Shonda Rhimes Sells A Comedy From Awkward Black
Girl Creator Issa Rae to ABC

Since my readers introduced me to Issa Rae’s web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, I’ve wished someone would give Rae, whose biting, original, low-budget show has earned her a well-deserved following, a deal and the resources to take her show national. Now, Shonda Rhimes, one of the few women and few African-Americans who [...]



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California Governor Bends To Big Business, Vetoes
Domestic Workers Rights Bill

Despite a brief moment of optimism, it turns out that domestic workers in California still won’t be guaranteed a lunch break. As part of his clean sweep on unfinished legislation from the state house, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) late last night vetoed a bill that would have ensured basic rights for in-home aide workers. [...]



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States Set Out To Define Essential Health
Benefits Under New Insurance Exchanges

Facing a federal deadline on Monday, states have begun to map out what their “essential health benefits” packages will look like in 2014 under Obamacare’s newly-created insurance exchanges. Under Obamacare provisions, states have leeway in choosing which health plans will be included on their statewide exchanges — as long as they meet certain benchmarks across [...]



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Early voting update in Iowa and North Carolina

Winning in Iowa, but GOP hasn't surrendered yet.Must current data can be found here.

IOWA

Absentee ballot requests:
Dem 134,589 (60.9%)
Rep 37,544 (17.0%)
No party 48,595 (22.0%)

Context:

In 2008, registered Democrats were 50 percent of Iowa's 481,179 early votes compared to 29 percent for registered Republicans. Day to day, the 2012 number is slowly declining as more Republicans request ballots than Democrats, so there is ample time for Republicans to catch up. One of the ways that they might do so is through a state law that allows a hundred people to petition for a special in-person early voting site, which evangelicals are taking advantage of to request Sunday early voting sites at their churches.

NORTH CAROLINA

Absentee ballot requests:
Dem 25,013 (26.1%)
Rep 51,253 (53.4%)
No party 19,636 (20.5%)

Context:

Unfortunately for Romney, only 13 percent of all North Carolina early votes were cast by mail in 2008, while 87 percent were cast at in-person polling locations. Democrats overwhelmingly voted early in-person in 2008 and 2004, so once that option becomes available in October, the 2012 numbers will likely dramatically shift in Obama's favor.

These numbers are extremely early, and just a tiny percentage of the expected overal voter turnout. So whether the numbers look good or bad, it's too early to celebrate or be depressed. Fact is, the team that wants it most will win these states, particularly in neck-and-neck North Carolina.

Update: Obama campaign is claiming big success registering voters in North Carolina:

The effort, it seems, has borne fruit - to the tune of more than 250,000 new registered voters in North Carolina since April 2011, according to Obama's team. That's more new voters than the campaign has registered anywhere else in the country [...]

Of course, registration numbers alone don't tell the whole story in North Carolina. Democrats have long outnumbered Republicans in the state, even though voters sided with GOP presidential candidates for decades. Democratic registration has fallen by about 90,000 since the end of 2008, while unaffiliated voters have increased by more than 250,000. Republican registration is up by about 5,000 during that same timeframe.

Presumably, the 250,000 Democrats that the Obama campaign has registered are real Democrats, unlike past Dixiecrats that overstated Democratic registration numbers. If we lost racist former Democrats to the ranks of the unaffiliated or Republican, that's not a net loss for Team Blue.

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Conservatives Promise Lawsuit Against Californias
Ban On Ex-Gay Therapy For Minors

California Gov. Jerry Brown just signed into law a ban on ex-gay therapy for people under the age of 18, and conservative groups are already threatening to sue on behalf of the harmful treatment. Mat Staver of the Liberty Counsel claimed today that the suit is necessary because he believes the law will harm children: [...]



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Easter Holidays Uk 2005

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Mitt Dragging Them Down

Are Romney's struggles dragging down GOP Senate candidates across the country? It looks like they are. [...]

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Democracy NOW! Expanded Debate Coverage Includes
Stein and Anderson

Last week in another of several posts about the 2012 presidential ?debates,? I included an idea from Anthony Noel, that of using TiVo to expand the Commission on Presidential Debates? two party only production. Democracy NOW!, with Amy Goodman and Juan[...]

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