Univision refuses to air GOP-backed ad telling Latinos not to vote. Kentucky station pulls NRSC ad against Conway for inaccuracy.
Aqua Buddha still going strong.
Party or candidate sponsored polls are inherently questionable — not because they’re not solid necessarily but because they don’t get released unless they’re good for the candidate. But the DCCC just released a new Kentucky Senate poll, taken Sunday and Monday (i.e., in the wake of Aqua Buddha), showing Jack Conway ahead by 2 points.
Fresh off denying ties to a criminal biker gang, Florida Tea Party candidate Allen West has leather-clad ‘security men’ toss Democratic tracker from event.
Rush Limbaugh and West Virginia GOP Senate nominee John Raese are pals. They both belong to the same all-white country club in Florida.
From Harris County, Texas and KTRK-TV …
The county attorney says it has received numerous complaints about overzealous poll watchers at several heavily minority early voting locations, including at Kashmere Gardens, where a poll watcher told Eyewitness News he was recruited by True the Vote, an organization that proclaims rooting out voter fraud is its main goal.
The same folks, True the Vote, have already all but shut down a minority registration drive in the county.
I don’t expect these things to be so obvious. But if I’m not mistaken, the two readily identifiable ‘voters’ on the True the Vote website marquee are … well, black. Imagine that.
It’s a bit hard to see on this reduced size image. But click the image to so the full size version.
The Justice Department is investigating voter intimidation complaints in Harris County, Texas, TPM has learned. That’s Houston. There’s been a pitched battle going on there for weeks over Tea Party voter-suppression efforts.
Who remembers Elvira? I guess you have to be of a certain age. Well, she’s getting into the Christine O’Donnell parody biz too. Video after the jump … Read More
Mark Kirk got asked tonight in the Illinois Senate debate whether he was targeting African-American neighborhoods with his “voter integrity” squads. Kirk flatly denied it — notwithstanding evidence to the contrary.
He responded that he’s so concerned about vote fraud because Illinois has a public corruption problem. Democratic nominee Alexis Giannoulias wasn’t buying it. “You’re trying to suppress the African American vote,” he said.
Ryan Reilly has the latest on the voter intimidation charges down in Houston, including confirmation from the Justice Department that it’s looking into the complaints.
A lawyer for Texas Democrats notes, “Interestingly, it’s all in the polling places in Hispanic and African-American areas.”
Virginia Beach GOP chairman resigns after sending out racist email on his party email account back in March — when “he was first getting familiar with the Internet.”
Oh, how I fondly remember those days back in the mid-1990s when I was first getting familiar with the Internet but kept accidentally forwarding racist emails. It was nip and tuck there for a while whether the Internet would realize its full potential or just be a clunky system that tripped you up into coming off as a bigot.