Kyle Bell

American voters soundly defeated a series of extremist measures that looked to take away collective bargaining rights for public employees (including police officers, firemen and teachers) in Ohio, same-day voter registration in Maine, and legally defining personhood as beginning at conception in Mississippi. The Ohio and Maine laws were passed after Republicans took control of [...]

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4:42 p.m. (11/3): Well, it’s the day after the election. The GOP had a huge surge in the House, but the Senate was more or less a wash for them. While they picked up 6 seats, it was far less than the 10 that they needed to win to take control. Great news out of [...]

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Today was primary day in the state of Indiana where an open Senate seat sent Republicans into a frenzy. Three major candidates vied for the party’s nomination: former Senator Dan Coats, former Rep. John Hostettler and State Senator Marlin Stutzman. The seat is currently held by Senator Evan Bayh, retiring after serving two terms. His [...]

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While this election cycle is almost certain to return fewer Democratic members to the House and Senate, Ohio is shaping up to be a state where Democrats have a good chance of picking up a seat currently held by a Republican. George Voinovich, a former governor, is retiring from the Senate this year. Open seats [...]

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The 2010 midterm elections are only seven months away. Like I did in 2008, Kylebell.com is going to track the projected outcomes of the election between now and election day. I’m going to be breaking up the projections into different regions. First up is the Midwest: Indiana Incumbent: Evan Bayh (D) – Retiring Challenger(s): Rep. [...]

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The Today Show recently aired a piece in which they named the top 10 U.S. cities based on home value. Factoring into their list were things such as cost of living, rising home prices and job growth. My hometown of South Bend, Indiana came in at #1 on the list. Not too shabby, I would [...]

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The Republican Party is engaging in voter suppression in the swing states of Michigan and Ohio, as reported by two prominent newspapers. The first incident occurred in Ohio and was reported last week by the Cincinnati Inquirer: About one-third of the absentee ballot applications received at the Hamilton County Board of Elections have been ruled [...]

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March 4 was not the decisive electoral day that Barack Obama was hoping for. It did not put Hillary Clinton away. But contrary to popular belief in the media, it was not a decisive electoral decision for Hillary Clinton, either. In fact, her primary mission was to close the huge delegate gap that divides her [...]

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Hillary Clinton’s brief bout with psychosis is officially over. After debating Barack Obama last week on CNN in which she said she was “honored” to have campaigned with Obama for the nomination, she quickly turned her tune into a scolding (“shame on you Barack Obama”) last Saturday, before mocking him on Sunday and blaming the [...]

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There were 209 national polls taken up to February 3, 2008. Hillary Clinton was ahead in all of them, except for three ties, and three that Obama had a slight lead in. In other words, according to the polling firms and the national media, Hillary was 203-3-3 vs. Obama. Pretty good record, eh? Any sports [...]

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