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POPSPrediction: XXX XXX XXX Wins 281-257 From this base case (XXX XXX XXX winning with an 11 point cushion), there are a couple deviations worth mentioning, given that Virginia and Pennsylvania seem to represent the most tenuous wins for McCain. * If McCain loses Virginia (13 votes), he can still win by picking up any of the three western battlegrounds (NM, CO, or NV). Of these, at least Colorado appears plausible, so Virginia isn't necessarily a killer. * If McCain loses Pennsylvania (21 votes), he needs to pick up any two of those western states. This is a stretch, so losing Pennsylvania would appear nearly lethal. The caveat here is that McCain could lose Pennsylvania and pick up only Colorado, which would yield a 269-269 tie. * If McCain loses both Virginia and Pennsylvania, President Obama is a near mathematical certainty.
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POPSRestoring Felon Voting Rights Reintigrating into society is advanced by granting the right to vote to those who finish prison sentences. I'd be willing to wait for x number of months after getting out of prison before felons got the franchise restored.
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POPSPapers Please Don't get used to people asking for your papers. Push them back by knowing your rights.
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POPSVoting Rights of Incarcerated Persons in Alaska Taking away the voting rights of felons has never made sense. No matter the crime, if you are born in the United States then you are a citizen of this country and should never loose the right to vote. It's a matter of freedom of speech and conscious.
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POPSTop 10 Tips For Voting Safety I can't believe only 2,537 people saw this very important "TOP 10 TIPS for voting" video. There are recommendations here that I didn’t know about. Please pass this on. I believe this will be the most important election we have ever had. Vote early and vote safe. Every vote has to count. Our country and our pride depends on who will be elected in this 2008 election. We must win our country back in order to save it. thinkingblue.blogspot.com UPDATE: Check out the ACLU’s Voter Empowerment Cards for specific information about voting in your home state. Go to www.aclu.org/vec
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POPSOh Surprise! Another Civil Rights Violation! I am tired of a corrupt court system, the overpaid bums we pay to safeguard this system, and innocent children caught in the middle, who have been sold out! Democrat? Republican? pssshhh....Yeah, right! Call me when we have the Party of COMMON SENSE!
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POPSFeds to look into Lee County Sheriff Scott's 'Hussein' Obama comment at Palin rally For the record, it's John Sidney McCain III and Sarah Louise Heath Palin. Gee..."Heath"...does that mean she's a heathen? And Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. The investigation, though, is not for what Sheriff Scott said, but that he was speaking ex cathedra as a law enforcement official, by virtue of the fact that he was in uniform and on duty at the time he spoke. Had he been in civvies and on his own time, it wouldn't be an issue.
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POPSACLU: Justice Dept. Institutes 'Racial Profiling as a Matter of Policy' The piece goes on: “The attorney general today gave the FBI a blank check to open investigations of innocent Americans based on no meaningful suspicion of wrongdoing,” said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU. “The new guidelines provide no safeguards against the FBI’s improperly using race and religion as grounds for suspicion. They also fail to sufficiently prevent the government from infiltrating groups whose viewpoints it doesn’t like. The FBI has shown time and time again that is incapable of policing itself and there is good reason to believe that these guidelines will lead to more abuse.”
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POPSJewish Holiday Holds Up Congress During Financial Crisis Why? Isn't this an "establishment of religion"? This gives some historical background. Apparently this is something fairly new! Is Judaism America's official religion? They have no trouble calling sessions on Sundays. They certainly don't observe any Islamic holidays, or Buddhist holidays, or ....etc.., not that they should. (Christmas used to not be observed by Congress, and is actually a pagan holiday that was "Christianized" by Constantine to unite the Roman Empire). Where is the ACLU on this one? Yom Kippur will be in October as well. It's fair to ask and question the constitutionality of this as it smacks of official endorsement. Methinks AIPAC holds this over Congress who are afraid to resist. As Orwell said, "some are more equal than others" (Animal Farm). The Fed chairman Bernanke is Jewish , who ironically has been the very one stressing the urgency of Congress acting immediately.
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POPSACLU Helping Felons Vote: With Registration Deadline Fast Approaching Lewis is pushing for automatic restoration -- so that rights are restored upon completion of incarceration or supervision. ''There are tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people in the state whose rights have been restored and they may not know it,'' Howard Simon, executive director of the Florida branch of the ACLU, said Monday. ''Everyone who can vote should vote,'' said Benjamin Burton, executive director of Miami Coalition for the Homeless and The League of Women Voters. The ACLU estimates that 115,000 people have had their voting rights restored but only 9,000 have registered. ''People leaving prison will be our neighbors,'' said Brad Brown, vice president of the Miami Dade chapter of the NAACP. ``The very first step to being integrated is that right to vote. That is the first step to being a good neighbor and forming strong communities.'
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POPS Santa Cruz Ban on Public Assembly Disperses Peacful Drum Circle
The Video stream is poor at the Source. You can download or visit -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhifhRLoGXY for better video steaming. People gather here to eat, to feed others, to communicate and share a feeling of community. It has gone on for well over ten years without trouble with exception to when the police show up and harass musicians and others who gather there under the guise of the 15 minute Parking Lot Panic Law. We stopped it last year. We can do it again. Last year an unknown amount of money was spent on police time spent doing surveillance, harassment and watching people play music and feeding the poor. I would hope the police can find better things to do in our community. Yes drums can be a bit loud. But if we can do video interviews during a loud protest and hear the person, it certainly is not breaking any sound laws. It is one day a week. If you leave people with no place to legally gather, they will not simply leave. They will eventually rebel out of necessity.
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