Okay, for our friends who refuse to admit Republicans are engaging in voter suppression –

In Ohio, the county canvassing boards are all bipartisan, with equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans. In counties that are majority Republican, the canvassing boards have voted unanimously to extend early voting on evenings and weekends before the November election. Democrats and Republicans have voted to keep early voting evenings and weekends — in Republican-majority counties.

In Democratic-majority counties, all Republicans on the canvassing boards have voted against extending early voting hours on evenings and weekends.  This causes a tie in the canvassing board votes. The tie is broken by the Ohio Secretary of State, who is a Republican, and who has voted, in every case, not to extend early voting hours in Democratic-majority districts.

So: in Ohio, in all of the Republican-controlled counties, there will be early voting on evenings and weekends before the election. In Democratic-majority counties, there will not be early voting on evenings and weekends. And this difference is entirely due to Republican officials.

Now, conservative readers — make a case that there is not an intentional effort going on to suppress votes of people likely to vote Democratic.

I dare you.

AW,
Well, as of right now, Syria really isn’t a country anymore — it’s now just a region in the throes of a civil war.  The questions that matter are:
– how long will this civil war last?
– how many will be killed?
– how will it end?
– what will the region look like after it’s over?

I’d say that the civil war shows no real sign of ending any time soon.  It appears to be going to last at least 6 more weeks.  At the current rate, there will be a toll in the hundreds of thousands.

I don’t see any clear indications as to how it will end.  It probably will devolve into a long, painful period in which the sectarian violence will sporadically break out in bombs and shootings until the country is effectively partitioned, rather like what has happened in Iraq.

His entire cam­paign con­sists of one lie after another.

Again, all I ask for is consistency …

Yes, mclever. Fascinating, isn’t it?

In point of fact, the changes the Obama Administration is putting in place are more stringent that the Clinton rules.

Romney, once more, is simply lying. His entire campaign consists of one lie after another.

@DC

For you to add to your list of lies that Mitt Romney is using as his campaign message:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/bill-clinton-calls-romney-welfare-claims-not-true-033013524.html

Mitt Romney has claimed that Obama is trying to reverse the bipartisan welfare reforms of 1996. Bill Clinton calls foul, pointing out that the alterations/exemptions in the DHS directive are exactly the sorts of things that Romney pushed for as MA Gov, and that they are a continuation of the work/time reforms, not a reversal.

I think it’s going to be a long three months for Mitt Romney. He is locked into campaign messages that are devastating for the economy, and absolutely toxic for his candidacy.

Mitt Romney’s attack on “green jobs” has risks

Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has been savaging what it calls President Barack Obama’s “unhealthy” obsession with “green jobs.” The Republican challenger criticizes the government program that propped up solar manufacturer Solyndra, and he mocks Obama’s vision of a boom in employment, citing a European study to argue that new solar or wind-energy positions would destroy jobs elsewhere.

But when a campaign spokesman said last week that Congress should let a tax break for wind energy producers expire at the end of the year, some Republicans were concerned the candidate had gone too far.

Republican Rep. Tom Latham, R-Iowa, noting that nearly 7,000 Iowans work in the wind industry, assailed the Romney campaign for “a lack of full understanding of how important the wind energy tax credit is for Iowa and our nation.” Iowa’s senior senator, Chuck Grassley, told reporters he didn’t believe Romney really opposed the extension, and he joined five other GOP lawmakers in voting for it in the Senate Finance Committee.

Because of the Republican base’s inflexibility in their mindless opposition to anything having to do with Obama, Romney must pander to them even if it means supporting the destruction of thousands of jobs simply as a way of attacking the President.

So, we now have the Republican presidential candidate openly supporting the destruction of American jobs. Oh, and he is supporting the idea of raising taxes on small businesses, America’s “job creators.” His only alternative is to support one President Obama’s policies — worse, to support Democratic “green jobs.”

Mal­colm Gladwell’s The Tip­ping Point

Ah. Sort of a social version of the Butterfly Effect, but with memes and a succession of reinforcing butterflies.