(2011/05/04) Voter and candidate suppression (Elections)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 4 May 2011
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Edition #483
Voter and candidate suppression
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Act 1: Florida hindering new voter registration - Rachel Maddow
Song 1: Einstein On The Beach - Counting Crows
Act 2: British democracy news, alternate voting - The Bugle
Song 2: Right to complain - Trombone Shorty & Marc Broussard
Act 3: The AVs vs the AV-nots - Johann Hari
Song 3: Show me something new - Shout Out Louds
Act 4: AV or not AV, that is the question - BBC News Quiz
Song 4: Vertigo - Anya Marina
Act 5: GOP election strategies - Rachel Maddow
Song 5: Something happened - Visitors
Act 6: Donald Trump polls for 2012 - Young Turks
Song 6: The entertainer - Scott Joplin
Act 7: Media misleads on viable candidates - Counterspin
Song 7: Where is my mind? - The Pixies
Act 8: Completely unnecessary birth certificate news - The Bugle
Song 8: All I want is you - Vitamin String Quartet
Act 9: Fox News winks at birthers - Media Matters
Act 10: Goldie Taylor's eloquent response to Obama's birth certificate - Rachel Maddow
Voicemails:
Thoughts on supporting local liberals in the next election - Carter from Denver
Thoughts on an independent voice to push Obama to the left - Patrick from Holden Mass
Call to action May 5th at the AZ state capitol - Amit from the Bronx
Pro-nuclear argument - Patrick from Florida
Voicemail Music:
Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote
Final comments on the anti-nuclear argument, NLC fundraising
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Palin's 61% Disapproval Rating In Alaska - Young Turks
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.1 | the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today from the Rachel |
| 0:12.2 | Maddo show, The Bugle, The Johan Hari podcast, The BBC News Quiz, The Young Turks, Counter |
| 0:18.1 | Spin, and Media Matters, with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users |
| 0:23.3 | from The Young Turks. |
| 0:29.9 | Now in the 2000s, there have been two amazing stories about voting in the great state of |
| 0:35.5 | Florida. |
| 0:36.5 | One of those stories is very well known. |
| 0:38.1 | The other one is barely known at all, but has just become really, really important. |
| 0:43.6 | The first one was in the year 2000, when this happened. |
| 0:46.2 | The nail-bitingly-close race between Al Gore and George W. Bush resulted in the race |
| 0:50.6 | being called and then uncalled, and then a cacophonous, disorganized, politicized, intimidated |
| 0:57.0 | counting process was ultimately called off in what was considered to be one of the most |
| 1:02.2 | anomalous and partisan U.S. Supreme Court decisions of the modern era. |
| 1:07.2 | And so George W. Bush became the president-elect. |
| 1:10.7 | And then a bunch of newspapers from Florida and nationally decided to commission a study. |
| 1:14.8 | They hired a company to count all the votes that had been cast in that election in Florida. |
| 1:20.4 | By then it was more than a year after the fact, but the study showed that if you did count |
| 1:23.8 | all the votes in Florida that year, Al Gore won, incidentally, but by then it was 11 |
| 1:29.8 | months into George W. Bush's presidency. |
| 1:32.4 | In 2004, when President Bush ran for re-election against Senator John Kerry, Mr. Bush clearly |
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