Oh... by the way, I have to say something about Specter.
"Wait a minute! Now, WAIT A MINUTE! Buh-BYE!"
FIRE THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: 2010 Election
Oh... by the way, I have to say something about Specter.
"Wait a minute! Now, WAIT A MINUTE! Buh-BYE!"
FIRE THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!
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LOL Luke! Congrats!
Too bad you didn't manage to get in the dead person demographic as you surely could have managed to pull in at least 2-3x your local population!
Re: 2010 Election
I want to know why dead people only vote Democrat....?
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Re: 2010 Election
Hispanic Residents get 6 votes each in suburban NY election
By JIM FITZGERALD (AP) – 2 hours ago
PORT CHESTER, N.Y. – Arthur Furano voted early — five days before Election Day. And he voted often, flipping the lever six times for his favorite candidate.
Furano cast multiple votes on the instructions of a federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a new election system crafted to help boost Hispanic representation.
Voters in Port Chester, 25 miles northeast of New York City, are electing village trustees for the first time since the federal government alleged in 2006 that the existing election system was unfair. The election ends Tuesday and results are expected late Tuesday night.
Although the village of about 30,000 residents is nearly half Hispanic, no Latino had ever been elected to any of the six trustee seats, which until now were chosen in a conventional at-large election. Most voters were white, and white candidates always won.
Federal Judge Stephen Robinson said that violated the Voting Rights Act, and he approved a remedy suggested by village officials: a system called cumulative voting, in which residents get six votes each to apportion as they wish among the candidates. He rejected a government proposal to break the village into six districts, including one that took in heavily Hispanic areas.
Furano and his wife, Gloria Furano, voted Thursday.
"That was very strange," Arthur Furano, 80, said after voting. "I'm not sure I liked it. All my life, I've heard, 'one man, one vote.'"
It's the first time any municipality in New York has used cumulative voting, said Amy Ngai, a director at FairVote, a nonprofit election research and reform group that has been hired to consult. The system is used to elect the school board in Amarillo, Texas, the county commission in Chilton County, Ala., and the City Council in Peoria, Ill.
The judge also ordered Port Chester to implement in-person early voting, allowing residents to show up on any of five days to cast ballots. That, too, is a first in New York, Ngai said.
Village clerk Joan Mancuso said Monday that 604 residents voted early.
Gloria Furano gave one vote each to six candidates. Aaron Conetta gave two votes each to three candidates.
Frances Nurena talked to the inspectors about the new system, grabbed some educational material and went home to study. After all, it was only Thursday. She could vote on Friday, Saturday or Tuesday.
"I understand the voting," she said. "But since I have time, I'm going to learn more about the candidates."
On Tuesday, Candida Sandoval voted at the Don Bosco Center, where a soup kitchen and day-laborer hiring center added to the activity, and where federal observers watched the voting from a table in the corner.
"I hope that if Hispanics get in, they do something for all the Hispanic people," Sandoval said in Spanish. "I don't know, but I hope so."
FairVote said cumulative voting allows a political minority to gain representation if it organizes and focuses its voting strength on specific candidates. Two of the 13 Port Chester trustee candidates — one Democrat and one Republican — are Hispanic. A third Hispanic is running a write-in campaign after being taken off the ballot on a technicality.
Campaigning was generally low-key, and the election itself was less of an issue than housing density and taxes.
Hispanic candidates Fabiola Montoya and Luis Marino emphasized their volunteer work and said they would represent all residents if elected.
Gregg Gregory gave all his votes to one candidate, then said, "I think this is terrific. It's good for Port Chester. It opens it up to a lot more people, not just Hispanics but independents, too."
Vote coordinator Martha Lopez said that if turnout is higher than in recent years, when it hovered around 25 percent, the election would be a success — regardless of whether a Hispanic was elected.
"I think we'll make it," she said. "I'm happy to report the people seem very interested."
But Randolph McLaughlin, who represented a plaintiff in the lawsuit, said the goal was not merely to encourage more Hispanics to vote but "to create a system whereby the Hispanic community would be able to nominate and elect a candidate of their choice."
That could be a non-Hispanic, he acknowledged, and until exit polling is done, "it won't be known for sure whether the winners were Hispanic-preferred."
The village held 12 forums — six each in English and Spanish — to let voters know about the new system and to practice voting. The bilingual ballot lists each candidate across the top row — some of them twice if they have two party lines — and then the same candidates are listed five more times. In all, there are 114 levers; voters can flip any six.
Besides the forums, bright yellow T-shirts, tote bags and lawn signs declared "Your voice, your vote, your village," part of the educational materials also mandated in the government agreement. Announcements were made on cable TV in each language.
All such materials — the ballot, the brochures, the TV spots, the reminders sent home in schoolkids' backpacks — had to be approved in advance, in English and Spanish versions, by the Department of Justice.
Conetta said the voter education effort was so thorough he found voting easier than usual.
"It was very different but actually quite simple," he said. "No problem."
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"Your grandchildren will live under communism."
“You Americans are so gullible.
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Biden: Democrats will ‘shock the heck out of everybody’ in November midterms
By Ben Geman - 07/18/10 11:37 AM ET
Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday said Democrats would defy predictions of major losses in the midterm elections, instead declaring that “we're going to be in great shape” and predicting continued control of the House and Senate.
“I don't think the losses are going to be bad at all. I think we're going to shock the heck out of everybody,” Biden said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Biden pointed to a new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll that showed Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who is viewed as highly vulnerable, up seven points on GOP foe Sharron Angle.
“The reports of our demise are premature,” Biden said.
He said that Democrats must make the case for measures like the Wall Street overhaul that Obama will sign shortly, the new health care reform law and the economic stimulus package.
“It's just going to take time. This is July. The election is not until November. And I think we're going to have to firmly make our case,” Biden said. “Compared to the alternative, I think we're going to get a fair amount of credit by November, and I think we're going to do fine.”
Biden said the public needs time to digest the measures, especially in light of GOP attacks on the policies. For instance, on the Wall Street overhaul, he said, “All it is, is rational control and the turning around of what the Republicans did, which is let Wall Street run wild.”
“They don't know what it means yet, understandably. And so I think it takes time,” he said.
“Look, these are gigantic packages to deal with a gigantic problem we inherited. And the vast majority of the American people and a lot of people really involved don't even know what's inside the packages,” Biden said at another point on the show.
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“I don't think the losses are going to be bad at all. I think we're going to shock the heck out of everybody,” Biden said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Is that a promise that if they lose they will jump off bridges or something?
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Re: 2010 Election
By NEIL KING JR.
Delaware's Republican establishment dismissed Christine O'Donnell as a gadfly with a flimsy resume and shallow roots in the state.
But on Tuesday, the tea party activist beat the state's best-known Republican in her campaign for Vice President Joe Biden's old Senate seat, becoming another rising star in one of the most volatile political seasons in decades.
Jerry Seib, Gerard Baker and Aaron Zitner examine the hotly contested Republican primary race between tea party candidate Christine O'Donnell and Congressman Mike Castle to fill Joe Biden's Delaware Senate seat.
A freelance marketer and Philadelphia native who moved to Delaware seven years ago, Ms. O'Donnell knocked off Rep. Mike Castle, whose 44-year political career included stints in the state legislature, eight years as Delaware governor and nine terms as the state's lone congressman.
She polled 53.1% of the votes in the race, with Mr. Castle getting 46.9%. Ms. O'Donnell now will face Democrat Chris Coons in November for the seat vacated by Mr. Biden after he was elected vice president.
She pulled off the upset on a shoestring budget—running the campaign out of her small townhouse in Wilmington—and in the face of vigorous attacks from the Delaware Republican Party and the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
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Getty Images Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell hours before she clinched the Republican nomination to vie for Joe Biden's old seat.
Ms. O'Donnell's win gives another jolt to a tea-party insurgency that has helped oust well-established politicians in Republican primary races across the U.S., including incumbent senators in Utah and Alaska.
Her candidacy against the moderate Mr. Castle earned her the support of the national Tea Party Express and an endorsement by former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin.
Ms. O'Donnell, though, is in many ways an unorthodox tea party candidate. A conservative Catholic, she has spent much of her career as a religious activist, advocating chastity in the late 1990s as founder of a group called the Savior's Alliance for Lifting the Truth.
She also touts work she did helping market the 2004 film "The Passion of the Christ," as well as serving as the U.S. representative for a painter of portraits of Vatican personalitiesHer one overtly political job was a brief stint in the early 1990s with the Republican National Committee.
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In her first two runs for the Senate, in 2006 and 2008, Ms. O'Donnell's platforms were heavy on such social issues as opposition to abortion rights and measures to protect the American flag—and lighter on the low-tax, limited-government themes she has promoted this year.
When she ran against Mr. Biden in 2008, she earned the Republican endorsement at a party convention.
After Mr. Biden was picked as President Barack Obama's running mate, Ms. O'Donnell told CNN she was "excited for Delaware and proud of our state."
In her 2008 race, she hammered Mr. Biden for ignoring his Senate race and for opposing offshore drilling. Outspent by the Biden campaign, she garnered 35% of the vote in a generally liberal state that Mr. Obama won with 62%.
Mr. Biden resigned the seat in early 2009 after being sworn in as vice president. His successor, Democratic Sen. Ted Kaufman, pledged not to run for a full term.
"There is a lot of frustration and discontent with the establishment," Ms. O'Donnell said in an interview. "This year, it is all about taking back our country, taking back our Constitution."
In a campaign notable for its nastiness, the 41-year-old Ms. O'Donnell accused her opponent of being an ersatz Republican who voted for the 2008 bank bailouts and a controversial cap-and-trade climate bill last year.
Mr. Castle, 71, and the state party ran ads accusing her of financial ineptitude. Records show that Ms. O'Donnell failed to pay nearly $12,000 in federal taxes in 2005 and defaulted on her house payments in 2007.
For all the intraparty feuding, Ms. O'Donnell said in an interview last week that if she won the primary, she would travel the next day to Washington to "kiss and make up" with the party's top brass.
It's unclear, though, whether her insurgent campaign will get much support from either the national or the state Republican party. Recent polls have shown that she is likely to face an uphill battle in the general election against Mr. Coons.
Write to Neil King Jr. at neil.king@wsj.com
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Re: 2010 Election
Until late last night, I was a paying support of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
I have given them a lot of money over the past few years.
My personal, and generally private political policy is simple. I am a registered Republican. I don't believe in these morons that go out to form third parties. This is, after all, a two-party America.
What I believe in also doesn't involve "The Party left me" nonsense.
I stayed with the Republicans for several reasons. I don't believe that the Party Left us. I believe that it completely, thoroughly and inexorably changed to a moderate, almost left-of-center party to play politics with the left.
The further left they act, the better they can get things through. But those things they get through are not good for Americans, never have been and never will be.
I stayed to help bring the Party back on message. I've tried.
But last night when the NRSC denigrated Kristine O'Donnell last evening as "not getting a penny from us", I changed my mind.
As of now, I'm a dyed-in-the-Wool Reagan Conservative, with guns and money - which will no longer be given to ANY party that doesn't meet MY STANDARDS.
From now on:
1) LIMITED GOVERNMENT.
2) TERM LIMITS. No MORE than two terms for ANY Senator or Representative.
3) REDUCED and LOWED TAXES. It's MY MONEY, I WANT IT BACK.
4) STRONG NATIONAL DEFENSE. Bring the troops home, defend my borders against the illegal invasion that is going on today. Defend this country against terrorism. Strengthen the US MILITARY in Missile Defense, Space Defense and KNOW who our adversaries are now and tomorrow!
5) Enforce the immigration laws, NOW. Not tomorrow, not after a fence, not after we grant amnesty. NOW!
6) KICK OUT THE CURRENT CONGRESS - ALL OF THEM, not some, ALL (I don't care HOW 'good' they might be. Boot them out, fire them, and start over with REAL HUMAN BEINGS, REAL AMERICANS
There's more, but I'm mad, mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this crap ANY MORE.
National Republican Senatorial Committee... YOU ARE NOT GETTING ANOTHER PENNY FROM ME. I will send money to the people - the PEOPLE of this country that should be in office standing up for me, and my RIGHTS.
Ricky D. Donaldson
Colorado Springs, CO
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Re: 2010 Election
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