URGENT NEED: Casey & Murtha Contact Numbers for GOTV

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Sunday November 05, 2006 · 5:59 AM PST

2006/11/05 · 05:59

Two committed Democratic voters in Dilliner, Greene County, Pennsylvania need help voting on Tuesday. They are an old and infirm couple and probably would prefer to vote absentee, but it may be too late. I spoke to the husband yesterday as part of the MoveOn GOTV campaign. I want to contact the Murtha or Casey LOCAL campaign offices to get help for the voters, but Murtha's general campaign phone 814-539-8196 in Johnstown does not answer right now and I could find no number for Casey. Read More

Henry County, VA, Sheriff Arrests & Allen Campaign

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Thursday November 02, 2006 · 11:57 AM PST

2006/11/02 · 11:57

The AP is carrying a story about an arrest and indictment instigated by the US Attorney for Western Virginia of the sheriff and 12 employees , past and present in the Henry County Sheriff's department on charges of illegal drug and weapons dealings. They would seize firearms, narcotics, and other illegal substances during arrests and then put them back into the community.

http://www.forbes.com/...

Almost the entire department is affected by this corruption.

Cassell has been sheriff since 1992 in the rural county of about 58,000 residents along the North Carolina line.
The region's textile and furniture industries have been in decline and its unemployment rate is higher than the state average. The area is best known for the Martinsville Speedway, where NASCAR races are run twice a year.

Might this affect the Senate race since Henry County is a bastion of Allen votes? Read More

Exit Polls and Closing Times: What can we expect on Tuesday night?

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Wednesday November 01, 2006 · 8:21 AM PST

2006/11/01 · 08:21

According to the infamous Mark Halperin et al. there will be no exit polls for any of the House races. Since he has said it repeatedly in his Drudge regurge, The Note, I am skeptical. Does anybody have reliable information on this question? And if he is correct why won't the MSM do exit polling for any House races?

Presumably there will be exit polling in the tight Senate races. Does anyone know where?

In the absence of exit polling, trends should be sought in reports from the early closing states.

Contrapositive ran a great story

http://contrapositive.blogspot.com/...

listing the ET closing times.

The networks aren't starting their coverage until around 10 so we will have to be cable-dependent until then. By 10 the trends should have been firmly established and they should have their story line for the evening.

Here are the times taken form their report with some of my own suggestions and questions: Read More

Fight Vote Suppression: Get National Totals for Federal Elections on 7 November

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Saturday October 28, 2006 · 8:15 PM PDT

2006/10/28 · 20:15

When was the last time on election night that the coverage included the total vote count for the US House and Senate elections? Can anyone easily find the total votes for Democrats and Republicans in all the individual Senate and House races put together for past years? Should we not press to get this information out as part of the political coverage in this and every election in the future? Its absence undervalues the national support for the Democratic party. Getting the MSM to pay attention to the national totals would be one way to recognize that the Democratic party has far greater support in all elections than the current electoral system recognizes.
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WaPo Hides GOP Slime

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Friday October 27, 2006 · 6:01 AM PDT

2006/10/27 · 06:01

The Post electronic front page headline is faux "fair and balanced", but the article explicitly tells the truth.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
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Last Minute Fundraising for House Races

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Sunday October 22, 2006 · 7:25 PM PDT

2006/10/22 · 19:25

Over the past few days I have been helping with GOTV and raising money for House candidates throughout the country. I have had some success contacting friends and family on behalf of various close races. This is last minute crunch-time so I have been urging contributors to move quickly so we can get funds to the campaigns before the last ten days. The goal is about $2,000. If each of us can contact five friends for this cause we could make a big difference. If you want to know my method, here it is. Read More

NEW STORY Breaking House Candidates' Piggy-Banks, MA report

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Saturday October 21, 2006 · 6:02 AM PDT

2006/10/21 · 06:02

Although this story is Mass-based what is described, as Bowers and Markos have blogged, demands national attention and action. I urge all living in safe Demo-districts to call their representatives on Monday AM to urge them to contribute beyond their assessed DCCC dues. This morning's Boston Globe, 21 October 2006, has a major must-read story on what the Massachusetts House and Senate delegation are and are not doing right now to help win back the House.

http://www.boston.com/...

Kerry and at least three other congressmen right now have been very stingy.
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Any progress for Stover against Shimkus in IL-19?

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Wednesday October 18, 2006 · 8:57 AM PDT

2006/10/18 · 08:57

The last numbers I saw were Shimkus (R) 53 Stover (D) 36. Has anyone been following this race recently?

I don't know how Shimkus' numbers compare to the other Foley Five, but at that moment he was doing marginally better than Hastert and Laesch was doing significantly better than Stover.

Money question
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WaPo Says Hastert's Office Knew MUCH (?) Earlier

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Saturday October 14, 2006 · 8:06 PM PDT

2006/10/14 · 20:06

Am I missing something? Buried at the end of a story in today's 14 Oct 2006 issue is a statement I have seen nowhere else.

"Police Find No Report of a Foley Dorm Incident
Witness in Scandal Alleged Then-Congressman Was Detained Outside Pages' Capitol Hill Residence"

By Charles Babington and Mary Beth Sheridan
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, October 14, 2006; Page A04

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

"Hastert's office has acknowledged that three of the speaker's aides knew of the Louisiana e-mails but that they dealt with the matter by consulting with Trandahl and without telling Hastert or Palmer." Read More