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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (122349)	10/3/2012 11:19:14 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Internals must show this race is winnable. • AZ-Sen: Rich Carmona fans, your wait is over: Multiple media outlets are reporting that the DSCC is going up with their first ad buy on his behalf starting this week, for a total of $526K. Carmona, of course, is the Bush-era surgeon general who was recruited by Democrats in an attempt to pick up this GOP-held seat left open by the retiring Jon Kyl. There hasn't been a ton of polling here, but of late, it's tended to show Carmona in a surprisingly close race with Republican Rep. Jeff Flake. And based on this move, you have to figure the DSCC's own internals look at least as good. Of course, this is only a single week's worth of ads (and we haven't seen the spot yet), but a pickup here for Team Blue would be amazing.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (122349)	10/3/2012 2:27:58 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 149317

Not all religious charities do that. Ones I've been involved with ask nothing about religion, they deliver food and other need things to people in need. Some do that, but it's too broad a brush to say that's what religious charities do. As to people voting on social issues, that cuts both ways. As a lesbian, many people would be shocked if I voted R rather than D, because to them the most important issue to me should be the treatment of glbts by the parties. But if it's a poor white, the same people often say... how can that person not vote their economic interest. What reasons a person has for casting their vote is their concern, not of anyone else to say what their most important interest should be. In the days before SS and Medicare, giving to a church for it to be distributed to those in need was an important part of the social fabric. Yes, many church leaders have misused that money over the centuries, but that doesn't take fully away the idea of the action.