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[Jervill]

Mainiac, from the sounds of it, is in MD-1 (Maryland's Eastern Shore), the only district Republicans will hold after this year.  Democrats controlled redistricting, so designed a map to try to ensure a 7-1 Democratic majority.  A really weak map, IMO, it was possible to make an 8-0 map if the Dems hadn't been so keen on not ruffling their incumbent's feathers.  Also, 2 districts have to obey the Voting Rights Act, which is why the map is so damn ugly.

[Shadowlord]

There's apparently a libertarian candidate there? http://www.uselections.com/md/md.htm
That also says there's a Tea Party write-in candidate, but eh.

[Moghjubar]

Meanwhile... voter registrations being dumped in dumpsters:  http://www.nbc29.com/story/19836183/investigation-launched-over-trashed-voter-registration-forms

Also, from http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/doh/

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The car that drove up was a black Toyota Camry with Pennsylvania license plates.  Who would be in the Valley from Pennsylvania and have a bunch of completed voter registration forms that they wanted to destroy?

Once this story hit Facebook, a number of people pointed out to the person who witnessed this crime that the state GOP "Victory Office" was just a couple blocks away.  Yesterday afternoon, guess what car was parked in front of the office?

Yep, a black Toyota Camry from Pennsylvania.

Police are investigating and the local media has begun reporting on this story.  The Sheriff (a Republican) has said the person who destroyed the forms was a different person than who collected them.  NBC29 also reports that the Sheriff will decide if this is a criminal case today. 
 

Update: An arrest was made
http://blogs.nbc12.com/decisionvirginia/2012/10/arr.html
12 felony counts, weee felonies!

[Nadaka]

http://ivn.us/ca-election-center/2012/10/11/ivn-us-to-host-first-online-presidential-debate/

Gary Johnson VS Jill Stein debate!

[kaijyuu]

Update: An arrest was made
http://blogs.nbc12.com/decisionvirginia/2012/10/arr.html
12 felony counts, weee felonies!

Man, why do they always pick the pictures that make the accused look like serial killers?

The dude's probably guilty but he hasn't actually gone to trial yet, so showing him in the worst light possible is a bit... dirty and underhanded. It bugs me.

[Scelly9]

It's a mugshot, they do that.

[Leafsnail]

We associate serial killers with police mugshots, and thus we end up associating police mugshots with serial killers.  It's kindof inevitable.

[Nadaka]

eh? looks like the Johnson-Stein debate had major technical difficulties.

[scriver]

Update: An arrest was made
http://blogs.nbc12.com/decisionvirginia/2012/10/arr.html
12 felony counts, weee felonies!

Man, why do they always pick the pictures that make the accused look like serial killers?

The dude's probably guilty but he hasn't actually gone to trial yet, so showing him in the worst light possible is a bit... dirty and underhanded. It bugs me.

I'm not comfortable with them showing how face and name at all before he's sentenced. I don't get why foreign media does that, over here it would be considered very unprofessional. Well, if done by the traditional news, at least. Another reason I think the new blogg-journalists is a bunch of unethical hacks.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It's all a public record already, so you could get the face and name if you wanted to even if the media didn't.

[Sheb]

Well, it doesn't have to be public record. In France for exemple it's not, so there was much much outrage when DSK was paraded around after his arrestation.

[mainiac]

Mainiac, from the sounds of it, is in MD-1 (Maryland's Eastern Shore), the only district Republicans will hold after this year.  Democrats controlled redistricting, so designed a map to try to ensure a 7-1 Democratic majority.  A really weak map, IMO, it was possible to make an 8-0 map if the Dems hadn't been so keen on not ruffling their incumbent's feathers.  Also, 2 districts have to obey the Voting Rights Act, which is why the map is so damn ugly.

It's more that they didn't want to risk having their gerrymander turn into a dummymander if they have a bad election some time in the next ten years.  Also the MD-1st district is a district that could potentially be competitive without a democratic wave.  The district is divided into two very culturally distinct areas with a big old bay dividing them.  The democrats won in the past by recruiting a strong candidate from the eastern, more conservative half.  The republican incumbent is from the western shore, which is suburban not rural and less conservative.  The result is that in the past two elections democrats have done better in the more rural parts of the 1st district then republicans have.  We also have the potential of a very strong candidate in former-republican incumbant Wayne Gilchrest (who's from the eastern shore).  Gilchrest sat out this year but expressed interest in a write in candidacy after Rosen dropped out in scandal, so we might see him in 2014.  If Gilchrest did win the republicans probably wouldn't be able to find a new strong candidate so it's possible that he could hang onto the seat for a few elections in a row.

[scriver]

It's all a public record already, so you could get the face and name if you wanted to even if the media didn't.

So what if people can get the info if they make themselves the trouble? That's not even relevant to whether it is ethical and professional of the media to broadcastplaster it all over the walls.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Scriver, the media doesn't care about ethics or professionalism.

[Nadaka]

Scriver, the media doesn't care about ethics or professionalism.

Sure they do. The media corporations have a professional and ethical obligation to the profits of their shareholders. Reporting anything other than the most salacious and sensational news would violate corporate ethics.

...

On a less cynical note, what are the ethics behind a journalist choosing to not cover a story because it negatively impacts the opinion of a public figure? That is at least as ethically questionable, if not more so than reporting the names and picture of said figure after an arrest.