I went to the OFA organizing meeting in DC today. We’re staying in Baltimore and the original plan was to just roam around among the crowd in DC for the inauguration tomorrow, but then we got tickets for the swearing-in and a ball and that all led to the OFA meeting. Here are some pictures: …
Election 2010
Might be time to start talking about this
I wanted to talk about new laws limiting abortion and how they apply to miscarriages that require medical intervention. This isn’t a new topic, it comes up in the context of the religious directives that govern Catholic hospitals in the US, but I really think it deserves more practical, real-world discussion. This is the text …
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Brown v Mandel (and Obama)
Sherrod Brown is in good shape, despite the 20 million dollars in attack ads conservatives threw at him: Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, holds a double-digit lead in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released early Thursday. Brown has 52 percent to GOP Treasurer Josh Mandel’s 41 percent in the survey, while 6 percent of …
Unskewing the polling (place)
Makes sense: The Obama campaign won another victory in Ohio Friday, when a federal appeals court backed a trial judge’s decision to block a measure that restricted early voting in the swing state. The Obama campaign and others who challenged the law argued that it disproportionately affected minority and working class residents. In August, U.S. …
True the Vote
Thanks to commenter Burns for this piece on a legal theory that could be used to protect voters from True the Vote: In an ostensible hunt for voter fraud, a Tea Party group, True the Vote, descends on a largely minority precinct and combs the registration records for the slightest misspelling or address error. It …
They’re under observation
Enter the lawyers: President Barack Obama’s campaign has recruited a legion of lawyers to be on standby for this year’s election as legal disputes surrounding the voting process escalate. Thousands of attorneys and support staffers have agreed to aid in the effort, providing a mass of legal support that appears to be unrivaled by Republicans …
Navigating an obstacle course, one voter at a time
Good: Field workers for President Obama’s campaign fanned out across the country over the weekend in an effort to confront a barrage of new voter identification laws that strategists say threaten the campaign’s hopes for registering new voters ahead of the November election. In Wisconsin, where a new state law requires those registering voters to …
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