California Watch launched Politics Verbatim, a site that “collects and categorizes the promises, proposals, arguments and attacks” made by Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Meg Whitman in their race for governor of California. The site was launched with 300 documents and 1,000 excerpts that will be added to daily as the race progresses allowing voters [...]
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AT&T, Boeing Buck Anti-Incumbent Trend in Giving to Democrats
June 16th, 2010 
Beth A computer-assisted analysis by Bloomberg News reporter Jonathan D. Salant of Federal Election Commission data found corporate political action committees siding with vulnerable Democratic incumbents, the candidates that Republicans need to beat if they are to take back control of the House of Representatives this fall.
Dozens tricked into registering to vote Republican
April 19th, 2010 Beth Brian Joseph of The Orange County Register reports on how petitioners “tricked dozens of young Orange County voters into registering to vote as Republicans.”
Phones sold by McCain campaign contained confidential information
December 12th, 2008 Beth John McCain’s campaign headquarters sold blackberry phones chock full of internal information, according to a report by Tisha Thompson of Fox 5 (Washington, D.C.). The campaign was trying to sell off old office inventory from its Arlington, Va. campaign offices, with everything from computers to file cabinets offered for bargain basement prices. They also sold [...]
Tacoma area voters split their tickets
December 11th, 2008 Beth Ian Demsky of The News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash. found that nearly a third of the voters in Pierce County cast their ballots for Democratic president-elect Barack Obama and Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi.
