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Aren't charities refrained from getting involved in Politics? Makes me wonder if Obama has a Signed Agreement like Raila did with his Islamic Bros. Site also links to his Ramadan comment... "I want to convey my greetings to the American Muslim community on the Festival of Breaking the Fast that marks the end of Ramadan. Through fasting, prayer and charity, your observance this past month of the universal values of patience, generosity and caring for the less fortunate is an important reminder of the values that have helped make America great. As a nation, we must commit ourselves to that...

WASHINGTON - When Barack Obama pretended to be brushing dirt off his shoulders during a speech last spring in the midst of an increasingly acrimonious primary battle against Hillary Clinton, aging and unhip pundits didn't have a clue what he was doing. But young Americans seized upon Obama's tip of the hat to the Jay-Z hit "Dirt Off Your Shoulder" - about rising above hatred - and before long, dozens of YouTube mash-ups appeared featuring footage from the speech running over top the song. "People, we're talking about a seminal moment in the campaign, the merging of politics and pop...

WASHINGTON--In 1992, Barack Obama worked for Project Vote for about seven months; now Project Vote and ACORN--a coalition of community organizations serving low income families--just wrapped up a voter registration drive targeting battleground states Obama needs to win the White House. Though officially non-partisan, the focus of the ACORN/Project Vote voter drive was on groups leaning Democratic in the presidential contest: African American, young, Latino and low income earners. They are called "historically underrepresented in elections" in a press release issued by the group on Monday. Republicans would call these target groups Democrats. ACORN/Project Vote ran voter registration operations in...

Many of the registration gains in North Carolina and elsewhere came during the nominating battle between Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. While resulting in a long and costly primary season, it also helped draw voters onto the Democratic rolls.

As the deadline for voter registration arrives today in many states, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign is poised to benefit from a wave of newcomers to the rolls in key states in numbers that far outweigh any gains made by Republicans. In the past year, the rolls have expanded by about 4 million voters in a dozen key states -- 11 Obama targets that were carried by George W. Bush in 2004 (Ohio, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Indiana, Missouri, Colorado, Iowa, Nevada and New Mexico) plus Pennsylvania, the largest state carried by Sen. John F. Kerry that Sen. John McCain...

Tomorrow is the last day to register in many states. MOST, if not 99.8%+ of us have already registered or know that we are registered to vote next month. But if for some reason you're not, or not 100% certain (maybe you made a move across states or 1/2 the country recently, in the midst of a family member's terminal illness/death, like my spouse and I - maybe you just moved counties or provinces...maybe you have a teenager who has turned 18 since the last election that you need to nudge, or maybe you have an assisted living grandparent/parent/relative, that...

While most Americans are watching the Dow and other stock-market figures zig and zag, I have my eyes fixed on numbers that are headed straight up: voter registrations. Across the nation, election clerks and secretaries of state are regularly announcing historic increases in the ranks of registered voters. (snip) The questions raised by new registrations won’t end this week. Typically, voters can register until Oct. 6 in most states, and even later in others. A week or more will be needed to update lists and tabulations. Until the final numbers are in, we cannot fully assess the implications for the...

On the day she turned 18 in May, Annie Ferguson stood in line at her local St. Lucie County elections office to register to vote. Mike Lunsford's "Obama '08" T-shirt was faded and worn by the time a Democratic volunteer found the 31-year-old Clearwater man in August and signed him up. Colleen Huttel, a Jacksonville woman who skipped the 12 presidential elections in which she was eligible to cast a ballot, registered in February to vote for the first African-American presidential nominee from a major party. These are the faces of some of the 430,000 Floridians who joined the state's...

An official with the Republican National Committee said Thursday that a group involved with voter registration drives in Milwaukee is “engaged in systematic fraud and attempts to undermine our electoral system.” The comments came from Sean Cairncross, the party’s chief lawyer, during a conference call with reporters in the wake of a report that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) had hired at least seven felons as voter registration workers in the city.The Journal Sentinel has reported on problems with voter registration cards submitted to the city by workers for the group and another liberal group, the...

A Commentary on the Campaign for Human Development Prepared for the Catholic Bishops of the United States Prepared by the Wanderer Forum Foundation I. Introduction: This commentary is submitted to the Catholic Bishops of the United States with respect to their possible consideration of changes in the organization, funding, and structure of the Campaign for Human Development (CHD). It is essential to note, however, the limited purpose and scope of this commentary: 1. This commentary is intended for the use of the Catholic Bishops of the United States in their consideration of the issues discussed. However, it will also be...

A while ago I wrote to Obama about abortion (asking how a black man can support the abortion of so many black children) and since then I have been on their email list. Their stuff goes to my spam folder but this one caught my eye.

Spurred by heavy registration in big urban counties -- particularly among young voters and black people -- North Carolina's voter rolls have swelled by more than 600,000 this year to a record 6 million. "Voter registration has eclipsed all records, no doubt about it," said state elections director Gary Bartlett. The apparent beneficiaries: Democrats. Analysts say the changes have helped Democrat Barack Obama make the state an unexpected presidential battleground. "Clearly, the advantage goes to Obama," said Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on Public Life at UNC-Chapel Hill. Democrats have an overall edge in registration in this state: 2.7...

The Arizona Republic is a Gannett rag (owners of the ultra-liberal USA Today) -- so we can't even excerpt the article. However, you can guess the gist of the piece from the headline, and you read the story itself here.

Link to article here.

Barack Obama's campaign website is recommending that voters remain registered in battleground states even though they may not be living there on Nov. 4. The Republican National Committee (RNC) is raising questions about how Sen. Obama’s (Ill.) campaign is urging its supporters to vote in purple states despite living in red or blue states this fall. An RNC official said it is unclear whether that practice is illegal but argued that it is “out of compliance with the spirit of the law.” However, Columbia University law professor and election law expert Nathaniel Persily stated that “there is no problem” with...

In swing-state Colorado, the Republican Secretary of State conducted the biggest purge of voters in history, dumping a fifth of all registrations. Guess their color. In swing-state Florida, the state is refusing to accept about 85,000 new registrations from voter drives – overwhelming Black voters. In swing state New Mexico, HALF of the Democrats of Mora, a dirt poor and overwhelmingly Hispanic county, found their registrations disappeared this year, courtesy of a Republican voting contractor. In swing states Ohio and Nevada, new federal law is knocking out tens of thousands of voters who lost their homes to foreclosure. My investigations...

I know that probably everyone here is registered to vote. But the great interest in Gov. Palin has brought in a lot of people who were going to sit out this election. Well, the Democrats have gotten record numbers of people registered this year. We need to get to work! Please forward this link to everyone you know who has shown any interest in voting for Gov. Palin!

CLAIRTON, Pa. - Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats — one of thousands of unknown volunteers whose work outside the limelight has already altered the basic arithmetic of the November election. The epic nomination battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton helped put millions more Democrats on the voter rolls while Republican registration declined. Now Graham, 45, has taken three months of unpaid leave from her job at Pittsburgh's Central Blood Bank in the hope of adding to those...

One of the leading organizations working to overthrow Marxism and restore Liberty in America, FreeRepublic.com, announces a drive to register 1,000,000 new Republican voters to defeat Barack Hussein Obomber and Joe Imbiden. Heck, if Moveon.org can register 500,000 budding young socialist abortionists to support their Marxist messiah, I don't see why FreeRepublic.com shouldn't register at least twice as many young God-fearing, pro-life, Liberty-loving American patriots to defeat their godless leftist takeover attempt. Click here to register: http://www.gop.com/ActionCenter/RegisterToVote/RegistrationInformation.aspx

One of the earliest boosters of Barack Obama announced yesterday its biggest effort on behalf of the Democratic nominee: A drive to register 500,000 young voters in battleground states.