1 Week From Today: Talk Like A Pirate!
Tonight's sampling:
[FL-Sen] FL-Sen: SurveyUSA says Obama +4 in FL, Nelson +11 by TheGreatLeapForward - Link to the SurveyUSA poll taken 9/7 through 9/9 which has Nelson (D) over Connie Mack (R) 47% - 36%.
[NC-03] Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) appears on White Nationalist radio show by grytpype - A North Carolina Republican congressman appeared on a notorious white nationalist radio program on Saturday to talk up legislation he coauthored accusing President Barack Obama of committing impeachable offenses. Marine Corps Veteran Erik Anderson (D) is his challenger in the general election.
[CA-Prop 34] The inspirational Franky Carrillo story and CA Proposition 34 by Shockwave - Franky Carrillo was falsely accused of murder in 1991 when he was only 16 years old. Last year he was released after the witnesses who originally identified him recanted. Proposition 34 would end the death penalty in California.
Today's EDR covers rescued down-ticket election diaries published between noon on September 11th till noon on September 12th.
This edition of Election Diary Rescue includes the following gems dug up by our miners, for a total of (17) diaries:
Senate: (5) posts, (4) states
House: (6) posts, (4) states, (4) districts
Ballot Initiatives: (1) post
Various: (1)
General: (4)
More diaries and information about this project beneath the
Orange Squiggle of Down-Ticket Power
EDR compiles, describes and links election related diaries for down-ticket races through the closing months of election seasons. Down-ticket means any non-Presidential race.
This group was formed by the producers of a front page diary series that rescued election related diaries in 2006, 2008 and 2010. 2012 marks the first election since Daily Kos was born that there is blog devoted to election coverage - Daily Kos Elections.
Election Diary Rescue is proud to be a part of this project.
EDR chronicles the passion, power and effectiveness of political engagement and shines a light on candidates and issues that might be missed during an action-packed election cycle. It gives quick access to races, hopefully inspires people to write about contests that interest them, and has become an archive for thousands of election related diaries over the years. For the archive of this project, founded by sidinny, please go to our EDR closing diary for the 2010 election which links all the rescued diaries since 2006.
Format, Schedule & Tags:
Diarists can help the EDR mining team by identifying the race in the diary title, for example: (FL-14) or (GA-Gov) or (NY-Sen). Our miners will also be searching by tags so it will help if diarists include the tags "elections" and/or "EDR" in their diary tag list. New this year, you can write your first sentence or two as the synopsis you would like to see in the EDR description.
EDR's schedule for mining diaries is noon to noon. Our publishing schedule is in the evening. That means for example if you post your diary at 12:00 pm (noon) on Wednesday, we will include it in the EDR list in Thursday evening's post. If you publish your diary at 11:59 am on Thursday, it will be in the diary collection for Thursday evening as well.
Senate
[AZ-Sen] AZ-Sen: PPP/LCV Poll Shows Dr. Richard Carmona (D) Trailing Jeff Flake (R) By 1 Point! by poopdogcomedy - What better way to stick it to the GOP than to win one of their seats on their home turf. Link to Carmona's Act Blue Page, plus internal Polls.
[FL-Sen] FL-Sen: SurveyUSA says Obama +4 in FL, Nelson +11 by TheGreatLeapForward - Link to the SurveyUSA poll taken 9/7 through 9/9 which has Nelson (D) over Connie Mack (R) 47% - 36%.
[MA-Sen] New poll shows Massachusetts Senate race in dead heat by Joan McCarter - Elizabeth Warren (D) is running more or less even with Scott Brown (R).
[ND-Sen] ND-Sen: Rick Berg in lockstep with Paul Ryan on privatizing Social Security. by pistolSO - Berg (R) supported George W. Bush's privatization plan back in 2005, and he hasn't changed his views. Heidi Heitkamp (D) is his opponent.
[Sen-Var] Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Is there an active effort to minimize the Obama convention bounce? by Steve Singiser - As the post-DNC bounce for Barack Obama begins to dissipate ever so slightly (at least, in two of the three daily tracking polls), a lot of the members of the political class are beginning to weigh in with their assessment of the depth of said convention bounce. Plus 4 senate polls.
House
[FL-23] Debbie Wasserman Schultz went to bat for women by Olympia - A big cheer for Wasserman Shultz and all that she is doing behind the scenes for women. More reasons to support Debbie running for re-election against Republican Karen Harrington and conservative activist Illya Katz (I).
[IL-13] Rodney Davis (IL-13) ducks my question about climate change by Willinois - Davis (R), like many Republicans, is reluctant to talk on the subject of climate change. David Gill (D) is his opponent.
[NC-03] Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) appears on White Nationalist radio show by grytpype - A North Carolina Republican congressman appeared on a notorious white nationalist radio program on Saturday to talk up legislation he coauthored accusing President Barack Obama of committing impeachable offenses. Marine Corps Veteran Erik Anderson (D) is his challenger in the general election.
[WI-01] Demand that Paul Ryan Debate Rob Zerban by Rob Zerban - The Democratic challenger to Paul Ryan for the 1st CD seat in Congress offers a petition to demand a debate.
[WI-01] Paul Ryan running ads for his House election by brooklynbadboy - Talk about insulting to Romney. Its one thing to simply put yourself on the ballot. Totally different level when you're actually running ads in your home district to keep your seat. Ryan's opponents are Democrat Rob Zerban and Keith Deschler (Libertarian/Ron Paul Activist).
[House-Var] New Daily Kos endorsements in the battle for the House by kos - Daily Kos endorses 15 candidates that won't just get us closer to those 25 seats, but will also significantly upgrade the quality of the Democratic caucus. There are no Blue Dogs in this bunch, just honest-to-goodness solid progressives. Links to help all/some of the Daily Kos picks included.
Ballot Initiatives
[CA-Prop 34] The inspirational Franky Carrillo story and CA Proposition 34 by Shockwave - Franky Carrillo was falsely accused of murder in 1991 when he was only 16 years old. Last year he was released after the witnesses who originally identified him recanted. Proposition 34 would end the death penalty in California.
Various
[TX-Var] Texas: How the Dems got to this point by Texdude50 - Diarist offers historical overview of how the Texas Democratic Party ended up so thoroughly down and out, and what it must do to turn things around for both state leadership and federal offices.
General
NC releases early vote sked: more weekends by dean4ever - NC released its early vote schedule today for the 10/18 to 11/3 period and it features more weekend voting with the same total number of days and EV sites as '08, but fewer sites the first few weekdays.
Pennsylvania ruling on voter-ID relied on bigoted decision in 1869 case by Meteor Blades - The judge who ruled last month in favor Pennsylvania's strict voter-ID law supported his decision with extensive quotations from an anti-democratic 19th court decision. Judge Robert E. Simpson left out the lurid parts.
New Photo ID Law Wreaks Havoc During State Primary by NH LABOR NEWS - Some voters were turned away from the polls and others required to sign affidavits as New Hampshire’s test run of a new photo ID requirement for voting ended in failure today.
We need a corporate sponsor for absentee ballot postage by route66 - Even with both local parties having a strong infrastructure in one county in South Florida, up to 35% of the absentee ballots went unused. How many were not mailed due to postage costs is obviously not known, but logic would indicate that could be one major factor.
Wednesday, September 19th marks the 10th annual International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Be ready for it with this handy link to the official English-to-Pirate Translator.