Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: New Texas poll muddles question of who is a ‘likely voter’
If one looks at the latest poll out of Texas, among registered voters the outcome is in line with what previous pollsters have found during this cycle: a lead for Mitt Romney that is quite a bit less than the margins enjoyed by John McCain in 2008 (7-...
This week in the War on Voting: John Lewis, civil rights hero
This was far and away the highlight of the week. The players are Rep. Paul Broun, Republican from Georgia, with an amendment to end all funding for U.S. Department of Justice enforcement of Section Five of the Voting Rights Act, and civil rights vetera...
Texas marches toward swing state status. Only question is ‘when?’
President Barack Obama greets supporters in El Paso, TX, after immigration address on May 10, 2011
(Jim Young/Reuters)
PPP's latest poll of Texas showed Mitt Romney beating President Barack Obama 50-43 in the presidential head-to-head. That the Repub...
Federal Appeals Court stops Texas from banning Planned Parenthood from state health program
Rick Perry loses, again, and Texas women win
The Texas-Planned Parenthood legal roller-coaster continues. On Monday, a federal judge granted an injunction barring the state from barring Planned Parenthood from the state's health care program for low-...
Testing-driven education means giant corporate profits and ‘pineapples don’t have sleeves’
In the past week, an unbelievably stupid set of questions on a New York standardized test has made headlines. As a result, the state education commissioner has announced that the questions won't be counted toward students' official scores, but if you ...
Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Republicans probably no longer find Gallup infallible
Remember a week ago, when Republicans (and Very Serious journos everywhere) were writing the obituary of the Obama presidency, based on the modest lead Mitt Romney had forged in the newly-minted daily tracking poll conducted by the venerable Gallup or...
This week in the War on Voting: Texas tea partiers indicted for voter fraud
Voter fraud advocates? (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
In the news this week, James O'Keefe was at it again, proving that voter fraud is a fever-dream of the far right. But alert Kossack rm1948 sent a tip on a story that shows voter fraud isn't just a Repub...
Planned Parenthood sues Texas over health care exclusion
Gov. Rick Perry (Leschnyhan/Dreamstime.com)
Last month, the state of Texas lost Medicaid funding for the state's Women's Health Program, a Medicaid-waiver program. The federal government was forced to revoke the funding because Texas refused to compl...
This week in the War on Voting: Voter Fraud Fraud and the lesson of Indiana
Center for American Progress
Always on top of the ongoing threat to representative democracy posed by Republican office-holders, The Nation's Ari Berman caught a telling moment from FOX News:
As President Obama spoke about Representative Paul Ryan’...
Wingnut stereotyped California versus wingnut stereotyped Texas
Chuck DeVore, rejected by California Republicans in 2010 Senate primary, now paid to fluff Texas
Republican Chuck DeVore, rejected decisively by his home state's GOP voters in the 2010 Senate race, decided to head east to Texas instead and take a job...
This week in the War on Voting: Florida’s voter registration problem
Last year, Floridans enacted a voter registration law severely limiting the ability of third parties, like the League of Women Voters, to do the essential function of helping people register to vote. You might remember the case of Jill Cicciarelli, a ...
Texas loses federal dollars for Medicaid, promises to magically fund it … somehow
I can do this. Budget shortfall,
plus another $35 million, carry the 1 ...
Texas Gov. Rick Perry may not be able to count to three, but apparently, he's a mathematical genius when it comes to funding the state's Medicaid program.
After losing federal...
