Does anyone have a figure for how many, or what percentage, of GOP house/senate members are against abortion w/o rape exception? Was discussing w a friend who assumed it was small but I am guessing it's more than half. Limited googling on phone is failing me though.

Considering their plank at the convention has left out a rape exception for at least 3 cycles I'd say it's more than 'small'

Looking forward to after the GOP convention when Rmoney taking the swiss banking amnesty gets leaked. Using my one time!

...which will be replaced by the GOP convention bounce, and that by the Democratic convention bounce, and that by the whatever gets pumped by the media the next week.


As I've stated before in this thread, the first good polls will come out around September 15th, after the summer and the conventions have been over for a while and non-political people start paying attention .

The Conservative Psyche: How Ordinary People Come to Embrace Paul Ryan's Cruelty

The thing I bolded above is basically why the Big Lie is more effective than a little one. Everyone lies a little. But most conservatives I know simply refuse to believe that republicans would turn on their own idea of insurance mandates just to spite Obama. Or that they would enact voter ID laws for no reason than the disenfranchise minorities.

I have gone round and round with the conservatives on my mailing list about voter ID. I've laid it out so simple a 2-year-old could follow - and they just won't accept it. And they aren't dumb people. Sunday and early voting restrictions are state issues. Voter ID laws are legitimately about fraud. Lack of restrictions on absentee ballots means nothing. ALEC can be ignored. None of these things are related - all can be discounted independently. All of the tiny or non-existent evidence about voter fraud means infinitely more than all of the evidence that this is about disenfranchisement.

And of course - I'm a bedwetting liberal for being able to see the most transparent thing imaginable. I even linked them to my epic meter-maid debates. They think I'm leveling them.

Voter ID laws are also used to curb voting fraud.

Wat. Is this a typo?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19361292

Which barely exists and doesn't exist at all in the form that voter ID will prevent. 10 cases of voter impersonation in the whole country since 2000.

And if it had why freak about it right after a black man won the presidency the first time? Why not give people another 4 years to put initiatives in place etc.? Remember this is the party that has been studying health care plans for 30 years. But voter fraud, gotta rush that into existence NOW - evidence or no.

That quote doesn't appear in the article?

FYP.

What was it...10 (TEN) documented cases of actual voter impersonation fraud in the entire nation in the last 12 years.

Yup, that's egregious enough to disenfranchise a few million voters.

They really are funny people though.

I saw it, they might have taken it out because it was LDO wrong

nm, still there:

Anarchists may try to disrupt Repub and Demo Conventions

Storm has better chance to disrupt RNC.

It has been changed to 7m. I searched on 7 and I swear it wasn't there. Could have been part of the correction, I dunno.

Team Obama again decides on the **** move unlike previous candidates.

Team Obama breaks precedent to try to spoil Romney’s convention in Tampa

Bucking protocol, President Obama and the Democrats are planning a full-scale assault on Republicans next week during their convention.

Presidential candidates have traditionally kept a low profile during their opponent's nominating celebration, but Democrats are throwing those rules out the window in an attempt to spoil Mitt Romney’s coronation as the GOP nominee.

Confirmed most butthurt campaign ever.

Lol, so much for Hope & Change.

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It's all good. But I do worry that we are going to have two years just like the last two years and this campaign is not helping. Maybe the Dems convention will be more inspiring and policy laden.

Precedents concerning party convections = Sacred?
Precedents concerning financial tax transparency = ???

Lol.

DNC will be policy (osama bin) laden

I guess you don't live in NJ where the common phrase is "vote early and vote often" because dead people still vote on election days in this state.

Why if you need ID to travel is it so hard to get ID to vote. I feel disenfranchised because there is no voter ID in place. You say there was 10 cases, does that mean only 10 were found or proven?