The Road To Willa Cather Landing: GPUR General Election 2012

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We've now come to the closing statements for the evening but before we begin we'd like to tell you about next week. Next week we will be at Oklahoma A&M University in Stillwater, Oklahoma...the topic chosing by blind draw by the National Electoral Board is Education and Youth Issues..


Our first closing statement will be given by Lease Lobby candidate Paul Wellstone.

WELLSTONE: Thanks again to the city of St. Louis, the National Electoral Board..and a special thanks to all those in this studio on the and the special panel of voters tonight who serve in the GPUR Armed Forces.
It is because of your service that we are a free people, and we've earned that freedom through blood and sacrifice, but build a lasting peace must mean that we must fight for a future beyond warfare. Every generation of this nation has had to see fight a war and parents have had to buried children, and fathers their son and daughter, wives mourn over husbands.
We must strive for more. Yes, we must be strong, but also have to show the strength to think and seek solution beyond just weapons. We also must show strength to defend our core values and the bone and spine of our economy and not sell them off for gains elsewhere, or gains in Omaha.
That is what national security means to the Lease Lobby, and that why a secure Great Plains United Republic needs you to take a look at us.

Thank you, MU Wellstone...next PAP Candidate Steve Largent.

Thank you and thanks to all those who put these debate together...and to Our Forces. It is good that we dedicated a forum to you, and your issues that relate to your service. We ask you to really compare. Which party is not willing to sit down as see us sold out for international conventions that see us a as bumpkins and just a pawn in a game. Or sold out for big business interests not in the interest of our country. Or sold out for leftist touchy-feely rhetoric or sold out for separatism in conflict with honest Godly Plains Values. Let it be known, especially to our Forces, WE WILL BACK YOU, beginning with backing those forces who were tortured and hunted down by mercenary forces from the IRNA, who supposedly hate the the CSA, but get in league with them the Soviet Russians. We have a Soviet nation in North America, and we will not truck nor trade with them, and should they not live up to international obligation and ignore the rule of law, we will not hesitate to defend what we know is right. That is what the PAP is. We are dedicated to action, not rhetoric.

Thank you Governor Largent, next up the GSCP candidate Wilma Mankiller

Tonight we've heard many views on security from our candidates and more importantly our voters, and those who are wondering for whom to vote.

And we've heard the voices of passion,honor and strength. The values at the heart of who we are. The vision we all have is of a country strong enough to fight for our beliefs, but caring enough to heal divisions and bring people together. That is who we are as a people, that is what the Great Spirit Community Party is.
Lieutenant LeMarche, WE HEAR YOUR PASSION. Airman Ittehau, WE HEAR YOUR CONCERN. Corporal Stewart, WE HEAR YOUR EXPERIENCE. But we also see and hear a hopeful future, but to get there, it will take work and sweat, at that begins in Omaha.
You need a party willing to work and sweat not just for this nation, but for the greater cause of unity. The other parties speak of just military strength and diplomatic strength, but its beyond that..It is time for common purpose in our nation and on our continent. It is time for the GPUR to lead in a new direction, a united direction, and that is why I'm running and why the GSCP is contesting all corners of the country. If you want real change for the Great Plains, you want the Great Spirit Community Party.

Thank you MU Mankiller, next to speak will be PFL Candidate Kathleen Selebius

Thank you to the national electoral board, the assembled press, and a group of the GPUR best, inspiration all and example of the strength and heart of a nation. Its a heart we want to keep beating for freedom, for values, for all Plainsians to rally around.
We honor all our military, but not just with words but with deeds. With protecting the process by which we procure the tools they need from politics interfering with doing right for the Forces. By protecting our trade our farmers, our factory workers, our computer programmers and aerospace engineers from those who are willing to sell our country short so their profit sheet is long.
We stand for security for our borders but at the same time we seek a firm but fair diplomacy in trade and in matters of security.
It's not impossible to build these things, but to do it you have to believe in the concept of prudence governance, the PPC and PAP will try to sell "small government", where small means "small for you and big for their friends" While the GSCP and The Lobby see so much as either/or.
The PFL has been the party at the forefront of the economy, peace and jobs, and the last time we were in charge, you had a stronger economy, a decade of peace and the greatest job creation in a generation.

The PFL is dedicated to being a active, vigorous member of the world, and a defender for who we are and what we value at home, and they are not mutually exclusive.

Thank you MU Sebelius, Finally tonight the PPC Candidate for President...President Julius Caesar Watts,

Thank you national electoral board and the representatives of the press of the nation...and to Our Forces who's members made us think tonight. We thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, all people of the plains. When it comes down to it, It's not about grand speeches...It's about character, clarity and competence.

The PPC has proven its character, in peace, in war, in economy, in human rights. Again, we have shown our character, even in our anger, we think prudently and confidently, and we will continue to do just that.

We've proven our clarity in our policies. We have made the GPUR a symbol of excellence on the world stage. A position we want to strengthen, not retreat from...

And ultimately its about competence. The PPC has a 12-year track record of competence, especially in the foreign arena. We are actively trading with the world. We see our products in store shelves from San Francisco to Stockholm. Dallas to Abu Dhabi, from Heidelberg to Hobart.

We have a track record of proven success and most importantly a deterrent to aggression so strong that no one dares to test it.

That is the PPC record, the Watts-Thune record, and its worked for the GPUR. Thank you for your time tonight and God Bless our free country.

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The latest poll -- FBC News/Omaha-World Herald Post-Debate Poll

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Why the massive drop for Wellstone?

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This is some awsome sh**! Subscribed for sure!

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Proof that polls are all over the place.

Welcome back to GPBC News 24 "Political Match Of The Day". I'm Pam Wiese and joining us is GBPC Election 2012 Analyst Dr. E.D. Rochelle Jr., Professor of North American History and Political Sciences at Omaha University.

Doc, we have two different polls showing wild disparity in number for two different candidates what is going on?


Its the beauty of polls, Pam.

Now the FBC/Omaha World-Herald Poll is done by Accu-Poll Associates. Accu-Poll trends toward the conservative. They are a polling operation that works with conservative candidates, so they tend to pull voters are a likely conservative for likely conservative areas. Thus that is why you are seeing the wild swing for Steve Largent at 22%. If you aggregate the six or seven polls, he's at maybe 16-18% Largent appeals to a hard right segment of the voting public.

But also consider the Siouxland-Minneapolis Star Tribune poll. Now there poll traditionally swings more liberal to leftist. Carville Campaign Group handled their numbers, thus they tend to take sample from moderate to liberal areas more often...Which explains in part the how Wellstone is at 20%. Take an aggregate he's not quite there.

So really all voters need to factor in all the polls, but more importantly factor in what's being said.

Now about the debate, what did you think? And a reminder Doctor Rochelle will be on the panel for two debates the second VP debate and the final Presidential Debate in Omaha.

Doc what was your take on the debate in St. Louis.

Overall, no big gaffes by anybody and it was a very solid exchange of ideas and proposals. The President and Kathleen Sebelius many people say "won" because they avoided the big mistake. They didn't "lose". They acquitted themselves well. I felt that Watts did an able job of defending his record. Sebelius went on the attack and it did work for her in spots.

But among that "second tier" of candidates, In my mind and in polls, they ate away at the PPC and PFL. Steve Largent peeled away some likely PPC voters because he took advantage of this first debate to position the PAP as a mainstream conservative alternative and I think he's put himself in a strong position. This week he will be of greater focus in the news cycle and his proposals for trade and foreign policy will be looked at. Paul Wellstone to me had the most policy proposals and did hit the other's proposals specifically, but the weakness to Wellstone is, he is a wonk. He's a policy person. That's good in old-style Lincoln-Douglas debate, but in our televised world it is not as effective. If it was just about smarts alone Wellstone would be leading the race on sheer academics, but there's much more involved than that.


Last week, what drove the debate was the news of the situation and revelations in the IRNA, what are your thoughts on the reaction here and what issues do you think will focus the debate next week.

Pam, Sister Fate and Lady Luck are quite a tag team, we have a possible school lockout in South Dakota and the coming debate in Oklahoma will be on education and youth issues, so we will have sort of a pre-debate should the news trend toward a lockout.
As far as the situation with the disclosure of the DeVos-Coldwater-Confederate connection. I think President Watts is handling it really the only way he can right now, which is International Criminal Court. Now the ball is in Giuliani's court, and today if the rumors are correct, he will tap former Ohio Governor Ken Blackwell as his running-mate, an African descended candidate for a conservative party on the ticket, we've seen that here in the GPUR and in Texas where we have black heads of state in conservative parties... but in the IRNA that's news because of where race relations are in the IRNA in relation to the rest of North America. Giuliani is rolling the dice that Blackwell and the history involved can take some of the focus off of the DeVos affair, but you can bet behind the scenes President Giuliani's people are working overtime, because if the IRNA tries to stonewall the ICC, it could be situation that will affect both campaigns and perhaps much than the votes ahead.

Quickly, if you had to pick a winner for Wednesday, who did you think won?

The biggest winner in my mind was Wilma Mankiller, and this was not supposed to be a debate where she would be strong. Foreign Policy is not exactly a prime issue for the GSCP, but she had what I feel was the boldest proposal of the evening. Calling a North American summit with Confederate and Industrial American participation..Unworkable maybe, but the fact she was willing to call for it and explain it makes this a winning move. Also, she humanized her party, defended her party and exposed the only weakness to Steve Largent on the evening. The anti-Indigenous stance of the PAP and their constituency. Mankiller, in my view reframed the debate and her party. The way she talked to the female war veteran was good political theatre, and it is showing in the polls. Mankiller has gained an average of 4% in the polls. Her approval number across all demographics are up. She has put herself in the news cycle this week, now we have to see how the GSCP handles this.

Pam, it'll be a wild week, and we will have things to talk about.

Always something to talk about when you are around Doc. Thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me.

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HOWARD TIES MARIS RECORD IN CAPITOLS WIN.

Omaha (GPP) - Omaha Capitols slugger Ryan Howard has hit his 61st home run in a 5-4 win over the Minneapolis Millers at Berkshire Hathaway Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha. His home run in the 7th inning that gave Omaha a 5-4 lead, tied the Great Plains Baseball single-season record held by Roger Maris.

Howard will have an opportunity to break the record in the Capitols' season ending game tomorrow against the Millers. First pitch at 2:05 Central Summer Time

GPP NEWSFLASH -- 9-15-2012 -- 1440 CSUT

SPORTS FLASH-- HOWARD BREAKS GREAT PLAINS BASEBALL SINGLE SEASON RECORD

Omaha (GPP) -- The Omaha Capitols haven't had a winning year, but Ryan Howard ended a season for the ages. Howard broke the 51-year-old single-season mark from home run with two more in the Capitols season-ending 7-6 win over the Minneapolis Millers in 13 innings at Berkshire Hathaway Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium Sunday. The record breaker came in the 5th inning off of former Capitols hurler Kyle Peterson to center which tied the game at 3. But number 63 will be a shot long remember, sitting a Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium record for the longest recorded home run at 548 feet, eclipsing the record held by former Capitols centerfielder Vincent "Bo" Jackson in 1988. The solo blast in the bottom of the 13th ended the game and the season.

GPP SPORTSFLASH 9-16-2012 -- 1807 CSUT
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Your World. Your News. This is HNN.

Our top story at this hour. Most schoolchildren in South Dakota are getting an unexpected school break.

The state and the teacher's union failed to come up with an agreement. Governor Mike Rounds made good on his threat to lockout the teacher's union

Negotiations are continuing, the state has instructed local districts to hire replacement and be ready to return to classes by September 24th.

Two school Lakota-controlled school districts ignored the lockout this morning, and their teachers have gone to work under a temporary agreement to hold off honoring the lockout this week as Lakota union members, school districts and area politicians work to build a compromise proposal.

We will have a special report on this outside effort to make peace on HNN News during the 1pm hour.

At this hour, Governor Rounds is in meetings with a federal negotiating team. HNN has learned that former education secretary and current University of Oklahoma President David Boren has been sent by President Watts to be a part of the negotiating effort.

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GPBC News 24/Inside The News
The South Dakota Teacher's Lockout

Q: What is the sticking point here?

A: Quite a few. The first is pay. The PPC government in South Dakota sought a 5% across the board pay cut. The South Dakota Education Association called this "unworkable", given the cuts in education in last two state budgets, cuts that Governor Mike Rounds said would not happen in the last gubernatorial campaign.

Second is tenure and retention. Rounds seeks to institute a pay for performance proficiency index that goes above the national standards instituted in 2006, the SDEA and their national parent organization oppose this because of the metrics Rounds wants to use. In 2011, the state government substituted the Eisenhower Scholastic Achievement Test for the South Dakota Education Index, a system developed by Educational Systems Corporation, a Minneapolis-based private firm, later confirmed to have financial ties to the Prairie Progressive Conservative party. A number of educators opposed the standardized exam because it was written from a standpoint that that it a conservative bias, and in the history portion, a key demographic, indigenous peoples were not covered in the testing mechanisms. Rounds and the PPC government countercharged that the Eisenhower Test, which was extensively reviewed and modified in recent years in keeping with national laws which mandate a level multicultural curriculum in all areas, was a tool for special interests in education and "does not reflect the majority opinion of the people South Dakota who do not believe in outside special interests interferring with local education."

Q: What is behind the "Lakota Compromise Group"?

A: Lakota Compromise Group comprises indigenous schoolteachers and administrators, mainly those working in the Pine Ridge Basin and surrounding areas, area politicians and business leaders. LakotaCom CEO Tim Giago is one of the financial people behind this working group, which was organized in May of this year when the first rumblings of a lockout began. Currently majority Lakota school districts are staying open by a compromise agreement between the local administrations and their union members over the objections of both sides. Within the indigenous communities, their reasoning is that they want time to reconfigure a compromise measure that both side can agree to. To this group the biggest issue is the use of what they term a flawed testing mechanism to measure school and teacher performance. The head of the Pine Ridge branch of SDEA said, "The biggest issue of this is the testing mechanism. The Eisenhower test is fair to all Great Plains schoolchildren. Mike Rounds' test is a political payback to certain people within fair right and somewhat racist wing of the normally sane PPC. Our membership should not be used as pawns in a political game."

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The Wichita Beacon- Afternoon Electronic Edition
Monday, September 17, 2012

International News

Cuban President protests Soviet aid to Confederacy: “Are you the friend of our enemy?”
UP Wire- Havana
President Marco Rubio, in an address to the Cuban people, openly asked if the Soviet Union were trying to upset the balance of power in the Caribbean with their recent grain shipments to the Confederacy.
“President Putin has obviously gone in a diplomatic direction that is both contrary to the views of the international community and even those of a majority of his own people in trading with such a international pariah as the Confederate States of America. For generations, the Confederacy has stood against human rights and the open spread of ideas, so now, Mr. Putin, the world must ask if the Soviet Union is a friend to the civilized world or the Confederacy. The Cuban people have been open to those fleeing the oppression and corruption of the Atlanta regime and have had to stand back and watch as you are providing aid to a people that feel this nation should be nothing more than a satellite in their failing orbit.”
President Rubio then announced that he would be seeking from the other Caribbean nations a boycott on Soviet goods, tied to the long standing Confederate embargo.

Prince and Princess of Wales announce they are expecting
UP Wire- London
Buckingham Palace has announced that William, Prince of Wales, and Princess Catherine are expecting their first born. A spokesperson for the Royal family has stated that both His Majesty King and Queen Dianna are very excited for their son and look forward to the sounds of little feet once again in the Palace.

National News

New Poll shows Sebelius in a dead heat with the President
By Jennifer Smith
The poll released today, by the Wichita Beacon and the University of Kansas- Dole Institute for Public Policy shows Kathleen Sebelius and President J.C. Watts in a statistical tie heading into this week’s debate at Oklahoma A&M University. In a sampling of 2500 likely voters over the period September 14-16, when asked whom would you vote for if the election was today, the results are as follows:
President JC Watts – 24%
MU Kathleen Sebelius – 23%
Gov. Steve Largent – 19%
MU Paul Wellstone – 16 %
MU Wilma Mankiller – 14%
Undecided – 4%
Margin of error +/- 4%

Gas prices slow to decline after recent hurricanes
By Robert Chastaine
Despite limited damage reports from Hurricane Issac’s recent path through the Gulf of Mexico, the Department of Energy reports the national average price for unleaded gasoline is still above $4.50 per gallon, with only North Dakota and Oklahoma reporting prices less than $4.15 a gallon. The highest prices were reported in Duluth at $4.87 while the lowest prices were found in Ponca City, $4.09.


Sports
Oaks and Cardinals to face off in 1-game playoff for division title
By Ryan Miller
The Iowa Oaks needed extra innings and a little help for the last place Fargo Redhawks to force a 1 –game playoff with the St. Louis Cardinals. Fargo surged ahead of the stumbling Cardinals and cruised to an 8-3 victory while the Oaks, behind Billy Butler’s 9th inning double that plated 2 runs and a John Buck RBI single that took down the Independents from Oklahoma City 5-4 in 12 innings. Tomorrow’s action turns to Busch Stadium in St. Louis for the one game, winner take all matchup. Jeff Samardzija (17-8) pitches for the Oaks while veteran Ryan Dempster (20-4) takes the hill for the Cards. First pitch is scheduled for 2:05 on most of your Metro Sports radio network stations.

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From our studios in Houston, to the world...This is CNN.

CNN Headlines at this hour

-- Texas naval forces this morning are on alert in the gulf after an incident involving what was termed as "encrouchment" in Texan waters from was indentified as a "military cigarette" boat"

The boat was seen moving across a restricted naval zone 35 miles off the South Padre Coast.

According to Texas Government sources the boat was said to be of Soviet Russian origin.

-- In a related story, major protests dominated three Soviet Russian cities this morning. Protest marches in Moscow, Leningrad and Chelyabinsk, protesting increasing food prices, education cuts and Soviet overtures to the Confederate states.

-- In Brussels today, European Common Market officials were pleased with the announcement that the governments of Spain, Greece and Portugal have agreed to the debt reductions schedule offered by a joint Franco-British working committee. Italy will hold off on approval pending the results of national elections October 6.

-- Teachers in the Great Plains Republic enter day two of a government-forced lockout. The teacher's union in the GPUR state of South Dakota and the state government in a negotiation session. A compromise proposal brought forth from a group a indigenous educators is also the table for discussion.

-- Excitement across the Britain over the annoucement that Prince William and Princess Katherine are expecting. The Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge are happy about the news and the prospect that Queen Diana will be grandma.

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Politically where's Ron Paul, Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, John, Bobby, and Teddy Kennedy?

On music
Chris Daughtry, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Lifehouse, Michael Jackson?

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The Wichita Beacon – Evening Electronic Edition
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

International News
High alert along Texas Coast after “Soviet” naval sighting
UP/TxNews Wire
Texas Naval Forces and Naval Aviation units were placed on heightened alert this morning after a vessel fitting a description of a Soviet made “smugglers” style boat was detected within a restricted area near the Padre Island Naval Station. Air assets were scrambled by the Texas Navy, but were unable to gain a firm identification of the vessel as it merged into Gulf shipping lanes. A public affairs officer, speaking for Admiral Patrick Walsh, commander of the Texas Gulf Fleet, stated “Any incursion into the waters of the Republic of Texas by a hostile force will be met with like force.”

Polls in Prairie Provinces still too close to call with Independence in the balance
UP- from the Winnipeg Sun
With less than two weeks until the referendum regarding Manitoban independence or union with either Saskatchewan or with the GPUR, many are still uncertain of what will be gained by the decision to remain independent or lost by uniting with either our southern or western neighbors. While the citizens of the Province of Manitoba have long been self sufficient, we now must face the fact that what we are losing through our independence may be greater than what it provides us.
In a possible union with the GPUR, Manitoba becomes one part of a federation, the largest in land area by far, with 8 other states. The Province would continue to elect its own parliament for local issues, but we would elect our own Governor, rather than having the Governor General appointed by His Majesty in London as done presently. Furthermore, we would once again elect members to a national parliament, located for the GPUR in Nebraskan city of Omaha. Our agricultural products would no longer be subject to tariffs between ourselves and our neighbors to the south nor would our oil and natural gas. And we would see our transportation networks joined by the proposed high speed rail link. Imagine traveling the 1200 miles between Texas and Winnipeg in mere hours on a comfortable high speed train rather than in flying into the airports of Minneapolis, Kansas City, or Chicago. The port of Churchill would expect to see a massive spur to development as it would serve as the only deep water port for the Republic, opening direct commerce with the rest of the world.
The down side to a southern union can be tied to a loss of identity. The Manitoban punt would be exchanged for the Plainsian dollar. We would see a return to an Imperial standard of measure. We would also lose what remains of the “special relationship” we have with the United Kingdom and our former sister provinces in the late Canadian Union. But with only 25% of the populace favoring independence and similar 34% numbers favoring union with either the Republic or Saskatchewan, we must look at the option that give us the greater future. That future lies with the Great Plains United Republic.


National News
South Dakota teachers say Governor not negotiating in good faith.
UP- Sioux Falls
A spokesperson for the SDEA, at the end of today’s second day of talks to resolve the lockout imposed on teachers by Governor Mike Rounds, states that “The Governor’s refusal to accept the Eisenhower Scholastic Achievement Test scores as a measure of academic progress, or even the equally valid Iowa Test of Basic Skills at the elementary levels, shows that this lockout is nothing more than a politically motivated effort to impose standards upon a profession whose first loyalty has always been to the students we serve in the classroom, not the politicians in Pierre. The South Dakota Education Index promotes nothing but political stereotyping that drags the good name of teaching through the mud that gets slung every campaign season.”
In response, Deputy Secretary of Education Lanette Johnson stated, “The SDEI is a valid test that more closely measures the educational outcomes of South Dakota Students to the core values and principles we in South Dakota hold dear. I don’t want the success of a student in Sturgis to be determined by what someone in Manhattan tells us is important. The Eisenhower Test has been revised too many times in recent years to smooth over feelings of so-called neglected groups to be viewed as an objective examination with any educational merit.”
Negotiations continue tomorrow with eyes on the Lakota Compromise Group’s proposal, which will be presented to both sides for review in the morning. In the mean time, South Dakota’s children getting an additional day of an unexpected vacation.

Vice President addressed crowds in Joplin as rebuilding continues
By Maci McDonald
Vice President Thune and Mayor Mike Woolston toured the now vacant area around the former hospital in Joplin that was in the heart of the devastation path caused by the tornado that struck the town last year. The Vice President later spoke to area business leaders, promising continued funds to rebuild. “When one city in this country suffers a disaster like this we all pull together, like the community we are, to pull one another out of the rubble and into the light of a better tomorrow.”

Sports
CONCACAF Champions League sees Sporting KC challenge Cosmos, St. Louis draws Boston, Minnesota plays Santiago
UP Wire
The draw for the group stages of the CONCACAF Champions League was held this afternoon in Mexico City. Mexican powerhouses America and Chivas de Guadalajara will anchor groups A and D respectively with the New York Cosmos and Los Angeles Stars as the main draws in pools B and F. The Group of Death in this round will be Group C where GPUR leaders, Gateway FC of St. Louis, will encounter the Boston Bears, Baltimore Americans, and San Diego Nomads.
Group A
Club America (Mex), Arizona Condors (SWC), FC Industrial de Habana (Cub), Olympique Montreal (Que)
Group B
New York Cosmos (IRNA), Hamilton AFC (Ont.) Lone Star AFC (TX), Sporting Kansas City (GPUR)
Group C
Boston Bears (NEC), Baltimore Americans (IRNA) Gateway FC (GPUR) San Diego Nomads (CAL)
Group D
Chivas de Guadalajara (Mex) Front Range FC (RMR) S. V. United (Cal) Toronto Celtic (Ont.)
Group E
Atlanta Greys (CSA), Houston Dynamo (TX), Rangers de Quebec (Que) Seattle Sounders F.C. (Cal)
Group F
Brooklyn Hispano (IRNA), Minnesota Strikers (GPUR), Cruz Azul (Mex), Birmingham City (CSA)
Group G
Charleston City Battery (CSA), Fall River S.C. (NEC), Philadelphia Unions (IRNA), Real Santa Fe F.C. (SWC)
Group H
Temple S.C. (UT), Athletico Santiago (Cub), Fort Worth Rangers (TX), Miami Fusion (CSA)

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Ron Paul, Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, John, Bobby, and Teddy Kennedy?

Dr. Ron Paul M.D. -- Chief of Obstetrics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (1977-1990) -- Left medicine to to run for Congress, winning a House seat representating for a suburban Pittsburgh district representing the Galtist League since 1990. One of the most visible supporters of the presidential campaign of Paul Ryan.

Ronald Reagan -- Reagan began his working life as a radio announcer in Iowa before the breakup of the USA. After the breakup Reagan decided to head for a rebuilding Hollywood to be a movie actor. His goldened tone voice caught the attention of a young L.A. PR hawk named Pete Rozelle, who signed Reagan to be the radio voice of the Los Angeles Rams football club. From 1957-1972, Reagan was one of the most listened to sports voices on radio in North American. His rugged good looks grabbed Johnny Carson's notice. The late night talk show star-turned Network CEO hired Reagan to be a sports commentator for the Carson Television Network in 1973. From 1975 to his retirement in 1995, Ronald Reagan won 11 North American Emmys for his broadcasting . Reagan is remembered of the most loved voices on North American Television, almost as loved as the founder of CTN himself. Reagan was the host of CTN's Olympic coverage, and the lead play-by-play man of their coverage of the Pacific Continental Football League, and he was on play-by-play for 6 Super Bowls. He's' best known for his work on Golf, were his voice became as much of a tradition as the Four Majors of Golf themselves.

Reagan died in 2005, where he was given a full state funeral with military honors near his California ranch. Then-California President Bob Dornan said, "Ronald Reagan is a national treasure to the RGC. His like will never been seen again."

Gen. Barry "Hell Or High Water" Goldwater GRAF -- Barry Goldwater's family moved to California in 1919, when the Goldwater's department store they founded in Phoenix expanded into Nevada and California, unfortunately, the chain was shrank in the Great Depression, and we reformed entirely in what would became the Republic of Greater California. Barry, while in graduate studies at Occidental College joined the Collegiate Corp of the building Greater California Air Force. Goldwater began his career as a fighter pilot in 1937, but moved from the pilot seat into squadron leadership by 1939.

In 1941, he was a flight leader in a series of brush wars between California and Japan. Over the next three years, California and Japan would engage in conflicts in the Pacific. Goldwater became a known name with high command staff in Sacremento and from Imperial Japanese military planners in Tokyo.

By the end of 1944, California had forced Japan to the negotiating table, and then Major Goldwater, became Colonel..and by 1953, he had his first star.

General Goldwater was placed in command of the California North American 1st Air Force. Its prime mission was the deal with the situation with North America's more volatile member states. The eastern bloc Industrial Republic and the southern Confederate States.

Goldwater theories on preparedness and containment at times rubbed politicians raw. He had more than a few loggerheads with a legion of California political leaders over the years including Presidents Jerry Voorhies, Edmund "Pat" Brown, Richard Nixon and Jerry Brown, whom Goldwater had a special distaste.

Goldwater's command received a stern test, and the first of many great moments with the commission of California troops to aid the Great Plains United Republic during the beginning of hostilities with the CSA in 1958.

Goldwater's corps were critical in winning and maintaining air superiority which broke the back of CSA attempts to invade and save the lives of numbers of African-decended dissidents trying to escape the CSA.

His actions in that conflict earned him another star. The 1960s would make Goldwater a legend.

It was 1963, the Trade Wars. The struggle in the Pacific between a hostile Communist China and their client states in the former French Indochina, and Chinese Free Republic, Malaya, and the "Field Hockey Treaty Organization" led by Australia-New Zealand.

California and their newly forged friendship with Japan entered the fray, and Barry Goldwater was given the aerial command.

Goldwater had already gained notoriety for his theories on the use of California's newly built nuclear stockpile, and he feared that such a stockpile may be needed.

California, Australia and Japan combined excellent planes with tactics. Goldwater's planning was the scourge of the Red Chinese from 1963-1965, and he became their undoing in 1966, ultimately Goldwater's theories on the use of the nuclear weapon became practice in August 1966, when Australia and California jointly authorized release of nuclear weapons on the People's Republic of China in retaliation for Red Chinese bombing of Tibetan forces and their use of a strategic weapons on a coastal city in the Chinese Free Republic.

General Goldwater and his staff planned the retaliation strike on Wuhan, PRC and a small tactical strike on a military target 60 kilometers outside of the main strategic target.

By this point of his career however Goldwater also sought controls on the construction of nuclear weapons, after being a part of an aerial surveiliance team that saw the devastation of both cities. In 1968 Goldwater was a part of a group military leaders who openly supported the 1968 Cairns Convention of Nuclear Armaments, and was especially offended by one nuclear power who did sign them.

"Since the Confederate States of America has decided not to be a nation willing to be responsible with nuclear weapons. Let it be known that their response to the Cairns Convention is noted by California, and we will prepared to meet these corn-pone barbarians head on. They seek to intimidate us and target peaceful peoples of North America. They will know that California will respond, and if necessary will respond on Richmond, Miami, Atlanta, Memphis, Birmingham...wherever they live. Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit is no virtue." -- Gen Barry Goldwater to a joint session of the Greater California National Legislature

The "Pat Brown Doctrine" that was made in response to Confederate provocation and threat of using nuclear weapons against Texas and the GPUR by the view of many historians should have been called "The Goldwater Doctrine", It was one of few things that Goldwater and the politicians ever agreed on.

In his later years, Goldwater pushed to make California military what he called "a model for a smart opportunity society", a political conservative with a libertarian streak, Goldwater stood against Richard Nixon's opposition to the military's "All For Republic" program which sought to recruit high achieving students of African and Hispanic descent to consider military careers, and Goldwater was one of the first in the military establishment to stand with California Vice President Harvey Milk, who called for an end on the prohibition of homosexuals in military service in 1983.

"Why did a stand for those things? Because all Californians who love their country and want to serve it should have the opportunity. It doesn't matter if your Black or Mexican or Asian or whatever. If you can drive that tank, plot a course, program a missile system, if you are willing to work for something bigger than yourself than the door should be open. Hell, you don't need to be straight to serve California's forces. You only need to shoot straight." -- Gen. Barry Goldwater in Conscience Of A Californian: An Autobiography (Storm Media of California, 1995)

Goldwater retired from service in 1986. He retired as perhaps the most decorated military leader in California's history. His legacy best lives at the California Air Force Academy in Anaheim...The campus lovingly nicknamed "Goldswaterville" these days. Even the Presidents with whom he disagreed all respected him. Recently, Universal Television did a show were they sought to rank the "Ten Greatest Californians". Barry Goldwater ended up 3rd place behind former President Edmund G. Brown and entertainment magnate Johnny Carson. But the episode dedicate to Goldwater got the highest ratings of any of the top 10.

The Kennedys -- The Kennedy family dynasty has dominated politics in the United Commonwealth of New England literally since the nation was organized in 1937. Beginning with the Patriarch, Joseph Kennedy and extending through the longtime rule of Prime Minister Robert Kennedy and his brothers in the UCNE Parliament in the 1960s and 1970s, and now the next generation of Kennedys are beginning to make their presence felt.

It is very fitting on one hand. The UCNE is probably the most British nation in North America and has some of the closest relations to the UK. The Kennedy family have been called "The Windsor Cousins" by the Press in the UK and many of the Kennedy children are friends with the younger Windsors. (ex: John F. Kennedy Jr. oldest son Francis Xavier, a member of the UCNE Forces elite counterterrorism team was on maneuvers in Wales with his good friend/helicopter pilot Prince William.)

But the irony is also in that the "royal" Kennedys, true to their heritage, have been staunchly pro-Ireland in disputes between the Emerald Isle and Westminister, which at times has strained the relationship with the tiny North American nation and the UK.

The Age of Camelot -- What historians call the period when all three Kennedy brothers served as the government. From 1965 to 1980, the Kennedy led Liberal Democrat Party controlled Faneuil, the site of the UCNE Parliament in the national capital at Boston. Robert Kennedy was Prime Minister. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a Flag Admiral in the UCNE Navy known as "Commander Carrier" for his work in building the nuclear carrier forces one of world's premier navies, was Minister Of Defense, and young Ted, the LDP whip in the UCNE Parliament would be known as one of the longest serving MPs in history and the father of the National Health Service. Ted's firebrand style as an MP and no compromise stances on issues would earn him the nickname "Teddy Benn", after the equally fiery British Social Democratic MP.

In those 15 years, the UCNE became a nation who's influence in world affairs was much bigger than its size. New England was often the "Honest Broker" in world disputes. The nation would also be known as beacon for Human Rights. UN Peacekeeping Forces are often led by New England-trained commanders, many trained in "Boston Yard". The nation's military academy at Cambridge, right across the road from legendary Harvard University.

In 1980 though, economic issues led to Conservative rule for the first time in nation's history. Since then Government has switched hands between the LDP, the UCNE Conservatives (a.k.a. The Damned Tories), and the New England Minuteman Party, which rose to power with party leader Lowell Weicker in the 1990s. Currently the Conservatives, led by Lincoln Chafee, run the country, but there are a lot of speculators looking at the possibility of the LDP bringing about "Camelot II" as a young aggressive LDP has won 6 straight by-elections in the last 2 years. There are growing schisms within the Conservative Party, some say that Chafee is too soft right. Those people favor maverick hard right Tories like Scott Brown and John Tortarella, who is gets as much notice for his mouth as he does for his politics. The Boston Tabs call him "Instant Writer's Cramp".
And there's is a small but influencial Galtist movement in UCNE politics led by Carla Howell.

Now for the entertainers

Chris Daughtry -- Grew up in North Carolina in the CSA. Studied Music at the University of Charlotte Conservatory, seeing how the Nashville seen was so government controlled, and being a musician who cited the Beatles as a model, Daughtry defected from the CSA to the UK at age 22. At 32 Daughtry is a worldwide star, with three platinum albums and a Eurovision Song Contest win to his credit. His style is a mix of Deep Delta blues and 60s British Rock, which he's fused into a new sound that is making waves in Europe and in North America. He is currently in Austin, LSR Texas working on his next project with...

Kelly Clarkson -- "She's been called "the young Texas Rose". Clarkson is one of a group young sexy, no-hold barred female artists known one as Dorothy Ann's Daughters" named after Texas women's right icon Dorothy Ann Willis,
Clarkson sound is uncompromising sexy, but also uncompromising pro-woman and pro-Texas. She is a disciple of the Austin-led "New Nashville Moment" that sees itself as preserving country music through the fusion of all ends of its roots in the south but at same time resisting what many dissident artists term as "the debasing of southern heritage and tradition for vulgar power" and Willie Nelson termed it in the 1970s

Clarkson's 2011 album "Stronger", co-produced by Prince Rogers Nelson, blasted sales records in North America and Asia, and it became the first New Nashville album to reach the BBC Top of the Pops overall #1.

And one of her best friends and creative rivals done pretty well, too.

Carrie Underwood -- Her smile is posted in the bedroom of many young boys in the GPUR. The sunny, sultry Oklahoman is a singer-actress-music executive and budding politician as well. She's currently a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives for her home in Checotah, Oklahoma. She has long been active in local politics and was elected under the GSCP banner.

But that hasn't stopped her from achieving her dreams in song. Since her dramatic victory in the 2004 North American Song Contest, her career has taken off. Since putting together her first album under her own label (Checotah Arts), and seeing it go double-platinum, Underwood has become a sensation in the GPUR, the Southwest, California and has become breakthrough artist in Texas, which is normally tough in country artists who's root are not necessarily in the Texas/Nashville dissident community. Underwood as earned her stripes, and a Texas National Fair last week, she paid the ultimate complement by Natalie Maines, spiritual leader of "Dorothy Ann's Daughters", she proclaim Underwood and honorary daughter.

Underwood is also involved with issue of prisoner of conscience in the CSA, especially those in the music field. Her along with Daughtry and many young country artists are supporters of the growing "18 Movement". Remember that name...I think you will be hearing more from them.

Lifehouse -- A group of California kids who began in mainstream rock, but found their fortune in the fusion of west coast rock and J-Rock and in turn became the first J-Rock act outside of Japan to go number one in Japan beginning with their 2006 self-titled album "Lifehouse", and continuing with their 2010 album "Smoke and Mirrors".

Their efforts and schedule have finally got them on the big stage. They are going to be on the coveted "Target Bullseye Center Stage" for next weeks Concerts For Conscience in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Michael Jackson -- Partner in QJ/MJ, a music, television and film production firm started by Quincy Jones in 1978.
In fact, Jones' first client was Jackson, and they produced a string of albums and acts calling it "New Millennium Soul". featuring sounds throughout the African diaspora and featuring popular music from around the world. The first effort that really hit the world running hit the shelves in 1983. Co-written by Jackson, Jones and QJ/MJ artist/career management guru Steveland Morris, result was "Thriller", considered in equal measure by fans and music experts as probably one of the greatest technical and musical albums in pop music history. Thriller was a worldwide hit, even the CSA's censorship couldn't keep kids from getting their hands on it.

They don't called Michael Jackson, "The King Of Pop" for nothing. But Jackson only made three more albums after Thriller. By 1989, he burnt out with performing. He was happiest finding new talent. After a difficult childhood , growing up poor and abused in Gary Indiana, his family left Indiana in the 60s and headed to California. It was at a talent search where Michael and brothers were found by entertainment producer Barry Gordy, who was looking to revive his "Motown" label after moving from Detroit in the prejudiced security minded IRNA to a more open Greater California.

The Jackson Brothers became a marquee act in the building West Coast R&B explosion of the 1960s and 1970s, but Michael chaffed under the musical demand of his father and Gordy. Young Michael was influenced by the by the exotic sounds and messages coming Steveland Morris, whom Michael idolized.

Also through a friendship between the group a fan/radical politician named Huey Newton, young Michael was gaining a political consciousness that was always there but began to grow. Seeing displacement, and bias growing up Indiana, seeing some of same in the industry in California, and the continuing aftereffects of the breakup of the United States and the ethnic strife in pockets in the continent influence Michael's songwriting. But "message music" from frown upon by Gordy, he said "It'll get you noted by all the wrong people, just like that damn fooled Quincy Jones, and it don't sell."

By 1976, Michael had the burning ambition to prove Berry Gordy wrong.

In 1978, Michael made his break. Thanks to Newton, MJ met QJ and his idol Steveland Morris..

In 1980, the wrote and produced "Off The Wall", a high-energy R&B album who's #1 "Off The Wall" which was scathing attack on the provocations of the IRNA and the CSA and a call for peace, reached #1 on the R&B charts in North America. Many Border Conflict veterans in the GPUR point to this cut as rallying cry. (Daughtry does a cover of this song that is seriously kick-ass!)

Thriller was part "Off The Wall" part "fun 80s Brit-Pop" part the evolution of sounds and rhythm of a Steveland Morris and an example of Michael Jackson's ability as a song writer. Beginning with "Beat It", a song detailing his young life in Indiana and his creative feuds with Gordy. "Thriller" a high-energy dance cut which also is known for truly making the short-form music video a mainstay in popular music and in film (today both the Oscars Festival and Cannes give awards for music-based short productions)

"Berry G" which is a uptempo slam on Berry Gordy saying "Message Music Doesn't Sell"

"Man In The Mirror" a duet with good friend and influence Paul McCartney calling for all nations work for peaceful solutions.

"Human Nature" -- if you though "She's Out Of My LIfe" could make you grab a kleenex...

In short Thriller was incredible. It was fun, soulful, it could hit wide range of emotions and fans...and conclusively proven Berry Gordy wrong. A album could have songs with a message...and sell a lot of record. Actually in this multipolar world, message music tends to find a lot of niches.

Now to be sure, there's still the music corporatists, and Industry Rule #4,080 is still in effect, but there is a lot more balance especially in North America, because more of the world is exposed to people who've had to suffer for their art (T.A.T.U been detained in Soviet Russia for what four years now? Move over girl, make room for Pussy Riot) , been displaced for their art or in the case of Tammy Wynette and as some people think Buddy Holly, killed for their art.

Today Michael Jackson is happy. He recently celebrated his 20th anniversary with his wife Lisa Marie at their villa in Nice, France.They have four children. His girls are already eying "the family business". 18-year-old Melisa will pursue her interest in New Nashville music while studying music engineering and business at the University of Texas. 15-year old Paris is starting high school and is very interested in modeling. Michael's next door neighbor in Nice is taken to coaching her. With Iman as a coach, Paris is in good hands.

The boys are doing it differently. Michael Jackson Jr. has shown serious potential as a footballer. He is currently in England living with "Uncle Paul" McCartney and is in Chelsea FC's Elite Academy.

Their fourth kid, Jermaine Tito Randall, born in 2003 is just being a kid...but he spends a lot of time with "Granpa Quincy". Young Jermaine running the empire? Stay tuned.

Right now MJ's been spending months hitting the gym, the track and mixing in a lot of salads to get back in shape. He and Prince Rogers Nelson are going to perform together at the big show in Bloomington next week. It is Michael's first live appearance in 6 years, and its billed as a triple tribute to Steveland Morris, MJ's father-in-law Elvis Presley, and the late great Jaime Brown.

[Chipperback]

CTN News Overnight --- Latest Headlines

-- Soviet Russian officials are denying Texan charges of spying and attempted sabotage in an incident in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday. Texas claims that agents of Russian intelligence, in what they termed a "drug runner boat" were coming to close to the exclusion zone around restricted South Padre Island.

-- Here at home, the South Dakota School Lockout crisis enters day 3, and now there's a flap over testing. The Assistant Secretary for education in South Dakota scalded the committee that builds the national Eisenhower examination as "out of touch" and "tool of special interests" We will have the Assistant Secretary and a representative of the Eisenhower Scholastic Trust on CTN Sunrise later this morning.

-- In Sports News: We have playoff game this afternoon as the Iowa Oaks and the St. Louis Cardinals meet for a division title. The game was scheduled for yesterday but was rained out. Winner advances to the Plains Series, and the Winner of the Plains Series moves onto the World Series competition faces some of best baseball teams in the world.

-- Entertainment News: New England Comedian/Actor Adam Sandler annouced that he will shoot his next project in the GPUR. Sandler's movie "The Athletic Trainer", he said the movie is "a funny look as college football from the place were people really love it." Sandler said he's scouting locations, but most likely it will be done in Oklahoma if an agreement can be reached with the University of Oklahoma.

-- On the lighter side of the news, a picture of Presidential Candidate gone viral. Over the weekend while campaigning at a mall in Minnesota, PFL hopeful Kathleen Sebelius was caught by a camera phone taking a long look and rather slinky apparel at a Wynter's Boudoir store.
A local PAP candidate showed it as a sign of, "The moral debachery of the PFL"

What its led to is a torrent on the social media sites, a FriendSphere page titled, "Spaghetti Straps Sebelius" already has 50,000 "likes" and the PAP candidate? Well lets just say he's not as well liked.

There's been no official word from the campaign on this, but a spokeperson for the lingerie chain said, "We think in this harsh campaign year that voters would love to see candidates show a softer side."

Programming note -- Join us for CTN Sunrise at 7am...AND tonight CTN News has all the bases covered for the second presidential debate..this one on education and youth issues from Oklahoma A&M University...CTN News coverage begins at 7:30pm Central Summer Time.

[Orville_third]

I may want to reserve a post for October 22nd in the "Land of Confusion" thread. I'd have to work things out with you- and get the style down.

[SonOfFreedom]

Did you not factor in Chris Daughtry and Lifehouse's roots in Christian music?

This is a well thought out timeline alongside its companion regarding the IRNA. Keep it up.

[Chipperback]

"Chris Daughtry and Lifehouse's roots in Christian music?"

It depends on what you mean by "Christian music". The styles have drastically changed, as has religious practice in general in many ways. To be sure it was factored in, especially in building an alternative Daughtry. That is a major part of who he is as an artist, perhaps even more so that the Daughtry we know IOTL.

In some ways, contemporary christian music as we would know it in our timeline in seen by more than a few ITTL as a propaganda tool of the CSA, unfortunately. A lot of mainstream styles we would find IOTL have been co-opted by Atlanta in many cases to sell their socio-political agenda.

In response, many gospel artists, christian musicians and New Nashville artists havemade a strident point of returning to the old classics. Perhaps giving them modern upgrades, but staying true to the spirit and tenor of that music. Even the "Outlaw Artists" will do a church record in a heartbeat. In many cases covers of the old standards like "Old Rugged Cross" or its new things written in a style remininscent of the early 20th or even 19th century hymnals. The fan base expects it.

That "Old Time Religion" is still a definite part of country music and R&B in within Texas and the GPUR and to some extent the IRNA, even though such expression in the IRNA is muted because that society is more restricted as far as expression as whole. In the recording studios and industry boardrooms in Dallas, Waco, Kansas City and Minneapolis, christian and gospel music just like jazz and the blues comes from a very deep background, and in this world a more recent frame of reference for a greater number of people. The old negro spirituals of the cotton fields of slavery for example, are also the battle songs of a people of clawing through Tennessee or Arkansas trying to flee the CSA and of the Texas and GPUR troops manning borders irregardless of race.

In the case of Lifehouse, they've had a different evolution ITTL, not to discount those roots, but they have not been as deep as they were in this reality as they were in ours. Lifehouse as a group musically is different in ITTL in part because of where they grew up how their environment is influenced by popular culture around them. California is even more different ITTL, in part because California has had as much as a kinship with Australasia, Japan, and Korea as they've had with North America. There is a slightly greater distance between Californian culture and the culture of its fellow North American countries in some respects.

The balancing factor is that like IOTL, California has become a center of popular culture and the entertainment industry, even more so here because California is an independent nation with a larger identity and its a gateway to multiple cultures to a greater extent.

As far as popular culture in this timeline, I see it the same way as race relations have gone in this timeline. There's a greater spread between countries that there are between individual pieces of the same country For example in the GPUR, there's been such a history of shared sacrifice and struggle that in many ways people see themselves as citizens of the GPUR, Plainsmen, Plainswomen, Plainsians etc. first and whatever race they are second to a greater degree. Fighting six wars on your soil in the space of 76 years and hearing the stories of those who escaped hell on earth tends to do that. Not to say that there is no racial bias in the GPUR, not by a longshot. Some do question "Are we bending too far?" Other charge "We haven't gone far enough."

However, in Free North America, the countries west of the Mississippi, as a whole ITTL 2012, race relations are at least 20% better than they are in IOTL.

In the IRNA, race relations are about at IOTL 1980 in many day-to-day interactions and in law, justice, economics, opportunity, etc. In the CSA race relations haven't moved much farther than 1861, although there was hopes for radical change in the 1970s and reforms in the late 1990s. However with the economic, political and cultural situation within the country right now, there is an undercurrent seeking change.

"This is a well thought out timeline alongside its companion regarding the IRNA. Keep it up.

I appreciate that. Any ideas you have please keep them coming. I love writing this stuff and contributors are welcome.

[Jonathan Edelstein]

This is fun.

What happens if no candidate wins a majority - is a plurality enough to win, or is there a second round?

[Chipperback]

There used to be a two-round system in place until the 1992 Election. Under the 1990 Multiparty Election act, the voting system for any election involving was changed to an instant-runoff system.

When you go into the voting booth, you rank the candidates 1-how ever many candidate there are. When the votes are counted in total, the field is broken down to the final toe and from there all the votes for higher ranked of two candidates are counted, the one with the majority in the race is a winner. That decides the winner, but every vote does count because of proportional representation.

There is a computerized system built by Sayers Microsystems that has been in place since 2004 and is strictly monitored under the 2002 Electronic Vote Act, which mandates that Sayers Microsystems must be completely transparent in terms of the source of the architecture, algorithms and the code of the program.
A hard copy of the schematics, architecture and code can be obtained at your library and is available to all citizens of the nation at any time.

The voter has a right to a paper receipt of his ballot the ballot is not counted into the paper receipt which also codes a barcode showing the result of what they choose. The vote is not counting until that barcode if confirmed read by a central terminal that it at the vote site. There is also a paper backup of that component.

Plus all elections are subject to UN monitoring. The monitors under international law cannot be a from country within that continent. Traditionally Scandinavian and Africa monitors have been used for GPUR elections.

[Chipperback]

You are looking live at Gallagher-Iba Arena on the campus of Oklahoma A&M University -- Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Tonight, the candidates will be facing an audience of young voters mostly, ages 18-25, including a panel of 100 undecided young voters. the topic of the scheduled 90 minute exchange between the Presidential Candidates will be Education...and that has been in the news since the last debate..

In Pierre, South Dakota tonight over 500 South Dakota teachers marched on the state capitol where negotiations continuing between union representatives and government representative including South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds, there's a lot of TV sets out here, as teachers watch the upcoming Presidential Debate. You can be sure that this situation in South Dakota will be discussed tonight. Our coverage from Stillwater, Oklahoma will begin on GPBC News 24 and GPBC 1 at 7:30...