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 …
Election 2011
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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What it looks like from here
We had an Obama office opening close to here last night, so I’ll give you my impressions and you may then extend my remarks about this office opening out to the entire country. This is how you know you’re at the right address, when you see cars like this one: First, it was a good …
Still looking for the real racists, but we may be getting warmer
Democracy enthusiasts had a good day last week. First, the background: Caging originated in 1981, according to the DNC, when the RNC formed an operation called National Ballot Security Task Force. The task force sent out postcards in New Jersey to predominately Hispanic and black districts with a “do not forward” requirement. The 45,000 cards …
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He just keeps walking
I don’t think this is catastrophic or anything, but it is a set-back and a huge pain in the ass for state election officials: A judge in Wisconsin threw a curveball Thursday evening into the recall campaign targeting Republican Gov. Scott Walker, ruling that state election officials must make a greater effort to screen out …
I thought we were winning but we may be losing
I started reading more about for-profit K-12 schools last spring because I was talking with people about teachers and unions during the Issue Two campaign. In the course of those conversations, I found that people here were very surprised to learn that nearly half of “public” charter schools in Ohio are run by for-profit entities. …
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Mitt Romney is always welcome here
We in Ohio were lectured for months by Governor Kasich and media that Kasich’s union busting law was not about unions. It was about health insurance. It was about merit pay. It was about budgets. It was about balancing the state budget. Very few in Ohio believed that, because it was obviously not true. The …