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Thank you commentor RossinDetroit! — and also, of course, Mr. Whedon.
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by DougJ| 126 Comments
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Will the waitress mom vote be disproportionately affected by the hurricane? How about the Applebees dad vote? Discuss this and other fascinating questions.
And give more money to the mom-jeans-wearing tyrant.
by Tim F| 81 Comments
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Drove across most of Pennsylvania this afternoon west-to-east for professional reasons (it is rather important and I’m driving back tomorrow, with an emergency kit in my trunk). I-76 is a nonstop convoy of power line repair trucks right now. ConEd and independent utilities from Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and everywhere else have a whole lot of crews moving east ahead of/into the storm.
It will make me happy to wake up Wednesday and find out that we all overreacted. If not, oy.
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Discuss.
by Dennis G.| 27 Comments
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<a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/59124558@N06/8120708384/” title=”nine swing states by dengre.bj, on Flickr”><img src=”http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8464/8120708384_5952ec0e52.jpg” width=”500″ height=”490″ alt=”nine swing states”></a>
Quick reminder: It is GOTV time.
Click the links to connect with the Obama Campaign in the following States:
Iowa • New Hampshire • Colorado • Nevada • Ohio
Virginia • Florida • Wisconsin • North Carolina
Find out how to help with GOTV for other states at vote.barackobama.com.
Daily Kos and Worker’s Voice have a GOTV effort that you can plug into at this link.
There are many other GOTV efforts underway for Senate, Congress and ballot initiatives that could use your mojo as well (here is a list of the House races Democrats could win and here are three Senate races that GOTV can win).
There are less than 10 days left and early voting has begun. We can’t leave anything on the table.
What are your GOTV plans?
Cheers
by Kay| 199 Comments
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We have to sift through soft-ball interviews and watch campaign ads to get even a broad sense of what a Romney Presidency might be like, but if you’re genuinely curious, I thought I’d bring you a small piece of information that concerns your children that I was able to tease out of a hard-hitting Good Housekeeping piece:
AR: I’ve been a First Lady of the State. I have seen what happens to people’s lives if they don’t get a proper education. And we know the answers to that. The charter schools have provided the answers. The teachers’ unions are preventing those things from happening, from bringing real change to our educational system. We need to throw out the system.
Wow. The Romney’s are going to throw out the public school system. As a parent and public school supporter I’m grateful she saw fit to reveal this tantalizing clue.
Put the K-12 public education system on the pile along with Medicare, Medicaid, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. We’re getting rid of these things, to bring “real change.” It will be a real change, no doubt. That part of the (latest) media-Romney marketing campaign is true.
I’d like you to imagine the response if First Lady Michelle Obama had said she wanted to “throw out” the public school system. You’ll recall Michelle Obama came under heavy media scrutiny for telling kids to eat their vegetables (in a nice way). Had she announced she wanted to “throw out the system” I could have heard the screeching from my desk.
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A little Sunday-morning inspiration (and I hope Sandy didn’t screw things up too much). Dave Weigel at Slate on “how the GOP’s voter suppression laws may have inadvertently cost them Florida“:
MIAMI—[Saturday], as the sun rises, Bishop Victor Curry of New Birth Baptist Church will wake up and race to the Stephen P. Clark Government Center in downtown. At 7 a.m., he will help lead south Florida’s first early-vote rally. As soon as he can, he will hotfoot it to the South Dade Regional Library, 30-odd minutes away, for the day’s second early-vote rally. He will find some way to flee in time to make the start of the EBA Higher Education Awareness and Dropout Prevention Initiative in Miami Gardens, the heart of black south Florida, and take the stage next to Rev. Al Sharpton. Then back on the road, north to Broward County.
The plan, coordinated by at least 150 black pastors, is called “Operation Lemonade.” …
“When the Republicans in the state passed the new voting laws, we discovered that they took away that Sunday right before the election,” says Curry. “What we decided to do was view that as them giving us a lemon. We can be sour, we can moan and groan about it, or we can do something. We can make lemonade. The first thrust is this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, and then we’re going to encourage people the entire next week.”
Democrats are proud to say it: If they win this election, it’ll be because a superior ground game turned out their base and overcame a Mitt Romney comeback. In Florida, they have twice as many campaign offices as Romney-Ryan. “With absentee ballot requests, usually the Republicans have a pretty significant advantage on us,” says Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the DNC chairwoman who represents a liberal slice of the Miami sprawl. “We’ve cut the advantage by 85 percent.” This is true…
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What’s on the agenda this morning? Anybody got reports on the many & various GOTV efforts?
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