Election Diary Rescue 10/26/12

post from Daily Kos on 26 October 2012 06:00:06 PM. © Daily Kos

T-Minus 11 Days And Counting...

Samples of Today's 50 Diary Collection:

[MN-Sen] Meet Richard Hettler, the Daily Caller's Klobuchar source by aaronklemz - Diarist offers video and links about Richard Heller, source for conservative site Daily Caller's accusations against Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar. Republican Kurt Bills is her challenger.

[NH-01] For the Rest of Us by CarolSheaPorter - Democratic congresswoman Shea-Porter offers a list of very good accomplishments as reasons why voters should choose her over the Republican Frank Guinta.

[MT-Gov] MT-Gov: Rick Hill's Crimes Show He Failed Character Tests by blogswarm - Republican congressman and candidate for Governor Rick Hill has some legal troubles and ethics issues not even Republicans are surprised by. Steve Bullock is the Democrat in this race.

Today's EDR covers rescued down-ticket election diaries published between noon on October 25th till noon on October 26th. This edition of Election Diary Rescue includes the following gems dug up by our miners.

Diaries: (50)
Senate: (15) posts, (10) states
House: (10) posts, (5) states, (6) districts
State: (5)
Ballot Initiatives: (3)
Various: (3)
General: (14)

More diaries and information about this project beneath the
Orange Squiggle of Down-Ticket Power

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Transman petitions WHO to delist transsexualism
as a mental disorder

post from Docudharma - Front Page on 26 October 2012 06:00:00 PM. © Docudharma - Front Page

Maxwell Zachs is 25-years old and was born female. He is a citizen of London, England, has degrees in English literature, indigenous studies and constitutional law, and is a rabbinical student at a yeshiva in Sweden. Three years ago he began his[...]

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How A Decade Of Rising Housing And Transportation
Costs Squeezed The Middle Class

post from ThinkProgress on 26 October 2012 05:50:40 PM. © ThinkProgress

Since 2000, middle class incomes and wages have essentially been stagnant; that period has been called a “lost decade” for the middle class. Meanwhile, some costs have skyrocketed. According to a new report from the Center for Housing Policy and the Center for Neighborhood Technology, rising costs for housing and transportation have squeezed the middle [...]

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Colorado Marijuana Legalization Amendment Leads
53% to 43%

post from Firedoglake on 26 October 2012 05:40:11 PM. © Firedoglake

Colorado's Amendment 64, which would legalize marijuana and regulate it like alcohol, holds a ten point lead according to the latest PPP survey of the state. The poll finds 53 percent of likely voters plan to support the initiative, while only 43 percent[...]

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STUDY: Patients Overestimate How Much Medical
Treatments Can Help Them

post from ThinkProgress on 26 October 2012 05:30:50 PM. © ThinkProgress

In a study about what 1,000 cancer patients expected from their chemotherapy treatments, the majority of late-stage cancer patients thought the chemotherapy could give them a cure. The problem, though, is that chemotherapy treatments could only extend life for these patients, not cure it. But despite the medical research to the contrary, 69 percent of [...]

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Virginia Prevents 350,000 Released Felons From
Being Able To Vote

post from ThinkProgress on 26 October 2012 05:20:49 PM. © ThinkProgress

Virginia is one of four states that permanently takes away voting rights from anyone who has a felony conviction, and the voting rights can only be restored by appealing directly to Virginia’s governor. That means that about 350,000 people who have been released from prison have been disenfranchised under the felony statute, about 242,000 of [...]

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When is an ad buy in Minnesota not about
Minnesota

post from Daily Kos on 26 October 2012 05:19:13 PM. © Daily Kos

Minnesota flag Not a battleground.Huh?

President Barack Obama's campaign has made a very small ad buy in Minnesota to counter a new purchase by Mitt Romney in the state, an Obama campaign official and a Republican ad tracking source told CNN.
Earlier Friday a Romney campaign official confirmed it had bought a small amount of television ad time in Minneapolis. Two ad tracking sources told CNN the Romney buy was about $30,000 and would run Saturday through Tuesday. The amount of the Obama buy has not been disclosed.

$30,000 in an election where hundreds of millions have been spent isn't even chump change. Republicans claim that they can make Minnesota competitive. Well, if they were serious, they'd be laying seven figures on the line.

But really, this isn't even about Minnesota. Look at the Minneapolis-St. Paul media market where these buys are being made:

Map of Minneapolis-St Paul media market, which extends into seven counties in western Wisconsin.

Republicans have already spent $5.5 million on television in Wisconsin this week, compared to about $2.8 million for Team Blue. This is a tepid extension of those efforts, hitting about a quarter million Wisconsin residents via their Minnesota-based media market. And some of these stations bleed into Iowa as well, as a bonus.

So yeah, nothing to see here.

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Cloud Atlas: In Search Of A Better World, And
Better Movies

It’s difficult to write about Cloud Atlas, the sweeping adaptation of David Mitchell’s 2004 nesting doll of a novel, by Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, and Tom Tykwer, if only because it’s doing so many different things, telling stories that range from the slave trade to multiple post-apocalypses, testing the limits of how big an independent [...]

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SC Dems Chair: Nikki Haley today contradicted the
Nikki Haley of yesterday

South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman, Dick Harpootlian, released the following statement in response to the personal information hacked from the Department of Revenue:

Nikki Haley today contradicted the Nikki Haley of yesterday ? or maybe came down with a case of Romnesia, which I?ve heard is contagious.

Haley surrounded herself with federal officials today while telling the people of South Carolina that more than a third of the state?s social security numbers and credit card numbers were stolen from her Department of Revenue by a computer hacker.

This is a different story than the past year where we?ve heard Haley stomp her feet and shout that the federal government has no place in our state when it came to the Voter ID law, Medicaid and education funding.

Just two months ago, Haley said in her National Convention speech, ?The hardest part of my job continues to be this federal government.?

Maybe if she spent more time doing her job in South Carolina rather than traveling around the country raising money and playing politics, someone would have been paying attention and not let more than a third of our state?s personal information be compromised.

If she were the CEO of a company that had a third of its data hacked especially after all the public warnings of the danger of hackers, she would be fired. Too bad she has two more years on her contract.

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-today.html

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Top Story: Panetta Comments on Benghazi Response,
as Slain Navy SEAL’s Father Speaks Out Updated

Your browser does not support iframes.HOW DO you cover an ongoing story without also offering a voice that you believe is part of the right-wing freak show? The father of one of the Navy SEALS called up Glenn Beck, being the first family member to vent,[...]

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