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Showing posts with label voters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voters. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 08, 2024

Farrago Follow Up - What Will Trump Do?

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The previous post, Farrago , meandered into the power struggles in the US and the assault on science in favor of fantastic explanations of t...
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Trump Beat Biden In Alaska By Only 35K Votes, 234K Didn't Vote

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In 2016, Trump beat Clinton, in Alaska, by 46,943 votes.   From Alaska Div of Elections While that seems like a lot of votes, there were 207...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

The Alaska Redistricting Board's Dramatic Pleas For Military Voters And JBER's 3.5% Voter Turnout [Updated 8/31/22]

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The Republican majority of the Alaska Redistricting Board created elaborate stories to justify pairing a Muldoon house district with Eagle R...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

Why Alaskans Need To Vote - 25% of Eligible Voters Voted For Our Governor; 19% Voted For Anchorage Mayor

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As Alaskans watch our COVID numbers continue to go up, our Governor and Anchorage's Mayor make no serious efforts to curb the pandemic. ...
Monday, December 28, 2020

The Alaska Redistricting Board Meets Tomorrow (Tuesday) Afternoon [Updated]

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 Some of you may recall that my life got hijacked for almost three years after I innocently went to the Alaska Redistricting Board meeting...
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Saturday, November 07, 2020

Election Thoughts Post 1 - Why Did Biden Get Only 771,884 Votes When Kentucky Has 1.67 Million Registered Democrats? [UPDATED]

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 I don't know the answer.  I don't know much about Kentucky at all.  But from far away it seems odd.  (Kathy in Kentucky, any insigh...
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Monday, November 02, 2020

Here's Why I'm Calling This For Biden

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  Despite all the handwringing, and recognizing that people don’t want to repeat their dashed expectations of 2016, I think all the signs po...
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Saturday, February 15, 2020

Fictional Accuracy Of Elections And The Iowa Caucus

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As the Nevada caucuses begin, I'm still pondering how pundits, the media in general, and people in general reacted to the Iowa caucuses....
Friday, January 17, 2020

At Some Point, Honesty Will Come Back Into Fashion. Maybe November 2020

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The website Amino, the source of this image, says the original Japanese intent of the phrase "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no ...
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Monday, December 30, 2019

"The solution was clear, Wendell said: Buy the votes of Senators" - Being Better Citizens Today By Knowing The Past

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Alaskans are likely aware of William Seward more than the rest of the country.  After all, he was the man who arranged to buy Alaska from th...
Thursday, August 08, 2019

Gun Lobby Example: Here's Why The Public Interest Regularly Gets Sabotaged

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It became clear to me, while teaching about ethics and 'the public interest' that there were good explanations why the public intere...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Traffic Jam Anchorage Style On My Way To Ask Voter Registration Questions

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The traffic wasn't moving on Benson as I was heading to the elections office to turn in to registrations and ask some questions about PF...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

Standing For Salmon, Registering Voters, Visiting Photographer

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Stand for Salmon is a group that got an initiative onto the November ballot that would better protect salmon habitat in Alaska.  An industr...
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Friday, August 03, 2018

"The Plural of Anecdote Is Not Data" Commission Member Dunlap's Problems With Presidential Advisory Commission on Elections

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The Presidential Advisory Commission on Elections was controversial before it began   Today one of the Democrats on the commission (though t...
Wednesday, January 03, 2018

President Ends His Advisory Commission on Election Integrity

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From the White House: Executive Order on the Termination of Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity Issued on:   Januar...