Turns out the Sinclair Broadcasting hucksters struck in Florida too!
A collection of campaign memorabilia from presidential elections past — all 19th and very early 20th century mementos — via Cornell’s Collection of Political Americana. Great stuff.
Pennsylvania’s ID law, part of the nationwide voter suppression agenda, causing mass confusion at the polls today.
I’m starting my last pre-election (or results?) Live Chat at TPMPrime at 4 PM Eastern. Get your questions in now.
Remember Sinclair Broadcasting? Back in 2004? Sinclair is an extremely rightwing and hackmonious media company that owns stations in media markets around the country. They have a rep for jamming wildly slanted content onto their airwaves in the lead up to the elections. They were the ones who had the bright idea to run a Swift Boat ‘documentary’ on their stations just before the 2004 elections. Because, you know, informing voters and so forth. Well, last night they were up to their tricks again.
Our third installment of your voting pictures on election day 2012 after the jump … Read More
We are getting an unbelievable number of your photos for voting today. And I have to say I’m just loving seeing them and sharing some of your experience voting. We have so many we’re not going to be able remotely to post them all. But my colleague Megan Reback and I are working on posting a solid percentage of them. I hope you’re enjoying seeing them too. Here’s installment #1 and installment #2.
More coming shortly. Join us? Read this post and send yours in.
Your pictures of going to the polls on election day 2012 after the jump … Read More
No one woos women on the campaign trail like Joe Biden. Pictures to prove it.
A special TPM-flavored recap of the highlights and lowlights of the 2012 campaign, by Evan McMorris-Santoro and Benjy Sarlin.