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Subscribe to RSSFLORIDA: Charlie Crist backed Democrat Bill Nelson in the Senate race. “The Associated Press reports Crist will appear at an upcoming fundraiser for Nelson, along with former president Bill Clinton. Nelson is seeking his third term against Republican Rep. Connie Mack,” USA Today writes.
MASSACHUSETTS: “In a private ceremony presided over by Senator John McCain in the US Capitol on Wednesday, Senator Scott P. Brown formally became a colonel in the Army National Guard, according to Brown’s office,” the Boston Globe notes. “Brown’s promotion from lieutenant colonel was approved by his Senate colleagues late last week as part of series of 800 promotions adopted with unanimous consent.”
PENNSYLVANIA: Get ready… “A Philadelphia official said that confusion over Pennsylvania's new voter-identification law ‘is likely to cause chaos at many polling places in Philadelphia, including longer-than-usual lines and shorter tempers as more voters are forced to choose between casting a provisional ballot and not being able to vote,’ the AP reports,” Political Wire notes.
VIRGINIA: Not so Goode for Romney… “Goode is running for president on the Constitution Party ticket, and his candidacy has Republicans sweating: Goode is pulling fully 9% of Virginia’s vote, according to a mid-July Public Policy Polling survey, leaving Obama ahead of Romney 49% to 35%,” Time’s Dias writes. “In a tight election where Virginia’s 13 electoral college votes could make or break the Romney’s candidacy, even 2% for Goode could pull enough Republicans away to hand the historically red state to Obama in November. Goode could easily maintain at least a few percentage points in Virginia through the fall. He remains a popular local figure who served in the Virginia State Senate for 24 years and then then represented VA’s 5th district in the U.S. House until 2009. His platform is simple—he can recite it under 15 seconds. ‘One: balance the budget now, not later. Two: Get Americans jobs by ending illegal immigration and making legal immigration harder. Lastly: Impose term limits.’”
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Not GOOD news for Obama....
Tomorrow we get the July job numbers. Most analysts predict 110,000. The big question of course is will more people have signed up for Social Security Disability than get a job as in the prior months as we continue to suffer through the Obama economy.
Quick question: What percentage of people that sign up for SSDI end up going back to work at some point.
Hint: It’s 1%
Yesterday, Chick Fil A set world records during their appreciation day. And we saw a Tea Party Republican in Texas that at one point had 2% support end up winning by 10 points. The Tommy Thompson race in Wisconsin will be another Tea Party break out win. Watch as the lefties out of desperation begin to ramp up their name calling. Teabagger this and teabagger that. What’s ironic is that the filth and stupidity from the moonbats only emboldens and motivates the conservative base more and more.
Businesses across the country now have signs in their windows reading “I built my Business Mr. President”. People are starting to get it.
The groundswell has started. People are fed up with Obama’s failures.
Forget about the polls. November is going to be a bloodbath for Obama and democrats.
The Bush tax cuts are here to stay and Ryan’s budget will be much more aggressive in cuts than as currently written.
Fiscal responsibility and accountability will soon be here.
America’s promise will be restored.
Vote Romney 2012
I really like how you throw out some nice "facts" but in the middle of your tirade you throw in the "I built my Business Mr. President" and that people are starting to get it. When you take comments and such out of context, it makes you look like an idiot no matter how strong your facts are. Without the "people", you have no business no matter how great the product is.
You speak of fiscal responsibility yet there has been none by the Republicans during President Obama's term. Sure you all put up a good media blitz but in the end it's just the usual in Washington.
So budget cutting is the way to promote and grow the economy? Lets layoff more people and have them collecting the same money that you are complaining about people getting.
You aren't as smart or as intelligent as you think you are.
Bring the jobs back and it will intern stimulate the economy.
Virgil Goode remains a popular figure in Virginia? This is pure Obama propaganda from Time magazine.....beyond absurd.
Goode was a Democrat, then a Republican, then lost his 5th district Congressional seat because he was too lazy to campaign. The seat is now back in Republican hands...
Now Goode is a Libertarian. No one knows who he is, and fewer yet care.
Third party candidates always poll better, until election day, when voters realize they dont want to waste their vote.
I would argue that the only vote that is ever wasted is the one that is never cast.
"...confusion over Pennsylvania's new voter-identification law ‘is likely to cause chaos at many polling places in Philadelphia"
What a shame. The Democrat machine had things running so smoothly, with thousands and thousands of illegal voters moving through the system with no problems...
Now having to show an ID will screw up their well oiled machiine...
The fact that there is not one case of voter fraud in PA puts a slight dent in your argument that illegal voters are the key to democrat victory there. But we know conservatives never let facts get in the way of their propaganda...
Hate to tell you this Bob in Virginia - but those laws were enacted very poorly - I know as I hold a seat on my local county election commission. Guess what? Most of the folks having a fit and complaining are not democrats they are republicans! Guess that kind of debunks your little fantasy, doesn't it?
Prove what you say, Bob! Stop the lies, be truthful and admit you repeat the lies you are instructed to repeat by the RWNJ talking heads you parrot all the time.
And just how many cases of your supposed "thousands and thousands" of incidences of voter fraud have been documented?
You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own "facts".
Does It help Bob that the Governor and the Secretary of State neither one knows what's in the voter suppression bill? They both admitted there was no "NONE" evidence of voter Freud in Pa. So everybody knows what they expected all a long, you're lying Bob. But keep repeating what the tea people Koch republicans, Liar Limbaugh and lying Fox keep telling you to say. When will you tea people realize your lies aren't working, President Obama's numbers keep going up.
What none of you morons realize is this. You cannot prove voter fraud if everything SEEMS on the up and up. I will repeat what I have written soooo many times when you bozo libs start talking about "cases documented".
This election, if I knew my neighbor wasn't going to vote, I could walk into the polling place, state his name and his address and be escorted to the voting machine. You have to know so little about the person now that it can't be proved. You can't catch someone who seems to have the right answers. Hell I could still vote in Alabama and haven't lived there for four years. All I need to remember is my old address.
So don't be so damned foolish as to think there is none.
So Mr. Hand, you're saying that out of ALL those sneaky voters casting illegal votes, NONE of them were caught. Are they that smart? Are the poll workers that unintelligent? Help us understand here.
And while you're at it, please explain how you know so much about fooling poll workers.....
Because I extrapolate the information that I have to give when voting and no one questions it if I have my name and address correct. I would gather from that that it isn't hard. I don't even have to show my registration card but I do. Along WITH my drivers license. When they say "you don't have to do that" I say "I should".
So when the GOP there in your state admits they have not even LOOKED to see how many there are, you are suggesting "There must be SOME who vote illegally, because it's soooo easy."
THATS your rational for spending dollars on more laws, more enforcement, more court challenges, more training for poll workers and more aggravation of citizens looking to vote?
A simple fact for all those that oppose proof of identity to vote. YOU CAN'T PROVE VOTER FRAUD IF YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO ASK FOR AN ID! Of course that is why the Democrats are almost unanimously opposed to voter ID requirements.They'd rather close their eyes and pretend there is no problem. (The same way they pretend Obama is an effective leader even though he hasn't addressed the issues of the economy and jobs)
MT,
Each polling place in the US has a judge of elections. If your eligibility is questioned it is up to the judge to rule on each case. If no resolution is immediately possible a provisional ballot can be filled out. The average precinct has 1100 voters with a low of 400 and a high of 2100 each precinct has multiple election officials who would NEVER knowingly allow a false vote especially the opposition. Officials are always party activists and know damn near everyone in the precinct if this alleged fake voting was occurring someone somewhere would have said hey you don't live there I know they would in my neighborhood and they would have the judge of elections rule and if you were trying to fraudulently vote you would be arrested.
jkh
Even the National Republican Lawyers' Association concludes that there is no real voter fraud problem anywhere in the United States, Bob. The voter ID restrictions is a solution in search of a problem. Rather, it's voter suppression masquerading as voting integrity watchdogging. Everyone in the country recognizes this for what it is, even Republicans. It's just that Republicans demagogue it because they need voter suppression in the swing states to have any hopes of winning.
Noticed a little blimp regarding Mass - guess what Mitt? You are not going to carry your supposedly home state of Mass! That's a fact I know from a recent personal experience up there (very nice vacation by the way, lovely people, place, history, and great food in the Italian District - they hate him there too).
Sorry Brock, but your post is typical. Full of what ifs and crystal ball predictions. Not a lot of substance.
So how does this groundswell fit into the lead Obama is gaining in swing states?
Some people who was upset over the taxes imposed by Parliment, dressed up to look like Indians, raided the ships docked in the harbor and threw tea and other staples into the water. Thus becoming know as the Boston Tea Party. The start of the Revolutionary War. Today the new Teaparty has taking over the House of Representatives and is destroying the Country from with-in the Halls of Congress. They claim they are upset over taxes and a too large of government. But based on much of their battle cries, it's more of too many people who are not like them. and they want their country back.
Hand,
The Pa. GOP chair already declared that the signing of the bill was designed to put Romney in office. The Pa. defense has already stipulated that no evidence in the last 50 years indicates any replacement voter fraud. Yeah like there are secret watchers out there seeing whose neighbor hasn't voted and then transports people to their local polling place I can only assume in disguise to vote as their neighbor. In the last half century they never got it wrong and the real voter decided to go after dinner and threw the whole scheme out of wack. Maybe it's the Illuminati or Zardoz with this all seeing eye who casts these hidden votes. Not a single poll worker has ever looked up and said hey you're not Joe Smith I work with that lazy SOB he never votes or said wait a minute I live on that block. I sure as hell couldn't vote at my polling station as my neighbor and no one could vote as me.
Having a remedy for a non existent problem is an amazing waste of taxpayers money. This is just 21st century Jim Crow, a poll tax is a poll tax whether it's for an ID card or to sign your name in the book. The poor, the young, the elderly and/or infirmed are the only people who will be effected. In Philadelphia it may take 2 bus transfers and a trolly to be able to pay for an ID you have not needed for 50 years. How many 80 year olds or 18 yr olds will be motivated or able to do this. ID can be asked for at the polls if the polling official does not recognize the voter you just don't need a picture ID. A birth certificate, two utility bills or baptismal certificate are accepted. These are a little hard to come by to fraudulently vote. I guess these wily fake voters trick their neighbors out of their birth certificates and then return them after voting and not one of these modern day Loki's has ever been caught, they must use very powerful juju.
jkh
Lack of evidence of a crime is not evidence of a crime. Multiple studies of voter fraud, going back to the second Bush administration, have concluded that there is no evidence of organized or widespread voter fraud.
I repeat: lack of evidence is not evidence. The number of prosecutions for this crime is extremely low, which means that there's not enough evidence to bring substantial numbers of people to trial. Anyone who claims that this means that large numbers of people are getting away with the crime needs to show some evidence that these crimes are actually being committed.