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• Your Evening Dept of More Embarrassing Stats

  
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  Steve Beshear is officially the GAS STATION GOVERNOR . The only things we care about in Kentucky are items you can buy at the gas station. [ Page One ] Ben Chandler’s ridiculous vote didn’t go unnoticed by the Herald-Leader editorial board. Too bad the board didn’t get this as right as the ...
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• Why I went to jail for universal health care

  
  Letters to the Editor — Authority: 437
  On Thursday Nov. 5th, I joined eight other universal health care advocates in order to ask Senator Lieberman to stop taking campaign donations from the insurance industry. When our demand was not met, we sat on the floor and refused…
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• Eight Steps Towards A Less Dysfunctional Congress

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 689
  by Kyle Mathews If there’s one thing that most political commentators and Americans can agree upon, it’s that Congress is bad at its job. Presidential approval ratings go up and down, Congressional approval ratings pretty much stay down. These days, it’s become de rigueur to point to hyper-partisanship, ...
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• Just Another Tuesday Morning Dept of Woah

  
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  First Lady Jane Beshear spoke last night at a national summit to end domestic violence in Louisville. Her efforts to put a public face on the epidemic are to be commended. It’s a shame she doesn’t want to hold elected office herself. She and Crit Luallen would make quite a team. [ The ‘Ville Voice ] Here ...
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• Newspoll: ??-??

  
  The Poll Bludger — Authority: 487
  Following last week’s surprising and almost certainly rogue Newspoll result, The Australian sent its pollster out into the field again over the weekend for an eagerly anticipated follow-up survey. However, when the results were published yesterday, all that was offered was attitudinal results on asylum seekers – ...
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• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission: Will Voters’ Choice Be Outdone by Sponsorship?

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  With the most expensive presidential and congressional campaigns behind us, do we really want to see more corporate money free-flowing behind special interests and political elections? In what legal scholars have touted one of the most important First Amendment cases in years, the Citizens United v. Federal Election ...
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• When You are a Subject of Contempt on SNL, Youve Lost

  
  40 Years In The Desert — Authority: 450
  SNL on Goldman Sachs, and their preferential H1N1 vaccine access, or as they basically say swine flu vaccine for the pigs. Between Taibbi and this, there are a lot of people in Congress who are more than willing to tell Barack and His Evil Minions ™ (Geithner/Sumers) to go Cheney themselves.
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• Foreign Contributions and the Supreme’s Overdue Decision on Campaign Funding

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 548
  The US Supreme Court will soon announce a major decision on our lightly controlled system of campaign funding. Will it retain some limitations on corporate influence or will the court blow the lid off and cause a perpetual flood of unrestricted corporate contributions? An additional outcome may surprise and shock ...
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• Dems target Paulsen for voting no on health-care bill

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 681
  U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen is one of 33 Republicans in Congress who have “ a giant target on their back ” after voting against an overhaul of health-care system Saturday. That’s according to the Democratic National Committee, which announced plans to target Paulsen and other GOP reps whose districts voted for ...
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• Ben Chandler’s Been Bought Again

  
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  This time by the health industry. He’s received $232,600 in campaign contributions from that industry. While 15.5 percent of his district live without health insurance. It’s exactly why we believe Ben Chandler is a spineless, worthless hack .
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• ACORN in New York

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 431
  -By Warner Todd Huston In the recent race in New York’s 23rd District we saw a perfect example of the way that ACORN tries to undermine the political process. Tags: Publius+Forum , Warner+Todd+Huston , Podcast Bookmark to:
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• “There Must be a Better Way to Choose Appellate Judges”

  
  judgesonmerit.org — Authority: 127
  The editorial board of the Reading Eagle makes a strong case to move to Merit Selection of judges in an editorial published today. The paper cites the record amount raised to date by Judge Jack Panella ($2.35 million), and that the total raised by both campaigns is expected to total over $4 million by the time final ...
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• SacBee: Lobbyists sue to block campaign-finance ballot measure

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 519
  By Andy Furillo afurillo@sacbee.com Published: Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009 – 12:00 am | Page 3A California lobbyists have filed a lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court to stop the vote on a ballot measure scheduled for the June primary election that would make them the guinea pig in an experiment on campaign finance. The ...
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• Dem. Senate Candidate Uses Palin Against Mark Kirk

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 431
  -By Warner Todd Huston The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Democrat Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias is trying to use Mark Kirk’s approach of Sarah Palin for an endorsement against him. Giannoulias is attempting to use the Kirk/Palin incident as a fund raising tool. A few days ago, we reported that Mark ...
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• Pelosi Faces Competing Pressures on Health Care

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi fund-raises most weekends, as at this Miami event last month for Democratic candidates for the House and the Senate.
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• Rybak flouted campaign rules, but will he pay political price?

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 681
  Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak (Photo: MnIndy) Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak is running for governor. The development comes as no surprise. Political observers predicted it for months. Rybak hardly hid his interest in seeking the state’s top office. He even garnered a union endorsement for the office that he wasn’t ...
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• Indiana Campaign Finance - The Online Payday Loan Company

  
  EPR Financial News — Authority: 128
  Indiana Campaign Finance is one of the leading payday loans providers, extending instant financial assistance to its customers. The processes at Indiana Campaign Finance are very simple which makes it a trouble free process to acquire loans for emergency purposes. By keeping the formalities as little as possible, we ...
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• When will national Democratic party fess up to Rothstein money?

  
  Naked Politics — Authority: 152
  Just one day before Fort Lauderdale lawyer and alleged Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein fled for Morocco as the feds were closing in, he was spotted at a Miami Beach fundraiser headlined by President Barack Obama . Tickets to the Oct. 26 event at Fountainebleau Miami Beach hotel benefitting Democrats running for ...
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• Gay marriage loses in Maine: the campaign finance scorecard

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 587
  On Nov. 3, 299,483 citizens of the state of Maine were persuaded to tell women who love women and men who love men that they cannot marry. Those Downeasters who voted “Yes” on Question 1 — to repeal a same-sex marriage law — bashed gays, but with a referendum rather than a fist. Those 267,574 people who ...
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