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Husted: “No one in Ohio is advocating this” on GOP Electoral College rigging scheme
“Nobody in Ohio is advocating this,” Husted said in a telephone interview.Let’s hope this is the case and that Democrats and Independents in Ohio aren’t futher insulted and taken advantage of by extending gerrymandering to the Electoral College.
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Stan Collender is a Roll Call columnist and longtime Washington insider in the public and private sector. In a blog post, Collender tells us this about GOP threats to hold America hostage via the debt ceiling:But it would be wrong to dismiss it out of hand. From the conversations I’ve had with Republicans House members and staff since the 2012 election, the threats, are real and make a great deal of political sense no matter how obnoxious and damaging it otherwise would be. The key is the new House GOP politics of this decade. I’ve repeatedly been told that, with redistricting in place, House Republicans are relatively certain they’ll be able to maintain the majority at least through the end of this decade if they continue to appeal to the GOP base in their congressional districts.[Read more…]
Husted now a national poster boy for suppression
With more than a little guile, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted looks straight into the camera and claims he’s just following the law. He did his darndest for Ohio voters, by golly, and look – Ohio didn’t end up like Florida! Everything’s cool right? Hardly. IO anlaysis showed that during Husted’s term, and certainly during this latest election season, voter rights, voter access in Ohio have been under fire. Even days after the election, Husted is still a target of criticism in the national media. Here at IO, we don’t think Husted is a racist. Let’s make that clear. We do believe that there was only one reason for him to fight tooth and nail to prevent in-person absentee voting during the last weekend of the election. The reason was to suppress the African American vote in Ohio – to keep those souls from visiting the polls. In 2008, blacks were 11% of Ohio’s electorate and voted 97% for Barack Obama. In this past election, exit polls show that blacks voted 95% for Obama in Ohio – but made up 15% of the electorate. That’s plus 4 folks – in a year where the stakes couldn’t have been higher and overall turnout didn’t match 2012. For the Obama campaign to grow a segment of its electorate in Ohio last Tuesday was a big deal. For it to be a segment that voted nearly exclusively for the president is huge. The GOP battleground state vote suppression machine rolled into Columbus and Husted, the partisan climbed aboard – he knew the stakes. MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry, issued an open letter to Husted on her program this past Saturday. She’s not buying Husted’s protestations that everything worked out well in the end:
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Then there’s Brian McFadden’s current affairs cartoon, The Strip, from yesterday’s New York Times. His tongue in cheek take on the voting process in America ends with the pane to the left. Incredible. Of all the suppression efforts taken up by right wingers this past cycle, Husted is the exemplar. Kind of embarassing Ohioans? Just what we need, the rest of the country thinking we’re all in line behind the Dear Leader whistling Dixie. [Read more…]Ohio Election 2012 Information
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