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Mark Clayton won the Democratic primary for a Tennessee Senate seat in August 2012, after competing in a field of seven other candidates.~Clayton, an anti-gay fringe conspiracy theorist who served a stint in the Army reserve and has worked a variety of odd jobs, won 26% of the vote despite raising no money. The Tennessee Democratic Party disavowed Clayton the day after the primary, but his name will remain on the ballot opposing GOP Sen. Bob Corker.~Clayton’s views align more closely with those of the John Birch Society, which once called President Dwight D. Eisenhower a Communist, than the Democratic Party — though some of his ideas might be a little much even for JBS. He believes the government is building concentration camps to imprison Americans and that elites in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada are conspiring to form a “North American Union” (NAU) merging the three nations — both conspiracy theories common in the antigovernment “Patriot” movement.~When he ran for a Senate seat in 2008, Clayton accused Google of censoring his campaign website on behalf of the Chinese government. That website, which has since been taken down, thanked supporters for helping defend Tennessee against the NAU, national ID cards and “radical homosexual lobbying groups who want to get in the Boy Scouts.”~Clayton also claimed that Austrian-born California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was planning to amend the Constitution so he could run for president and “fulfill Hitler’s superman scenario.” Clayton’s current site is tamer, though he wants to eliminate “secret national ID cards” from Tennessee drivers’ licenses and to stop the government from mandating that “transexual[s] and homosexuals” grab children in “stranger-danger zones” in airports.~If you live in Tennessee, please vote for Martin Pleasant of the Green Party for U.S. Senate.
Mitt’s time is up.
Former McCain campaign staffer: voter fraud part of the ‘mythology’ of the GOP.
Republican strategist Steve Schmidt admitted Monday that allegations of voter fraud have been invented by his party.
While both the GOP and the Democratic party want to maximize the ranks of eligible voters, said Schmidt, who helped coordinate Rep. John McCain’s (R-AZ) failed bid for the presidency four years ago, “all of this stuff that has transpired over the last two years is in search of a solution to a problem, voting fraud, that doesn’t really exist when you look deeply at the question.”
However, over that time period, several Republican-controlled states have enacted strict voter identification laws and cut early voting hours, in an apparent effort to stifle voter participation.
“I think that it’s part of the mythology now in the Republican Party that there’s widespread voter fraud across the country,” he told MSNBC host Chuck Todd. “In fact, there’s not.”
Personally, I think the notion of that is treasonous
The two face of Mitt Romney. The guy will say anything for a vote.
Most outside spending this election was by conservative groups
Our latest analysis on spending in Election 2012 finds more than a few big numbers:
- That whole pie above represents spending by super PACs and nonprofits groups, from Jan. 1, 2011 to Oct. 28th, 2012: $840 million.
- The $577 million from conservative groups is roughly 69 percent of the pie.
- Liberal groups spent $237 million, or about 28 percent.
- Each and every dollar of that pie was made possible the ‘Citizens United’ ruling.
Reporters and analysts at Center for Public Integrity and the Center for Responsive Politics came together to bring you these (almost) final elections numbers, see the rest of our work here.
