Archive for October, 2010

Friday Open Thread

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The Friday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

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New Monmouth Poll Gives 10% Lead To Coons

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A new Monmouth poll shows a shrinking lead for Chris Coons, 10%, compared to 19% in their last poll. The poll also shows Carney leads Urquhart by 7%.

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Chris Coons on Stuff Besides Jobs

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I asked Mr. Coons what issues he hasn’t gotten to talk about this year because of the time spent discussing the economy and jobs. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_K-6inaAHA[/youtube]

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Christine O’Donnell Responds To The Gawker Story

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Christine O’Donnell responds to the Gawker story by blaming “classless Coons goons.”

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DL interviews Chris Coons: Science!

Filed in Delaware, Science and Health by on October 29, 2010 4 Comments

In Part 2 of our interview with Chris Coons, Unstable Isotope asks Mr. Coons to talk about how he will use his background in science to inform his decisions in the Senate.

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FDU Poll: Carney Leads By 17%, Flowers-Bonini Tied

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John Carney leads Glen Urquhart by 17% (53%-36%) in the U.S. House race. Flowers and Bonini are tied (42%-41%) and Wagner leads Korn by 10%. Beau Biden has a 42% lead over the Libertarian and write-in Republican candidate for Attorney General.

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Thursday’s Asshat of the Day

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Asshat doesn’t even begin to describe today’s winner. Bully, homophobe, f-tard come to mind. Today’s winner is Clint McCance, who’s a member of the Midland, Arkansas board of education. McCance had a problem with Spirit Day last week. Spirit Day was a day for people to wear purple to show solidarity with gay and lesbian […]

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Chris Weeks is Weak

Filed in Delaware by on October 28, 2010 5 Comments

This morning, House Majority Leader Pete Schwartzkopf and his teabagging challenger, Chris Weeks, one of St. Bodie Girl’s acolytes, had a debate on Dan Gaffney’s show on WGOP. Weeks had challenged Pete to a debate last night at Rehoboth Elementary after arrangements had been made and before asking if Pete could be there. The only […]

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The Mysterious Case of Colin Bonini’s Vanishing M. P. A.

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The Mysterious Case of Colin Bonini’s Vanishing M. P. A.

Colin Bonini used to have an M. P. A. from the University of Delaware. So said his official profile at the Delaware General Assembly website. In fact, he used to have that M. P. A. until Monday of this week. It was an M. P. A. that he claimed to have received in 2005. The […]

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DL Interviews Chris Coons – Money and Politics

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Unstable Isotope and I got a chance to interview Chris Coons on Thursday afternoon.  I will post these over the next day or so. The first episode is two questions, one about the impact that the huge budget of Christine O’Donnell has had on his campaign.  The second question was about Mr. Coons’ thoughts on […]

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Thursday Open Thread

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The Thursday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

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New Poll Has Coons By 21%

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The new Fairleigh Dickinson University poll has Chris Coons up by 21% – Chris Coons 57%, Christine O’Donnell 36%.

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Another Incident Of Violence

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Is this really the path we’re on? A 72-year-old man was arrested for allegedly assaulting a 23-year-old activist protesting Dino Rossi’s Republican campaign for Senate in Washington state yesterday, according to local reports. The incident occured outside GOP headquarters in Walla Walla County where the demonstrator, Christie Stordeur, was “one of five protesters standing about […]

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