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Hissyspit's JournalThad Cochran wins election to the U.S. Senate in Mississippi.
Source: Associated Press
@AP: BREAKING: Thad Cochran wins election to the U.S. Senate in Mississippi. @AP race call at 8 p.m. EST poll close. #Election2014 #APracecall
Thad Cochran wins U.S. Senate race in Mississippi
POSTED 7:10 PM, NOVEMBER 4, 2014, BY ASHLEY CROCKETT, UPDATED AT 07:44PM, NOVEMBER 4, 2014
JACKSON, Miss. — The AP projects incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran will keep his seat.
He faced off with former north Mississippi Democratic Congressman Travis Childers and Reform Party candidate Shawn O’Hara.
In the Mississippi Republican Senate runoff earlier this year, Cochran narrowly defeated challenger Chris McDaniel, who easily won in DeSoto County with close to 70 percent of the vote. Supporters of both blamed low voter turnout for sending them to a runoff.
The contest between the two was closely watched, since McDaniel is a tea party member and Cochran has held onto his seat for 42 years.
Read more: http://wreg.com/2014/11/04/thad-cochran-wins-u-s-senate-race-in-mississippi/
Ed Markey wins re-election to the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts.
Source: Associated Press
@AP: BREAKING: Ed Markey wins re-election to the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. @AP race call at 8 p.m. EST poll close. #Election2014 #APracecall
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Voter Disenfranchisement That Right-Wing Media Said Wouldn't Happen Is Definitely Happening
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/11/04/voter-disenfranchisement-that-right-wing-media/201451Voter Disenfranchisement That Right-Wing Media Said Wouldn't Happen Is Definitely Happening
Blog ››› 1 hour and 19 minutes ago ››› MEAGAN HATCHER-MAYS
This Election Day, a number of states are implementing strict new voter ID laws and registration policies in a high-turnout election for the first time. These measures have been found to have the potential to disenfranchise thousands of voters -- typically people of color, young voters, and women -- who are unable to obtain select forms of ID or are caught in flawed voter purges, but right-wing media figures frequently argue that these laws do not suppress the vote.
The right-wing media have repeatedly claimed that these laws are not racially discriminatory, do not affect minority voter turnout, and maintain the integrity of the election system. Fox News has referred to recent court decisions striking down voter ID laws as illegal or unconstitutional "setbacks" and questioned the timing of the courts' intervention on behalf of the right to vote. Right-wing media have also railed against attempts to stop voter purges, despite the fact that reports have discovered "Hispanic, Democratic and independent-minded voters are the most likely to be targeted" in these methodologically unsound attempts to find ineligible voters.
Repeatedly discredited National Review Online contributor Hans von Spakovsky has been particularly vocal in his support of these unnecessary and redundant election measures, dismissing concerns of "chaos at the polls" even though hundreds of thousands of voters are at risk. On the November 2 edition of Fox News' America's News HQ, von Spakovsky again promoted strict voter ID laws and registration checks and claimed that "this idea" that voter ID laws can "suppress minority voters, we know is not true":
But qualified voters are already being turned away from the polls or purged from the rolls in states that have enacted these new Republican-pushed measures, despite right-wing media's promises that such laws would have no negative effect.
1. Voter ID Blocks Eligible Voters
2. Voter "Crosschecks" Purge Eligible Voters
3. Provisional Ballots Are Not Preventing Disenfranchisement
Voters Turned Away After Failing To Obtain The Select Kind of Identification Needed To Vote
Brennan Center for Justice: Texas' Voter ID Law Has Already Disenfranchised Voters. The Brennan Center for Justice is already compiling examples of voters in Texas who have been turned away from the polls. Jesus Garcia will likely not vote in the 2014 election because he "is not sure he will be able to afford [the] documents" needed to get ID, a price for voting that has already been found to be an unconstitutional "poll tax":
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Texas Sees Surge of Disenfranchised Voters
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/texas-sees-surge-disenfranchised-votersTexas sees surge of disenfranchised voters
11/03/14 08:44 PM—UPDATED 11/04/14 09:58 AM
By Zachary Roth
HOUSTON – A day before Texans go to the polls, an unusual group gathered for lunch at a Mexican restaurant not far from downtown: an unemployed African-American grandmother; a University of Houston student originally from Pennsylvania; a pregnant mother who had recently moved back to the area with her family; and a low-income white woman who struggled to make eye contact and kept her money in a pack strapped around her waist.
They had not met each other before, but they had one thing in common: Thanks to Texas’s strict voter ID law, they all faced massive hurdles in casting a vote. Over fish tacos and guacamole, they shared their stories—hesitantly at first, then with growing eagerness as they realized they weren’t alone in being victimized by their state.
Lindsay Gonzales, 36, has an out-of-state driver’s license, which isn’t accepted under the ID law. Despite trying for months, she has been unable to navigate an astonishing bureaucratic thicket in time to get a Texas license she can use to vote. “I’m still a little bit in shock,” said Gonzales, who is white, well-educated, and politically engaged. “Because of all those barriers, the side effect is that I don’t get to participate in the democratic process. That’s something I care deeply about and I’m not going to be able to do it.”
As Texas prepares for its first high-turnout election with the voter ID law in place, the state has scrambled to reassure residents that it’s being proactive in getting IDs to those who need them, and that few voters will ultimately be disenfranchised. But those claims are belied by continued reports of legitimate Texans who, despite often Herculean efforts, still lack the identification required to exercise their most fundamental democratic right.
The U.S. Justice Department announced Monday that it will send election monitors to the Houston area, as well as Waller County, Texas and 26 other counties across the country, to protect access to the ballot.
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'Car Talk' Co-Host Tom Magliozzi Dies At 77
Source: NPR
'Car Talk' Co-Host Tom Magliozzi Dies At 77
November 03, 2014 2:31 PM ET
SCOTT NEUMAN
Tom Magliozzi, one half of the wisecracking Car Talk duo known as "Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers," has died after complications from Alzheimer's Disease. He was 77.
Car Talk Executive Producer Doug Berman sent this note Monday:
"I have the sad duty to report today that Tom Magliozzi, one of the hosts of Car Talk, passed away this morning due to complications of Alzheimer's Disease.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/03/360340663/car-talk-co-host-tom-magliozzi-dies-at-77
New Technology Shows Nurses Where Your Veins Are
http://iphone.sciencealert.com.au/news/20143010-26427.html
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DAILY KOS LINK: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/03/1341205/-Cartoon-Risk-assessment
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