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Elect Blue gives some props to Bob Tuke for his effective internet campaigning:

On Bob Tuke’s diary page at Daily Kos, Al Gore takes his endorsement of U.S. Senate candidate Bob Tuke a step farther:

ACTION ALERT!
July 30, 2008
SURVEY SAYS…YES!
GET READY, HERE SHE COMES!!!
POLL: MITAKIDES STRONGLY POSITIONED IN HER BID FOR U.S. CONGRESS
A just-completed poll by top national firm Lake Research shows 57% of voters in Ohio’s Third Congressional District are not planning on voting to re-elect incumbent Republican Congressman Mike Turner, strongly positioning Jane Mitakides in her bid [...]

Here's a question that I've been pondering. Within my congregation, we don't "elect" elders per se. But we submit their names as people we think would be good to serve in those roles. If enough submissions are put in for a person, that person or persons agree to or not to stand as elders.

CM Sam Coleman has a resolution that looks like it would effectively permit term-limited district seat members to run for a consecutive at-Large term, thus avoiding the legal problems and ethical questions that Charlie Tygard caused last election (remember "

It never ceases to amaze me how ignorant people can be, especially considering that in this particular instance, the author of the piece below, Mr Watts, seems quite capable of using a computer and as such has all the research power he needs at his fingertips.

It’s a don’t miss post by Sharon Cobb about the night in 2000 when America began to learn what a chad really was. And she has a first-eye account.

After years of complaining about the Patriot Act, there are now a little over one million reasons, why Baghdad Jim McDermott is on the losing end of a richly deserved laws