The past couple of diaries I've done have dealt with some new ideas for addressing the issue of media reform. Media reform is a great effort, and organizations like Free Press and others should be applauded and supported. That's why we are establishing a new News Network, which is meant be a think-tank-engine-organization whose purpose is to raise money for the purpose of creating a people-owned press.

It's a simple idea--and yet it is radical because we are operating inside a profit-driven system, one that resists the very ideals that our democracy is founded on: that of the freedom of speech and freedom of the press. As long as the press is owned by corporate interests, we will not see the kind of change that we need to see in this country. As long as powerful media create and distort issues, truths, and tinker with our national psyche, we will see our freedoms, already dearly threatened, recede even further.

There are some groups that lean more toward Hillary but whose minds can still be changed. Why are they resistant to Barack’s message of hope and change? Continued pounding on the "change" message won’t generate a different result with blue collar workers, the over-65 crowd, high school educated, Catholics, or those earning under $50,000. Is there some way to tweak the message to draw them in? I think so.

This is the relief thread for anna's excellent Original Election Problems Thread.

Anyone posting to the original thread should post here.  

Please note:

Obama hotline for Texas: 877-48-OBAMA (h/t kath25).  
National hotline: 866-675-2008 (h/t NAS)
PFAW non-partisan election protection hotline 1-866-OUR-VOTE (h/t sele)
Clinton Texas hotline 1-877-472-9465 (h/t demosthenes)

Also:
critical ohio update!!:  We are seeing lots of voters who are registered not appearing on the voting rolls at some precincts.  These voters are being made to vote provisionally. Some voters who ARE on the rolls and requesting paper ballots are being given provisional ballots instead.  If you experience this please call the PFAW hotline in this diary.  PFAW - if they get enough reports - will send people.  ALso call the hotline corresponding to your candidate.  Thanks!

I hate to waste a diary on this, but this is important.  The precinct I voted at this morning has apparently shut down, and I can't seem to get in touch with anybody.

The left in America is pitiful.  Progressives and liberals cannot say, proudly, I am a leftist!  Or I am on the centre-left.  This is because of a constant demonization by the right-wing and the Republican party.  The sad thing is, is that this is expected.  And yet for decades we haven't fought back properly.

This is my first diary, so I apologize for any spelling mistakes, or anything glaringly wrong about my writing.