Some good reasons to vote Democratic this year

jrittenhouse 's recent entry here on the country-western song written and highway billboard erected by a Florida conservative who wants people to believe that Democrats allowed the 9/11 attacks to happen...and that voting Democrat will bring more such death and destruction.   mdlbear 's entries here on the just-announced effort by the Bush Regime to have contraception declared legally equivalent to abortion for purposes of federal grants; and here on the Congressional effort... read more

Will the GOP's campaign to deter new voters and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president? ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. & GREG PALAST   T hese days, the old west rail hub of Las Vegas, New Mexico, is little more than a dusty economic dead zone amid a boneyard of bare mesas. In national elections, the town overwhelmingly votes Democratic: More than 80 percent of all residents are Hispanic, and one in four lives below the poverty line. On February 5th, the day of the Super Tuesday caucus...

I dont know if anyone caught Bobby Kennedy on Rachel Maddow last night. Interesting! Will the GOP's campaign to deter new voters and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president? In case after case, Republican election officials at the local and state level have used the rules to give GOP candidates an edge on Election Day by creating new barriers to registration, purging legitimate names from voter rolls, challenging voters at the polls and discarding valid ballots. The U.S.-attorney...

United States Representative; District 14. SmartVoter . Open Secrets . Brian Holtz , Libertarian. Project Vote Smart . Carol Brouillet , Green. SmartVoter . Project Vote Smart . Anna Eshoo , Democratic. SmartVoter . Project Vote Smart . Open Secrets . MAPLight.org . OpenCongress . Response to the Scientists & Engineers for America policy questions . 100% pro-choice . The Human Rights Campaign scorecard for the 110th Congress gives her 100%-100%-100% for the...

Overviews: Google’s Director of Research has an Election FAQ . Gary Kamiya’s open letter to independent and undecided voters . Obama is really trying hard for the Lincoln comparisons: he plans to include Republicans in his cabinet . Public Citizen ’s 2007–8 scorecard gives Obama a 63% (due to missed votes rather than voting against their positions), Biden an 88% (ditto), McCain 0% (missed most of the votes, votes against them the rest of the time). A former publisher of National Review...

Very long article (tl;dr peeps beware) but it's extremely interesting and highlights the challengest faced this election with regards to voting rights, voter apathy and disenfranchisement. What's so Democratic about American Democracy? It is true that American democracy has come a very long way in the last two hundred and thirty-two years. Before the secret ballot, it was not uncommon to find oneself threatened with bodily harm at the polls, and of course, voter fraud, ballot rigging, and...