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  • Poll Shock or Is American Democracy Just Over?
    27 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Original at http://commonwonders.com/archives/col321.htm Poll Shock Off by 40 points, newspaper’s predictions may be disturbingly accurate
    By ROBERT C. KOEHLER Tribune Media Services
    November 24, 2005
    One of the most wildly inaccurate pre-election polls in memory, which was off by over 40 points on some predictions, may prove to be deadly accurate as an indicator of the problems we face as a nation with our voting process - and democracy itself.
    But you won’t learn this by reading (…)

  • The Real McCain
    24 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ari Berman
    Over the Senate’s August recess, John McCain returned to Arizona to quash a brewing conservative insurgency in his home state. The Arizona Republican Assembly, a grassroots right-wing group, had recently censured McCain for "ignoring the opinions of his constituents expressed in numerous polls and personal pleas." The anti-immigrant Minuteman vigilantes had rallied on the Arizona-Mexico border in protest of his progressive immigration policy. Discord gripped the state GOP (…)

  • Chile’s Michelle Bachelet Poised for Presidency
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jonathan Franklin
    SANTIAGO, Chile (WOMENSENEWS)—To many Chileans the idea of quotas for female cabinet members is just the latest in a stunning turn of political events in this usually staid, conservative nation of 15 million.
    "Fifty percent of my cabinet will be women," Chilean presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet promised a crowd of supporters last week. "We are going to set a standard for Latin America."
    Chileans lived, and too many died, under a dictatorship from 1973 to (…)

  • Incumbents Out
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Next year, we should all go to the polls and vote against every single incumbent running for re-election, regardless of his or her party or so-called philosophy.
    Can you understand what a shock it would be if all 435 members of the U.S. House and the third of the Senate that will be running were defeated? Washington would never be the same again, and that, on its face, would be a good thing.
    I know most folks feel about their congressional representative or senator the way most parents (…)

  • Bush’s Supreme Court upholds Florida Jim Crow Ban
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How are we ever going to undo all that these people are doing to OUR country? This is BUSH & CO’s Supreme Court. They care nothing for the people of America. As this article from TomPaine shows, this is a law that is historically based in racial rhetoric which has not place in our society today!! Read on and weep for us................... But we must NEVER give up!!!! Supreme Court stabs another GOP knife into US democracy by upholding ex-felon vote ban by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey (…)

  • Intelligent Design Falls Hard. Dover, PA, reams school board over Creationist teaching
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Zeliger
    Tuesday’s school board election in Dover, Pennsylvania, a quiet rural community near the Maryland border where churches seem to outnumber streetlights, was a fitting climax to a year of bitter division there. In a contest with national implications, Dover voters tossed an entire slate of Intelligent Design supporters, replacing them with backers of evolution.
    The eight incumbents, calling themselves “Dover First,” were defendants in a lawsuit over a board decision last (…)

  • A Crime Without a Name: ’Concern’ About Election Fraud is Useless Without Guts and Anger
    10 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Some news is so big it won’t fit into a headline. For example: WIDESPREAD VOTER DISENFRANCHISEMENT IN 2004.
    Sorry. It may be true, but it’s a no-go on the front pages and TV news programs of America. The reality hovers namelessly, like the disappeared of Central America. Shhh, don’t refer to it directly. Wait 20 years, until they dig up the mass graves.
    No matter the election was a multilayered travesty of disenfranchisement: widespread malfunctioning of electronic voting machines that (…)

  • What John Kerry Definitely Said About 2004’s Stolen Election and Why It’s Killing American Democracy
    10 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The net is abuzz about what John Kerry may or may not be saying now about the stolen election of 2004.
    But we can definitively report what he has said about New Mexico and electronic voting machines soon after his abrupt "abandon ship" with 250,000 Ohio votes still uncounted.
    And we must also report that what he’s not saying is having a catastrophic effect on what’s left of American democracy, including what has just happened (again) in Ohio 2005.
    In recent days Mark Crispin Miller has (…)

  • Calif. Voters Defeat Abortion Notification
    10 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
    LOS ANGELES (AP) - In a stinging rebuke from voters who elected him two years ago, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s efforts to reshape state government were rejected during a special election that darkened his prospects for a second term. Voters also strongly rejected an initiative that would have required parents to be notified when minors seek abortions
    All four of the Republic governor’s signature ballot proposals were rejected in Tuesday’s election, which pitted him (…)

  • GAO report upholds Ohio vote fraud claims
    8 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Joe Baker
    As if the indictment of Lewis “Scooter” Libby wasn’t enough to give the White House some heavy concerns, a report from the Government Accounting Office takes a big bite out of the Bush clique’s pretense of legitimacy.
    This powerful and probing report takes a hard look at the election of 2004 and supports the contention that the election was stolen. The report has received almost no coverage in the national media.
    The GAO is the government’s lead investigative agency, and (…)