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发帖数: 302 | 1 Olympics stunner: Chicago knocked out in first round of 2016 voting
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Posted by David Heinzmann at 10:32 a.m.
Chicago has been eliminated from Olympic balloting in the early rounds of
voting by the International Olympic Committee, a stunningly swift defeat for
the U.S. bid personally pitched by President Barack Obama.
Balloting continues in Copenhagen, where Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Madrid
were also seeking approval to host the 2016 Summer Games.
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发帖数: 2047 | 2 Coakley campaign alleges voting irregularities
EmailE-mail|Link|Comments () January 19, 2010 06:30 PM
By Andrea Estes, Globe Staff
The Senate campaign of Democrat Martha Coakley said this evening that
ballots pre-marked for Republican rival Scott Brown have been given out at
several polling places across the state.
"We want all voters to be aware that this is happening, and to check their
ballots carefully so that they can be counted," said Coakley's campaign
manager, Kevin Conroy. "We will cont |
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发帖数: 8211 | 3 then guess why amigos are having a stronger and stronger voice here? In this
country, ballots counts for voice, and one person one ballot. Simple math. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 参议院民主党领袖、极左的Harry Reid，现在是最富有的参议员之一，住在首府华盛顿
的超豪华的Ritz公寓中。他的财富从哪里来？
http://www.dirtymoneyharry.com/reidmoney.html
Where Reid's Money Came From
By Daxton Brown
d*********[email protected]
In the Sharron Angle vs Reid debate on October 14th, Angle asked Senator
Reid how he was able to accumulate so much wealth on a politicians salary.
One would suppose that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is a fairly
important person and many in the media would already have answers to this
question. However, other than... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 Posted by Jay Tea
Published: January 20, 2011 - 7:00 AM
President Obama, we are told, is exceptionally intelligent. Harvard Law
School (salutatorian of his class), president of Harvard Law Review, and
about a dozen years teaching Constitutional law. If there's one subject he
should be intimately familiar with, it's the United States Constitution.
Which is why he, of any other president we have ever had, has no excuse for
trying to pull crap like this.
A quick recap: the crux of this whole mess i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 7 涨地产税，县公务员涨薪，同时搞！
老百姓终于怒了！
Voters in Miami-Dade deciding on mayoral recall drive amid anger over
property tax, pay raises
MIAMI — Mayor Carlos Alvarez could be recalled from office Tuesday after a
campaign led by a billionaire car dealer mobilized thousands of voters angry
over property tax increases and a simultaneous raise for county employees.
If successful, it would be the largest recall of a local official in U.S.
history.
FILE-In a Feb. 8, 2011 file photo, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez at... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 By Brendon S. Peck
Confronted with an unwelcome intrusion, employees at a Target store in New
York rejected unionization and dealt a blow to the grand plans of the UFCW.
That average Americans continue to stand against these job-killing, profit-
leaching forces is most encouraging. But make no mistake, the fight is far
from over.
Labor unions are in decline and desperate. Today, union membership is under
12% of the U.S. workforce -- it was over 20% in the 1980's. Among retail
unions, like the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 Sep 13 11:56 PM US/Eastern
By BETH FOUHY
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Republicans have scored an upset victory in a New York City
House race that became a referendum on President Barack Obama's economic
policies.
Retired media executive and political novice Bob Turner defeated Democratic
state Assemblyman David Weprin (WEHP'-rihn) in a special election Tuesday to
succeed Rep. Anthony Weiner (WEE'-nur), a seven-term Democrat who resigned
in June after a sexting scandal.
The heavily Democratic... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 By JAMES R. HAGERTY and CAROLINE VAN HASSELT
LONDON, Ontario—Outside a rail locomotive factory owned by Caterpillar Inc.
here, locked-out workers have set up a trailer and a wooden shack to keep
warm between bouts of waving union flags and shouting slogans. In a high-
profile test of union clout in Canada, they are digging in for what looks
like a long struggle.
The workers, who are resisting a new labor contract that would slash their
wages by about 50%, hope Caterpillar will soften its demands... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 Romney Edges Out Santorum in Ohio, Takes Six States to Santorum's Three
CNSNews.com) – Mitt Romney squeezed a narrow victory in Ohio’s Republican
presidential primary overnight and won five other Super Tuesday states, but
Rick Santorum’s strong showing in the Buckeye state and three victories
elsewhere deprived the former Massachusetts governor of the type of decisive
sweep his campaign may have been hoping for.
A nail-biting count in the important battleground state ended with Romney
edging out... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 July 1, 2012 by David Robertson
First, here is an excerpt from a Politico.com story about alleged
disenfranchisement of Hispanic voters:
_________ backers contend that many Hispanic voters had been turned away
from the polls on Tuesday as they tried to cast ballots for __________ .
. . a group of liberal activists had been scheduled to march in front of the
Federal Election Commission in downtown Washington, protesting what they
saw as a concerted effort to disenfranchise Hispanic voter... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 Douglas County Colorado Proposal Seeks to Terminate Collective Bargaining of
Teachers' Unions
by n*****[email protected] (Mike Mish Shedlock)
Three members of the Douglas County School Board have floated proposals to
terminate dealings with teacher's unions.
Three board members proposed three separate ballot questions, each
chipping away at what have been traditional district-union relationships in
the affluent county south of Denver.
Should the district be prohibited from using public f... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 850 | 16 http://www.maciverinstitute.com/2012/10/update-romney-campaign-
30 Wisconsin municipalities failed to send absentee ballots to military
State Election Officials Downplay Errors by Municipal Clerks
[Madison, Wisc...] The Wisconsin Government Accountability Board could be
facing a lawsuit because 30 municipalities failed to send absentee ballots
to military and overseas voters, a mistake a GAB official downplayed Tuesday
afternoon.
"The Department of Justice will file a lawsuit when UOCAVA [Unifor... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4140 | 17 Joke: Presidential Debate 2012, Act III
10/22/2012
By Limin Wang
In the evening of October 16, 2012, at the Smack Complex of Hofstra
University on Long Island, New York, President Obama and former governor
Romney had the second finger-to-finger presidential debate. Candy Growly
tried her hardest to moderate them.
Outside the debate building, large swarms of people had decided on their own
to join the show. Some said that they wanted to bring their own tough
questions. Some said that they wanted ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 October 30, 2012 Doug Johnson
The new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Tracking Poll of
1,000 likely Ohio voters – taken from last Monday through Thursday – shows
Obama ahead of Romney by 1 percentage point, 49 percent to 48 percent. That
represents a 3-point swing in Obama’s direction from a week ago but
reflects a race that remains statistically tied. Even the swing is within
the margin of error, so it is possible the candidates were tied last week
when Romney lead by 2 perc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2980 | 19 2008年80%犹太人支持O8，一叶知秋，静待选举结果。
The majority of American voters in Israel cast their ballots for Republican
presidential candidate Mitt Romney, according to an exit poll released
Thursday by the organization iVoteIsrael, reported Haaretz.
“iVoteIsrael is proud to announce that 80,000 Americans from Israel have
already submitted their ballots to their local county board of elections in
any of the 49 states where we successfully registered voters from,”
commented Elie Pieprz, national director of iVo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 【 以下文字转载自 SanFrancisco 讨论区 】
发信人: lczlcz (lcz), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: Reflections on "Moral Choice" and Definition of "Temporary"
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Nov 2 13:08:36 2012, 美东)
by n*****[email protected] (Mike Mish Shedlock)
California voters have some choices to make in the upcoming election. For
example, Governor Brown says Californians Face ‘Moral Choice’ in Tax Vote
California Governor Jerry Brown said voters face a “moral choice” on
his ballot measure to raise taxes to avoid deep cuts to sc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1761 | 21 肯定自己先来， 大家请按格式，这样便于统计。
选区： Amherst, MA -- P1
方式：Absent ballot, 工作原因现在在OH 回不去。
党派：Independent
学历： 文科MA
工作：联邦探员
总统选择： Obama/Biden （D)
原因：
1。在MA 我就是选Rommney 也没用，深蓝州哈。。。
2。个人对Rom同学在MA期间的成绩比较肯定，开始也是想选他的，事实上，如果他坚持
MA 州长时候的执政方式，我肯定会投他，但是后面他商人本色暴露，说的和他在MA做
的完全不同，因此最后仍然选了Obama。其实就是弃权的一种而已。
3。作为联邦探员，极其反对Ryan的政府理念。
参议员选择: Scott Brown (R)
原因：
1。作为Vet的我是无原则支持Vet的
2。坚决支持帅哥
3。Scott Brown 本身政见我比较支持
4。Warren 这个老女人让我很不爽。。。:-P
5。平衡党派实力，支持相对势力弱的共和党.
多说一句，我很喜欢MA Brown + Kerry 的参议院组合。。。
State Ballot question:
Questio... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8227 | 22 http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/?hp=bh
Top advisers to Mitt Romney told supporters that turnout is beating their
models in a number of key battlegrounds in swing states, according to
sources familiar with a Tuesday afternoon conference call.
Political Director Rich Beeson, senior adviser Ron Kaufman and others
provided information on a handful of counties in pivotal states — some of
it hard, some of it anecdotal — according to a report on the call provided
by two Republican sources.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2865 | 23 Early voting and absentee ballots in from several counties in Florida.
Romney is perfoming, in early voting and absentee ballots, on the same level
as John McCain 4 years ago.
I really thought Romney would do better ... |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 by Jeff Graham
Observers will get to see a Florida style dispute near Albany as both
major parties jockey to win a State Senate race in the newly minted 46th SD
where Republican George Amedore holds a thin 110 vote lead over Democrat
Cecilia Tkaczyk.
Absentee and affidavit ballots have been counted in Ulster County where
the Democrat has closed the margin with townships like Woodstock where Ms.
Tkaczyk garnered 80% of the vote.
The fight now shifts to the courtroom where some 1,000 di... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 "After 500 years, Britain announced plans to fully privatize Royal Mail
today. Shares of stock (common equity) will be offered to the public 'in
coming weeks', according to Reuters. 10% of shares will be given to current
Royal Mail employees, Deal size is estimated at $US 3 to 4.7 billion.
Goldman Sachs and UBS were chosen as lead advisers." That doesn't mean you'
ll be able to buy a piece tomorrow, though; as the BBC's report notes, "
The plans have provoked strong opposition from unions. The C... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 808 | 26 The South will rise again：SCA 5激怒南加州
SCA 5: Democrat Bill to Make 2013 California Into 1956 Alabama—Makes
Discrimination LEGAL and Mandated
Stephen Frank on 07/12/2013 · Comments (4)
The South will rise again!! And it has, in Sacramento. The Old Democrat
Party of the South has returned to be the Progressive Democrat Party of the
North and West Coast. Bigotry is the order of the day. Democrat Senator de
Leon wants to profile buyers of ammunition—bigot. Then you have Senator Ed
Hernandez, the man ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 UAW Faces Another Southern Setback
By
Damian Paletta
March 14, 2014 5:21 p.m. ET
CANTON, Miss.—The United Auto Workers union headquarters here—tucked
beside a cow pasture down the road from a sprawling Nissan Motor Co. 7201.
TO -0.35% plant—was supposed to be a springboard for a new wave of
labor activism across the South.
It has become instead a center of discouragement and uncertainty in a state
where many want the union to pack up and leave.
Labor organizers at Nissan were shocked when ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 California Latino Caucus to Make Affirmative Action, Bilingual Education Top
Priorities
California's Latino caucus has vowed to make bilingual education and the
reintroduction of affirmative action top priorities in the legislative year.
According to a report in the Sacramento Bee, Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell
Gardens), the Chair of the Latino Legislative Caucus, has authored Senate
Bill 1174, which would "place an initiative before voters in 2016 to repeal
Proposition 227 and allow public schools ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 A Louisiana Republican challenging Democrat Mary Landrieu for her Senate
seat is expanding his efforts to prove the three-term lawmaker doesn’t live
in her home state, instead using her parents’ address to qualify for the
November ballot.
GOP Senate candidate Rob Maness on Friday submitted a written compliant to
district attorneys in four Louisiana parishes calling on them to object to
Landrieu’s residency qualifications.
The Tea Party-backed Maness formally began questioning Landrieu’s residenc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 It’s Come to This: Debbie Blabbermouth-Schultz Runs Away From Obama
Jesus, she can barely even mention his name.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: So should voters know that if they go out and vote for
a Democratic candidate, they will be voting for a continuation of Barack
Obama’s policies?
DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Voters should that know when they go out and
vote for a Democratic candidate, that they are voting for someone who has
their back, who’s going to focus on strengthening our economy, getting ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 33 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: Military
标 题: 司法部派出监察员去18个州监督大选,防止种族歧视
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Nov 3 17:50:56 2014, 美东)
The Department of Justice plans to send federal monitors to 18 states to
watch for discrimination against voters.
Monitors will head to Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
Kansas, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.
“One of the Justice Depart... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 【 以下文字转载自 LosAngeles 讨论区 】
发信人: zhanglaosan (张老三), 信区: LosAngeles
标 题: 从这次选举看一下华人选票的重要性
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Nov 6 00:49:46 2014, 美东)
加州期中考试选举尘埃落定，民主党在state senate确定失去了super majority，
state assembly依然有五个区too close to call，但是其中两个区共和党微幅领先，
有望拿下
那么，这次选举中，华人的表现如何呢？据估算，这次洛杉矶县的投票率只有25%，橙
县30%左右，如果之前有人说的华裔20%，那么相比之下这个比例不算太寒碜。
那么，华人的选票究竟有用没有呢？
事实：
橙县的两个选区，共和党重夺席位，靠的就是亚裔。当然这里边有越南裔韩裔。洛杉矶
主流媒体也都纷纷表示，橙县的这两个翻盘是这次民主党失去super majority的关键原
因，其中主要原因归功共和党开始重视亚裔，并且认同亚裔开始更多关注中产阶级关心
的内容，共和党智库也认为他们终于结束了head scratchin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 NYC Democrat and Former de Blasio Aide Hired Registered Sex Offender and
Convicted Crack Dealer
Posted by Jammie on Jul 27, 2015 at 7:36 am
Now that this news has been brought to her attention they’re scurrying for
cover. Meanwhile, the convicted criminal was sent around door-to-door to
collect signatures for this moronic Democrat.
A City Council candidate who used to work for Mayor de Blasio hired a
registered sex offender — who is also a convicted crack dealer— to go door
-to-door for her ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 Astros great Berkman riles Houston mayor after making ad blasting LGBT law
Published October 13, 2015FoxNews.com
Former MLB star Lance Berkman filmed an ad for a group opposed to a proposed
Houston anti-discrimination law. (Campaign for Houston PAC)
Just as the Houston Astros are making their first post-season appearance in
a decade, one of the franchise's all-time top players has made an ad
blasting the city's mayor over a proposal headed for the November ballot
that would allow transgender peo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 Ohio's rejection of legal pot leaves future in question
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The future of marijuana in Ohio was uncertain after
the resounding defeat of an effort to legalize cannabis for both medical and
recreational use in a single vote.
The proposal rejected by voters on Tuesday could be followed in 2016 by a
more conventional legalization plan, one that doesn't give exclusive growing
rights to private investors.
Concerns about possibly creating marijuana monopolies appeared to be a major
f... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9531 | 38 Bush has considered backing out of pledge if nominee is Trump: aide
哈哈，又一个迹象说明共和党打算让trump上了
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush's campaign
has looked into whether it is possible to withdraw a pledge to support the
eventual nominee if it is Donald Trump, a senior Bush aide said on Thursday,
in a sign of the deep enmity between the two.
The development came to light after Bush and Trump engaged in bitter
exchanges at the last Republican debate of the year on Tuesday n... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary makes history
every four years, and on Feb. 9 it will do so for an additional reason.
This year, for the first time, primary voters will have to show ID.
"I think there are definitely going to be lines, with any indication of our
absentee balloting already -- it’s huge," said Kerri Parker, the town clerk
of Meredith, N.H., and president of the New Hampshire Town and City Clerks
Association.
"People are concerned, they want to get out, they... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4150 | 40 Donald Trump continued to push the contentious issue of Ted Cruz's
presidential eligibility on Friday, threatening that he has legal standing
to sue Cruz for not being a "natural born citizen."
"If @TedCruz doesn’t clean up his act, stop cheating, & doing negative ads,
I have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen," Trump
posted on Twitter.
Does Trump really have grounds to sue Cruz? According to some legal experts,
the answer is yes, but they're divided on how a court would ha... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 41 床铺poll一直稳定领先占便宜大了。所以primary比较好就在这里，caucus就靠最后一
晚上两小时关门选举啥幺蛾子都能搞出来。
Election day is March 15. And Floridians are already voting: 433,000
Republicans have cast early ballots—at least a fifth of the expected
electorate.
By applying the three most recent Florida surveys’ polling averages to the
early ballots cast, Rubio could be trailing Trump by as much as 62,0000
votes or as few as 30,000. That’s not an insurmountable lead and, if Rubio
were to suddenly start winning about 35 percent of all the GO... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/latest-florida-early-republ
Donald Trump is spending some of his biggest money yet on campaign ads ahead
of winner-take-all contests next week in Florida and Ohio.
He plans to spend about $2 million on Florida TV commercials and $1 million
in Ohio by March 15, the day of the vote, according to advertising tracker
Kantar Media's CMAG. Trump's campaign has also reserved about half a million
dollars in TV time in Michigan, where voters go to the polls on Tuesday.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 43 MARCH
The Hunt for Double Agents
On Saturday morning, while the candidates were scattered across Ohio and
Florida, Illinois and Missouri, Cruz’s campaign was back in Iowa trying to
wring another victory out of the state that gave him the first win of the
primary season. After Iowa Republicans caucused on Feb. 1, diehards who
stuck around their precinct got the chance to elect a local delegate to the
county convention. It was those 1,681 precinct delegates who attended
conventions in each of Iowa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2239 | 44 Here's How The Establishment Will Steal The GOP Nomination From Trump
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By Tyler Durden
The political establishment in America is terrified.
Donald Trump gets closer to securing the GOP nomination with each passing
month and his rivals on both sides of the aisle are in disbelief.
Worse - or “better” if you enjoy entertainment - Trump has seemingly given
up any attempt to be anything other than... well... than Donald Trump. He
rec... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10469 | 45 跨党选一般不问，如果被工作人员质询可以当场改党.驼背上次州长选举拿了６３％的
票，横扫９８％的县，当然对手非常弱.
When you check in at your polling place on Tuesday, tell the poll worker
which party ballot you want.
Under a directive from Secretary of State Jon Husted, poll workers can only
challenge party affiliation if they have "personal knowledge" that the voter
belongs to a different party.
If challenged, the voter may be asked to sign a statement indicating they
intend to be a member of the new party. But the poll worker cannot prevent
the vote... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 11319 | 46 www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/reports-trump-left-off-some-florida-ballots/
当然这种地方选票上投了trump也没用，机票的时候就是rubio/cruz的票了。
跟台湾选举一样，宋楚瑜的票都变陈水扁的了。
Trump在Twitter上已经知道了，说：
A lot of complaints from people saying my name is not on the ballot in
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Raising the minimum wage in California to the
highest statewide level in the nation would eventually cost taxpayers an
additional $3.6 billion a year in higher pay for government employees,
according to a legislative analysis released Wednesday.
The estimate was disclosed as an Assembly committee considered boosting the
wage to $15 an hour by 2022. The full Assembly and Senate could vote on the
deal between Gov. Jerry Brown, labor unions and Democratic legislative
leade... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8358 | 48 trump参加南卡ballot的条件就是在支持最终的nominee的pledge上面签字。
现在trump不承认pledge了，南卡的RNC说，不承认pledge就等于南卡的ballot无效。
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发帖数: 61690 | 49 Trump要拿不够代表数，真可能在第二轮被搞下去。
The reality of a contested convention has become more real than ever, with
Donald Trump facing the risk of losing Wisconsin next week, meaning he’d
have to win roughly 60 percent of the remaining delegates to win the
Republican presidential nomination outright.
If Trump heads into the convention without the magic number of 1,237,
already more than a hundred delegates are poised to break with him on a
second ballot, according to interviews with dozens of delegates, deleg... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10469 | 50 Exit polls: Wisconsin GOP voters want nominee with most delegates, not
majority
By Nick Gass
04/05/16 05:46 PM EDT
WARNING: Early exit polls are incomplete, and they should be interpreted
with caution. They only include interviews with voters who cast ballots
earlier in the day, which could underrepresent certain groups. And the
networks don’t release full results before polls have closed statewide;
they only tease out certain numbers, some of which will shift significantly
in the final survey.
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