Friday, December 30, 2011

President's Team Discusses Their Electoral Map

Team Obama lays out electoral map strategy - LINK
Campaign Organization VIDEO - Obama Iowa Caucus

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Across the country, Republican governors and legislators are pushing unnecessary and suppressive photo identification laws that would require all voters to produce a specific current government-issued photo ID before casting a ballot. - LINK

Friday, December 16, 2011

Our Troops Home

The President and First Lady greet troops at Fort Bragg

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Home Page: http://gop-astrology.blogspot.com
Subconscious Talk - Link

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Voter Protection - Organize Now

2012 ELECTION - In Ohio, Obama for America helped gather over 300,000 signatures, successfully blocking Republican efforts to restrict early voting. In Wisconsin, efforts are focusing on voter education to counter the state's new Voter ID law, which bars students from using their college IDs when voting.

By this spring, the Obama re-election campaign will mount what Mr. Bauer called an unprecedented "voter protection" effort, fielding thousands of volunteers in battleground states to help navigate new election laws, months earlier than past efforts. "We will look at what the state has done, look for ways to counter it, through litigation sometimes, through administrative interpretation sometimes. But beyond that, you have to have a program that actually goes out and shows voters what they need to do," a senior Obama campaign official said.... - Link

2012 Election Protection Project

The DSCC launched what it calls the 2012 Election Protection Project to help Democrats.

"We’re leading the effort to prevent this attempt to change the outcome of the 2012 elections," Cecil says. "In Florida, the DSCC formally requested that the Department of Justice do what it could to stop this. We’re also keeping these developments in mind as we build our campaign strategy. The GOP’s efforts will make our voter outreach more important, and more expensive, in 2012 than ever before."

Cecil casts Democrats as David in this fight against Goliath, saying the wealthy Koch brothers and their corporate allies bankroll the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, the little-seen but powerful conservative organization that has pushed these voter-suppression measures.

ORGANIZE 2012 NOW - Video Link
Election Protection OHIO November 8th 2011 - Link

http://www.artcharts.com

Planet	Retrograde	Direct
Mercury	March 12, 2012	April 4, 2012
Mercury	July 14, 2012	August 8, 2012
Mercury	November 6, 2012	November 26, 2012
Venus	May 15, 2012	June 27, 2012
Mars	January 23, 2012	April 13, 2012
Jupiter	Oct 4, 2012	January 30, 2013
Saturn	February 7, 2012	June 25, 2012
Chiron	June 12, 2012	November 14, 2012
Uranus	July 13, 2012	December 13, 2012
Neptune	June 4, 2012	November 11, 2012
Pluto	April 10, 2012	September 18, 2012
Ceres	October 31, 2012	February 4, 2013
Vesta	October 21, 2012	January 26, 2013
Juno	March 24, 2012	July 16, 2012
Pallas	July 30, 2012	November 20, 2012

Sunday, October 9, 2011

2012 election falls on an exact Mercury station retrograde

Mercury @04 Sagittarius SRX - November 6th, 2012

Given that some states are in the midst of changing their electoral vote count rules, the question of how the new rules are applied for the 2012 Presidential election will become central for the campaign strategies of both the DNC & RNC.

There will be updated links to news articles as new laws are proposed, passed and enacted. Link 1, Link 2, Link 3,

Pennsylvania and Nebraska Republicans want electoral vote changes. - Link

The National Popular Vote plan is an alternative competing initiative being offered to the proposed changes for 'winner-takes-all' PA rules and the 'by each district' NE rules. (Only two states, Nebraska and Maine, apportion electoral votes partly by congressional district.)

An alternative, and preferable, reform was signed into California law this summer by Gov. Jerry Brown. It commits California to awarding its electoral votes for president to the winner of the national popular vote. The provision, however, takes effect only when states with a total of 270 votes or more (the winning margin) in the electoral college sign on to the system. It's an ingenious approach that would turn the presidential election into a popular vote without a constitutional amendment. In addition to making the presidential election more democratic, it would also encourage candidates to campaign in formerly "safe" states.

Of course, neither of these arrangements is a substitute for the abolition of the electoral college through a constitutional amendment. The system is a vestige of a time when states' rights were considered more important than individual rights. If voters can directly elect senators, as they have done since ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913, they should be able to vote directly for president.

http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/07/9280257-mcconnell-warns-of-popular-vote-catastrophic-outcome?google_editors_picks=true

GOP - National Popular Vote

Link - National Popular Vote

The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in the entire United States. The bill preserves the Electoral College, while ensuring that every vote in every state will matter in every presidential election. The National Popular Vote law has been enacted by states possessing 132 electoral votes — 49% of the 270 electoral votes needed to activate it.

GOP WAR ON DEMOCRACY http://bradblog.com/

Disinfranchising Voters

States with majority GOP legislatures or GOP governors are creating new rules to make it harder for people to register to vote.

http://blogcritics.org/...

SPECIAL REPORT: For Left, Overcoming New Voting Restrictions Are Matter Of Principle, Equality — And Survival

In Wisconsin, where Republican Gov. Scott Walker and a GOP-dominated state legislature enacted a strict law in which voters must show certain forms of ID in order to vote, just 78 percent of young African-Americans aged 18 to 24 have the proper ID to vote.

“That’s sort of deep if you consider that in 2004, [Democratic presidential candidate] John Kerry won Wisconsin by [only] 14,000 votes.”

There is no doubt that if young African American and other voters are denied access to voting next year, Democrats will lose, Baker says.

“You can look at the numbers, we can cut the numbers, and we can take the young people of color for granted. But if young people of color do not vote in 2012, we will lose the White House,” he says.

In Wisconsin, student IDs technically are allowed, but its law “was drawn so carefully that all of the current IDs issued by the universities in Wisconsin don’t actually meet the requirement,” she says.

“Now there’s some work going on to try to make sure student IDs can conform with the new rules,” she adds.

“The road to the Senate and the White House runs right through the affected states –- Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin, Nevada, Virginia –- even California,” says Guy Cecil, executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), the arm of the Democratic Party tasked with electing Democrats to the U.S. Senate.

“The GOP strategy is simple: Suppress the vote, win the election,” he adds. “The loss of these votes would be more than enough to lose the Senate –- and the White House. If Republicans succeed, they will get just what they’re seeking –- complete and total control of Washington.”

NYC Broadcast Media - Mercury SRX Election Day - Chart Link

The New York Times' editorial board reacts to the new study from the Brennan Center for justice on voter suppression. It's critical that the news that 5 million and counting have been disenfranchised gets out, and that people recognize when this is happening in their communities so they can organize against it.

In the News

New State Rules Raising Hurdles at Voting Booth (New York Times 10/2/11)
Study Predicts Voting Laws Will Change Political Landscape (Washington Post 10/3/11)
Brennan Center: Millions Of Voters Impacted By New Photo I.D., Citizenship And Registration Laws (Huffington Post 10/3/11)
Millions of legal voters face barriers, Brennan Center warns (The National Law Journal 10/3/11)
Voter ID, Registration Laws May Affect 5 Million Americans in 2012 Election: Report (International Business Times 10/3/11)
Study: New laws restrict voting for 5 million (USA Today 10/3/11)
GOP War on Voting: New Laws Could Block Five Million From Polls (Rollingstone.com 10/3/11)
Florida and other GOP-dominated states’ new elections rules could shut out 5 million voters next year (Palm Beach Post 10/3/11)
The GOP's new voting laws: Disenfranchising 5 million Americans? (The Week 10/4/11)
The Myth of Voter Fraud (New York Times 10/9/11)
Why Isn’t Attorney General Holder Fighting GOP Efforts to Turn Back the Clock on Voting Rights (Foxnews.com 10/19/11)
Voter ID, other initiatives follow GOP’s resurgence (Washington Times 10/23/11)
Obama's Toughest Opponent: State Election Laws? (National Journal 10/20/11)
New State Laws Could Impact 2012 Vote (WSJ 10/3/11)
Study predicts voting laws will change political landscape (Washington Post 10/3/11)
2012 election: Disenfranchised voters, hacked machines? (CBSnews.com 10/3/11)
Draconian laws could disenfranchise 5 million voters (The Bellingham Herald 10/3/11)
Maine vote coalition: Study supports same-day law (Houston Chronicle 10/3/11)
Study: Voter ID Laws Could Impact Millions (Commentary 10/3/11)
Restrictions Could Keep Five Million Traditionally Democratic Voters From The Polls In 2012 (TPM 10/3/11)
Report: New TX Voter Laws Reflect Major Nationwide Shift (Public News Service 10/11/11)
Study Quantifies Impact of New Voting Laws (The Business Journal 10/3/11)
The Pulse: The real mischief at the polls (The Philadelphia Inquirer 10/9/11)
Democrats Launch Campaign To Counter Alleged GOP Voter Suppression (Huffington Post 10/5/11)
Same-day Voter Registration at issue in Maine (Msnbc.com 10/9/11)
GOP Voting Laws Could Swing the 2012 Election (The Nation 10/3/11)

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Federal Government Horoscope

The first American president, George Washington's inauguration Midheaven, is a sensitive degree for mundane astrology. The April 30, 1789 inauguration also marks the beginning of the federal government. Therefore the United States federal government's Midheaven is at 22 degrees Taurus.

Reaganomics YOD

Chiron @22 Taurus

inconjunct

Neptune @22 Sagittarius

inconjunct

Pluto @21 Libra