August 2012 – Page 15 – Delaware Liberal

Friday Open Thread [8.3.12]

By Delaware Dem August 3, 2012

"This isn’t about mutual tolerance because there’s nothing mutual about it. If we agree to disagree on this issue, you walk away a full member of this society and I don’t. There is no “live and let live” on this issue because [Chick-Fil-A CEO] Dan Cathy is spending millions to very specifically NOT let me live. I’m not trying to do that to him. Asking for “mutual tolerance” on this like running up to a bully beating a kid to death on the playground and scolding them both for not getting along. I’m not trying to dissolve Mr. Cathy’s marriage or make his sex illegal. I’m not trying to make him a second-class citizen, or get him killed. He’s doing that to me, folks; I’m just fighting back."

The Polling Report [8.3.12]

By Delaware Dem August 3, 2012

The big news over the last couple of days since our last polling report was the Pew poll showing a 10 point lead for Obama. Pew is a respected pollster, but this poll is probably an outlier, only because it feels like a 5-6 point race to me, with Obama in the lead. If Obama does win by 10 points, then he is heading for a massive 1984-1972-1964 landslide where he wins 40 states and the Dems retake the House by 30 seats.

Delaware Political Weekly: July 28-August 3, 2012

By El Somnambulo August 3, 2012

Signs (literally and figuratively) point to 'yes'. This week, the black clergy (20 in all) endorsed Williams. This followed previous endorsements by the Fraternal Order of Police and Wilmington firefighters. A recent drive around the Broom Street/Baynard Boulevard area revealed not only a lot of Williams signs, but many lawns sporting both Williams signs and/or Gordon and Potter signs. Meaning that Williams has, at the least, developed synergies and perhaps working alliances with these candidates. The Montgomery campaign appears to have become dependent on former Republicans (Hal Haskell? Really?), and I'm not sure what's happened to the Kelley campaign, which had lots of energy a couple of months back. All I see is that, in the case of Williams, the trend is his friend, and that's not the case for the only other electable candidates. I'm inclined to think that Tom Gordon has taken control of the NCCo. Executive race. This is one case where the AFL-CIO endorsement helps. I think that, in part, it reflects dissatisfaction amongst county employees who swallowed a 2.5% pay cut while Paul Clark was adding on an army of 'executive assistants', at least one of whom also acts as his chief fundraiser while deciding which projects move forward and which ones don't.