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RandySF's JournalHow did Tester win? Big margins in cities – and some help from friends
HELENA — When the dust finally settled Wednesday morning on Montana’s epic U.S. Senate race, Sen. Jon Tester was the clear winner — despite having had a target on his back as a “most vulnerable” Democrat in a conservative state.
How did he do it?
It wasn’t because of any big mistakes by his chief opponent, Republican U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, who ran a disciplined, focused campaign that cast Tester as a big-spending, tax-raising, regulation-loving acolyte of President Barack Obama, who isn’t the most popular guy in Montana.
For many reasons, the charges just didn’t stick — and Tester ran a pretty good campaign himself, rolling up huge margins in nearly all of Montana’s major cities and winning key groups of voters.
And while Tester was under relentless fire from TV ads by outside groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS, he had a little help from his own friends – labor, environmentalists, women’s groups – who not only bought some TV but also ran an aggressive, widespread ground game on his behalf.
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/reporter-s-notebook-how-did-tester-win-big-margins-in/article_e0d351c8-4b02-527e-aae9-4e11895637ef.html#ixzz2BuKXOIx2
Daily Kos: Alabama Joins the Secession Movement
In order to remove any doubt that Alabama is a backward, racist place to live, now a petition is being circulated at whitehouse.gov, seeking permission for Alabama to secede from the United States and form its own government.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/...
Alabama overwhelmingly voted for Romney over Obama by a 60/40 margin, elected disgraced former Chief Justice Roy "Moses and the Ten Commandments Monument" Moore back into the all Republican Supreme Court, and passed Alabama Statewide Amendment 6 to "prohibit any person, employer, or health care provider from being compelled to participate in any health care system". (Proposed by Act 2011-617) .
If I weren't unfortunate enough to live in north Alabama, I would say go right ahead, buh bye, and don't let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/11/1160280/-Alabama-Joins-the-Secession-Movement
Arizona still has 200,000 ballots yet to be counted.
PHOENIX -- Several thousand early ballots from this week’s election still have yet to be counted.
Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell has announced that 44,788 ballots were tabulated on Saturday.
Purcell added that approximately 200,000 early ballots still have yet to be counted, along with another 122,000 provisional ballots.
The canvass of elections is scheduled for Monday. For more information and updates you can visit www.recorder.maricopa.gov.
http://www.azfamily.com/news/Several-thousand-early-provisional-ballots-still-to-be-counted-178473041.html
Romney's pollster should be chased out of the industry.
No Republican candidate for major office should ever hire Neil Newhouse again. We had fun this year watching Rasmussen inflate the voter ID in his polls. We rolled our eyes listening about unskewed polls, but at the end of the day, their polls are nothing but entertainment value. On the other hand, internal presidential campaign polls determine how valuable time and millions of dollars are spent. Yet Newhouse decided, on no objective basis, that the Republican share of the vote would be the same as 2004 or 2010 and that Obama would not be able to generate the same level of enthusiasm as 2008. Good pollsters don't make assumptions, they research and measure. And if the numbers don't look good, they are what they are. At least Romney would not have been spending time in Pennsylvania during the last week of the campaign. And they might have saved themselves the embarrassment of buying that firework display.
Black athlete having second thoughts about attending Ole Miss after election night riot.
A once solid commitment to the University of Mississippi, Carver running back Eugene Brazley, who on Feb. 25 pledged to play for the Rebels next season, is now having serious doubts.
Shortly after Carver’s 36-12 victory over South Plaquemines Friday in the bi-district round of the state playoffs, Brazley expressed concern with the predilection for racism in Oxford, Miss., and said he is now “looking around” and could decommit.
“Some of my people told me they had a riot because of (President Barack) Obama, and some of the players might be decommitting,” Brazley said. “I hadn’t really had a chance to look into it, but I’m gonna get in to it, though.
“I’m definitely looking at Arizona State right now and want to go check them out.”
Just after midnight, Wednesday, Nov. 7, University of Mississippi students gathered on campus near the Student Union to protest the re-election of Obama. The impromptu gathering, which reportedly began with 30-40 students and quickly grew to over 400, included appalling displays of racial intolerance and bigotry, with students yelling epithets and burning Obama-Biden campaign signs.
http://highschoolsports.nola.com/news/article/-1907007392258941081/carver-running-back-eugene-brazley-wavering-on-commitment-to-ole-miss-after-racially-charged-obama-protest/
RNC's Priebus leaning toward 2nd run
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus will make an announcement next week about whether he’ll seek another term, but he’s leaning toward launching a second campaign at the helm, sources told POLITICO.
Questions about Priebus’s intentions come as the party starts to look inward after a shellacking at the ballot box in the presidential race, and in a wide swath of Senate contests last Tuesday.
Priebus is weighing his options and his preferences, and will make his desires known at some point next week, ahead of the Thanksgiving holidays. But he’s leaning toward running again for a seat he wrested from onetime ally Michael Steele back in January 2011, a senior Republican official said.
Despite the GOP’s deep losses on Tuesday, and off-the-record grumbling about Priebus and the future direction of the party from some Republicans, there is no apparent challenger in sight, according to multiple party sources.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83666.html#ixzz2BqeMQ4bn
Elections have consequences: New PA Att. Gen. to investigate Corbett over Penn State inquiry.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican Gov. Tom Corbett turned the political tables Friday on Pennsylvania's newly elected attorney general and questioned the sincerity of her pledge to look into how prosecutors handled the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse investigation and why it took so long.
Kathleen Kane, the first woman and first Democrat to be elected to the office, is coming off a campaign in which she beat up on Corbett and soundly beat her Republican opponent whom she had repeatedly called Corbett's "hand-picked" candidate. She touted herself as the only independent prosecutor in the contest and seized on the passion surrounding the former Penn State assistant coach's case to say she would investigate why it took 33 months to charge Sandusky after the attorney general's office began looking into the case.
Asked about it Friday, Corbett said he never played politics with the investigation, which began under him when he was attorney general. Political adversaries have repeatedly questioned whether Corbett dragged out the investigation to ensure it didn't become public while he was running for governor in 2010 and, in theory, anger Penn State fans or alumni into voting against him.
But he maintained that he never told anyone to slow down the investigation and then he took a shot at Kane.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Corbett-questions-politics-behind-Kane-s-inquiry-4024693.php#ixzz2BqaJ1mZN
Big win in PA: Dems. take AG office, elects first woman.
SCRANTON - Vowing to lead her office as a prosecutor and not a politician, Democrat Kathleen Kane sailed to victory Tuesday in her historic bid to become the first woman and first member of her party elected as Pennsylvania's attorney general.
The former Lackawanna County prosecutor outpaced Cumberland County District Attorney David Freed, her GOP rival, with a commanding lead that put her on track to win with a margin wider than that of any other Democrat on the statewide ballot.
"Tonight is a historic night," she said to cheering supporters at the Radisson Hotel downtown. "We have expanded the boundaries for women in
Kane, 46, took the stage just before 11 p.m., flanked by her husband and two young sons.
http://articles.philly.com/2012-11-08/news/34974406_1_democrat-kathleen-kane-sandusky-case-district-attorney
AP calls Florida for Obama.
The Associated Press ?@AP
President Obama wins Florida, topping Mitt Romney in final electoral vote tally 332 to 206: http://apne.ws/TSa63v -RAS
https://twitter.com/AP?tw_i=267323069067055105&tw_e=screenname&tw_p=tweetembed
Hank Williams Jr. upset about Obama win
Country star Hank Williams Jr. really wanted the presidential election to go the other way.
Fuming about President Barack Obama’s victory, he tweeted Thursday: “America has committed Economic Suicide.”
Williams hasn’t hidden his disdain for the president. He got in trouble for comparing Obama to Hitler last year and released a song knocking POTUS over the summer.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/11/hank-williams-jr-upset-about-obama-win-149113.html?hp=l14
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