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Bertha Lewis: ACORN's 4-Day Plan To Turn Registrations Into Votes
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... and New American communities in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, and Washington. ACORN canvassers are making multiple passes in targeted neighborhoods, with supplemental phone calls and mail pieces repeating the messages communicated in-person. In Colorado and Arizona, our programs will mobilize voters to increase turn-out and help defeat harmful ballot initiatives: a predatory lending deregulation bill (AZ), four anti-labor ballot Initiatives (CO), and an affirmative action ban (CO). Voter Education efforts about predatory lending, ...

ACORN's Four-Day Plan to Turn Registrations Into Votes
Open Left - Front Page — ... and New American communities in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, and Washington. ACORN canvassers are making multiple passes in targeted neighborhoods, with supplemental phone calls and mail pieces repeating the messages communicated in-person. In Colorado and Arizona, our programs will mobilize voters to increase turn-out and help defeat harmful ballot initiatives: a predatory lending deregulation bill (AZ), four anti-labor ballot Initiatives (CO), and an affirmative action ban (CO). Voter Education efforts about predatory lending, ...

Mandate Watch - Bellwether Races/Initiatives To Watch Below the Presidential Contest
Open Left - Front Page — Note: Use the comments section to tell us what your bellweather list is, and what races/initiatives you are watching. - D So how will we know the shape, size and depth of whatever mandate comes out of this, the most ideologically polarized election since 1980? Top-line numbers from the presidential contest are only going to give us a snapshot of what really happened. We're going to have to look at specific bellweather races and ballot initiatives to really know what happened at a structural level. Here are the bellweathers I'll be watching, beyond the state-by-state results in the presidential race: ...

David Sirota: Mandate Watch -- Bellwether Races/Initiatives To Watch Below the Presidential Contest
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — So how will we know the shape, size and depth of whatever mandate comes out of this, the most ideologically polarized election since 1980? Top-line numbers from the presidential contest are only going to give us a snapshot of what really happened. We're going to have to look at specific bellweather races and ballot initiatives to really know what happened at a structural level. Here are the bellweathers I'll be watching, beyond the state-by-state results in the presidential race: CALIFORNIA - Proposition 8: Relegated to seemingly permanent minority status, Golden State conservatives are ...

David Sirota: Mandate Watch - Bellwether Races/Initiatives To Watch Below the Presidential Contest
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — So how will we know the shape, size and depth of whatever mandate comes out of this, the most ideologically polarized election since 1980? Top-line numbers from the presidential contest are only going to give us a snapshot of what really happened. We're going to have to look at specific bellweather races and ballot initiatives to really know what happened at a structural level. Here are the bellweathers I'll be watching, beyond the state-by-state results in the presidential race: CALIFORNIA - Proposition 8: Relegated to seemingly permanent minority status, Golden State conservatives are ...

On the ballot: Anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-immigrant measures
Feministing — I know we're all deeply, deeply caught up in the presidential race, but I want to take a moment and highlight the fact that a lot of ballot measures are going to be voted on tomorrow, too. Most are anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-immigrant. Basically, the ballot-initiative process allows voters in certain states to directly pass measures, bypassing the legislature. Miriam already linked to a great voter guide, and my colleague Dana Goldstein highlighted several initiatives to watch. These measures are all important because, at a time when America seems likely to elect the most liberal president of my ...