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The extreme right’s battle against organized labor is taking another turn in Ohio:

Just two days after voters overwhelmingly killed legislation restricting collective bargaining for public employees, Tea Party activists and a nonunion trade group Thursday launched a campaign to put a broader crackdown on union rights on the statewide ballot in 2012 or 2013.

The proposed right-to-work constitutional amendment would prohibit making union membership a condition of employment.

Chris Littleton of West Chester Twp. in Butler County, a Tea Party leader and co-founder of the Ohio Liberty Council, said at a Statehouse press conference that the amendment would provide “work place freedom for every single Ohioan.”

It takes signatures from 385,253 registered voters to put an amendment on the ballot and Littleton said that it might take until the November 2013 election to meet that requirement.

This appears might be going to far even for a lot of Republicans:

However, Republican leaders distanced themselves from the amendment. “Job creation” is the top priority, Rob Nichols, spokesman for GOP Gov. John Kasich, a key backer of Senate Bill 5, said in an email.

Actually this is nothing more than a continued assault on workers right by the extremists that have taken over America’s right. The people spoke in Ohio on Tuesday and told the state to stop limiting bargaining rights of Ohio’s public workers. The Tea Party, in their closed, cult like mindset, can’t acknowledge that so now they are going to try to make it even a broader assault. It’s no wonder that the Tea Party’s popularity is going down in flames. Thankfully more Americans have awoken to the bullshit these people push and are turning them away.

Wow!

Barack Obama leads John McCain by a 52% to 36% margin in Pew’s latest nationwide survey of 1,325 registered voters. This is the fourth consecutive survey that has found support for the Republican candidate edging down. In contrast, since early October weekly Pew surveys have shown about the same number of respondents saying they back Obama. When the sample is narrowed to those most likely to vote, Obama leads by 53% to 38%.

Let's hope these numbers hold true for the next week.

USA Today:

Obama holds a 47%-43% edge over McCain among registered voters and a 48%-45% edge among likUSA Todayely voters. Both leads are within the margin of error of +/—4 percentage points.

To this, Bob Cesca points out:

The previous numbers showed McCain 49, Obama 45.

Why can't McBush close the deal?

So why is it the former POW, maverick, 25 year veteran of the Senate, "foreign policy expert" can't close the deal against the "latte sipping, muslim, ultra liberal, defeatist, terrorist sympathizer, elitist, non-experienced" Barack Obama?

McCain has decades of being a house hold name, that is very much loved by the media. Obama is the new kid on the block. While people say Obama should be way out ahead, I keep thinking why? You got a new brand going against a long term brand. Let's also not forget that this is the first black man running on a major party ticket for POTUS in our history.

So media - why isn't McCain crushing Obama?

We get more proof that our own democracy is under attack:

Some U.S. states have placed laws to make it difficult to vote instead of reforming ballot problems. The study looked into 10 states with reported ballot difficulties.

The study cited proposed laws in Arizona and Georgia, that call for a government-issued photo identification card and proof of citizenship before voting.

Tova Wang of The Century Foundation think tank said that although both state laws were denied by judges, "the damage has already been done." The proposals confused voters and delayed voter registration drives.

The lack of definite electronic voting policies and machines were also mentioned saying that it could lead to longer voting lines in the upcoming midterm contest.

"There were long lines because there were inequitably distributed voting machines," Wang said.

Florida and Washington, for example, have no formula for determining the number of voting machines in each precinct, the study said.

After the 2004 incident in Ohio, a law was approved providing one machine for every 175 registered voters although it will not be enacted until 2013.

The study concluded that, "none have come close to addressing in full the major problems that plagued the system during the last federal election."

The states included in the survey were Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin.

Isn't it great to be in the "beacon of democracy"? If we continue down this road then we might as well rip up the Constitution and start over.