And what else is new? Who thought McCain could draw a crowd on his own. He should be embarassed but probably doesn't realize how little people think of him. What a mess the Republicans have created. When Gov. Palin gets in office let's see if she tries to fire McCain.
Minus Sarah Palin, John McCain's Florida crowd underwhelmsJACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Gee, what a tough choice.
Would you rather see and also hear four old white guys talk about the day's financial turmoil?
Or would you rather stay at home in the air conditioning and maybe catch the Alaskan pit bull on TV talking about anything else?
Left on his own to campaign in Jacksonville, Fla., today, Sen. John McCain's Republican advance team let him down by forgetting one of the primary rules of politics in the TV era:
Better to overflow a small venue and keep thousands from getting in, than let thousands into a larger place but still have empty seats.
McCain, campaigning alone since Gov. Sarah Palin went home to Alaska to see her son, Track, off to Army duty in Iraq, gamely moved a campaign rally originally planned for a small venue into the 15,000-seat Veterans Memorial Arena downtown.
Not good.
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“I can’t vote because I got three felonies,” Mr. Benton told Ms. Bell. He had finished a six-month sentence for possession of $600 worth of crack cocaine, he said. But Ms. Bell had good news for him: The Florida Legislature and Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican, changed the rules last year to restore the voting rights of about 112,000 former convicts.
“After you go to prison — you do your time and they still take all your rights away,” Mr. Benton said as he filled out a form to register. “You can’t get a job. You can’t vote. You can’t do nothing even 10 or 20 years later. You don’t feel like a citizen. You don’t even feel human.”
Felony disenfranchisement — often a holdover from exclusionary Jim Crow-era laws like poll taxes and ballot box literacy tests — affects about 5.3 million former and current felons in the United States, according to voting rights groups. Read the full story here.
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