Today House Republicans successfully blocked a bill from passing that would have encouraged states to hold verifiable elections by converting to a paper ballot voting system, offer emergency paper ballots, and conduct hand-counted audits. The bill titled the Emergency Assistance for Secure Elections Act of 2008 fell short of the 2/3 needed for passage.
Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama had some very strong things to say to the Building Trades National Legislative Conference today.
John McCain is all over the news today because during a speech at CMU in Pittsburgh he proposed a federal gas tax holiday that would run from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
A new Quinnipiac University poll of Pennsylvania Democratic primary voters found that Barack Obama’s bitter comments seem to have no impact on the state of the primary race, as Hillary Clinton maintained the same lead that she had last week 50%-44%.
