No surprises here, although Georgia was seen as a possible landslide indicator for Obama.
Georgia has 15 electoral votes.
Alabama has 9.
We’ve detailed the seemingly politically motivated prosecution and conviction of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman’s in February and March of this year, and now it appears that the House Judiciary Committee wants to put Rove in the hot seat to answer questions about whether he had a hand in it.
Here’s the scoop…
Representative John Conyers Jr. [...]
He’s going to appeal his 7-year conviction, and it looks like the 60 Minutes piece embedded here could be part of the reason.
Here’s the update from Birmingham Times:
MONTGOMERY — A federal appellate court today ordered former Gov. Don Siegelman released from prison while he appeals his 2006 conviction, but denied co-defendant Richard Scrushy’s request to [...]
I dare you to not watch this and get outraged. Because not only is the story of the key witness for the prosecution completely discredited, but it’s clear that Karl Rove was behind a campaign to get the goods on the former Governor of Alabama.
TPM weighs in…
60 Minutes’ piece is an excellent distillation of the [...]
By a wide margin. With 25% in, Obama has 64% to Hillary’s 34%. So much for Hillary claiming that Obama couldn’t take red states.
So far, no surprises tonight. They’ll try to spin Massachusetts as a surprise, but it isn’t. Obama was always trailing.
All we ask is you keep your language clean and your arguments sharp.
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