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Sherman is a particularly smarmy toad of Democrat persuasion, a la Waxman, Berman, and Kuhl. They need to have it thrust in their face by outraged voters. It won't change their votes - they know better than you stoopid proles, y'know? But at least when they reflect on where it went wrong, it gives them a starting place if they want to learn
Posted by: Frank G ||
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CA: GOP Whitman Narrowly Atop Brown For Governor; Fiorina & Boxer In Tight Fight for US Senate.
In an election for Governor of California today, 07/12/10, Republican Meg Whitman edges Democrat Jerry Brown 46% to 39%, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for KABC-TV Los Angeles, KPIX-TV San Francisco, KGTV-TV San Diego, and KFSN-TV Fresno. Brown, currently California's Attorney General, leads 2:1 in the Bay Area, trails in the rest of the state. Whitman, former CEO of eBay, leads among men and affluent voters. The Republican holds 77% of Republican voters. The Democrat holds 64% of Democrats. Independents break 5:4 Republican. Question 1 and 2 on this report show the identical data. Question 1 collapses 9 minor party candidates and "undecided" voters into a single "other / undecided" category. Respondents were asked the "who will you vote for" for Governor question once.
In the race for United States Senate, Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer and Republican Carly Fiorina are effectively even. Fiorina 47%, Boxer 45%, within the survey's theoretical margin of sampling error. Twice as many Democrats cross-over to vote Republican as Republicans who cross-over to vote Democrat. The Republican has an ever-so-slight advantage in Greater Los Angeles and in the Central Valley. The Republican carries the Inland Empire 2:1. The Democrat carries the Bay Area 2:1. Question 3 and 4 on this report show the identical data. Question 3 collapses 6 minor party candidates and "undecided" voters into a single "other / undecided" category. Respondents were asked the "who will you vote for" for US Senate question once.
The six-month election recount that turned former "Saturday Night Live" comedian Al Franken into a U.S. senator may have been decided by convicted felons who voted illegally in Minnesota's Twin Cities.
That's the finding of an 18-month study conducted by Minnesota Majority, a conservative watchdog group, which found that at least 341 convicted felons in largely Democratic Minneapolis-St. Paul voted illegally in the 2008 Senate race between Franken, a Democrat, and his Republican opponent, then-incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman.
The final recount vote in the race, determined six months after Election Day, showed Franken beat Coleman by 312 votes -- fewer votes than the number of felons whose illegal ballots were counted, according to Minnesota Majority's newly released study, which matched publicly available conviction lists with voting records.
Furthermore, the report charges that efforts to get state and federal authorities to act on its findings have been "stonewalled."
"We aren't trying to change the result of the last election. That legally can't be done," said Dan McGrath, Minnesota Majority's executive director. "We are just trying to make sure the integrity of the next election isn't compromised." Won't happen until the Dems lose because of something like this.
He said his group was largely ignored when it turned over a list of hundreds of names to prosecutors in two of the state's largest counties, Ramsey and Hennepin, where fraud seemed to be the greatest.
A spokesman for both county attorneys' offices belittled the information, saying it was "just plain wrong" and full of errors, which prompted the group to go back and start an in-depth look at the records.
"What we did this time is irrefutable," McGrath said. "We took the voting lists and matched them with conviction lists and then went back to the records and found the roster lists, where voters sign in before walking to the voting booth, and matched them by hand.
"The only way we can be wrong is if someone with the same first, middle and last names, same year of birth as the felon, and living in the same community, has voted. And that isn't very likely."
The report said that in Hennepin County, which in includes Minneapolis, 899 suspected felons had been matched on the county's voting records, and the review showed 289 voters were conclusively matched to felon records. The report says only three people in the county have been charged with voter fraud so far.
A representative of the Hennepin County attorney's office, who declined to give her name, said "there was no one in the office today to talk about the charges." Are there cars in the parking lot? Check under their desks.
But the report got a far different review in Ramsey County, which contains St. Paul. Phil Carruthers of the Ramsey County attorney's office said his agency had taken the charges "very seriously" and found that the Minnesota Majority "had done a good job in their review."
The report says that in Ramsey, 460 names on voting records were matched with felon lists, and a further review found 52 were conclusive matches.
Carruthers attributed differences in the numbers to Minnesota Majority's lack of access to nonpublic information, such as exact birth dates and other court records. For example, he said, "public records might show a felon was given 10 years probation, but internal records the county attorney has might show that the probation period was cut to five and the felon was eligible to vote."
Carruthers said Ramsey County is still investigating all the names and has asked that 15 investigators be hired to complete the process. "So far we have charged 28 people with felonies, have 17 more under review and have 182 cases still open," he said. "And there is a good chance we may match or even exceed their numbers."
McGrath says the report shows that more still has to be done.
"Prosecutors have to act more swiftly in prosecuting cases from the 2008 election to deter fraud in the future," he said, "and the state has to make sure that existing system, that flags convicted felons so voting officials can challenge them at the ballot, is effective. In 90 percent of the cases we looked at, the felons weren't flagged."
"If the state had done that," he said, "things might be very different today."
Posted by: Mike Hunt ||
07/13/2010 2:50 Comments ||
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Mike, you don't seem to understand. This was a Democrat winning. It wasn't stolen. The results were merely processed until they produced the correct result.
/sarcasm
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
07/13/2010 3:30 Comments ||
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In my town (mods, you know where) this is SOP. In fact local judges and pols (guess which party) round up newly released felons and force them into programs to re-establish their voting rights. It is legal for them to regain their voting rights. Don't get me started there, but how many of them do you think actually end up as informed voters for their community v. usable names on the voter roles? Before I get flamed for badmouthing felons re-establishing their voter rights, I'll offer full disclosure. Should felons lose voting rights forever? Absolutely. Are all felons true felons under the original Constitution? Absolutely not.
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Let's go back to basics. When the original militia act was established, the electorate and the militia were one and the same, free white males [pre-Robert A. Heinlein's service to vote]. When the militia act was modified in 1862 to include black volunteers, it would be followed shortly by the franchise of the 15th Amendment incorporating blacks and those of prior servitude.
Now back in those days, the governments didn't operate a large penitentiary system. The only real felons hanging around were doing just that, hanging. So there wasn't an issue about felon's having access to guns or a vote.
Taking those two concepts in account, how about tying the vote to eligible access to guns. If you can vote, you can carry. You think all those pols would be in a rush to get those prior felons access to firearms again? That will twist some knickers. At the same time, physically voting becomes for all intents and purposes an administrative muster of the militia for the states. A twofor.
WASHINGTON -- The White House is contradicting the NASA administrator's claim that President Barack Obama assigned him to reach out to Muslims on science matters. "Bump, bump, bump, another one under da bus."
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden recently told Al-Jazeera network that one of the charges Obama gave him was "to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and engineering." Some conservative activists criticized the remarks.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that such activities are not among Bolden's assigned tasks.
Of course not. His assigned tasks relate to running NASA. His charge is to bolster Muslim self-esteem, a very different thing, indeed
.He said administration officials have spoken with NASA about the matter.
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But I thought they were going to strap them onto the first missile into Israel- Using planes full of people is antiquated so better to use space missiles or something. Teach them to use space weapons.
That way, obama who knows nothing about Islam gets another pass never having studied anything in his life, gets to Par-Tay with the keys of the mosque.
He can also act official like for the people he just unemployed in NASA by not letting them do what they are the best at the world at.
Democrats are the best stiffilers of production the world over with exception to a few facist democrats. I wont mention those cause they killed a lotta people.
I feel like I should be writing childrens' stories, yet it seems that Animal Farm should be mandatory reading right now.
As well as many from the crew from the REAL WORLD.
If you are waking up, obama, give me a sign - actually tell me you are "waking up"
Your highness, I am sick of you. You are an Ahole. Nothing comes from you but S**T. You Suck at your job and need help and have no GOD and know not where to find one because your god is marx. You are an idiot and this will become the worst four years of your life.
You know nothing. Pray and maybe satan will let you dole out the pineapples for saddams ass.
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden recently told Al-Jazeera network that one of the charges Obama gave him was "to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and engineering."
what was most distressing was that Bolden said it "perhaps foremost" of his tasks, That kinda makes it worse, no? Nice spin there. Think Bolden thought that up on his own? Obama's a serial liar
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
