Statements about Elections
Says that in the 1985 election former Gov. Tom Kean had "the largest winning margin for a gubernatorial candidate in Jersey history."
"For the first time in history, the share of the national popular vote margin is smaller than the Latino vote margin."
The "error rates" for the Fulton County elections department are "well below the average."
"Our welfare system now consumes 42 percent of our budget."
"Mitt Romney received exactly zero votes in at least 12 Cuyahoga County precincts."
A precinct in the Allen West-Patrick Murphy recount has "7 registered voters in Guatemalan community and the tally showed 900 voted!!!!!"
"In one county alone in Ohio, President Obama received 106,258 votes. But there were only 98,213 eligible voters."
"More Tennesseans have hunting and fishing licenses than vote."
Three thousand felons voted in Rhode Island in 2008.
Says 40 years ago, the U.S. placed Texas under Voting Rights Act for failing to print ballots in Spanish.
Barack Obama is "only the second Democrat in the last 75 years to win Ohio twice with more than 50 percent of the vote."
Says a poll shows that "without a name attached, Democrats are just one point behind" Gov. John Kasich.
Says "I was the first governor in America to endorse Mitt Romney."
Says Jeb Bush "extended early voting" after seeing "long lines."
"The higher the education level, the more likely they are to vote Democratic."
Says the NAACP's Ohio chapter has endorsed Issue 2.
"If Buehler were elected, our vote-by-mail system would be at risk."
Virginia’s educational level among whites is higher than Georgia’s.
Says opponent Tammy Baldwin ‘has had not one positive ad’ in the campaign for U.S. Senate.
A member of the redistricting commission proposed in Issue 2 "could accept a bribe from somebody" and "couldn’t be removed from this commission."
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