huffingtonpost.com - 10/20/2008
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First published at WashingtonTimes.com
PRINCETON, W.V. — Over the last few days I've been through Southwest Virginia, down in North Carolina and now back up into the mountains on the West Virginia side near Bluefield for some stories about the political climate in red states.
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washingtontimes.com - 10/20/2008
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washingtontimes.com —
By: RogerFarina MODERATE: The point of the rally
yesterday wasn't to protest early voting or even early
voting on Sunday. . It was to protest Cumberland County's Board of Election adding the extra time at the last minute to coincide with the Obama ...
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McCain supporters heckle ...
thinkprogress.org - 10/21/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
On Sunday, the Washington Times’s Christina Bellantoni stopped
by a polling place in North Carolina, where she
reported that a “ group of loud and angry protestors ” — almost all of whom were white — were shouting and ...
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McCain supporters heckle early voters.
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Republicans protest against democracy
HorsesAss.Org —
... … a fact that did not escape a group of Republican protesters who gathered to heckle early voters yesterday in Fayetteville, North Carolina, accusing a line of mostly black voters of being “cheaters”: ...
No More Mister Nice Blog —
... More frightening is the talk about "voter fraud." At the Huffington Post, Christina Bellantoni of The Washington Times has posted video of early voters in North Carolina (nearly all of them African-American) who have to walk through a gauntlet of (mostly white) protestors (some yelling "Cheaters!") in order to cast perfectly legal votes. It's now mainstream to suggest that every Democratic victory at the polls may be the result of voter fraud, or that every black voter in America is illegally registered unless proven legal. That's another legacy of this ...
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If I Ran the Zoo —
Spoke too soon over at Steve M's in a thread what I proposed would be an end to Republican "intimidate the voter tactics." Looks like I spoke way too soon. Someone tell me how this is legal? Why doesn't this constitute an illegal infringement on the right of voters to vote? Hell, in my state you can't even get within 500 yards of a polling place with a quiet sign, let alone heckle the voters. But here the sheriff stands by? ...
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