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This does not take a rocket scientist to figure this game out. American voters...all of you, have available to you, at hand, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity & chance to politically defeat & destroy the entire Socialist, Communist, Progressive, Hate America, Racist, Democrat Party for many years to come. How? Just simply cast your precious votes for every single POTUS, Donald J. Trump endorsed candidate running for office in this Mid-Term Election, next Tuesday, November 6, 2018, and cast not one vote for any Democrat...period. . You can easily cast your votes early, by mail-in, by absentee and on the Election Day...

Colorado is one of only three states that run their elections with all-mail ballots. The other two are the west coast progressive strongholds of Washington and Oregon... So, between this and Jared Polis’s goal of 100% renewable energy five years sooner than California’s unreachable goal, we’re out-Californicating California... Colorado mandated all-mail ballots the last time the Democrats controlled both the state house and senate, 2013. And it fundamentally changed electioneering ... We used to have an election day, a 12-hour period for civically minded folks to get to their neighborhood polling place and exercise their voice. Voting was for those...

The Washington, D.C., City Council is preparing to vote on a bill to lower the voting age to 16 for all elections, both local and federal. WTOP-FM reports the bill won 3-0 approval in the Judiciary and Public Safety committee Thursday and will get a final vote before the full council this month. The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees citizens 18 and older the right to vote, but scholars have said it doesn't prevent a state, or in this case, the nation's capital, from setting a lower age. Council member Charles Allen says his bill will "enfranchise the...

This is our WAR! We cannot allow them to cheat, lie and steal to fraudulently win this election My title is taken from old military jargon which is used, to this day, in my beloved Maine Corps to mean you are being transferred or your tour in Afghanistan will soon be up - as an example - making you a ‘short timer’. Happily, most short timers are counting the hours, sometimes even minutes, until that ‘wake up’ day comes, as they prepare to board that plane for their flight home, home to their family, home to safety, just away from...

RealClearPolitics has 204 "safe" seats for the Democrats and 197 "safe" seats for the Republicans. They have 34 seats in the tossup category. Based on a reasonable analysis, I predict Democrats win 7 and Republicans win 27. The totals for the next Congress being, Democrats 211 and Republicans 224. Republicans lose a total of 17 seats from 2016 high.

Steven Clifford, author and former CEO of the King Broadcasting Company and National Mobile Television, told PJM that the federal government should “prohibit straight white males from voting” in U.S. elections as a way to “save” democracy. “I think it’s the only hope for democracy in America and I will be leading a great movement to prohibit straight white males, who I believe supported Donald Trump by about 85 percent, from exercising the franchise and I think that will save our democracy,” Clifford said during an interview after speaking at the forum “Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism,” which was...

Georgia’s been a hotbed of political controversy this month... ....Stacey Abrams, a Democrat with an emphasis on gun control and criminal justice who, if elected, would become the nation’s first-ever black woman governor....many celebrities that emerged from their regenerative chambers to help boost her chances. That includes Meryl Steep, Denzel Washington, Jada Pinkett Smith, Ben Affleck, and John Legend, as well as funnyman Will Ferrell, who took his efforts a step further by touching down in the state for some door-to-door canvassing. “We keep asking ourselves, how can we help? What can we do locally being in California? Should we...

This is an EXCERPT Federal Election Commission reports show the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is sinking $750,000 on ads to help newly appointed Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. ... Another PAC, the Mississippi Victory Fund run by Henry Barbour and former state Sen. Merle Flowers, supports Hyde-Smith. It reported no spending through March 31 but has raised $75,000, with contributions of $25,000 each from former Gov. Haley Barbour, businessman W.D. Mounger and Sanderson Farms CEO Joe Sanderson. ...

I am wearing red when I go to the polls on Tuesday, just to scare the beejeezus out of the Dems. We're not allowed to wear campaign materials at the polling place, but there's not an awful lot they can do about my wardrobe choices, heh-heh. MAGA!

Fueled by his defiance of political norms, Andrew Gillum is on the cusp of history in Florida.... ....Gillum's underdog campaign for governor of Florida was always predicated on the same unsatisfied defiance that fueled his earliest days as an activist. To those who have known and watched him closely, his gift of personal magnetism, commitment to advocacy.... "There's something Kennedyesque about Andrew. People don't really know why – they just feel good," says Gary Yordon, a television producer who helped film Gillum's first campaign commercial for Tallahassee city commissioner 15 years ago. "The last five or six candidates...

....The University of North Florida poll of likely voters found that Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee, has the support of 49 percent of likely voters in the state, while 43 percent said they plan to back DeSantis.... Gillum's lead is boosted by support from independent voters in the state, with 56 percent of nonparty affiliates surveyed saying they'll vote for the Tallahassee mayor.... ....phone interviews from Oct. 23 to 26 with 1,051 likely voters. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. A RealClearPolitics average of polls shows Gillum with a 3.2 point lead....

The results of the 2016 election felt like a punch to the gut. I remember feeling stunned, confused, and unprepared for what lay ahead. I learned in that moment, and in many moments since, that elections have consequences. We enter the Nov. 6 midterm election ruled by a Republican majority carrying out a concerted voter suppression campaign and with a leader blatantly cultivating an environment of racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia and oppression. This must end. **SNIP** Since 2013, the #BlackLivesMatter movement and the Black Lives Matter Global Network and our allies have fought against attacks on black bodies...

With the confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, legal analysts suggest that he could be a deciding vote in overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, and that has ratcheted up interest in the abortion issue in Pennsylvania's gubernatorial contest. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf makes no bones about it. He wants no part of anything that would further restrict a women's access to abortion than what is permitted now in state law. He has vetoed or threatened to veto bills that would have done just that. "This issue is the woman's right to choose. It's about the choices...

The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh was a victory, but Republicans need to keep the House and Senate to cement pro-life gains. Last week, in the presence of his family, his eight new colleagues, and President Trump, Brett Kavanaugh was publicly sworn in as the 114th Supreme Court justice in United States history. Like his predecessors, he pledged to uphold the Constitution and be a fair, impartial interpreter of the law for all Americans. At this historic moment, justice was done. An extraordinarily qualified individual, with a sterling reputation and decades of service in both the executive and judicial branches, took...

President Trump just dropped this spectacular Youtube ad today. It has a "Morning Again in America" ring to it. Extremely well done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsBQNfI-Dxw Here is the Reagan 84 "Morning Again" ad for comparison. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=EU-IBF8nwSY

The gathering at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, on Saturday was a stark contrast to recent rallies where people dressed in black and held signs disparaging President Donald Trump and members of his administration. The #WalkAway rally featured a sea of red, white, and blue-clad participants, waving flags, wearing Make America Great hats, and even pussy hats made infamous during the Women’s March were transformed into bright red, Trump-supporting headgear. The success of a weekend of events to support Trump and Republicans ahead of the midterm elections on November 6 even impressed Brandon Straka, the former Democrat who launched the...

San Francisco’s effort to get noncitizen parents to the ballot box is pretty much a bust the first time out, with only 49 signing up to vote in the Nov. 6 election. Back in July, the city began registering noncitizens — including undocumented immigrants — to vote in school board elections. The program is the first-of-its-kind in California and followed passage of a 2016 San Francisco ballot measure opening school elections to noncitizens who are over the age of 18, city residents and have children under age 19. The city spent about $310,000 setting up the new registration system and...

....Nate Silver explains why he doesn’t use early voting data to help forecast elections: Polls are more reliable, given that we don’t know all of the factors involved in early voting. Nate also answers questions from listeners...

Newt Gingrich said Thursday that Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has better odds of becoming speaker of the House than the GOP's front-runner Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. During an event held by the Washington Post, Gingrich, himself a former speaker of the House, suggested that he thinks the Democrats will take the House. "I think the odds are 2 out of 3 she'll be speaker," he said of Pelosi, who is House minority leader. "And 1 out of 3 Kevin McCarthy will be," he continued. Democrats need to flip two dozens seats in the House during the Nov. 6 midterm elections...

Reliable GOP pollster John McLaughlin just announced that he is releasing new polling data that has the Dems only up by 2 pats over the GOP using a national sample of 1000 voters, and he has Trump up to 48% approval, the same as Rasmussen and the NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll.