Live Blog: Obama Re-Elected
6:00 p.m. Final polls in Indiana/Kentucky. Polls close in Virginia. (They also close in Georgia, South Carolina and Vermont.) Bernie Sanders has won re-election in Vermont; Virginia Senate race too close to call. NBC calls Indiana for Romney; Democrat Joe Donnelly has slight lead with 7% reporting. 6:42 p.m. West ...
Black and Brown Vote Suppression in Scott County?
Bill Chandler, the director of the Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance, is reporting that the Scott County Circuit Clerk's office may have mishandled the voter registration forms of approximately 200 people, mostly Latinos and African Americans. Chandler said MIRA, a which advocates from immigrants in Mississippi, registered 320 new voters in ...
Banks: 'My Taxes Are Paid'
Don't trust everything you hear. Make sure "reliable sources" are actually reliable.
JFP Guide to Watching the Results Tonight
Nate Silver at Five Thirty Eight gives Obama a 91% chance of winning tonight; PPP, a left-leaning pollster, predicts over 300 electoral votes for Obama. But others show the race closer, and the Electoral College race could be nail-biter, based on all sorts of factor such as weather, long lines, ...
Stinker Quote of the Week: Election Edition
One could assume that given the GOP's fervor in pursuing voter ID laws across the nation, the party would trumpet "substantiated" cases from the rooftops. But, alas, no one can seem to find them.
Group Rallies to Demand Bryant Retract Statement on Voter ID
Members of Voting Rights for All MS and the state chapter of the ACLU gathered on the second-floor rotunda inside the Capitol today at 1 p.m. to demand Gov. Phil Bryant retract recent comments about voter ID that the group believes could mislead voters. A petition at Signon.org has received ...
Clarion-Ledger Punts on Election Coverage
If Mississippians read the Sunday edition of the state's allegedly largest newspaper two days before the presidential election, you get nothing of substance about how the election affects our state.