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Article: Sayonara, Sarah View Article Published: 11/7/2008 by Common Dreams View Comments (1) Submitted by: Picka 58 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   And so we bid farewell to Sarah Palin. How I'll miss her daily presence in my life! The mooseburgers, the wolf hunts, the kids named after bays and sports and trees and airplanes and who did not seem to go to school at all, the winks and blinks, the cute Alaska accent, the witch-hunting pastor and those great little flared jackets, especially the gray stripey one. People say she was a dingbat, but that is just sexist.

Article: Palin Didn't Know Africa Was A Continent, Says Fox News Reporter View Article Published: 11/5/2008 by Huffington Post View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 58 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Now that the 2008 election is over, reporters are spilling all the juciest, and previously off the record, gossip from the campaign trail. Perhaps one of the most astounding and previously unknown tidbits about Sarah Palin has to do with her already dubious grasp of geography. According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, she "didn't understand that Africa was a continent".

Website: FairVote View Website Founded: 10/31/2008 View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 66 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Description:      FairVote acts to transform elections to achieve universal access to participation, meaningful ballot choices and majority rule with fair representation for all. Good source of research reports.

Article: Eagleburger Blisters Palin: "Of Course" She's Not Ready View Article Published: 10/31/2008 by Huffington Post View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 66 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   A former Republican Secretary of State and one of John McCain's most prominent supporters offered a stunningly frank and remarkably bleak assessment of Sarah Palin's capacity to handle the presidency should such a scenario arise. Lawrence Eagleburger, who served as Secretary of State under George H.W. Bush said on Thursday that the Alaska governor is not only unprepared to take over the job on a moment's notice but, even after some time in office, would only amount to an "adequate" commander in

Website: Fight the Smears View Website Founded: 10/30/2008 View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 67 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Description:      This is a Barack Oboma website that lists numerous smears against him from the McCain campaign, Republicans and 527s. The website provides reputable independent sources that debunk the smears.

Website: Voter Action View Website Founded: 10/30/2008 View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 67 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Description:      A national non-profit organization that seeks to ensure election integrity in the United States through legal advocacy, research, and public education. Site highlights voting irregularities in various cities.

Website: Century Foundation View Website Founded: 10/29/2008 View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 67 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Description:      The Century Foundation is a nonprofit public policy research institution that includes election reform as one area of focus.

Website: Common Cause View Website Founded: 10/29/2008 View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 67 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Description:      Common Cause is a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization for citizens to make their voices heard in the political process, and in particular, election reform issues.

Website: Brennan Center for Justice View Website Founded: 10/29/2008 View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 67 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Description:      A website at the New York University of Law dealing with election legal issues.

Article: "Palin a Whack Job", Top McCain Advisor Says View Article Published: 10/28/2008 by Huffington Post View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 69 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   One of John McCain's advisers recently called his running mate Sarah Palin a "diva" after she went off-script at a rally, and suggested she was looking after her own political future over the current campaign. Now another adviser ups the ante in a conversation with the Politico's Playbook, labeling Palin a "whack job."

Article: Drinking the ACORN Kool-Aid: How Cries of Voter Fraud Cover Up GOP Elections Theft View Article Published: 10/28/2008 by Huffington Post View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 69 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   While the Republicans had the distracted media searching for links between Obama and ACORN, RNC operatives were busily completing one of the most massive voter suppression and purging efforts in American history, stealing hundreds of thousands of Democratic votes across the embattled swing states and striving to arrange chaos and endless lines at the voting booths next week.

Article: GOP Senator Slams McCain Robo Call View Article Published: 10/27/2008 by ABC News View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 66 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Embattled Republican Sen. Susan Collins is calling on Sen. John McCain to stop paying for automated phone calls which describe Sen. Barack Obama as having "worked closely" with "domestic terrorist Bill Ayers." "These kind of tactics have no place in Maine politics," said Collins spokesman Kevin Kelley. "Sen. Collins urges the McCain campaign to stop these calls immediately."

Article: Obama's Redistribution 'Bombshell' View Article Published: 10/27/2008 by Washington Post View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 69 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & Taxes Article Details:   Obama says pretty much the opposite of what the McCain camp says he said. Contrary to the spin put on his remarks by McCain economics adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin, he does not express "regret" that the Supreme Court has not been more "radical." Nor does he describe the Court's refusal to take up economic redistribution questions as a "tragedy." He uses the word "tragedy" to refer not to the Supreme Court, but to the civil rights movement:

Article: Obama for President View Article Published: 10/25/2008 by Anchorage Daily News View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 71 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, brings far more promise to the office. In a time of grave economic crisis, he displays thoughtful analysis, enlists wise counsel and operates with a cool, steady hand. The same cannot be said of Sen. McCain. And Sarah Palin, despite her formidable gifts, few who have worked closely with the governor would argue she is truly ready to assume command of the most important, powerful nation on earth. To step in and juggle the demands of an economic meltdown,

Article: Palin Versus McCain's Other VP Hopefuls View Article Published: 10/25/2008 by Huffington Post View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 72 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   The blame game over John McCain's increasingly bleak presidential fortunes started in earnest this past week, with anonymous campaign insiders leaking sometimes withering indictments of strategy and personnel. Emerging from the circular firing squad is a consistent theme: Sarah Palin's allies appear irritated over the handling of her candidacy while McCain insiders have come to view the Alaska Governor as remarkably self-serving.

Article: Lieberman on Palin: "Thank God She's Not Gonna Have To Be President From Day One" View Article Published: 10/25/2008 by Huffington Post View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 72 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Sen. Joe Lieberman on Friday skirted a question on whether vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is ready from day one to be president, saying "thank God" she won't have to be. Lieberman, who has helped prep the Alaska governor on foreign policy issues, said his pal and GOP presidential nominee, John McCain, is in good health.

Article: Colorado Secretary of State Sued for Illegal Purge of Voters View Article Published: 10/25/2008 by Advancement Project View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 70 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Advancement Project, a national voter protection organization, and others filed a lawsuit on behalf of Colorado Common Cause, Mi Familia Vota, a non-partisan civic engagement campaign, and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) against Colorado Secretary of State, Mike Coffman, to challenge an illegal purges and cancellation practices that apparently have removed between 16,000 and 30,000 voters from Colorado’s rolls.

Article: Another election nightmare in Florida? View Article Published: 10/24/2008 by Salon.com View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 69 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   A visit to Florida in the waning days of the 2008 presidential campaign threatens to evoke a certain sense of déjà vu for another late October eight years ago. Once again, polls show the state is deadlocked -- and once again, there's a very real possibility that a lot of people who support the Democratic candidate could have trouble voting. The new law -- known as "no match, no vote" -- says you need identification at the polls, and your driver's license I.D. number or Social Security number mus

Article: McCain Advisor Endorses Obama View Article Published: 10/24/2008 by Huffington Post View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 73 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   The Wall Street Journal today rounds up the horde of prominent Republicans jumping ship to Barack Obama. Now one of John McCain's actual advisers has switched sides: Charles Fried, a professor at Harvard Law School, has long been one of the most important conservative thinkers in the United States revealed he voted for Obama. Chief among the reasons for his decision "is the choice of Sarah Palin at a time of deep national crisis."

Article: The Remaking of a Candidate View Article Published: 10/23/2008 by Washington Independent View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 73 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Since Gov. Sarah Palin became the Republican vice presidential candidate, she’s been shaped to fit a new image. From debate boot camp at Sen. McCain’s Arizona ranch to a high-end makeover costing $150,000, the Palin on the national campaign trail is not the woman politician that voters here remember. The governor of Alaska seems transformed after a team of seasoned advisers helped craft a new political persona for her. She is not the hockey mom-turned politician they once knew.

Article: Voter Suppression In Colorado By Republican Clerk View Article Published: 10/23/2008 by The Zoo View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 70 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Republican county clerk Robert Balink lied to Colorado College students, telling them that if they’re from outside the state they could not register to vote if their parents claimed them as dependents on their tax returns. It seems that Balink’s shenanigans are being used by election officials in Virginia and South Carolina as well.

Article: Protect This Election View Article Published: 10/22/2008 by The Nation View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 69 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   The Karl Rove Plan of a permanent Republican majority is straight forward: to use every legislative and executive lever available to the GOP to suppress the votes of minorities, students, the poor, the transient and the elderly; and to denounce any attempt by the other side to level the playing field as a monstrous exercise in systemic voter fraud. In several states for 2008, the Republican Party has made plans to challenge the legitimacy of thousands of voters, in some cases using a notorious,

Article: How To Chose A Fearless Leader View Article Published: 10/22/2008 by www.IfTheBuckStopsHereShootIt.com View Comments (0) Submitted by: ConcernedMilf 75 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Who do you want to run your country? You want a statesmen running things, that's who. Everytime a Republican uses the word elite like its a bad word, I cringe. Why do they do that? Elite (also spelled Élite) is taken originally from the Latin, eligere, "to elect". The position of an elite at the top of the social strata almost invariably puts it in a position of leadership. So you want the elite to run our country. By definition!!! Who else? Let's break down our options.

Image: Cheney...Argggg View Image Published: 10/22/2008 View Comments (0) Submitted by: ConcernedMilf 75 days ago Add Comment Category: US Elections

Article: The McBush Factor View Article Published: 10/22/2008 by www.IfTheBuckStopsHereShootIt.com View Comments (0) Submitted by: ConcernedMilf 75 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Inheriting the Carl Rove Playbook (McCain facts that effect the election) FROM: RESPECTFUL REPUBLICANS DATE: October 22, 2008 RE: MCCAIN DEFAME CAMPAIGN TO: Still President Team Desperate Times? Well, that's how it would seem to be playing out for your Palin/McCain campaign. Per Chris Mathews of Hardball, "Every time conditions prevail, that is the current status of things causes McCain's poll numbers to dwindle, McCain cancels, curses, fires, stoops,

Article: Little Red Riding Wolfowitz: A Word About Cronyism View Article Published: 10/22/2008 by www.IfTheBuckStopsHereShootIt.com View Comments (1) Submitted by: ConcernedMilf 75 days ago Add Comment Category: Government and Elections Article Details:   The Buck Really Did Stop With This Guy What ever happened to Wolfowitz? He sold us the war in Iraq as a two second venture, then went to the World Bank and was almost the first President to be fired by said bank. Now this same Wolfowitz who sheepishly slunk out of the limelight for most of this year is the same Wolfowitz to lead Bush's New International Security Advisory Board. Wolfowitz, sort of sounds like a Nazi name, don't you think? How is he qualified for this position? And what is

Article: AP INVESTIGATION: Alaska Funded Palin Kids' Travel View Article Published: 10/22/2008 by ABC News View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 75 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business. The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile race, and a trip to New York, where the governor attended a five-hour conference and stayed with 17-year-old Bristol for five days and four nights in a luxury hotel.

Article: RNC shells out $150K for Palin fashion View Article Published: 10/22/2008 by Politico View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 75 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August. The cash expenditures immediately raised questions among campaign finance experts about their legality under the Federal Election Commission's long-standing advisory opinions on using campaign cash to purchase items for personal use.

Website: Palin as President (Humor) View Website Founded: 10/21/2008 View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 76 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Description:      Click on every object and individual door panels for an inspiring message from Sarah Palin.

Website: Palin as President View Website Founded: 10/21/2008 View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 76 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Description:      Browse the photo and click on doors and objects.

Video: "Oui, on peut -- Yes we can!" OBAMA ZYDECO FROM LOUISIANA 2008 View Video Published: 10/21/2008 View Comments (1) Submitted by: Picka 66 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections

Article: Palin Claims the Vice President is 'In Charge of the US Senate'. View Article Published: 10/21/2008 by Think Progress View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 76 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Yesterday, Gov. Sarah Palin sat for an interview with KUSA, an NBC affiliate in Colorado. In response to a question sent to the network by a local elementary school student about what the Vice President does, Palin erroneously argued that the Vice President is “in charge of the United States Senate“. "[T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family

Article: Colin Powell Endorses Obama View Article Published: 10/19/2008 by Huffington Post View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 78 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced Sunday that he will break with his party and vote for Sen. Barack Obama. "He has both style and substance. I think he is a transformational figure," Powell said on NBC's Meet the Press. "I come to the conclusion that because of his ability to inspire, because of the inclusive nature of his campaign, because he is reaching out all across America, because of who he is and his rhetorical abilities - as well as substance."

Article: ACORN Accusations View Article Published: 10/18/2008 by FactCheck.org View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 69 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   The McCain ad accuses ACORN of "massive voter fraud." In the final presidential debate, John McCain added that ACORN "is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy." However, there's no evidence of any such democracy-destroying fraud. No evidence has yet surfaced to show that the ACORN employees who submitted fraudulent registration forms intended to pave the way for illegal voting.

Article: The Palin Plunge: Voters Sour on McCain VP Pick View Article Published: 10/18/2008 by Huffington Post View Comments (1) Submitted by: Picka 78 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   The more voters learn about Sarah Palin, the more wary they become. Once the focus of post-convention Republican euphoria, the Alaska Governor is now viewed as a serious liability to the McCain campaign. As it stands, Palin's polling numbers are daunting: with the unfolding economic crisis, her favorable to unfavorable ratings have switched from a positive 40-30, according to a September 12-16 New York Times survey, to a negative 32-41 in an October 10-13 survey.

Article: Biden lashes out at Palin's 'pro-America' comment View Article Published: 10/17/2008 by CNN View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 80 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden ripped into recent comments by his Republican counterpart that suggested that some places in the U.S. are more "pro-America" than others. Palin said in North Carolina, "We believe that the best of America is in the small towns that we get to visit, and in the wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation,"

Article: Make-Believe Maverick View Article Published: 10/16/2008 by Rolling Stone - Tim Dickinson View Comments (2) Submitted by: Picka 94 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty. This is the story of the real John McCain, the one who has been hiding in plain sight. It is the story of a man who has consistently put his own advancement above all else, a man willing to say and do anything to achieve his ultimate ambition: to become commander in chief, ascending to the one position that would finally enable him to outrank his four-star father and grandfather.

Article: Open Letter to Sarah Palin View Article Published: 10/15/2008 by Daily Kos View Comments (0) Submitted by: totanaca 75 days ago Add Comment Category: Government and Elections Article Details:   As a former fundamentalist, I'd like to call you on what you are doing. The media has found you "opaque" about your religion. Why? You have not been honest about the most important thing about you: the fact that you are a born-again charismatic on a mission from God. Most people who have never been entrenched in the subculture of fundamentalist Christianity may not understand what this really means, but I do. Like you, I was raised in the Assemblies of God and I was a zealous part of th

Article: Commentary: Time for Palin to answer tough questions View Article Published: 10/15/2008 by CNN View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 80 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   What is truly pathetic is that Palin talks tough, but is really scared of facing her own issues. Since she is good at proclaiming that the American people need to know who Barack Obama is, the American people deserve to hear Palin answer if her husband, Todd, a former member of the Alaska Independence Party, agreed with its founder, who wanted to secede from the union. Is there anything more anti-American than wanting to sever ties with the country?

Article: Palin Family Values View Article Published: 10/14/2008 by Salon.com View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 82 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Sarah Palin claims to be a reformer who is going to fight corruption and clean up Washington cronyism. But a bipartisan report establishes beyond a doubt that Palin herself indulged and abetted an illegal and unethical personal vendetta carried out by her husband. Sending her to clean up Washington is like sending the Hatfields and McCoys out to restore civility in rural America.

Article: Bush Stratgist: McCain Knows He Put Country At Risk With Palin Pick View Article Published: 10/14/2008 by Huffington Post View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 82 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Matthew Dowd, a prominent political consultant and chief strategist for George W. Bush's reelection campaign eviscerated John McCain on Tuesday for his choice of Sarah Palin as vice president. "[McCain] knows, in his gut, that he put somebody unqualified on the ballot. He knows that in his gut, and when this race is over that is something he will have to live with... He put somebody unqualified on that ballot and he put the country at risk, he knows that."

Website: Alaska Hockey Moms for Obama View Website Founded: 10/13/2008 View Comments (0) Submitted by: John the Painter 84 days ago Add Comment Category: US Elections

Video: Misconceptions of Obama fuel Republican campaign - 13 Oct 08 View Video Published: 10/13/2008 View Comments (1) Submitted by: Picka 81 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections

Article: Palin Vindicated? View Article Published: 10/13/2008 by Alaska Daily News View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 83 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Sarah Palin's reaction to the Legislature's Troopergate report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation. She claims the report "vindicates" her. She said that the investigation found "no unlawful or unethical activity on my part." Her response is either astoundingly ignorant or downright Orwellian. The report says: "I find that Governor Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute...of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act." In plain English...she broke the state ethics law.

Article: Palin Blurs Line Between Church and State as Governor View Article Published: 10/11/2008 by Huffington Post View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 86 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   An Associated Press review of Sarah Palin's record as mayor and governor reveals her use of elected office to promote religious causes, sometimes at taxpayer expense and in ways that blur the line between church and state. Since she took state office in late 2006, the governor and her family have spent more than $13,000 in taxpayer funds to attend at least 10 religious events and meetings.

Article: "He Lied" About Bill Ayers? View Article Published: 10/10/2008 by FactCheck.org View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 69 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   In a TV ad, McCain says Obama "lied" about his association with William Ayers, a former bomb-setting, anti-war radical from the 1960s and '70s. We find McCain's claim to be groundless. Nothing Obama said previously has been shown to be false. In a Web ad and in repeated attacks from the stump, McCain describes the two as associates, and Palin claims they "pal around" together. But so far as is known, their relationship was never very close.

Article: Troopegate Report: Palin "Unlawfully Abused Her Authority" View Article Published: 10/10/2008 by Huffingtom Post View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 86 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican ticket. Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report to a bipartisan panel that looked into the matter, found Palin in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their offic

Article: False flyers aim to intimidate voters View Article Published: 10/9/2008 by The Daily Pennsylvanian View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 69 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Political campaigns have made unprecedented efforts to register new voters this year - but attempts have already been made to scare some of them away from the polls on Nov. 4. A flyer has been distributed around Philadelphia universities and in low-income neighborhoods over the last month, incorrectly stating that voters with outstanding arrest warrants or unpaid traffic tickets might be arrested if they show up to cast a ballot.

Article: David Brooks: Sarah Palin "Represents a Fatal Cancer to the Republican Party" View Article Published: 10/8/2008 by Huffington Post View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 87 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government and Elections & US Elections Article Details:   Reagan had an immense faith in the power of ideas. His whole life was based on that, and that was also true for a lot of the other conservatives in the Reagan era. But there has been a counter, more populist tradition, which is not only to scorn liberal ideas but to scorn ideas entirely. And I'm afraid that Sarah Palin has those prejudices. [Sarah Palin] represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party.

Video: Olbermann: It's Palin doing the pallin' View Video Published: 10/6/2008 View Comments (0) Submitted by: Picka 90 days ago Add Comment Categories: Government a