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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Rodney Alexander switched his party affiliation to Republican on Friday — making the surprise flip in the last minute of registration for the Nov. 2 ballot virtually assuring the seat for the GOP. Alexander, a first-term congressman from Quitman, had registered at the start of qualifying on Wednesday as a Democrat. At that time he said, "I'm not ashamed to be a Democrat but I vote what I think the people of the 5th District want me to represent." There is another strong Republican in the three-candidate field. He is Jock Scott,...

Below are the committees included in the Center's research that have filed financial reports with the IRS in 2003 and 2004, even if those are reports of no activity. Click on a column name to sort the chart. Top 10 Committee Name Amount Raised Amount Spent Last Updated Joint Victory Campaign 2004 $41,685,706 $35,780,404 7/15/2004 Media Fund $28,127,488 $27,208,905 7/15/2004 America Coming Together - Nonfederal Account $26,905,450 $24,196,532 7/15/2004 Republican Governors Association $23,497,739 $18,443,691 7/15/2004 SEIU Political Education and Action Local Fund $20,865,839 $14,251,604 7/16/2004 Democratic Governors' Association $14,406,569 $11,411,361 7/13/2004 AFSCME Special Account $12,183,248 $11,422,417 7/15/2004 MoveOn.org Voter Fund...

From their site: https://www.moveonpac.org/donate/leavenovoterbehind.html Leave No Voter Behind: MoveOn's Neighbor-to-Neighbor Victory Drive If we can raise the first $1 million in the next 48 hours, MoveOn PAC will undertake a groundbreaking, precinct-level neighbor-to-neighbor campaign we're calling Leave No Voter Behind. We will hire 500 organizers in the last weeks before the election to work in 10,000 key neighborhoods in battleground states to get 440,000 new votes for John Kerry to the polls.

Democrats around the country are harassing and intimidating Nader petitioners. How can we help in getting him on the ballot in the 16-17 battleground states?

Do we have a site that keeps track of Congress races? The link above tracks all DemocRAT races.

A bumper sticker being circulated in Louisville that reads "Kerry is bin Laden's Man/Bush is Mine" was applauded by a Republican leader yesterday but decried by Democrats. Jack Richardson IV, chairman of the Jefferson County GOP, said he didn't know the bumper sticker's origins, but agreed with its message. "If bin Laden could vote based on Kerry's voting record in the Senate -- where he has decimated our national security and defense -- is there anybody that can honestly say bin Laden wouldn't prefer Kerry over Bush? Of course he would," Richardson said in a telephone interview. A handful of...