by David Dayen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

by Michael Kuykendall [courtesy of Blog for America]

Former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential hopeful advocated quarantining AIDS patients, amongst other draconian measures, in 1992. Is this the guy we need running the country?

Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee advocated isolating AIDS patients, amongst other fascist and clearly homophobic responses, in a 1992 Associated Press questionnaire. From the AP;

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

California voters resoundly would reject the GOP's tricky initiative to steal the state's electoral votes by a 53-22 percent margin, according to a new poll out today.<> <>Even Republicans (46-22%) join Democrats (59-20%) and Independents (51-25%) in rejecting the initiative, which is being financed by operatives close to Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani.<> <>"This is one of the lowest levels of support we have ever seen in our polling for a statewide initiative in California," says Ben Tulchin of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. "The fact of the matter is this electoral power grab effort by Republicans has essentially no chance of passing. No initiative that has started this far down has ever won. And with a majority of voters already voting no on this and the fact that most voters who are undecided on an initiative vote no, Republicans are wasting their time, money, and energy trying to get this losing initiative on the ballot.  

[courtesy of California Progress Report]

By Bill Cavala
A veteran of over 30 years in Sacramento

Willie Brown used to say that Republicans could screw up a one car funeral. Their latest scheme to steal the Presidency (once again) just blew up in their collective faces.

Here was the plan. Since the distribution of California’s electoral votes is done along California statutory lines, G.O.P. operatives could change California’s law by initiative to eliminate the ‘winner take all’ result in place for generations and substituting winner-by-Congressional district. Instead of no votes, the Republican Presidential candidate would get at least 40%. That’s enough to swing a close election decisively to the Republican.

The plan was to change the rules of the game here in California while leaving winner take all outcomes in the 11 states of the old Confederacy.

Pretty clever, no?

Mavens like Dan Walters thought it a “fair” reform. Of course, any change in the rules that favors the Republicans is a “reform”. In any case, it could be used by the Republicans as leverage to force changes in California’s redistricting laws. Or at least it would cost Democrats a lot of money to restore the status quo.

But there were some problems.

by Sheri Divers [courtesy of Blog for America]

This Week (ABC): Republican Presidential candidate, Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, and Vietnam veteran Senator John McCain (R-AZ) joins George Stephanopoulos to discuss when and whether American troops should begin withdrawing troops from Iraq and whether the Iraqi government has successfully met the benchmarks for progress set by Congress.Then, we get the Democratic response from another Vietnam veteran, former Presidential candidate, and member of the Foreign Relations committee, Senator John Kerry (D-MA).

Roundtable: Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts, and George Will debate the week's politics. Plus, Actor Alan Alda, author of the new book, "Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself" on living a meaningful life. And, as always, "This Week" honors lives of note In Memoriam, and catches up on the best in political comedy in the Sunday Funnies.

Face the Nation (CBS): Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Former National Security Advisor Gen. Brent Scowcroft discuss Iraq, Gonzales and Politics.

by Kim Stevens [courtesy of Party Line]

McCain Fundraising in San Diego Today; New Poll Shows He's Dropped to Third Place

by Kim Stevens [courtesy of Party Line]

From Roger Salazar:

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