.
So take your cheetos and put them (and Oprah) where the rest of the republican bad ideas go - where the sun doesn't shine!
WOW.....slavicdiva
You are a democrat and full time employed?.......what an anomaly.
The dude
I work 2 jobs in the agricultural industry to pay taxes so you dems can have your entitlement programs....keep watching oprah, I got ya covered.
AS the day gets closer more and more independant minded people are looking seriously at the raft of strange candidates and seeing lunacy in their attacks. The one huge question being asked is why any political party thinks that repeating the dismally unsuccessful policies of the past can possibly work a second time around."Trickle-down" never happened and simply turned into "Gush-up". Oddly unbalanced tax cuts greatly increased the income of people already earning more than they could ever need, resulting only in wealth concentration and none of the promised new jobs and improvements in the economy. So, please tell me again - how will keeping the Bush tax cuts improve our economy? How does allowing foreign corporations to influence domestic policy-making help American citizens?
Hear! Hear!
Amen brother!
Republican ideology is extremely simple. Give all the money to the top 2%. Deregulate big business. Privatize Social Security so Wall Street can profit, and leave grandma in the dirt to die. Repeal healthcare reform and leave millions uninsured. Repeal banking reform so the bankers can continue to rob you blind and crash the economy at will. Do all of the above in the name of ’small government’ and ‘fiscal conservatism.’ Why do they care so little? Because big money pays their bills and that’s all that matters to the GOP.
...and then, if we, the average Americans, are lucky the big corporations will allow us a share the crumbs from their table and call it "The American Dream".
Reps always vote late:
"weelll sheeet, gesun I beta go do my a votin'! Get me my shootin' iron and sipin' whiskey for the drive to thu votin offeece. They gotta make em drive-thru soon don' they? Caint go gettin' outa mah SUV jesen to pull that damn lever. Daim un-Con-stu-shnul I tell yah. Sheeet, thay'll spec' me to turn the darn engin orf nex. Damn commie lesbo homo pinko tree-huggin Dems."
Dems vote when they can. Now that people have to work 3 part-time jobs to make ends meet instead of one full-time job, since Bush and his cronies gave companies tax breaks to send real jobs overseas. Record number of jobs sent overseas during the Bush Reich... and he replaced them with part-time "make work" jobs... teachers aid, nurses' aid, dental assistant, medical billing clerk/officer... not even "real" jobs like actual teachers and nurses. Want more of the same, vote GOP.
In these parts, that's spelled "shee-yit." :)
And amen to everything else you said.
We have been to this crossroads before and it led to WWII. And the crossroads now is that the wealth distribution (conservatives hate that phrase) is askew. And no matter how you feel about capitalism, we are not practicing and brand of capitalism that can be sustained.
We are fast approaching 7 billion people and to have 90+% of the wealth in the hands of 2% of the population is not going to work.
Although we have the availability of more info than ever before, there are many of us who aren't rich who stand by the principle of pure capitalism - that an individual should be able to amass as much money as they can with no limit. That doesn't even sound good in theory. We will eventually have a world of fortresses where the rich isolate from the rest of the population.
With not enough innovation coming from the rich, we have become stagnant. Combine that with intellectual property and inheritance laws that allow IP and money to stay in the same family for generations - we are losing the middle class in the U. S.
In Europe it took WWII to redistribute a little of the wealth and empower the people to be able to do what the French are doing now - saying HELL NO!
In the U. S. we still have confused working and middle class people who will fight to the death for the rich to be able to continue to hold onto the wealth and invest it in new fangled paper investments - that are just bets on top of other bets. The rich have no incentive to create jobs - they have CDO's of which 700 trillion dollars worth were created from their inception til the crash of the economy.
So now we have the super rich who want to pledge to give half their money to charity. This is a well intentioned idea, however it still follows the old idea that society needs gate keepers at every turn. Unfortunately those gate keepers will eat up a large portion of the money in administrative costs - and the ideas of which to utilize those monies will be pigeon holed by the narrow perspectives of those gate keepers. They have been trained (in most cases) to lean toward business and not even the micro businesses that really hold the society up. In my opinion a business with 100 employees is not small but that is what our government has defined. What we need is a stimulus for micro businesses, because that's where the innovation and the ideas are.
So if we want to change this paradigm we need to realize the reality of having 7, then 8 billion people on the planet. I am a believer in capitalism - just not capitalism at all costs.
So when you go to the voting booth, no matter how much you believe in capitalism and trickle down economics, look around and honestly answer to yourself, would you rather make sure that some rich person should be able to selfishly pursue their 10th home and 3rd yacht or should they have to pay to play. Because you see without this nation of consumers that they have full access to - would they be rich? And because they profit because of the Union (not in spite of) we call the U. S. of A. they have to give more back.
It's kind of like a sports franchise - 1. You pay to play 2. you have to build and upkeep a facility 3. you have to share some significant portion of the revenue with the players. The rich in this country seem to have forgotten about paying for the opportunity. And those that condone that behavior have confused freedom with selfishness.
Just to reinforce what my previous post touched on - (from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States)
As of 2006, the United States had one of the highest levels of income inequality, as measured through the Gini index, among high income countries, comparable to that of some middle income countries such as Russia or Turkey,[17] being one of only few developed countries where inequality has increased since 1980.[18]
Thus, anyone who believes that we only have a problem of big government has failed to study history. The government got bigger as businesses pursued profits at all cost and became bigger and bigger. Thus some of the growth in government was a direct reaction to growth of big business.
At least with big government (which I agree is too beaurocracy laden) we have a chance to vote them out. With big business, we have no chance but to be a part of a fascist society - which we are fastly moving toward.
This article reminds me of Pelosi, Lets tell everyone we are winning then when elections happen we can see if we really did....lol
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