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Some are trying to turn the mid-terms into an issue of "Protest Voting" against Washington.
Don't fall for it. Vote on the Issues -- not emotions.

Women's Rights... Equal Pay... Marriage Equality... Jobs Bills...

Remember who cut $20 BILLION dollars from Food Stamps and Women/Infant programs (WICS)?

Remember who pushes for budgets that cut Medicaid, medicare, and anti-poverty programs YET refuses to raises taxes on the wealthiest 1%?

Remember which party cut Benefits and mental health care to Veterans?
Or which party fought to have them re-instated?  (Hint: Dems had it reinstated)

Remember which party broke the cycle of never-ending war and brought our soldiers back home after YEARS of back-to-back deployments and frighteningly high mental-health stress amongst our troops!

Remember which party brought insurance to millions and saw costs and premiums go down

Remember which party has been trying to make it harder to vote for people, in the claim of solving non-existent problems of voter-fraud. OK -- that's not entirely true. There HAVE been 1 or 2 cases of voter-fraud - committed by Republicans.

Remember which party shut down the government ? Tried to ignore the elections and cost almost $30 billion to the economy + numerous jobs and small businesses their livelihood!

Remember which party is threatening to shut down the government AGAIN!!!

Remember which party says that Corporations are People?

Remember which party has THREE TIMES tried to mislead voters in North Carolina with bad information mailings - wrong times, wrong locations, wrong numbers, etc?

Don't let the frustration that has been manufactured mostly by obstruction let you forget WHAT the issues are.
Don't throw away your vote.  Vote on the issues, not emotions.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Hector "Macho" Camacho, a Puerto Rican boxer known for skill and flamboyance in the ring as well as for a messy personal life and run-ins with the police, died Saturday, four days after being shot in the face. He was 50.

Camacho suffered a heart attack overnight and was later taken off life support, a hospital spokeswoman told NBC News. He had been declared brain dead shortly after the shooting.

Camacho's mother, Maria Matias, said Friday night that she had supported removing him from life support after his three sons had arrived from the U.S. mainland and had a chance to see their father for the last time. They managed to visit him before he died, said former pro boxer Victor "Luvi" Callejas, a longtime friend.

[chessdev]  Man - I hadnt realized anything happened and then I see this title in the news.... 8-(

Roxanne Rubin, a registered Republican from Henderson, Nev., was arrested Friday on a felony charge of attempting to vote twice in the same election.

FBI agents took Rubin into custody as she arrived for work at the Riviera hotel-casino, according to the Associated Press. Rubin had roused suspicion on Oct. 29, after casting a vote at her precinct in Henderson, and then allegedly attempting to vote at a different polling site in Las Vegas later that day. Election workers at the second location ran her name through a database, which showed that she had already voted. When confronted by officials, Rubin reportedly claimed that their database was incorrect, and that she had not yet voted. She was ultimately prevented from casting the second vote.

A complaint was subsequently filed with Nevada's Elections Integrity Task Force, which carried out the investigation.

Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller said that the arrest is proof that the state is serious about cracking down on attempts to tamper with the vote.

"As we've said and demonstrated in the past, we take all elections complaints very seriously and investigate them thoroughly," she said. "Second, this demonstrates the integrity of the system. Someone thought that by going to two different locations they'd be able to cast two ballots. The system immediately caught that, the task force responded and an arrest was made."

Miller told the Associated Press that the task force is currently investigating another alleged incident of someone trying to vote twice.

Updated at 6:11 p.m. ET: Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in "The Green Mile" and such other box office hits as "Armageddon," "Planet of the Apes" and "Kung Fu Panda," is dead at age 54.

Clarke died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was being treated for a heart attack, said his fiancée, Reverend Omarosa Manigault, in a statement released by publicist Joy Fehily.

The muscular, 6-foot-4 Duncan, a former bodyguard who turned to acting in his 30s, "suffered a myocardial infarction on July 13 and never fully recovered," the statement said. "Manigault is grateful for all of your prayers and asks for privacy at this time. Celebrations of his life, both private and public, will be announced at a later date."