Democrats are increasing their registration numbers while voters are fleeing from the Republican Party in droves. New York Times: In several states, including the traditional battlegrounds of Nevada and Iowa, Democrats have surprised their own party officials with significant gains...
"In Iowa and New Hampshire, young people have demonstrated again that we are a powerful voting bloc in America and are making our voices heard," said Lauren Wolfe, National President of the College Democrats of America. "Young people are supporting Democrats in record numbers because we want change, not a third Bush term like we'd get with any of the Republican president candidates."
Governor Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, released a statement on the New Hampshire primary, noting the record turnouts eager to support the field of Democratic candidates.
With today being New Hampshire's primary day, it's worth taking a look at the gains we're making there.
Giuliani's New York canvassers are trolling Red Sox Nation in Yankees garb, in advance of the primary:
Today TPMMuckracker has more excerpts from former GOP operative Allen Raymond's upcoming book. In this excerpt Allen talks about how Republicans bombarded Democrats with racist phone calls in order to drive down turnout in Rush Holt's congressional race in 2002.
The 2002 New Hampshire phone jamming scandal is still revealing the depths, and in this case the illegal depths, that Republicans are willing to stoop to in order to steal elections. A former GOP operative who served three months in prison for his part in the New Hampshire phone jamming scandal is writing a book about how the scandal reaches the highest part of the Republican Party.
John McCain is in New Hampshire today trying to win over fiscal conservatives by touting support for "repealing the alternative minimum tax, making permanent President Bush's tax cuts, and banning Internet and cellphone taxes." [New York Times , 12/18/07] The only problem? McCain's record.
So where will Fred Thompson be? He's not returning to New Hampshire, or at least isn't planning on it:
"New York City firefighters group critical of presidential contender and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is bringing its message to the campaign trail in the first primary state."
Even though it would cost more than 8,700 kids in New Hampshire needed health care coverage, Rudy Giuliani continues to oppose the bipartisan plan to provide 10 million children nationwide with health care. In Manchester today, he'll likely continue to back President Bush's veto threat of the plan while also trying to justify his support for borrowing $196 billion just for one year of the war in Iraq.
Fred Thompson, sick and tired of being... tired... canceled a New Hampshire trip scheduled for Friday with no explanation. For the moment, at least, he's remaining in Tennessee where he currently has no public events announced.
While President Bush is vetoing the bipartisan plan that would provide 10 million children health care, Rudy Giuliani will be defending Bush's move as he campaigns in the Granite State this morning. Even though it would cost more than 8,700 kids in New Hampshire needed health care coverage, Giuliani has stubbornly backed Bush's veto threat for months.
Rudy Giuliani, under attack from rivals who claim he presided over a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants as Mayor, is unlikely to find any sanctuary himself as he tours New Hampshire today given his blatant reversal on the issue.
An argument that the pro-war candidacy of John McCain was doomed from the start.
Summary of state process
Mitt Romney is back-and-forth on gay rights.
Mitt Romney trotted out more "cred" yesterday, telling supporters he has flown F-16s and shot Uzis and an AK 47s.
John McCain promises a return to the basics of the 2000 election--the one that ended for him in utter defeat.
Duncan Hunter's new message to voters: "I got the eggs."
Former lobbyist turned actor Fred Thompson will be in New Hampshire today attempting to convince voters that he’s not a Washington Insider and that he shares their values. But a closer look at Thompson’s record in the Senate shows that he consistently voted against New Hampshire’s working families. Thompson voted against protecting farmers, the safe reimportation of prescription drugs and was the only Senator to vote against tax deductions for home mortgages.
Public employees in New Hampshire won a major victory yesterday when Democrats in the state House of Representatives passed legislation strengthening their rights at work. The bill already passed the state Senate earlier this year, and is now on its way to the desk of Gov. John
Lynch (D).
In another success story, Democratic governor John Lynch signed an important piece of legislation today that establishes civil unions in New Hampshire.
Rudy Giuliani heads to New Hampshire today on the heels of a wave of coverage of the pay-to-play ethics displayed by his campaign, his business interests, and his political backers. Giuliani's Granite State visit comes one day after he accepted the endorsement of Republican New York State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, who last week acknowledged that his Republican caucus gives special consideration to their special interest donors, saying the practice is "what governing is all about." While Giuliani was happy to accept Bruno's endorsement, he failed to say whether he agrees with Bruno or whether he is concerned by the fact that Bruno admitted that campaign contributions have "unusual" influence on New York Republican lawmakers. ["Fred Dicker Radio Show," WROW- AM 590 (Albany), 5/16/07]
Rudy Giuliani has gone to great lengths to paint himself as a successful business leader and manager, even saying that “I believe I can make government more like a business ... a problem solver rather than a problem creator.”
Mitt Romney heads back to New Hampshire today at the end of yet another rough week on the campaign trail. Since announcing his White House bid last week, the smooth talking presidential candidate has been bombarded by critics blasting his flip-flopping ways, marred by poor reviews of his campaign announcement tour, and dogged by his lackluster record as Massachusetts governor.
As part of his campaign rollout tour, smooth talking Mitt Romney was scheduled to visit the Granite State before weather got in the way. Ironically, today's cancellation may actually help Romney's campaign by giving him some time to re-tool his failing campaign strategy.
Despite evidence to the contrary, Huckabee continues to deny his record of raising taxes as Governor in attempt to pander to the right wing conservative base. But the truth is, Mike Huckabee has a long history of fiscal irresponsibility and was rated one of the worst among freshman state executives by the Fiscal Policy Report Card
Democratic National Committee Communications Director Karen Finney issued the following response to the settlement reached last night in the New Hampshire phone jamming case.
AP: A judge has ruled New Hampshire Democrats can go after more than just the cost of renting and using telephones that were jammed by Republicans on Election Day four years ago.
Last week's election provided many despicable efforts on the part of the GOP to intimidate and deceive American voters. Last Tuesday, despite the efforts of Republicans, the American people went to the polls and rejected the Karl Rove politics of hate and division, and overwhelmingly voted for fundamental change.
Today, College Democrats of America (CDA) announced a National Youth Canvassing Day on September 16, 2006, building on the success of earlier national organizing days sponsored by the Democratic National Committee. CDA state chapters, working with state parties and the DNC's brand new online organizing tool PartyBuilder, will organize a nationwide peer-to-peer canvassing day, targeting young people under 36.
On Saturday, Sept. 16th thousands of College Dems will hit their campuses in the first ever National Youth Canvass Day. Schools across the country have signed up to spread the College Democrats’ message and to recruit new members.
New Hampshire residents are saying thanks to the continuing door-to-door operation by the Democratic Party. People are very happy you [Canvassers] show up at their door; many feel they aren't being listened to, and appreciate the human, grassroots approach. Residents,...
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove is in Manchester today trying to bail out a New Hampshire Republican Party that has been virtually bankrupted by legal fees stemming from the criminal conspiracy to keep people from voting on Election Day in 2002. Rove will headline a state party fundraising dinner tonight, just weeks after news reports revealed that legal bills stemming from the phone-jamming case had left the party with just $733.60 in its bank accounts. [Associated Press, 5/17/06; Washington Post, 5/17/06]
An update on the intentional jamming of union phone banks by an operative of the New Hampshire Republican Party in 2002. It turns out that the guy who served time for his part in the phone jam, Allen Raymond, has...
The
Union Leader reported today that convicted phone-jammer and former New Hampshire Republican Party Executive Director Charles McGee is inviting Republican political operatives to a campaign school that will teach them "all the tools you need to win."
No, we're not joking. The Union Leader reported today that convicted phone-jammer and former New Hampshire Republican Party Executive Director Charles McGee is inviting Republican political operatives to a campaign school that will teach them "all the tools you need...
This morning, Arizona Republican Senator John McCain returned to New Hampshire, but failed to explain why his New Hampshire State Director filed a letter with the court urging leniency on convicted phone-jammer James Tobin.
Today, according to the Union-Leader, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ed Gillespie, "remembers telling someone at the White House that he had decided to have the RNC pay the legal defense bills for convicted phone-jamming conspirator James Tobin, but he can't remember who."
On the same day that convicted phone-jamming conspirator James Tobin was sentenced to ten months in prison for his role in a criminal campaign to keep New Hampshire voters from getting to the polls, the people of New Hampshire learned that Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove will headline a fundraiser for the state Republican Party.
The New York Times profiles Connecticut's 5th Congressional district and the damage to Northeastern Republicans by Bush's failures in office. In the battle for control of the House of Representatives, Democrats are concentrating their efforts on defeating a particularly resilient...
A new Associated Press report today reveals that -- while Republican National Committee Chairman and former White House Political Director Ken Mehlman has refused to provide the American people crucial information about potential RNC and White House involvement in a criminal scheme to disenfranchise New Hampshire voters -- one of his predecessors was a key financial backer of GOP Marketplace, the Republican telemarketing company hired to jam the phones.
See pictures from events across the country and read what participants in the 50-State Canvass have to say in their own words.
According to news reports, a lawyer for the Republican National Committee took a chunk out of the stonewall RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman has spent three years building. Since the 2002 elections, Mehlman has worked to keep the American people from learning anything about what role the White House and the RNC may have played in a criminal plot to keep people from voting in the 2002 New Hampshire elections.
The Union Leader today reported that the Republican National Committee may now have paid as much as $2.5 million in legal bills for a political operative convicted of two criminal charges stemming from an Election Day phone- jamming scheme that disenfranchised countless New Hampshire voters in 2002.
As President Bush heads to New Hampshire today, the Associated Press is reporting that the President's proposed budget would eliminate the Social Security death benefit provided to widows and widowers who were living with the deceased at the time of his or her death.
One of the closest races of the 2002 election cycle was a battle for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire. The contest pitted Republican John Sununu against Democrat Jean Shaheen. When the polls closed and votes were counted, Sununu barely emerged...
Last week, organizers from Utah, New Hampshire, Indiana, and Alaska participated in their http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/11/your_democracy.php">introductory training sessions for the DNC. These are the teams you have put on the ground in 38 of 50 states thus far. One organizer, Jonathan from...
Your Democracy Bonds contributions have allowed the Democratic Party to place organizers on the ground in 38 of the 50 United States. For the past few days, organizers from Utah, Alaska, Indiana, and New Hampshire have been in the building participating in their first training sessions.
Democratic Governors across the nation have stepped up to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Learn how New Hampshire Governor John Lynch has responded below.
From the New Hampshire Democratic Party: Since the illegal 2002 election day phone-jamming crime, NH Republican Party Chair Warren Henderson has repeatedly assured the public that his party is cooperating fully with investigators. Today, that claim was shattered...
Governor Dean was recently in New Hampshire for a state party event. Foster's Daily Democrat featured an article about his visit.
Only days after RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman claimed that his party has a "zero-tolerance" policy against voter fraud, intimidation, and suppression, it has been reported that the Republican Party has spent more than $722,000 to defend a former Bush election official accused of conspiring to keep Democrats from voting.
While talking out of one side of their mouth about courting the African-American vote and protecting voting rights, the RNC is paying legal bills for those charged with voter suppression.
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