Archive for April, 2012
DL Tracking Poll Results — Kevin Wade (R)
According to Kevin Wade and Kevin Wade supporting PACs, Delaware needs Kevin Wade. According to Delawareans, Delaware does not want Kevin Wade. Wade has a 60% unfavorable rating, which dwarfs his 18% favorable rating. Meanwhile, 22% are saying Kevin Who? While the readers of Delaware Liberal may not like Tom Carper all that much, Kevin Wade is no alternative.
Recap of Last Night’s Education Forum
A Twitter recap of Imagine Delaware’s “Delaware’s Race to the Top: Strategies for World-Class Schools”
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Romney Criticizes Obama for Harvard Ties
With what could only be described as a bad case of amnesia, Mitt Romney has criticized President Obama again for spending “too much time at Harvard”. Yes, Obama went to Harvard for 3 years and got one degree. Romney went there for 4 years and received two degrees.
Gingrich Group Files for Bankruptcy
As you already know, the Newt is in Delaware campaigning. Yeah, we haven’t figured that one out yet, unless he’s stopping in Greenville with his hand out. Meanwhile in Georgia, “Newt Inc.”, has filed bankruptcy in an example of capitalism at its finest. Tiffany’s is very concerned.
Thursday Open Thread [4.5.12]
Now that the Republican Primary is ending, I am going to start posting campaign ads in the open threads. But before that, we do have two polls from Pennsylvania and New York showing Romney winning. That seems to confirm that yes, the race is over.
Subsidies: Big Oil and Others
If I give you $1 every year, would you give me $59 in return every year? Chances are, you wouldn’t. However, if I were an oil company and you were a member of Congress that’s exactly what happens, except you aren’t giving out your money.
Sussex Musical Chairs
As you know, the retirement of Sen. George Bunting as set up a game of musical chairs downstate, which already had two games going on with the new 6th District Senate seat and the new 20th District House seat added to the area. Last night, former Rep. Shirley Price spoke to the 38th RD Democratic Committee and announced that she will be running for her old seat.
DL Tracking Poll Results — Sen. Chris Coons (Round 2)
You know, none of these polls have varied wildly as you would expect internet polls. Last month, Chris Coons had a 70% approval rating. This month he has a 73% approval rating. Last month, he had a 16% disapproval rating. Now it is 22%.
Tomorrow’s News Today: Santorum’s Last Stand
A look into the future at the end of the Santorum campaign.
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., April 5, 2012
A glimpse inside the Delaware Way, and what it has wrought. Helene Keeley’s legislation seeking to reign in predatory lending in the form of payday loans, made it out of committee. But not before one of Delaware’s most malevolent lobbyists got an interest rate cap stripped from proposed legislation. Which, of course, wasn’t enough for him. From today’s News-Journal story:
Speaking for the Online Lenders Alliance, a payday-lending trade group, lobbyist Dave Swayze said efforts to curtail short-term lending fly in the face of Delaware’s landmark Financial Center Development Act, the 1981 law that eliminated the state’s usury statutes and allowed banks to charge unlimited interest rates. “We will let the marketplace, we will let the buyer and seller, the contract entered into by them, determine the terms of the loan,” he said.
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