Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Will Mitt Romney close the deal this weekend in South Carolina?
With Republicans right on the doorstep of the South Carolina primary, the big question in the Palmetto State seems to be evolving. A few days ago, it was: is this the state where the GOP field finally trips up Mitt Romney on what, nominally, should be...
This week in the War on Voting: New Hampshire target of right-wing voter fraud conspiracy
From the DNC's Protecting the Vote site.
This week saw the war on voting carried to a ridiculous extreme. In order to prove the conservative case that conspiracies to commit voter fraud exist, James O'Keefe carried out a conspiracy to commit voter fr...
This week in the War on Voting: When Republicans hate ballot restrictions
Ezra Klein has a great column, pointing out that finally Republicans have found voting restrictions they don't like.
Rick Perry said the laws were “among the most onerous in the nation,” and possibly even unconstitutional. Newt Gingrich compared ...
Rick Perry exaggerates results of Texas job creation program
(Jeff Haynes/Reuters)
Rick Perry's job creation record as Texas governor is supposed to be one of his great assets in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, but when Perry makes a claim about that job creation record, you can count ...
Redistricting, retirements and turnover in the House
The recently passed Congressional district map for Massachusetts.
In the days after the retirement of the liberal lion of the House, Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, a barrel of ink was spilled proclaiming this the clearest sign yet of impending d...
Open thread for night owls: Texas officials censor report on local climate changes
Mother Jones:
Top environmental officials under Perry have gutted a recent report on sea level rise in Galveston Bay, removing all mentions of climate change. For the past decade, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which is run by Perry po...
Open thread for night owls: Texas officials censor report on local climate changes
Mother Jones:
Top environmental officials under Perry have gutted a recent report on sea level rise in Galveston Bay, removing all mentions of climate change. For the past decade, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which is run by Perry po...
Justice Scalia helps prevent a Rick Perry execution
Prosecutor: You have determined that the sex factor, that a male is more violent than a female because that’s just the way it is, and that the race factor, black increases the future dangerousness for various complicated reasons; is that correct?
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Eight of 10 states with the lowest insured rates are ‘Right to Work’
Pointing out that Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants to roll back health care reform, We Party Patriots notes that:
...Texas has the worst healthcare of any state in the union with nearly a quarter of its residents uninsured. This leaves the state in a vulne...
Rick Perry slashed Texas volunteer fire dept funding by 75%, forest service funding by a third
Texas Gov. Rick Perry continues his love/hate relationship with the federal government. Or with government of any sort, for that matter. He hates it all, until the moment comes when he actually needs it:
[W]hile Perry complains about the feds’ respo...
God forsakes Rick Perry
God ignores Rick Perry.
Government, Rick Perry style:
WHEREAS, the state of Texas is in the midst of an exceptional drought, with some parts of the state receiving no significant rainfall for almost three months, matching rainfall deficit records dat...
Texas lawmakers fighting to insert Christian language in funerals for non-Christian soldiers
What are we even supposed to make of this?
Shouldn't veterans and their families have the right to decide whether religion -- and what kind -- is welcome at their own funerals? The Department of Veterans Affairs says yes. But three Texas Congressman a...
