TrueMeckDem's blog

I am wondering if anyone has announced that they are running for a state party position?

Anyone?

By Alexander Mooney
CNN

(CNN) -- Prominent liberal groups and gay rights proponents criticized President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday for choosing evangelical pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the presidential inauguration next month.
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration.

Warren, one of the most influential religious leaders in the nation, has championed issues such as a reduction of global poverty, human rights abuses and the AIDS epidemic.

CMS board at odds over vacant seats

Three members voted not to fill openings in two majority-black districts for a year.

By Ann Doss Helms
ahelms@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Friday, Nov. 14, 2008

A move by three Republican school board members to leave Mecklenburg's two majority-black districts without representation for a year could intensify debate over who will speak for the minorities who make up about two-thirds of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools students.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/breaking/story/349321.html

It looks like the voters here in Mecklenburg figured out that you had to vote for president separate. I don't think there is a way to see if the people who voted straight ticket also voted for president, but 98.9% of all voters voted for a presidential candidate, 98.1% voted in the governor's race and 97.7% voted in the senate race.

The machines here remind us at the end if we have missed any races and gives us a chance to go back before we cast our ballot so I am sure that this helped.

How did other counties do?

What would yours be and what would be some of the answers?

Most of the paper ones are recylclable along with the metal frames. Wooden stakes are good kindling for the fire place.

I have been voting since 1982 so my first Presidential election was 1984 and we know how that went. In 1986 I left the party when the local Democratic Party endorsed my Republican opponant instead of me because they didn't want a student on the county commission. I have voted third party or independent in every presidential election between '86 and when I rejoined the party in '05.

So hopefully my streak will be broken this year.

I got this email from my sister in law who lives in Philadelphia. She is the dumbest smart person I know. My response follows:

Dear Red States...

We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and
we're taking the other Blue States with us.

In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii , Oregon , Washington ,
Minnesota , Wisconsin , Michigan , Illinois and all the Northeast. We
believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas , Oklahoma and all the slave states.
We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get the Statue of
Liberty . You get Dollywood.

We get Intel, Apple and Microsoft. You get WorldCom. We get Harvard.

Richard Petty is not going to like this:

Join me in supporting Barack, My family and I have given this election a lot of thought.

Our country is in a rough spot, and we're going to need some serious change. There's only one candidate ready to deliver it -- and that's Barack Obama.

Every day I talk to someone else who's never voted for a Democrat, but now they're voting for Barack Obama. They realize that Barack understands what we're going through here in North Carolina. And they're ready for change.

So I've made up my mind, and I'm ready to get involved. I know that I could never have won a race without my pit crew, and I know Barack can't win this one without us.

Can you sign up to volunteer this last crucial week?

One of our intiatives during early voting is called "Souls to the Polls" where we get houses of faith and other faith based orgs to get their people out to vote on the Sunday during the early voting period. I volunteered to ferry people from one of our transitional housing projects to the nearest early voting sites.

These are people who are trying to get off the streets and just need some help. Most are chemical dependent but they have to be clean to stay in the housing. We had a voter registration drive at these projects last month and now we were getting them to vote. I took several people to vote for the first time today. You could see the pride in their faces when they walked out with their early voting stickers on. It brought tears to my eyes.