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Ohio's Nightmare Voting Scenario

As reported by  Cincinnati Enquirer Reporter Barry Horstman In an effort to convince the world that many if not most Republican politicitons are stupid:Under Secretary of State Jon Husted’s sent...

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An Every Vote Counts Story

One year, long ago, in a small rural New York village everyone running in the local election was running unopposed.The town prankster spent election day in the bar across the street and counted the...

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Allen West for Speaker?

Quick not really a diary, but it looks like Allen West of Florida is getting some votes.Democrats are praising Pelosi when they vote for her.It also looks like Cantor did not vote when it was his turn.

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When is a Nipple not a Nipple?

NC Stupid – A Woman’s Breasts are for Men.OK fellow Kossacks, what is wrong with this bill?With the Republicans in charge of the state government we are off to the races to get “Big Government” off our...

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Our NC GOP Nannies

Fresh off of making it a felony for women to expose their nipples as a political protest, but not illegal to expose their nipples in a strip club and right after introducing a bill to establish a state...

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GOP AR Senator Accidentally Shoots Teacher

Yes we know that the GOP hates teachers, just as they hate government workers of all stripes.  However, this was not a hate crime it was just a stupid.Arkansas state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson (R) is an...

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The Ted Cruzade and the GOP

Breaking: the GOP has a new anthem.  It is the anthem of an age old crusade of angry young men who know the futility of their fight but just can't help themselves.To the barricades!!!  One question.Why...

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NC -- Most massive moral rally in the South since Selma!

Despite predictions of freezing rain, a record number of people of all ages came today to Raleigh for the Moral March (aka HKonJ) to protest the corrupt Republican Legislature and Governor that stand...

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Team Mitch Website

I clicked on the ad for Team Mitch on this web site just because I do sometime.  I may be wrong but I think that it transfers $.01 from some 1%er to Dailykos.  If it doesn't don't tell me because I...

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NC Koch Judgeship Steal Alert

North Carolina has a strange way of electing judges.  Since judges are suppose to be "non-partisan" the primary is used to reduce the number of judges to the two that will contest the spot in the...

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An Astroturf Idea

I clicked on the National Association for Gun Rights banner ad right here on Dailykos.I do that from time to time to transfer a penny from a right wing group to a progressive web page.The National...

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A local race with big implications for marriage equality in NC

Tonight is primary night in North Carolina and in one particular county, Orange, the home of UNC, there was a Democratic primary race for Registrar of Deeds.  Now you might be asking yourself why is...

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NC Tillis and GOP to Cut Health Care for the "Medically Needy" Aged, Blind...

What a brilliant, politically popular idea the NC Senate has come up with...a real winner:Cut healthcare funding for the medically needy aged, blind and disabled.Doesn't that have a real nice ring to...

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Thom Tillis -- the Stupid it Hurts

Thom Tillis is running for senate in North Carolina.Last year the GOP house, senate and governor initiated a "War on Teachers", cutting resources, teacher aids and trying to eliminate tenure.Now that...

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Winning the NC Senate

How do we in North Carolina take our state back?The good news is that progressives are motivated in 2014, we are running good candidates and everyone hates the Republicans in the legislature.I think we...

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Getting Out the Vote

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:Now is the time for every Progressive and every Democrat to work to get out the vote.There are only three and a half...

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Cutting Taxes Still doesn't Create Jobs -- NC Edition

If cutting taxes creates jobs then you would have to give a little time for the extremely wealthy to get off their asses (or more likely stay on them and make phone calls) and make all of those...

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Only Democrats can Win the Senate in November

I am assuming the September momentum will carry on through election day in North Carolina (more later), Colorado, and Iowa.  I am not concerned with New Hampshire, Shaheen seems to have that sewed up...

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Fox News is discouraging young women from voting

Huffingtonpost Reports:Fox News is discouraging young people from voting again, but this time the target is more specific: young women. "The Five" co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle said Tuesday that young...

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Voting in Chapel Hill, NC Today

The wife and I voted today at 4pm, at the Seymour Senior Center in Chapel Hill and our son voted first thing in the day at the State Board Of Elections in Hillsborough, the county seat.  This is the...

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A Beautiful North Carolina Day

Right now it feels like the very early light in the dawn before a great battle.  But this, fortunately, is a battle of the ballot box.In the few counties publicly reporting, the numbers of voters on...

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North Carolina Weekend Numbers are Great!

The numbers for the weekend of early voting are in and, to quote Tony the Tiger, Threeeere Great!Using the numbers from ncvotetracker.com which is a project of the Civitas Institute:48.4 % of the...

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This is Hilarious!

We are running a phone bank for Kay Hagan out of our house.It is going great.  Almost all the Democrats we call support Kay Hagan.  Sometimes they need a little encouragement, but they say they will...

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All is Well in NC

It is going to be a beautiful fall day in North Carolina, a terrific day to go out and vote.Kay Hagan is up by 4 % in the last two polls (Likely Voter) and is leading by 7 with registered voters.Many...

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F the Poor

Our Republican North Carolina Governor, his Republican Senate and House Have just decided to F the poor.A committee for the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors issued a much-anticipated...

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SCOTUS Weakens Citizen United

In an opinion authored by  Chief Justice Roberts the Supreme Court has rejected a First Amendment challenge to Florida’s ban on the personal solicitation of campaign contributions by judicial...

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Social Security Funds are not for Fixing Potholes!

One of the funding elements of the Senate's six year transportation bill is a $2.9 billion pay-for from the Social Security Trust Fund.The plan is to prevent felons with existing warrants to be...

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New Post Debate Polls -- The Donald still The King!

A new NBC News/Survey Monkey poll finds Donald Trump continues to lead the crowded GOP presidential field with 29%, followed by Ben Carson at 14%, Carly Fiorina at 11%, Jeb Bush at 8%, Ted Cruz at 7%...

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Taking Advantage of Chaos

During the chaos of the House Speaker fiasco, GOP Reps. Stephen Fincher (Tenn.), Chris Collins (N.Y.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) filed a discharge petition to reauthorize the Import/Export Bank for five...

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Hubble captures first-ever predicted exploding star!

The scientists knew when the supernova would appear because they had already seen it.The supernova nicknamed Refsdal was observed using a gravitational lens, and was located within a phenomena called...

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Proportional Primaries Might End Up like Winner Take All

xEmbedded ContentWhile all of the SEC primaries are proportional many of them have a reasonably high threshold:Alabama Primary (50 total delegates/47 bound) — Proportional with 20% thresholdAlaska...

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NC: Clinton 59%, Sanders 26% WOW!

North Carolina is known for becoming a liberal bastion in the fairly conservative South, and the most recent PPP poll out of the state looks to confirm that position.Bernie Sanders is only 33 points...

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I Told You So.

Not only is Dailykos a site for political advocacy it is also a site for political analysis.So it is time to put away your advocacy, put on your analysis hat and put your future as a political...

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I Am Really Sorry -- I Can't Help Myself

Really this is very bad.However, things have really gotten too serious around here.  We really need to laugh at ourselves a bit.Guess who is the Bernie supporter (feels the Bern so to speak) and guess...

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Breaking News NC 1st and 12th Congressional Districts Unconstitutional!...

Just up on WRAL.comFederal court strikes down redrawn NC congressional maps — Federal judges have ruled that state lawmakers gerrymandered the 1st and 12th congressional districts in North Carolina and...

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GOP NC Congressional Map is Out and It is a Doozie.

The above picture is the old map.For all the information go to the WRAL Article.They said they didn’t address race at all in drawing the map.  That of course that means that do and it looks from a...

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NV Prediction Time

Take a break from arguing for your candidate and trashing the other candidate and put you political analysis hat on.In a few short hours the truth will be known.What do you think will be the outcome of...

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North Carolina 2016 The Perfect Electoral Storm

This year in North Carolina we have an election for President, Governor, Senator and the Supreme Court Justice race that will make it the NC Supreme Court 4-3 Democratic.All of these races are very...

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Early Voting Statistics North Carolina

Here are the early voting statistics for North Carolina.  Make of it what you will.Bernie is making an impressive effort here (I even got a GOTV call yesterday).But the AA community looks like it is...

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Reading the Tea Leaves -- Maybe Good SCOTUS News

The Supreme Court on Tuesday signaled it may be looking for a way out of a controversial ObamaCare birth control case.The court asked for additional information from both sides on “whether and how”...

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The Important June 7th NC Supreme Court Election

Early voting starts tomorrow in North Carolina in the process to determine who controls the NC Supreme Court.This is almost a “secret” primary for one of the most important races in North Carolina if...

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The Half Time Presidential Candidate

If it looks like Donald Trump is only putting in only half the effort necessary to run for president – it is because he IS only putting in half of his time. Donald J. Trump personally must log and...

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Breaking: NC State Legislature Districts Ruled Unconstitutional

Lawmakers unconstitutionally used race when they drew legislative boundaries for state House and Senate members, a panel of three federal judges ruled Thursday afternoon.The ruling is the latest...

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Why Trump Can Not Possibly Win Even Though The Polls Might Tighten

In the  classic Foundation series which is a science fiction series of books by Isaac Asimov there is the old and dying Empire and the young and rising Foundation.  The premise of the series is that...

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The Last Canvass

As a thoughtful gift the field organizer set aside the last walk packet in my precinct for me.  We have bleed our precinct dry of voters.  25% more voters have already voted in this precinct than in...

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Roy Cooper (D) Passes the 10,000 Vote Threshold. Updated

Just this afternoon the North Carolina Board of Elections received county tallies that put Roy Cooper, the Democratic candidate,  more than 10,000 votes ahead of Pat McCrory for North Carolina...

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Trump Humiliates Perry Without Perry Even Knowing

President-elect Donald Trump has selected former Texas Gov. Rick Perry — who famously once forgot that he wanted to abolish the Energy Department — to be secretary of energy.Does anyone else see the...

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Incompetency Strikes Back

Just a quick diary to point out that President Bannon will not be on the National Security Council.According to section (a)(6) of federal statute 50 U.S. Code 3021, a civilian like Steve Bannon will in...

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NC Voters File Defamation Lawsuit

I don’t have much to add here except this is awesome!GREENSBORO NCFour voters in Guilford County have filed a defamation suit against a man who accused them of voter fraud after the November 2016...

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You Can Do This Donald, I am Counting on You!

I confess that every day I click on www.gallup.com/… to see what Donald’s approval numbers are today.  It is kind of like watching your horse in a horse race or watching for your favorite baseball...

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