Is Philly's drinking water at risk from today's vinyl chloride spill?
UPDATES:New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Larry Hajna said “there doesn’t appear to be any immediate, imminent threat” to the area’s water. -source After exposure to vinyl...
View ArticleGOPHostageTakers.com : 40 Republicans to contact for the discharge petition
From the DCCC:www.GOPHostageTakers.comREPUBLICAN HOSTAGE TAKERS Despite claiming to be independent, these House Republicans refuse to add their name to a discharge petition that would force a full...
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CDC statistics show that gun violence is not decreasing
Stop saying that gun violence is decreasing in America. It is not. Rates have been stable for over a decade.Just a few minutes ago, a guest on "Andrea Mitchell Reports" (MSNBC) claimed that gun...
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Why Republicans should support the National Popular Vote [political expediency]
Yesterday, there was a great post by Q Tip about how Democrats should push for a national popular vote. It has background info and action links. I agree, but I think we can reach out to and convince...
View ArticleTragic fire at student party kills 232 in Santa Maria, Brazil
May the victims rest in peace. May their families and loved ones get the support they need.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Southern...
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Democrats have an Electoral College advantage, but INOKIYAD
Unlike in 2000, Democrats currently have an Electoral College advantage, but INOKIYAD. Despite our current advantage, the president should be whoever gets the most votes nationwide.Nationwide Obama...
View ArticleGA-Sen: Nunn ad hits Perdue's huge payoff as 8K lost jobs, scores very high...
Michelle Nunn's campaign is shinning a light on David Perdue's golden parachutes. The TV spot features people (mainly women) from a small NC town, criticizing Perdue's huge compensation from Pillowtex...
View ArticleGeorgia Souls to the Polls: "In Historic First" DeKalb County to embrace...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Sep 6, 2014."In historic first, DeKalb to reserve a Sunday for voting in October"Next month, for the first time in state history, some Georgia voters will be able to cast...
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Georgia: Finding 50 voters per precinct among midterm drop-off voters
{Original analysis below the fold}Last year, leaked memos from Michelle Nunn's campaign estimatedwe will need 1,378,001 votes to win. [snip] Democrats with strong campaigns have generally won 1.2...
View ArticleRev. of MLK's Church criticizes subpoena by GA SOS as a "shameless effort at...
Georgia's Republican Secretary of State issued a subpoena on September 9th, alleging that a new and powerful voter registration group has committed fraud.Rev. Raphael Warnock, pastor of the historic...
View Article[VIDEO] GA SOS says Dems can win w/ "all these minority voters"...then...
Newly released video shows Georgia's Republican Secretary of State speaking the truth, two months ago:Democrats are working hard...registering all these minority voters that are out there and others...
View ArticleCNN/ORC: What's your LV cutoff?
In NH, registered voters excluded by CNN's LV screen favor Shaheen 66% to 24%. 51% of these registered voters say "their mind is made up", yet they're excluded.CNN/ORC has a likely voter screen that's...
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GA-SOS suppressing 51,000 voter registrations because... [Update: Moral...
Early voting starts in less than two weeks, and the Georgia Secretary of State's office is apparently sitting on over 51,000 voter registration forms.What?At a hearing in front of the Georgia Elections...
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Midterm drop-off among youth voters & paths forward
Turnout among the voting eligible population in 2008 was 58.7%, and turnout in 2010 was 41.7%: a population-wide midterm drop-off of 29.0%. Among voters under 30 (if turnout parallels 2010) drop-off is...
View ArticleGA-Sen: Nunn's chances underrated in runoff, with up to 4X more early voting...
Summary: Comparing turnout in the 2008 runoff and 2010 midterms, most of the "runoff drop-off" (58%) was attributable to decreased early voting opportunities during 2008's runoff, which will not occur...
View ArticleWe're all tied up! GOTV in Georgia.
There's momentum in Georgia. A new poll by InsiderAdvantage finds the Governor's race tied up at Carter 43.4 vs Deal 43.7. That's a four point swing for Carter.“[Carter] has 32% of the white vote in...
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Video of GA debates for US Senate and Governor
UPDATE:All debate videos are available from the local TV host. The first clip from each debate is embedded below.--------The stream will be on http://www.13wmaz.com/Tonight Michelle Nunn (D) debates...
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Nunn going after Perdue's pride in outsourcing
notice the highlighted text above........................................................... "outsourcer"-----There's a brand new website documenting David Perdue's record in outsourcing American jobs...
View ArticleGA-SoS sued by NGP and NAACP for suppressing 40K voter registrations, as...
The New Georgia Project and the NAACP filed suit Friday in Georgia Superior Court:"to require the Secretary of State and [five] county boards of election to promptly process voter registration...
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Today I spoke with this man's niece.
Phonebanking for Georgia's Democratic candidates, the older lady with a soft voice tells me why she can't volunteer for our GOTV efforts, but let's me know she's a Democrat. She goes on to say she's...
View ArticleGA-Sen: Michelle Nunn gets hands dirty
Michelle Nunn spread mulch in Dr King's old neighborhood on Saturday, joining 7,000 volunteers for a day of service.A big thank you to everyone who volunteered on #HOADay2014. You are making a big...
View ArticleGA-Sen: Michelle Nunn's odds of victory at 68%, per DK Elections assuming no...
DailyKos Elections:We calculate Nunn's odds of winning outright as 27 percent, and Perdue's odds as 13 percent. (That's thanks to Nunn having taken a small lead in our trendlines, after leading the two...
View ArticleGA-Sen: David Perdue (R): "the minimum wage is a giant... [um, Obama, Obama,...
Michelle Nunn posed a debate question to David Perdue about the minimum wage. Perdue twice refused to answer if the minimum wage should even exist, and he refused to answer what specific level the...
View ArticleUpdate on Georgia lawsuit over voter registrations
Last week, Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp claimed (video) there is no problem with unprocessed voter registrations, after he was taken to court by the NAACP and the New Georgia...
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GA-Sen: 40% odds of a winner on Nov 4th, 70% chance that winner would be Nunn
DKE is not simulating a Georgia runoff becausethere aren't enough pollsters putting out samples that include both a Nunn/Perdue/Swafford permutation and a permutation that's Nunn/Perdue alone. None of...
View ArticleGA-Sen debate: Perdue opposes minimum wage & downplayed illegal pay bias as...
Last night's debate was broadcast statewide (video). David Perdue belittled his company's $19 million settlement for gender discrimination and unfairly paying 2,000 women. Perdue was at Dollar General...
View ArticleProtests and sit-in at GA-SoS office. 8 arrested.
#LetUSVoteToday people sat-in in Brian Kemp's office in Atlanta, protesting over the 40,000 voter registrations that may be missing.-- 8 activists arrested in Brian Kemp's office. Civil rights leaders...
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Georgia: With 19% of votes in, we're probably 29% (conservatively 20%) of the...
Now that's some "Souls to Polls" in Georgia: 68% of Sunday voters were African-American— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) October 27, 2014An academic at the University of Florida is following early...
View Articlefrom the New Georgia Project
From the New Georgia Projectthe judge ruled in favor of the Georgia Secretary of State and against the New Georgia Project, the NAACP and potentially tens of thousands of new registrants caught up in a...
View ArticleFacebook GOTV going on right now
On Facebook today, there's a question asking if you've voted. You can say yes, and share this to your friends' profiles. FB automatically includes your picture and a link for your friends to look up...
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DCCC: unsubcribing should be easier than this.
It's way too hard to unsubscribe from the DCCC e-mail list.First you have to correctly find one link buried in 100 words of TINY TEXT at the bottom of their e-mail. Easy enough? Well, no. Click that...
View ArticleBernie 2016: Volunteer link, Issues Page, petition to end Citizens United,...
Join the Campaign or Sign up to Volunteer for specific tasks or Sign up for Updates.To donate: https://secure.actblue.com/...Stand with BernieWe are at a moment of truth. We need to face up to the...
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Let's end the economic disparity in voting and win better policy
The top 1% knows that every vote matters.members of the top 1 and .1 percent turned out to vote in 2008 at a whopping 99 percent. (more) Unfortunately voter registration and participation among lower...
View ArticleWaPo headline falsely says HRC gave cover to Qatar from FIFA scandal
A Washington Post article is unfairly titled "As FIFA allegations swirled, Clintons gave Qatar a stage — and legitimacy". It's about a Clinton Foundation event in 2013. The title states "Clintons" in...
View ArticleHillary won't ask Bernie: Do you believe in God?
“I’m proud to be Jewish,” the Independent from Vermont – and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination – responded...at a press breakfast hosted by the Monitor. Though, he added, “I’m not...
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Traffic cameras could decrease police interactions by 23% (or 14 million...
The Census Bureau conducts the yearly National Crime Victimization Survey, and every three years, the Police-Public Contact Survey asks the general public about interactions with police. The most...
View ArticleObama's comments on Bernie's campaign
Well, well, well. "And Bernie Sanders might run. I like Bernie. Bernie is an interesting guy. Apparently, some folks really want to see a pot smoking socialist in the White House.... We could get a...
View ArticleCarter's Guinea worm program took 3.5 million cases in 1986 to just 11 so far...
Today, Jimmy Carter discussed his cancer diagnosis and treatment, even saying "I hope the last Guinea worm dies before I do." [full video of his press conference]What a gift to future generations it...
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Registering voters for the Hispanic Heritage Month of Action
Naked racism seethes within the Republican party. Millions of Hispanic Americans are ripe to register to vote and millions more are solidifying their commitment to vote.Into this reality, steps a...
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Republican xenophobia sets the stage for mass Latino voter registration [info...
Widespread Republican xenophobia makes this a prudent time to register Latino voters:when a group feels threatened, they are more likely to take action. For instance, scholars considered threat a...
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Guinea Worm cases down 83% this year, as dogs become the issue.
Status updates on Guinea Worm eradication provided by CDC and the Carter Center.This year in Chad, hundreds of cases of Guinea Worm have been reported in dogs. Hopefully next year things are better,...
View ArticleUm, who needs sleep, I do.
HRC: So?BS: Well, maybe the Granite State just knows you better and that’s why your poll numbers aren’t so rosy there.HRC: Now, look here, that’s a personal attack on my character. You’re using...
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Nebraska Dept. of Health cooks the books on Medicaid expansion, as Nebraskans...
Today, Nebraska’s Medicaid Director, Calder Lynch, testified to his state legislature that Medicaid expansion under LB 1032 would cost the state nearly a billion dollars over 10 years, appearing...
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Congress ignores Zika, while 1/4 of Puerto Ricans infected this year &...
Zika virus is an epidemic in Puerto Rico, where some 1/4 of the population is predicted to become infected within the year, with eventually 80% getting it. Our fellow Americans will be suffering...
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Although Bernie outperforms Hillary by 8% against Trump, only half of...
According to the HuffPost poll tracker, “Our model of the polls suggests Sanders is very likely leading. (In >99% of simulations, Sanders led Trump.)”xEmbedded ContentMeanwhile, “the polls suggests...
View ArticleSponsor another door knock in GA’s 6th [Plus today's debate, 5-7 PM,...
I’m just one of hundreds of volunteers that hit the streets on the weekend, talking to our neighbors, finding votes, being kind, humble and courageous. Since it’s been pouring rain today, I’m writing...
View ArticleGA-6: GOTV can win this. 1,000s of our votes on the table & ready for us...
See yall on the streets this weekend.As of a few days ago, there were some 20,000 absentee ballots not yet returned per Nate Cohn of the NYT, who said it's a "Big challenge/opportunity for Dems: the...
View ArticleCOVID-19: NYC deaths 72% more than reported (from Feb to March). NY should...
Keep watching this data set from CDC, which juxtaposes the COVID-19 death data and excess death data. www.cdc.gov/...If politicians or higher-ups in the CDC want to temporarily hide the extent of...
View Article1% is not $3.5 trillion (so fix the messaging & count the offsets).
The total budgetary impact of the reconciliation package is about $700 billion over 10 years (h/t to the below quoted article from NYT).$70 billion is a lot of money –– more than the NIH and CDC...
View ArticleDemocracy depends on privacy and choice
If you look for it, there’s no right to a secret ballot either. If there’s no right to privacy, everything is on the table. personally, it’s time to take my anger and channel it, to grow it, and help...
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