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Barnett v. Obama: Important Discovery Is Available Now According To Judge Carter’s Order of Sept. 17, 2009. Today, Judge Carter issued a limited discovery order pertaining to the case of Barnett v. Obama. Judge Carter’s order stated: All discovery herein shall be stayed pending resolution of Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss, except for any discovery as to which Plaintiffs can demonstrate, to the satisfaction of Magistrate Judge Nakazato, is necessary for the purpose of opposing the Motion to Dismiss. Regarding that order, one of my astute readers (Joe The Blogger) asked the following question which led me to write this post:...

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A Shaw Island man has filed a referendum to repeal a new law that has Washington state join a compact with other states to cast its presidential electoral votes for the national popular vote winner. David Anderson filed the referendum Wednesday, one day after Gov. Chris Gregoire signed the bill. The new law doesn't take effect until enough states sign on to account for 270 electoral votes - the number it takes to win the White House. Washington has 11 electoral votes. Anderson would have to gather more than 120,500 signatures by July in order to qualify...

Please see link for the current list of states which have submitted their Certificates of Vote for the 2008 Presidential Election. To date, 24 states have reported: Alabama (9) McCain (R) Arizona (10) McCain (R) Colorado (9) Obama (D) Delaware (3) Obama (D) Georgia (15) McCain (R) Illinois (21) Obama (D) Indiana (11) Obama (D) Kentucky (8) McCain (R) Maine (4) Obama (D) Michigan (17) Obama (D) Mississippi (6) McCain (R) New Hampshire (4) Obama (D) New York (31) Obama (D) North Carolina (15) Obama (D) Ohio (20) Obama (D) Oklahoma (7) McCain (R) Pennsylvania (21) Obama (D) Rhode Island...

Posted: Nov.21.2008 @ 8:25 pm | Lasted edited: Nov.21.2008 @ 8:25 pm Donofrio Alleges Judicial Misconduct, Obstruction of Justice, NJ Appellate Division Today, Leo Donofrio, also the Plaintiff in Donofrio v. Wells, is separately filing an official allegation of Judicial Misconduct against Appellate Division Judge Jack M. Sabatano.Leo will be updating his blog with the official complaint, and I’ll update here as well… Today, Leo C. Donofrio filed, with the NJ Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct, an official allegation of Judicial Misconduct against Appellate Division Judge Jack M. Sabatino with regard to the initial stage of this litigation...

McCain wins.

Dick Morris Maps 2008 Political analyst extraordinaire DICK MORRIS plots out the critical states that may determine whether John McCain or Barack Obama becomes the next president. This week’s results indicate McCain blundered by suspending his campaign.

Two months ago in this space, I identified five states that I argued would pick the next president. Tell me how these states -- Ohio, Colorado, Virginia, Nevada and Michigan -- will go in November, I wrote, and I'll tell you who will be our next president ("The Big 5: Picking the States That Will Pick the President"). As the presidential race has developed, those five states seem to hold the same predictive value now that they did then. Sure, there are a handful of additional states that could turn the election to either Democratic Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) or...

The latest forecast of the Electoral College suggests that John McCain is way ahead of his Democratic rival Barack Obama. The research to be presented at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences on between October 13 and 15, less than three weeks before the election, says that as of September 16, the margin in electoral votes could be as high as 282.8 votes for Senator John McCain against 255.2 for Senator Barack Obama, depending on the forecasting scenario. Operations researcher Sheldon H. Jacobson, a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign,...

D.C. INFORMS workshops show new ways to forecast presidential outcome, target votersA new approach to determining which candidate will win the most electoral votes in the U.S. Presidential race factors in lessons learned from the 2004 election and uses sophisticated math modeling. The research will be presented at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®). As of September 16, the margin in electoral votes could be as high as 282.8 votes for Senator John McCain against 255.2 for Senator Barack Obama, depending on the forecasting scenario. Operations researcher Sheldon H. Jacobson, a professor...

Obama/Biden 207 McCain/Palin 227 Toss Up 104

Polls in 11 battleground states show Obama retains narrow lead as 78 Electoral College votes still a toss-upUTICA, New York—An Electoral College tidal wave has followed the surge of interest in the rejuvenated Republican presidential ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin, nearly erasing a once-daunting Democratic advantage and creating a race for the White House that is nearly dead-level even. The latest Zogby Interactive polling in 11 key battleground states, and a further analysis of polling in other states, has resulted in the recalibration of the Zogby Electoral College Map, available at www.zogby.com. In this latest Zogby calculation, Obama/Biden...

Minnessota goes from OBAMA to TOSS UP !! TOWARD VICTORY !!

WOOO HOOOO !! And Sarah Palin now takes the LEAD !!! TOWARD VICTORY

Clickable map at link

Obamarx 210 / McCain/ (b/) Palin(/b) 200

Barack Obama 275 John McCain 263

This November, a Democratic victory will probably hinge on the Electoral College votes of a handful of swing states. Howard Dean's pollster examines 17 fall battlegrounds, one by one. Thanks to John Adams and James Madison, an American presidential election really does begin and end with the Electoral College. Didn't 2000 tell us that? (Well, it ended with Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor, but you get the drift.) Critics scoff and call it an antiquated and unfair system (it is). Many Democrats -- notably, this year, Obama backers -- would like their party to stop thinking in terms of...