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  • Louisiana Voters Divided Among 217 Political Parties

    Louisiana Voters Divided Among 217 Political Parties The Louisiana Secretary of State carefully records the political party voters choose when they register to vote, which is how Louisiana's voter roll came to include 217 political parties, 86 which have only one member.  Included in that list is the Bull Moose Party, with its five members, 12 Jedis, 20  members of the Banana Party, one Monarchist, 16 Whigs, two Cajuns and a list of equally amusing party choices.  Read Gannett's Mike Hasten's hilarious account of those who list their party registration as "other" at the link below.

    Written on Monday, 16 January 2012
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 With "BREAKING NEWS," "LATEST DEVELOPMENTS," "THIS JUST IN," and a countdown to Tsunami clock scrolling across the screen for hours of cable and network news, excited weekend shift reporters did their best to drum up audiences without a clear disaster on the horizon.  Try as they may, from CNN to MSNBC, the flawed news reporting, more hype than right focused on predictions of pending disaster from Chile's earthquake generated Tsunami.  The hardly new Skype social media technology was touted as "a new innovation and latest technology" to bring up-to-the-minute scenes" and one news caster could have been schooled on correct pronunciations of Santiago, sounding a bit more like San Diego.  This was not Saturday Night Live but live and in person from the Hawaiian Islands.

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