Today is election day.Here's a little roundup of election news items I post as follow up to my previous election series. We will be closer to knowing which way the political winds blow after the results come in.
"Voters in Virginia and New Jersey cast ballots on Tuesday in tight governors' races that could offer early hints about the impact of President George W. Bush's political struggles heading into next year's mid-term elections," according to Reuters.
- Texas decides today whether to amend its constitution to ban gay marriage. Amending the constitution is more final than just passing a law.
- The Democratic party decided to hold the 2008 convention August 25-28, moving the convention back to a later date.
- The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could possible make it possible for states to limit the amount of money candidates can spend in any race. At this point The "Buckley" case, which held that campaign money amounts to free speech, would have to be overturned. A DailyKos post clarifies this "huge" news, pointing out that this might help take some of the overblown fund-raising out of election campaigns.
- Proposed changes to Federal Elections Commission rules would limit bloggers' freedom of speech, opponents say. The House of Representatives held hearings in September on whether the FEC sould regulate political blogging.
- Here's some good news. Several elected officials have donated to Hurricane Katrina relief from their campaign funds. It has been a bipartisan effort.
- A visit to the United States ahead of the December elections in Iraq by Ahmad Chalabi is causing raised eyebrows. His star has risen again despite his being widely discredited. Quoting Yahoo!,
"Ahmad Chalabi, Iraq's deputy prime minister, is a former U.S. golden boy who for years as an exile helped organize opposition to Saddam Hussein through the Iraqi National Congress, which was funded by the United States."
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