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October 24, 2022

Presidential Election in 2020

Unadjusted Exit Poll (UEP) analysis of the 2020 US Presidential and Senate elections shows the same “red-shift” pattern of Republican favoring discrepancies from Unadjusted Exit Polls (UEPs) particularly in battleground states that has prevailed in every general US Presidential election since 2004.[1]

UEPs are samples of voter responses taken after they vote in-person or by absentee ballot. These are obtained from screen shots of exit polls reported by US media right before, or soon after, polls close, and include UEP candidate vote shares and sample sizes. These differ from the exit polls that are adjusted to match official election results, or Adjusted Exit Poll (AEP) candidate vote shares and sample sizes, that are widely reported in US media.

Thursday, October 27, from 2 p.m to 3 p.m. ET
Trinity Episcopal Church, 125 E. Broad St. in Columbus  
Faith leaders from across Ohio will gather at and march to Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s office at 22 N. 4th St. to hold a prayer vigil for democracy. 

The midterm election is just around the corner. As you read this, more than 900,000 Ohioans have requested absentee ballots or voted early with millions more preparing to in the days ahead. When they do, faith leaders must do everything in our power to ensure votes are cast safely and that the results determined by the people get certified. That means showing up.

Note: This essay in based completely on public records.

Part One

Scientific misconduct charges at Ohio State University (OSU) expose systemic misconduct, indeed institutional malpractice, of the institution itself.

In 2011, Purdue University medical researcher David A Sanders, PhD, informed the Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) and the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI) that he was accusing Dr. Carlo Croce’s lab of scientific misconduct. OSU’s ORI closed the investigation in 2015 and concluded there was no misconduct. The charges were re-opened in 2017 after an article about Dr Carlo Croce in the New York Times accused him of misconduct, again with many quotes by David A Sanders.

OSU referred the accusations to a committee known as COMIC that focused their investigation on two female researchers in the Croce lab: Drs. Garofalo and Pichiorri. They had left OSUMC in 2014 and 2016 for positions in England and Los Angeles, respectively.

To keep the general election season entertaining, the anti-DeWine PAC Homebound Entrepreneurs Against DeWines has released its final quirky political ad of the election season called “Everybody Hates Mike,” a 1950s-style jingle that takes on Governor Mike DeWine for ruling over Ohioans like a “tiny tyrant who no one likes.”

Turnstile’s sold-out Kemba Live show had me realizing that an all ages venue will start their show on time because teenagers can’t stay out late. I arrived at 7pm. Doors were at 6 pm. I placed my keys, iPhone, Beats Flex headphones, wallet in a tray and passed the metal detectors.

Despite Turnstile’s show being sold-out, the metal detector lady was ready before I had emptied my pockets.

JPG Mafia had already taken the stage in receiving a response while performing, “Jesus Forgive, I am a Thot.” JPG Mafia is a LA rapper via Baltimore.

I suppose JPG Mafia is a rapper. His music sounds like if KID 606 went short attention span Glitch-Hop with tempos in which a Death Grips fan would say: “I haven’t heard of New Kingdom or Divine Styler but someone else probably did, and I’m nodding my head.”

They sound like you removed 95 percent of the guitars from industrial music and learned rap from Miami Bass and Anti-Pop Consortium. I walked around because the venue was packed, and I did this thing where I stood in every possible corner before deciding where I was standing.

I felt bad because walking around could be distracting for fans.

There will be a Thanksgiving dinner served to the homeless teens connected to The Star House. We are looking to distribute new socks, underwear, toiletries and small $5-$10 fast food gift cards.

You may also donate monetarily to go towards the dinner and some items mentioned above. All sizes -young teens up to age 24, male and female needed. If you’re familiar with my annual Teen backpacks for Christmas program, you can drop off to my front door as you may have done before.

You can text me as well and I can pick up from you. Remember those less fortunate than ourselves and let’s see what we can do for these young people who may have no other place to go for Thanksgiving. They NEED community support.

Tracey Ash - contact:  traceyashrn@yahoo.com.

I’m a leftist. Not a Democrat, but an actual leftist. The type that  Trump and all of the other Fascists think of when they refer to center-right “liberals” like Joe Biden. I have become so disengaged with modern politics that if either of the main political parties this nation has to offer are involved, I tune out.

They sold me out long ago. I once was struck briefly by the vision I thought Obama represented but, despite super filibuster and veto proof majorities and control of the executive branch, they did virtually nothing. I have stated aloud that I sometimes prefer Republicans to Democrats because at least they are honest and upfront in their support of the status quo oligarchy the US has become. The Dems will tell me they support things like Black Lives Matter, student loan erasure, Medicare for all, and on and on, and then sit on their hands while nothing changes for the better. Usually, it gets worse.

Ryan Takeover Seen As Last Resort

Before I share the scripts I promised last week of video ads designed to turn Ohio voters in the direction of Nan Whaley and the other statewide candidates, I wish to comment on the recently reported turn in public opinion in the direction of the Republicans.

It caused none other than President Joe Biden to suggest that views would change in the Democrats’ direction before the Nov. 8 election.

Economic, immigration and crime issues are behind the red wave, overwhelming women’s rights to control their bodies in recent surveys.

The President thinks that voters can be motivated by fear that a Republican takeover would doom programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare.

Other GOP intentions that might cause the tide to be blue are tax breaks for the wealthy, arming teachers in schools, cutting funds for local government including police, the redistricting mess imposed by Ohio Republicans that threaten continued GOP legislative district dominance, and the rampant corruption of Ohio PUCO and First Energy under the noses of Gov. Mike DeWine and his know-nothing associates.

October 25, 2022  |  12-1:15 p.m. EDT  |  Zoom

On the eve of another major election, please join the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center and our panel of experts as they discuss the pros and cons of efforts to enact and implement drug policy reforms via the ballot box and these efforts’ impact on direct democracy more generally.

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Panelists:
Burrel Vann Jr., Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University
Daniel Orenstein, Visiting Assistant Professor, Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indiana University
Tamar Todd, Legal Director at New Approach PAC; Lecturer at Berkeley Law

Both African Americans and progressives in Ohio are wondering if throwing a football at a TV screen is the Tim Ryan blunder which makes Ohio even more MAGA?

Tim Ryan’s most widely-recognized TV commercial to date – smashing a football into a television screen depicting “Defund the Police” – may sway some moderate Republicans to vote Democrat over JD Vance, but this same commercial could also backfire.

“It’s going to cost him votes,” says Charles Traylor, an African American from Columbus who hosts the radio show ‘Front Street.’“The voters’ psyche can be very fickle. When you say you’re against ‘Defunding the Police,’ what you are saying to victims of police abuse is, ‘I care more about protecting police officers than I do protecting people from bad police officers.’”

Traylor gets what Ryan is trying to do, and many other pundits get it as well. Ryan is unapologetically seeking to reverse Trump’s gains with white people in Ohio. But African Americans also remember what helped fuel Trump to power – white people’s (bigoted) anger.