“The Hunted Democrat: Super-PAC money cut his lead in half. Why Sherrod Brown is running scared. “
Newsweek reports.
Monthly Archives: August 2012
“Outcome of ID-law challenge hard to predict”
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
Unfortunately, the article does not make clear a fundamental point I tried to explain to the reporter: Crawford, the U.S. Supreme Court case, was a challenge under the U.S. Constitution. The Pa. case, like the Wisconsin… Continue reading
“Absentee ballot fraud made easy in Miami-Dade”
Marc Caputo (Miami Herald):
Psst!
Wanna commit absentee-ballot fraud?
Well, all you need is a computer, a telephone and a dummy address. Armed with that, there’s a good chance you can request and vote another person’s absentee ballot.
It’s a… Continue reading
“Every Four Years, Man of the Hour”
NYT:
JOEL K. GOLDSTEIN, a law professor at St. Louis University, is a leading authority on the United States vice presidency. People seem to respect him anyway. …
Another inclination I had when I heard about Mr. Goldstein (and… Continue reading
“Axelrod: Military Voters Should Get Special Consideration In Voting”
BuzzFeed: “Obama campaign senior adviser David Axelrod gave voice to a careful walk-back by the Obama campaign over its challenge to an Ohio early voting law….In their initial filing, the Obama campaign argued that it was arbitrary for military… Continue reading
“Romney: Obama lawsuit seeks to ‘undermine’ military voters”
The LA Times reports.
“Axelrod: Team Romney launching ‘shameful’ attack on voting rights lawsuit”
CNN reports.
Justice O’Connor Comments on Bush v. Gore, Citizens United, and Health Care
See this report.
“Charities Must Take a Stand on Partisan Groups Masquerading as Nonprofits”
Larry Ottinger has written this oped in the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
“Absentee ballots may offer a way around Pennsylvania voter ID law”
The Philaelphia Inquirer reports:
Thomas Cavanaugh, a longtime Democratic committeeman in Philadelphia’s Tacony neighborhood, has two words of advice for senior citizens fretting about the state’s new photo ID requirement: absentee ballot.
Though Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law requires… Continue reading
“Copying Obama’s ’08 Strategy, Romney Takes to the Ground in Colorado”
NYT reports.
“Record Spending by Obama’s Camp Shrinks Coffers”
Chris Geidner on the Ohio Military Lawsuit
Read this:
And while Republicans have accused Obama of trying to deny soldiers the vote in Ohio, the actual legal objections to the Obama filing are different: Not that Ohio soldiers’ votes might not be counted, but that the… Continue reading
“Campaigns drown supporters with fundraising e-mails in the race for cash”
WaPo reports.