Stein--On Kentucky Ballot, Loses Nevada and Oklahoma, and Polls!
A lot going on today for Jill Stein and the Green Party ballot access.
Stein will now be on the ballot in Kentucky, bringing her up to 41 states plus Washington D.C. where she will appear on the ballot.
However, the Nevada and Oklahoma court cases were unsuccessful. Stein will NOT appear on the ballot, or be a write-in candidate in three states now: Nevada, Oklahoma, and South Dakota.
She will be a write-in candidate only in three states, and we are still waiting on three states to validate signatures to get her on the ballot.
The Washington Post came out with polls today in every state. I'm not 100% sure about the methodology used in these polls, but the numbers were interesting. The poll included registered voters only.
Stein garnered 10% in Vermont!
Stein is polling at 8% in Maine.
She is polling at 7% in the following states: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Oklahoma (where nobody can vote for her), Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington state.
She is polling at 6% in the following: Colorado, Maryland, New Hampshire, and Nevada (another state where nobody can vote for her).
There are many other states where she's polling at 5% or 4%, but the states listed above--where people can vote for her--are probably the ones where she's most likely to make headway. The lowest polling states for her are Mississippi, Alabama, and North Dakota.
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Here's hoping
We at least give her enough support to get her public funding.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I'm hoping she gets enough support
To give the establishment a hard time sleeping.
Check out her editorial in the Guardian today
She argues compellingly for debate access.
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
Superior Election Coverage Froom The Guardian
Go figure. FBI Director Comey states it is a disgrace the The Guardian has a more accurate list of Americans who have been shot by cops. The Guardian also provides better coverage of American elections than our entire M$M. What happened to American Exceptionalism? Is there a single public agency that is not a failure? Is there a single economic sector that is not corrupt?
Trump is getting criticized for suggesting the election will be rigged. Of course it will be rigged! And everybody knows it will be rigged:
This comes as a big surprise?
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37486-the-shocking-truth-about-electi...
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
Andrea Mitchell
Had some guy on yesterday from homeland security. Election security came up. He was all it was great because there are so many different ways States & locals submit data, and it's not on the Internet. Mitchell demurred, saying aren't many returns submitted electronically. But he insisted that's not on the Internet. Yeah, I wasn't buying what he was selling.
If it CAN be on the Internet
Then anyone with a phone can put it on the Internet. And maybe a small unobtrusive laptop.
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
Is there a single public agency that is not a failure?
When there is (like the Post Office and the Social Security Administration) they do their best to create laws that interfere with its workings, and/or cut funding till it can't work so well anymore (the SSA is a great example of how the latter works).
This isn't internal failure; it's a war.
Not cancer, but being Blitzed.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Post Office is a great example.
I run an online store and ship all of my orders with USPS. Because they're cheaper and have better service and are more reliable than the private companies. So of course, Congress wants to cripple USPS and give all of their profitable routes to the private companies. Meanwhile, the Post Office is required by law to keep delivering to unprofitable routes so that Congress can keep complaining how expensive and inefficient they are.
That ought to be positive, but isn't
I hate to rain on the parade, but Obama is using the idea that foreign actors are hacking our elections to put them under the control of the Department of Homeland Security.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I'd look at that as an unintended consequence
albeit a bonus for them (to have an excuse for that). But there is no real way to justify American voting to be put under that. If the voting is that unsecure, putting it in control of an org that's already been a disaster in its' short existence isn't going to fly.
I'd say it looks more like The Shock Doctrine in action.
Just like electronic voting in the first place. The Horror Of Hanging Chads! So we got a system that is far, far worse.
I object strongly to Truth Out's denunciation in advance
of poll-watchers for Trump. I may be wrong about the law, but my belief is that every candidate has a right to have a poll-watcher in every polling place. For a supposedly truthful and usually reliable news source such as Truth Out to condemn in advance a basic right of the Trump campaign is indefensible.
I was a poll-watcher for Bernie in my liberal region. I was so stupid that I didn't require that I be allowed to manually count the paper ballots and make sure that my count aligned with the machine's. (Bernie won the ward, but not by the expected margin.)
Further, many of the Ithaca College students whose registrations I helped to secure (and we examined them for errors or omissions) were told by the election official who had a state link on his laptop that they were not registered. This was just one small part of so much election fraud that was not added to that which was adequately documented.
Good thing you weren't in Florida
If you tried that here, you'd probably get arrested. Really. Even "recounts" hand count only a select type of vote, nowhere close to all of them.
I'm in favor of multiple poll watchers. Of all kinds.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
Is there any substance to the cases in Nevada and Oklahoma?
What reasons did the judges give for disenfranchising the public so?
"The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening." -- Rosa Luxemburg
Something Stinks In Nevada
About Judge Jennifer Dorsey - an Obama nominated judge
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
With what's against her, she's doing great!
Thanks for the updates!
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
She polls lowest
in states whose inhabitants would benefit the most from the policies she stands for.
WaPost poll in every state
I'm pretty sure that poll is hot garbage. It evidently was in the field for a month, which is not good, and was done with survey monkey which is rated c- by Nate.
Thanks for the updates,apenultimate...
And for your trouble, a bit of Redacted Tonight, featuring a story about Dr. Stein (first 8 minutes):
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaqmGORkYCw]
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-- John Lennon
In some of the local MSM network online polls
considered less-freep-able, she is polling in the 20% range. We who can't get accurate exit polling data (none now) should ignore the 4-6% crap. I only voted once in those I found, no sockpuppets for me!
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Yeah, baby! I'll take my bows now.
Kidding. I collected signatures in KY, but it wasn't enough, despite a very naggy sig collecting leader. She ended up paying people to finish up for her.
But I have to say, from where I sit, they seem very organized and persistent.
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Noticed how the Clinton campaign often talks about
a "special place in hell" for people?
Well, if I believed in hell--in the traditional way--I'd say there'd be a special place in hell for those who deny ballot access. What possible argument can be made against it? Cost?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
This is all a pantload
Polls are a business, which is to say it's bought and paid for bullshit with pre determined outcomes. The fact that our media and our debates rely on this crap is a major part of our problem. They think its okay to limit the narrative in public discourse because POLLS !
I hope Nevada, Oklahoma, and South Dakota vote for Johnson
Since the democRATlicans have conspired to deny them a real choice.
Beware the bullshit factories.
I would.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Logically, Texas should go Libertarian.
The Deep South will pick the candidate they perceive as being the most corrupt. They do it all the time. I don't think it's ignorance or accident.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
On the college student front,
some of the student run papers are now printing my letters-to-the-editor, extolling the advantages of the Green Party.
I'm working on alumni associations now and am finding that about half of them allow me to do a "guest post." I want to cover the middle third of the country because so many colleges are planning homecomings around Oct 1. I'll try to cover that by Sept 15, but we'll see.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.