Whew. Yes We Did. Again!
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Tag: Campaign 2012
And He Settles Things With a Beer, Not a $10,000 Bet
I wont tell you who I voted for but he banks in the United States and pays his taxes #spoiler
— Tweet from @Izac_Wright on election day
Reading is Fun-damental for Voting in Florida
3,000+
Number of words on the ballot in Duval Co., Fla. (Jacksonville), thanks to 12 state constitutional amendments added by the Republican legislature. In Pinellas Co. (St. Petersburg), the Supervisor of Elections remarked, “The voter who sees this ballot the first time may need smelling salts.”
The Affirmative Case for Re-electing Pres. Obama: His Historic Accomplishments over the Past Four Years
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The highlight reel above of Pres. Obama’s accomplishments put together by Rachel Maddow’s team is a must-see — and it shows why, even if the worst happens in the election today, Barack Obama will go down in history as a great president.
Jonathan Chait has a similar take. The way he describes his overall support for the president tracks closely to my own. “[Unlike] so many of his supporters,” Chait writes, “I never experienced a kind of emotional response to his candidacy. I never felt his election would change everything about American politics or government, that it would lead us out of the darkness. Nothing Obama did or said ever made me well up with tears … I supported Obama because I judged him to have a keen analytical mind, grasping both the possibilities and the limits of activist government, and possessed of excellent communicative talents. I thought he would nudge government policy in an incrementally better direction. I consider his presidency an overwhelming success.”
Chait continues:
Screwing Up Voting as Only Florida Can: Look for a Very Bad Election Day 2012
This picture of the line for early voting on Saturday in Miami* should explain why a Florida judge ruled on Sunday that early voting must be allowed to continue today, despite Gov. Rick Scott’s order that it would end.
What’s happening at the polls in Florida feels a lot like “self voter suppression.”
The Republican super majority in the state legislature loaded the ballot with ONE DOZEN deceptively and circuitously worded amendments. These would, among other things, exempt Florida from healthcare reform; interfere with a woman’s right to choose; provide more tax breaks to big business that will cut funding from schools, fire, and police; and give the legislature the ability to meddle with the state Supreme Court, among other GOP wish list items that would be unconstitutional if not passed by voters.
The amendments take up a full three 8 1/2 x 14 pages, front and back, on the ballot and it is estimated that it would take the average voter at least 45 minutes to read them all, and that’s not counting the time it will take to consider all the other offices and local initiatives. Officials, of course, have been stressing the need to bring a filled-in sample ballot to the polls.
The Simpsons’ Take on the Election
HOMER SIMPSON: Barack Obama? I don’t know. I already got one wife telling me to eat healthy. Plus he promised me death panels, and Grandpa’s still alive. Mitt Romney? I hear he wears magic underpants. I expect the leader of the free world to go commando. Plus his horse totally choked at the Olympics. On the other hand, he did invent ObamaCare.
New Mailer Shows How Untethered to Truth the Republicans Have Become
Republicans seem to be betting that the folks on the receiving end of this mailer are crack-stupid.
Will the next campaign feature Nancy Kerrigan style knee-capping? Soviet style poisoning?
Kathy Castor-Dentel, an elementary school teacher and a Democrat, is running for the Florida State House of Representatives, District 30. She is the daughter of Betty Castor, who was herself smeared as a terror sympathizer in her bid for the U.S. Senate in 2004 by Republican Mel Martinez, who subsequently lost interest in the office and quit early to spend more time with his family. She is also the sister of U.S. Rep. Karen Castor (D – Fla.), a rising star in U.S. House Minority.
Jerry Sandusky, who is depicted in the mailer, is a former Pennsylvania State assistant football coach recently convicted of serial child molestation and sex abuse. He has no relationship to Castor-Dentel, Florida teacher’s unions, or indeed, to the Florida District 30 race. But hey, why let that stop anyone from smearing Castor-Dentel by linking the two anyway?
Paul Ryan’s ‘Biggest Boosters’ and ‘Senior Republicans’ Send Signal That They Expect Romney to Lose
Maddow suggested that the anonymous comments from the Ryan camp this week were ominously similar to anonymous comments made to the media as the presidential campaign was drawing to a close four years ago by pro-Sarah Palin conservatives — comments that, according to Maddow, citing an anonymous senior official from the McCain campaign leadership team, caused a rift between Palin and John McCain in the last week before the 2008 election. (McCain’s campaign manager, Steve Schmidt, is an MSNBC contributor and McCain senior advisor Nicolle Wallace is a frequent guest on the network.)
Here is the statement about Palin to the New York Times from a supporter that created agita for McCain and his senior management team at the end of October 2008:
