What’s a kid to do when asked to wear a patriotic red, white, and blue t-shirt to school? If you’re Aurora, Colorado fifth grader Daxx Dalton, you naturally decide to don your homemade “Obama [is] a terrorist’s best friend” shirt, of course, and promptly get suspended. The boy’s father, Dann Dalton, a self-described “proud conservative” [...]
Tag Archives: voter registration
Battle for the West: ‘Patriotic’ T-Shirt, Polling Roundup and Voter Reg Figures
September 23, 2008 – 9:40 am
Controversial Ariz. Voter ID Law Upheld by Federal Judge
August 25, 2008 – 9:18 am
Last week, a federal judge in Phoenix upheld Arizona’s 2004 voter ID law, which mandates proof of citizenship for anyone registering to vote. U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver acknowledged that some citizens, especially Latinos and Native Americans, will have trouble registering to vote, but she said that the impact would not be significant. Nina Perales, [...]
McCain Not Fighting For California
July 12, 2008 – 6:55 am
If you were a campaign’s field director and learned that 18,000 people eager to vote for the first time were gathering in one spot, you’d probably show up with at least a few clipboard-wielding volunteers to register them, right? Yet John McCain’s supporters were nowhere to be found Friday morning as the first of three [...]
