Hertzberg also notes that this method of assigning electoral votes, even though it has superficial appeal for many over the current winner-take-all method, would actually, if adopted across the board, reduce the number of competitive … [Read more...]
Archives for August 3, 2007
Viewing elections as an expense
The Boston Globe did this a few weeks ago. Here are some excerpts:Law quirk requires a costly primaryA legal quirk in the way Boston conducts its elections will probably require a citywide preliminary vote in September, forcing the city to … [Read more...]
Owners of New Bedford leather factory INDICTED – you heard it first HERE
Here is more from U.S. Attorney Sullivan's indictment as stated in his press release:the defendants assisted certain illegal alien employees in obtaining fraudulent identification documents; the defendants, byhiring and paying illegal … [Read more...]
First McCabe canvass next weekend!
The Patrick McCabe for State Representative campaign, which many of us have been following closely, is approaching a major milestone a week from Sunday : It's first volunteer canvass, to take place on Sunday, August 12th. In case you hadn't … [Read more...]
NH Woman Confronts Mitt on Health Care
I appologize that I don't have the time to write a diary, but I thought BMG would be interested in this Washington Post video of an employee of New Hampshire's Red Arrow Diner asking Mitt (I gave Massachusetts health insurance) Romneyabout … [Read more...]
Plame/Rove Theater of the Absurd Continues
So it's o.k. for Karl Rove to reveal the identity of an undercover CIA agent to the entire world, but it's not okay for that same agent, four years after her exposure, to reveal the dates that she was employed by the CIA in her own memoir? … [Read more...]
The Importance of the Voterfile
A voterfile is the master list of voters that political campaigns use to coordinate their marketing campaign efforts. It is the key organizational tool for any campaign and, in my opinion, one of the primary benefits a national … [Read more...]
Carrying a SCHIP on our shoulder
The Senate passes an expansion of SCHIP, proposing to extend health care to millions more kids. This includes the expansion funded by a cigarette tax hike. (Liddy Dole responded (not in so many words) that this would be a regressive tax … [Read more...]
Setting the Record Straight
Some may feel we have not adequately addressed one issue or another in an email, but that doesn't mean that we're indifferent or, as one person cynically accused, are "waiting on the polling." I believe when you look at the candidates and … [Read more...]
In the Bag
Here are the companies with inserts in the YearlyKos convention bag. I am presently at a seminar on voterfiles and political technology, run by a technology chap from the DNC and one from the AFL-CIO. I discovered this most excellent local … [Read more...]