Voter suppression efforts and bogus claims of vote fraud have been a key issue for this site going back to 2002. And this year, with a raft of new laws pushed through after the 2010 midterm election, the issue is more critical than ever. So for the final lap of the campaign season we’re bundling all our reporting of the issue — from the news blogs to LiveWire — in one special Voting Rights landing page. Check it out and bookmark it right here.
I think you can be sure Mitt Romney’s press handlers got a bad feeling in the pits of their stomach when Romney gave this answer.
Bret Bair asks if he regrets not mentioning the troops in his convention speech …
“When you give a speech you don’t go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important and I described in my speech, my commitment to a strong military unlike the president’s decision to cut our military.” (emphasis added)
New Pennsylvania state ad: If you love America, it’s time to pony up your photo ID to vote.
The totality of polls point to 2 central facts that have voters struggling: the economy sucks & Romney sucks.
Some of the best entries in the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s 2012 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.
Thursday we launched version 1.1 of our Polltracker Mobile app in the iTunes store. You can get it here, and existing 1.0 Polltracker users can upgrade via the App store. And of course it’s free.
We launched version 1.0 about 5 weeks ago now and we’re coming up on 30,000 app installs, and almost 150,000 poll notifications thus far. Read More
What’s the racial make up of each major political party? Take a look.
Gabby Giffords leading the DNCC in the Pledge and Jennifer Granholm’s fist-pumping, eye-winking tour de force.
The three big campaign themes Democrats bring out of the convention into the general election.