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Michigan and Ohio: Swing States No More?
Another good point made by TWI’s Daphne Eviatar and Josh Marshall, who sums it up well. From TPM:
Senate Republicans are following this course for three key reasons — first is payback against a major industrial union; second is payback against states like Michigan and Ohio who have been moving away from the GOP; third is [...]
Breaking: Troubles Amid Big Turnout
Scattered problems amid a big Election Day turnout is the story from polls in five states covered by the Center for Independent Media network.
In Oakland County in suburban Detroit, a key swing county, election officials are preparing to hand count ballots after the county clerk complained that four voting machines had failed pre-election testing, according [...]
GOP Officials May Challenge Foreclosed Voters in States Beyond MI
GOP officials in Ohio, Florida and Indiana –- in addition to Michigan, where the Obama campaign sued -– have acknowledged plans to challenge voters on Election Day based on foreclosure lists.
According to local media in counties in each of these states — in Columbus, Ohio, Marion County, Ind., and Volusia County, Fla. — GOP operatives [...]
Palin Bummed About Michigan Pullout
More from Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s interview with Fox News’ Carl Cameron…
Palin says she wishes the McCain campaign hadn’t made the decision to pull its staff and resources out of Michigan.
A Soldier’s Unnecessary Retreat
The McCain campaign’s decision to effectively concede Michigan to Obama makes no political sense because the GOP nominee enjoys key advantages in the state.
Politico: McCain to Abandon Michigan
At the very moment that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was hosting a McCain campaign conference call with reporters to hype Sen. John McCain’s chances for flipping Michigan from blue to red in November, Politico’s Jonathan Martin was readying this report:
John McCain is pulling out of Michigan, according to two Republicans, a stunning move a [...]
Biden Touts “Real Hockey Mom” in Detroit
DETROIT, Mich. — Addressing a boisterous crowd of 28,000 that filled the street in front of the Detroit Institute of Arts on Sunday, Sen. Joe Biden touted the support of a “real hockey mom.”
Biden, as well as Sen. Barack Obama, was introduced by Denise Ilitch, former president of a company that managed the Detroit Red [...]
Kucinich Introducers ‘Voter Foreclosure’ Bill
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced legislation today to bar political parties from challenging the eligibility of voters whose homes have been foreclosed.
Kucinich, who ran losing presidential bids in 2004 and 2008 and faced a stiff primary challenge earlier this year, drafted the legislation following a report in the Michigan Messenger that a Macomb County Republican [...]
GOP Feels Heat for Foreclosure Voter Suppression
Michigan Republicans are feeling the heat for a scheme to suppress voters based based on a list of foreclosed homes, a plan first reported by journalist Eartha Jane Melzer for our sister site, The Michigan Messenger.
In the week since Melzer broke the news, exposing Macomb County G.O.P. Chair James Carabelli’s intention to use a list [...]
Obama Lawyer: Michigan Foreclosure Tactic ‘Caging’
Over at our sister site Michigan Messenger, Ed Brayton reports that the lawyer representing Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign in a class-action, voting rights lawsuit is calling a GOP tactic to prevent Michigan residents in foreclosure from voting a new form of “caging.”
