* 1950s-80s: Right feels put out by the “liberal consensus” and communicate via direct mail and media connected to the church, this becomes a considerable tool in fighting for Reagan and Bush I.
* 1990s: In opposition, con talk radio comes into its own led by Rush. Drudge joins in and Fox revs up.
* Early 2000s: [...]
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Mark Begich now up by 3 over CONVICTED FELON Ted Stevens.
I mean, what kind of people run the government up there???? Oh.
Now I get what all this chatter reminds me of.
“Dean had a good year last year, but we wouldn’t advise you drafting him for Health and Human Services until at least the 4th round. Those of you who pick Rahm Emanuel in the early rounds will get a pleasant surprise, however.”
The religious far right deals with exile. Don’t write, fellas.
To reiterate what I said before, I just don’t have the energy to write about elections for a while. We just went through one of the longest ones in history, and unlike idiot Chris Matthews, I don’t think life is a campaign. We have a few races to finish out the year - Georgia, Minnesota, [...]
2004 Hispanic Vote
55% Kerry 44% Bush
2008 Hispanic Vote
67% Obama 31% McCain
The GOP has alienated the fastest growing set of Americans, possibly for a generation.
Si Se Puede.
Can someone ask Larry Johnson about that “whitey” tape? KTHXBI.
I don’t want to hear anything for a long time with “2012″ or frontrunners, or people visiting Iowa or New Hampshire or the damn steak fry or the Jefferson-Jackson dinner or the flipping straw polls or delegates or super-delegates or primaries or caucuses or anything from David farking Yepsen or any of that crap [...]
So, one of the smarter things Rove and Bush tried to do is bring minorities into the Republican fold. They had to see the writing on the wall. The core constituency of the Republican party, white males, is not growing. The major reason their political influence remains disproportionately high is due to a lack of [...]
My odds of bringing Jessica Alba home. Sure, “anything” is possible, but…
In all likelihood, the Democrats will not hit 60 votes in the Senate (but come damn close, including possibly Liddy Dole’s seat). But if Sen. Obama wins, I don’t think they’ll really need to get all that way. Democrats will be at historical highs in the House and Senate, with a Democratic president. The country [...]
Black vote turning out like gangbusters. Somehow, I don’t think they’re voting for Sen. McCain.
I’m always skeptical of states running things coherently. I know we want to give local control - but to quote John McCain: “Blah, blah, blah”. They always seem to screw it up.
In Georgia, there are 12 hour lines for early voting. In Florida, Gov. Crist has to issue an executive order to extend voting hours.
Come [...]
Shame. Shame. Shame.
Police sources tell KDKA that a campaign worker has now confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter ‘B’ in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker.
Ashley Todd, 20, of Texas, initially told police that she was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield and that [...]
There’s no Bush better than Will Ferrell.
If you’re a fan of the old Andy Griffith show like I am, this is pretty awesome.
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On both sides, in numerous forums, I’ve seen people - with mind numbing regularity - talk about how they’ve seen “X” signs in their neighborhoods and that’s so many more than they saw in 2004/2000 etc. It’s an anecdote, and an even worse measure for campaign strength than the already shaky measure of how many [...]
On Fox News Sunday conservative columnist Bill Kristol said that Obama is the Tampa Rays, while John McCain is the Red Sox. Their fates in the ALCS were linked, he said…
Item!
Down to their last chance, the Tampa Bay Rays left no doubt they were World Series-worthy, after all. The young Rays completed a stunning [...]
Don’t let up, fight like you’re still 10 points behind.
Across the state, Democrats showed the most first-day enthusiasm. Of the nearly 114,000 first-day voters, 64 percent were Democrats, 21 percent Republicans and 15 percent unaffiliateds.
African American turnout was up significantly. Black voters, who make up about 22 percent of registered voters, were 36 percent of [...]
If Sen. Obama wins, the Republicans are sure to go in civil war mode. With the Democrats, the DLC wing of the party won the first few rounds and that resulted in losses in 2002 and contributed to Sen. Kerry’s loss in 2004. The grassroots (including the netroots) pushed back and that resulted in Dean [...]
But it will be the story they tell themselves if/when they lose the election.
“There’s no evidence that any of these invalid registrations lead to any invalid votes,” said David Becker, project director of the “Make Voting Work” initiative for the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Becker should know: he was a lawyer for the Bush administration until 2005, [...]
Run against an idiot like Florida Democrat Tim Mahoney who can’t keep it in his pants. If I lived in that district, I’d maybe vote for the Republican.
Well, now we know why he doesn’t like taxes and social security.
“Joe the plumber,” the Toledo, Ohio, man whose complaints about Barack Obama’s tax plan were featured in the final presidential debate, owes the state of Ohio almost $1,200 in back income taxes.
According to records on file with the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, [...]
Oliver Clark questions McCain
There are not a lot of guys in America named Oliver. There are even less black guys in America named Oliver.
So when one makes the news, I have to give him props.
I tried to get in touch via Facebook with Oliver Clark, the man who McCain said probably didn’t know what Fannie [...]
Play this game. Palin is a toughie.
Here we go again.
Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law, according to a review of state records and Social Security data by The New York Times.
The actions do not seem [...]
Oh noes.
Also, some celebs discuss why you shouldn’t vote
If a Democrat is trending positively in this region of Florida, it is not good news for the GOP ticket. Diaz-Balart is a well known factor down there (his brother used to be an anchor on the local NBC affiliate), and if the Cuban-American community is turning against him it means the GOP just might [...]
Right off the bat, I should note that I don’t have any particularly great skill at this. But then, neither do the vast majority of the talking heads on TV.
I think there’s an 85% chance Sen. Obama will win. That’s been my number for most of the election season. Right after the 2006 election that [...]
SNL really captures how McCain has debased himself and America in pursuit of the brass ring of the presidency.
Also, the sketch about the “liberals” at the New York Times was quite funny. It did what traditional conservative humor doesn’t - critique liberals from a conservative point of view while being funny.
Sen. Obama is now using the words of Republican booster Rush Limbaugh in an ad targeted at hispanic voters. It’s hard for the GOP to distance themselves from Limbaugh - this is a show the president, vice president, and president’s brother go on consistently. He keeps the hardest of the hard core base mainlined on [...]
In all this hubub about polling recently, I am reminded of this story from October of 2004
President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are deadlocked among likely voters in Hawai’i, a surprising boost for the Republican president in a state that many Democrats had considered safe for Kerry.
The findings of the Honolulu Advertiser Hawai’i Poll suggest [...]
Right here in Maryland
Maryland Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest , a nine-term centrist unseated in this year’s Republican primary, this morning endorsed county prosecutor Frank Kratovil Jr. — the Democratic nominee — to succeed him. In doing so, Gilchrest broke formally with the campaign of Republican state Sen. Andy Harris, the strongly conservative candidate who ousted [...]
On Hannity & Colmes, Sean Hannity called rapper Ludacris “radical”. Is “radical” now the catch-all for anyone who is black? Because while some of Ludacris’ lyrics may be salty, I don’t think they could be called “radical”.
Now on this same panel was deposed GOP senator Rick Santorum who compared homosexuality to bestiality. Where I’m from, [...]
The conservative opinion, yet again, finds itself left behind in the rear view mirror of history. Time and time again cons have sought to stand athwart history yelling “stop” while blacks got equal rights, women got equal rights, etc. And they just get left behind. This time its gays in the military.
Seventy-five percent of Americans [...]
You know, it’s one thing if someone gets an email forward and they believe it because it comes from a trusted authority like their friend. That is understandable. But when it crosses the line into stupidity is when you are given the evidence and are still foolish enough to stick with the misinformation.
A swing voter [...]
The shark jumped over 8 years ago, but now he wallows in the racial gutter.
Just ask MD Senator Michael Steele, Ohio governor Ken Blackwell, and PA Governor Lynn Swann!
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I’m not a genius, I just play one on the Internet.
The only true conservative on planet Earth has hit a wall.
Alan Keyes, who was recently beaten 3-to-1 for the Constitution Party nomination for President, has decided to continue his run for President as an “Independent”. In order to facilitate with ballot-access, Keyes is trying to start a new party called “America’s Independent Party”. He has [...]
In his new ad about his Bush-style no care health care “plan”, John McCain identifies himself on screen as “President McCain”. I guess we just decided to call of the election and have George Bush designate his successor just like that?
Alan Keyes was unable to get the Constitution Party nomination for president. This can only mean one thing.
The Keyes Party.
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She’s standing on a platform of Jello. Via MSNBC’s Verdict with Dan Abrams here is Sen. Clinton slamming MoveOn (and by extension everyone who’s ever had the desire to be a progressive/Democratic activist) and here is Sen. Clinton just a year ago saying what great work she thinks MoveOn has done. This of course is [...]
Personally I find all the hoopla and presidential deference given to what is, essentially, the visit of a religious leader a little out of proportion, weird, and kind of troubling. I mean, Gordon Brown is a far more essential world leader and yet you don’t see the president coming to greet him on the tarmac.
I [...]
The media’s idea of the ‘Average American’
When I saw the Meet The Press lineup I IM’d my friend to express my disgust that Meet The Press was yet again getting elite pundits like Mike Murphy, Mary Matalin, James Carville and Bob Shrum to discuss the issues of the day rather than regular Americans and the [...]
Clinton bloggers are just shocked as heck to find out that campaign events are stage managed affairs. This is either naive or stupid. Or both. But I guess you’ve gotta grasp at straws…
Next thing you know they’ll be shocked and appalled that those tv anchors aren’t just coming up with those thoughts off the top [...]
See here. Still no word on McCain’s missing returns, though the media is doing their best to cover for their boss.
I’m always amused by how the “independent” conservative opinionsphere - blogs, cable tv, and talk radio - tends to simultaneously come up with the same idea, usually bad. Today’s idea is for Mitt Romney to run as McCain’s running mate. Put aside the fact that I and many others think Romney is a supremely disingenous [...]
Ok, the Clinton people aren’t even really trying now. This ad is stupid.
UPDATE: One of Ambinder’s commenters hits the nail on the head for why this ad stinks.
Did the focus groups really like this one? It makes no sense to me. Economic crises don’t come all of a sudden, they develop over days and even [...]
It involves llamas.