Who won’t be voting Tuesday: The young, the more racially diverse, the financially strapped http://pewrsr.ch/1DDrk85
[VIDEO] ‘It’ll Be a Short Night’: Krauthammer & Crew Reveal Their Final Predictions for Who Will Win the Election
Posted: November 7, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Charles Krauthammer, Donald Trump, Election, Fox News, Gambling, Hillary Clinton, Loser, media, news, Presidential Election 2016, video 1 Comment
[VIDEO] ‘Election’: Meet Tracy Flick
Posted: October 19, 2016 Filed under: Education, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Donald Trump, Election, Hillary Clinton, Movies, Reese Witherspoon, video Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Trump Campaign Manager: It’s Good That We’re Behind in the Polls
Posted: August 18, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Campaign manager, CNN, Donald Trump, Election, Global Panic, Losing, media, news, Panic, propaganda, Spin Leave a comment
Why Is This Woman Smiling?
Posted: November 4, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: African American, America, Election, GOP, Jenean Hampton, Kentucky, Lt. Governor, Matt Bevin, media, news, Tea Party, Twitter Leave a comment
Sight Of 400 War Elephants On Horizon Marks Hillary Clinton’s Arrival In Swing State
Posted: October 8, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Democrats, Election, Elephant, GOP, Hillary, satire, Swing state, The Pantsuit Report Leave a commentCanada’s Left-Wing Liberal & New Democratic Parties on the ‘Wrong Side of History’?
Posted: October 4, 2015 Filed under: Global, Politics, Religion | Tags: British Columbia, Canada, Canadians, Citizenship, Conservative Party (UK), Election, Face Veil, Muslim, New Democratic Party (Canada), niqab, Parliament, Stephen Harper, Vancouver Leave a commentFace Veil Controversy Rocks Canada’s National Elections.
John Fund writes:
Vancouver, British Columbia — Canada holds national elections on October 19, and the race there has taken a surprising turn. The ruling Conservative party is making political hay over a court decision that killed its ban on women wearing the niqab — or face veil — while taking the oath of citizenship. The opposition left-wing Liberal and New Democratic parties have been pounded relentlessly for not opposing use of the niqab. Conservatives have moved from third place into first place in the polls and are currently the only party with a shot at winning a majority of seats in Parliament. A full 83 percent of voters back the Conservatives’ position on the Muslim face veil….(read more)
Source: National Review Online
Camille Paglia: What a Woman President Should Be Like
Posted: July 15, 2015 Filed under: Politics, Think Tank, White House | Tags: Argentina, Bolivia, Buenos Aires, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Democracy, Democrats, Economic warfare, Election, Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars, GOP, Hillary Clinton, President of Argentina, South America, Women Leave a comment“Most of the American electorate has probably been ready for a woman president for some time. But that woman must have the right array of qualities and ideally have risen to prominence through her own talents and not (like Hillary Clinton or Argentina’s President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner) through her marriage to a powerful man.”
Camille Paglia writes: Why has the U.S., the cradle of modern democracy, never had a woman president?
Incredulous young feminists, watching female heads of state multiply from Brazil and Norway to Namibia and Bangladesh, denounce this glaring omission as blatant sexism. But there are systemic factors, arising from the Constitution, popular tradition, and our electoral process, that have inhibited American women from attaining the highest office in the land.
The U.S. president is not just chief executive but commander-in-chief of the armed forces, an anomaly that requires manifest personal authority, particularly during periods of global instability. Women politicians, routinely focused on social welfare needs, must demonstrate greater involvement with international and military affairs.
“The protracted and ruthlessly gladiatorial U.S. electoral process drives talented women politicians away from the fray. What has kept women from winning the White House is not simple sexism but their own reluctance to subject themselves to the harsh scrutiny and ritual abuse of the presidential sweepstakes.”
Second, the president has a ceremonial function, like that of the British royal family, in symbolically representing the history and prestige of the nation. Hence voters subliminally look for gravitas, an ancient term describing the laconic dignity of Roman senators. The president must project steadiness, sober reserve, and deliberative judgment. Many women, who tend to talk faster and smile more than men, have trouble with gravitas as performance art.
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Third, the complex, coast-to-coast primary system in the U.S. forces presidential candidates into well over a year of brutal competition for funding and grass-roots support. Their lives are usurped by family-disrupting travel, stroking of rich donors, and tutelage by professional consultants and p.r. flacks. This exhausting, venal marathon requires enormous physical stamina and perhaps ethical desensitization to survive it.
[Read the full text here, at TIME]
In contrast, many heads of state elsewhere ascend through their internal party structure. They are automatically elevated to prime minister when their party wins a national election. This parliamentary system of government has been far more favorable for the steady rise of women to the top. Read the rest of this entry »
[CHART] Here’s Why Jon Stewart’s Quitting The Daily Show Is So Painful for Democrats
Posted: February 12, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Bloomberg Politics, Comedian, comedy, Comedy Central, Democrats, Election, GOP, Jon Stewart, Journalism ethics and standards, media, news, Television, The Daily Show, voters, Voting Leave a commentHere’s why Jon Stewart’s quitting @TheDailyShow is so painful for Democrats http://t.co/s6lVIeOzYCpic.twitter.com/bx385MS6Hy
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) February 12, 2015
[VIDEO] Benjamin Netanyahu Babysitter Ad
Posted: February 2, 2015 Filed under: Global, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Election, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, media, news, video 1 CommentAn ad from the Israel election 2015
Landrieu’s Loss a Harsh Milestone for Southern Democrats
Posted: December 6, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: 2014 Election, Democratic Party, Election, GOP, Louisiana, Mary Landrieu, Midterms Leave a commentDemocrats are dead in the land of Dixie.
With the fall of three-term Sen. Mary Landrieu Saturday, Louisiana will not have a Democratic statewide elected official for the first time since 1876. And the Republican Party will control, as the Associated Press noted, every Senate seat, governor’s mansion and legislative chamber from the Carolinas to Texas.
Congress’ last white Democrat in the Deep South didn’t lose because of a superior opponent, but because of her association with a deeply unpopular President and a health-care law that destroyed the chances to extend other Democratic dynasties this cycle, including Georgia’s Jason Carter and Michelle Nunn.
Landrieu—the daughter of a former New Orleans mayor and the sister to the current one—lost more so than Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy won. Even Cassidy, who cruised to a win Saturday, acknowledges that to some extent. When asked to define the campaign’s turning point, he pointed to…
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Sunset Boulevard: Norma Desmond Pelosi
Posted: December 4, 2014 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Campaign, Cinema, Democratic Party, Election, Global Panic, Movies, Nancy Pelosi, Norma Desmond, Parody, satire, Sunset Boulevard 1 Comment[BOOKS] Midterm Noir: ‘They Lied To Her…’
Posted: November 3, 2014 Filed under: Comics, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, The Butcher's Notebook, White House | Tags: Crime fiction, Democrats, design, Election, Election 2014, GOP, Illustration, Midterms, Noir, Paperback, Parody, satire, typography, vintage Leave a commentUNROCK The VOTE: Celebrities Are Less Likely to Vote in Midterms, Just Like Us!
Posted: November 3, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Celebrities, Darren Criss, E.J.Johnson, Election, Lena Dunham, Lil Joh, Midterm, Natasha Lyonne, Rock the Vote, Whoopi Goldberg Leave a commentAt least five who appeared in the PSA — “Girls” actress Lena Dunham, comedian Whoopi Goldberg, “Orange is the New Black” actress Natasha Lyonne, “Rich Kids of Beverly Hills” star E.J. Johnson, and actor Darren Criss — did not vote in the last midterm, records from Los Angeles County and New York City show.
Rock The Vote released a public service announcement last month with a parody of Lil Jon‘s “Turn Down For What” that featured public figures who explained why they planned to vote in the midterm elections, but according to public records, a number of them didn’t vote in the last midterm election. Read the rest of this entry »
Meet the Non-Voters
Posted: November 1, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Election, Mid-terms, Pew Research Center, voters Leave a comment
Mystery Campaign Captures Attention of Undecided Low-Information Voters in Ambitious Bid for Global Domination
Posted: October 29, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Campaign, Election, Megatron, Mid-terms, Prank, satire, Senate, Votes 2 CommentsHong Kong has too many poor people to allow direct elections, leader says
Posted: October 20, 2014 Filed under: Asia, China, Global, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Election, Hong Kong, Mong Kok, Pro-Democracy, protests, Umbrella Revolution, Universal suffrage 1 Comment[VIDEO] Rogan: Wendy Davis’s Empty-Wheelchair Ad ‘a Massive Miscalculation’, Reflects ‘Absolute Desperation’
Posted: October 11, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Election, Greta Van Sustren, Mid-terms, National Review Online, On the Record, Texas, Wendy Davis Leave a commentGOP Dubs Democrats the Party of the Rich in 2012 Turnabout
Posted: September 24, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Democrats, Election, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Republicans Leave a commentRepublicans are turning the Democrats’ own playbook against them.
Two years after Democrats held the White House by painting Mitt Romney as a callous plutocrat, the GOP is borrowing a page from the same populist playbook. In close contests around the country, Republicans are hoping to gain an edge in the battle for control of the Senate by hammering Democrats as the party of the rich.
In Iowa, the Republican Super PAC American Crossroads has run three TV ads this month highlighting Democratic Senate candidate Bruce Braley’s fundraising links to liberal billionaire Tom Steyer. In Colorado, another outside GOP group, American Commitment, slammed Democratic Sen. Mark Udall for the same ties. In Kansas, advisers to Republican Sen. Pat Roberts are attacking a wealthy independent challenger (who Democrats tacitly support) for insufficient financial disclosures, and are raising questions about his “business dealings in the Middle East and the Cayman Islands.”
Sound…
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Election Results In: Batman Wins
Posted: September 19, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Humor | Tags: Adam West, Batman, Burt Ward, Election Leave a commentScotland Decides Its Fate Today
Posted: September 18, 2014 Filed under: Global, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Election, England, Independence, Scotland, UK, United Kingdom, Vote Leave a commentScotland must decide Thursday whether to become independent from the U.K., with last-minute opinion polls putting the outcome of the referendum on a knife-edge.
Voting booths are now open and ballots will be cast at 2,608 polling stations until 10 p.m. local time. Results are expected to trickle in overnight with a final announcement at around 7 a.m. on Friday morning.
If Scotland votes yes, it will be the 61st territory to gain its independence from the U.K., which once boasted an empire upon which the sun never set.
“When people go into the polling booths tomorrow they are going to vote for … that vision of more prosperous but also a more just society,” Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, leading the Yes campaign, told supporters on Wednesday. “That’s what’s going to motivate people in the polling stations tomorrow.”
Of Scotland’s population of 5.3 million, a whopping 97% of those…
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[VIDEO] Elijha Cummings Stages Crazy Beans Cuckoo Bananas Phony Rage Fit on TV
Posted: March 5, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Law & Justice, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: corruption, Darrell Issa, Democratic Fundraising, Election, Elijah Cummings, Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Internal Revenue Service, Political Theater, scandal, United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, YouTube Leave a commentDEMOCRATIC BASE THRILLED, ELECTION-YEAR SHOWBOATING AT IT’S FINEST. FIVE STARS!
Elijha Cummings Phony Grandstanding Performance – YouTube

Ohio county elections chief quits, citing stress
Posted: October 20, 2012 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: 2012 Presidential election, Election, Obama, Ohio, Romney Leave a comment(AP)
DAYTON, Ohio
An Ohio county’s director of elections has resigned because he says work on the coming presidential election was too stressful.
The Dayton Daily News reports ( http://bit.ly/QwGPJb) that Miami County elections director Steve Quillen cited “the stress of the upcoming presidential election” in his decision.
The county election board accepted Quillen’s resignation Friday, just weeks before the election. He is a Republican so the county Republican Party in the key presidential battleground state will recommend his successor.
The county had experienced delays in getting absentee ballots to voters, but the board chairman says that played no part in Quillen’s departure.
A Republican on the board said the shuffle won’t affect the integrity of the election.
The board asked Quillen’s deputy to contact the state elections chief for help.
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Information from: Dayton Daily News, http://www.daytondailynews.com
Stephanie Cutter’s Baffling Appearance on ‘Special Report’: Speculation Mounts that Cutter Has Mental Disorder, or is a Secret Republican Double-Agent Assigned to Scramble Obama’s Reelection Bid
Posted: October 11, 2012 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Election, Stephanie Cutter, YouTube, zombie apocalypse Leave a commentUpdate: Tanks in the streets as Venezuelan electoral council declares Hugo Chavez victory
Posted: October 8, 2012 Filed under: War Room | Tags: Associated Press, Chavez, Daily Caller, Election, Hugo Chávez, Twitter, Venezuela 1 CommentUpdate 10:50 p.m.: According to the Associated Press, Venezuela’s electoral council has declared that Hugo Chavez beat Henriques Capriles in Sunday’s presidential election with about 54 percent of the vote, despite exit polls showing otherwise.
Venezuela Twitter users have claimed Chavez’s victory was wrought with election fraud, and that the socialist incumbent president sent tanks into the streets of his country as those exit poll reports showed him losing. A picture of the tanks surfaced on Twitter Sunday evening.
The British Guardian newspaper reported that Chavez also sent troops armed with AK-47s into Venezuela’s streets to fight against any protests in case unrest came as a result of the news…
via >> The Daily Caller
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