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Time: 12/12/2016 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm Location: Wisconsin Elections Commission, 212 East Washington Ave., Madison Commissioner Mark Thomsen, Chairperson of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, will certify a canvass statement at 3:00 p.m., on Monday, December 12, 2016, at the Offices of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, located at 212 East Washington Avenue, 3rd Floor, Madison, Wisconsin. The canvass statement that will be signed is the official Wisconsin result of the general election, conducted on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, for the Office of President of the United States.

"We're going to continue to try to see if we can't get in place a timetable for the removal of most of the troops that we have there," Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., said on CNN's "Late Edition." "Congress should be able to state a goal for the removal of most of the American troops without a veto threat."

SIOUX CITY, Iowa - If President Bush vetoes an Iraq war spending bill as promised, Congress quickly will provide the money without the withdrawal timeline the White House objects to because no lawmaker "wants to play chicken with our troops," Sen. Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) said Sunday.

The website above has a numerically objective tracking of casualties. The rate of US military casualties in Iraq has plummetted this month. More than halfway through March, the number of deaths is far fewer than 1/2 of February's total and this is reflected by the daily average. Also, an examination of the past 6 months shows a steady decline. The trend is not a single month.

A semi vanity, but here's the excerpt: By suspicious, Jackson is referring to the latest analysis of the Nov. 2 vote by a coalition of Ohio voting rights activists. In analyzing the still-unofficial results, the totals reveal that C. Ellen Connally, an African-American Democratic candidate from Cleveland for Ohio Chief Justice, received more than 257,000 votes than Kerry. In Butler County, for example, Connally had 45,457 more votes than Kerry. The reason these vote counts are suspect is because Connelly, a retired African-American judge, was vastly outspent in her race, and did not have the visibility of the presidential race....

Sorry. :)

Friday October 08, 2004--On the day of the second Presidential Debate, the Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows President George W. Bush with 48% of the vote and Senator John Kerry with 46%. The Tracking Poll is updated daily by noon Eastern. Regardless of who they want to win, 53% of voters think President Bush will be re-elected.

Bush slips 1%, which is noise . . . but there is now reason to believe the gap has closed some. Nothing good about that.

Saturday September 25, 2004--The latest Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows President George W. Bush with 48% of the vote and Senator John Kerry with 46%. The Tracking Poll is updated daily by noon Eastern.

Bush by 3. Big move. Biggest lead for him in months.

Kerry's bump of recent days scrolls off and reveals itself again to be random MOE noise.

Kerry's lead of 3 gained so suddenly 2 days ago slips a bit. It was presumed that he got it because a strong Bush day scrolled off the 18th. But now it appears likely it was a pair of strong days for him. One will scroll off tomorrow.

The 4% lead for Kerry erodes. Rasmussen's absolute numbers don't matter, but trends may. Edwards' bump appears to be fading, and the Senate report is getting more and more play as "Bush didn't lie about Iraq."

Kerry 48 Bush 45. The gap closes 1% from yesterday's 4% Edwards bounce.

Bush by 1%, and we know that doesn't matter. But what does matter, folks, is Rasmussen is the only viable measurement vehicle out right now that can show if F911 had any impact on opinion at all. Answer: NO.

Back to tied after a Kerry lead of 2% yesterday. Bush either had a good sample last night or Kerry had one 4 days ago that scrolled off.

Fluctuation within MOE continues. A slight erosion in Bush support for the week as a whole. That erosion is also within the MOE and thus there can be no confidence even in the trend. The absolute numbers mean nothing because no one knows what accurate sampling is.

Bush leads Kerry by 1% in the Rasmussen poll, whose methodology seems to have established a sine curve within its margin of error. This suggests no recent change in prospects for either candidate.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. manufacturers showed further signs of revival on Tuesday, as reports from the Federal Reserve and one of its regional banks showed gains in the sector in January and early February.

I pretty much never do vantities, but this may be worth it. In the final moments, tactics trump policy. I believe CFR prohibits PAC money from being used for GOTV. We here on FR *must* get creative and get organized in arranging 1) to GOTV in November and 2) depress the opposition's vote. Personally, I am focused on rental vans. Rental car companies have only so many. With the GOP warchest we should be able to rent them *all* election day. There is a procedure for rental car companies who are "over rented" of getting vans shipped in from out...