Word: balloters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Friday that he had voted for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, part of a growing trend of leading Republicans crossing party lines to endorse the Illinois senator. Charles Fried, a leading conservative thinker, cited McCain’s choice of running mate as the reason he cast his absentee ballot for Obama, who graduated from the Law School in 1991. Fried will also resign from his post on the McCain Campaign’s Justice Advisory Committee. “Professor Fried is concerned about the choice of Sarah Palin when the nation is in crisis...
...Joseph R. Biden, trying his best not to become the next vice president of the United States, recently called paying taxes “patriotic.” Next Tuesday, Massachusetts voters will go to the polls to decide his fate—and the fate of patriotism itself. Ballot Question 1 asks Bay Staters simply: Should the commonwealth eliminate its income...
...reality only if they jointly created it, since each party's monster is a direct response to the anticipated actions of the other. Republicans think the Democrats--aided by ACORN, the AFL-CIO, organized crime, the Comintern and the New York Times--are going to stuff every urban ballot box from Miami to Chicago with fraudulent ballots cast by phony, made-up repeat voters. The Democrats fear that the Republicans--aided by the League of Snarling 'n' Sweaty Southern Sheriffs, Wal-Mart, Fox News, Dick Cheney and the ghost of J. Edgar Hoover--are going to use legal shenanigans, menacing...
...creepy music here.) Or key elements in "The Enemy's Secret Plan"? Both monsters do exist, I'd say, but are only about 2 ft. (0.6 m) tall, scared of the daylight and lacking particularly sharp claws. The FBI is looking at ACORN for a reason, and the phrase ballot suppression is not a term totally unheard of in GOP hallways. That said, both sides are by and large trying to do what is right, at least most of the time. New-voter registration is a good thing. Keeping a sharp eye out to prevent ballot fraud is also...
...President Obama would face a foreign crisis soon after taking office. The attacks didn't transform the race, but the rare Democratic missteps were efficiently exploited by the GOP. Republican strategists are worried about the spillover effect of all the new voters Obama's campaign has registered on down-ballot races, particularly in areas with large African-American populations and college towns. A big Obama victory, with campaign cash spread around, could turn a bad year for the GOP into a truly terrible...