Archive for October, 2013

Delaware Political Polling!

Filed in Delaware by cassandra_m on October 26, 2013 • 6 Comments

We don’t get much polling focused on Delaware, so this might be interesting. The University of Delaware’s Center for Political Communication commissioned a poll conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates that finds that AG Beau Biden is the most popular politician in Delaware. He leads the pack with 64.2% favorability– followed up by Governor Markell at 62.1%, Senator Carper at 61.3%, Representative Carney at 47.1%, Senator Coons at 47% and Chip Flowers at 28.4%.

Grading Wilmington’s City Council

Filed in Delaware by cassandra_m on October 26, 2013 • 6 Comments

So readers — we have a gauntlet:

[P]erhaps someone in Delaware Liberal should grade out City Council people once a year.

Yes, I was nominated to do this grading, but will recruit some help to get this done. First off, if you are a city voter, tell me what you want to know about your City Council and their legislative track record.

Saturday Daily Delawhere [10.26.13]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on October 26, 2013 • 0 Comments

I never thought I could like Terry McAuliffe…

Filed in National by jason330 on October 25, 2013 • 1 Comment

mostly because I never thought a dyed in the wool, liberal hating, DLC simp like McAuliffe could ever be reformed. Times change.

WHY THE VIRGINIA GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN MATTERS: Ron Brownstein has an interesting look at how Dem Terry McAuliffe’s embrace of liberal positions on social issues, gun control, and immigration highlights the Democratic Party’s larger increasing reliance on its new coalition of minorities, young voters, and college educated whites. Other red/purple state Dems are following this trend, and if McAuliffe wins, it will cement the emerging consensus that Dems should continue embracing liberal positions and rely less and less on the culturally conservative whites Dems used to fear alienating.

Friday Open Thread [10.25.13]

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on October 25, 2013 • 14 Comments

Yeah, the GOP is not racist at all:

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A few questions about ‘The Way We Were’

Filed in National by jason330 on October 25, 2013 • 5 Comments

I just saw ‘The Way We Were’ for the first time last night. Undeniably a great movie, but I have a couple of questions.

The only thing surprising about this whole Doug Gansler Party scandal is…

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on October 25, 2013 • 6 Comments

that the party was located in South Bethany. South Bethany? You breathe wrong in that town and you get arrested. You go 36 mph through the 1 mile stretch South Bethany has on Rt. 1 and you get pulled over.

Are we sure this party didn’t happen in Dewey or Rehoboth or even regular Bethany?

Friday Daily Delawhere [10.25.13]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on October 25, 2013 • 1 Comment

I so want to do this. From Ferd on Flickr.

Do I give to the DNC this year?

Filed in National by jason330 on October 24, 2013 • 9 Comments

I haven’t given to the DNC or the D triple C in ages. The emails are as full of feisty bluster as their candiates have been full of Republicanism. I don’t know now though. If we really have a shot at 37 districts, I may have to see if I could scrounge up a little dough for the cause.

Thursday Open Thread [10.24.13]

Filed in Open Thread by Delaware Dem on October 24, 2013 • 13 Comments

A conservative is sounding the alarm: Ross Douthat:

[W]hile conservatives think the Obamacare exchanges are overregulated and oversubsidized, they are actually closer to the right-of-center vision for health care reform than the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, which is happening no matter what transpires with Healthcare.gov. So if the exchanges fail and the Medicaid expansion takes effect (and, inevitably, becomes difficult to roll back), we’ll be left with an individual market that’s completely dysfunctional and a more socialized system over all.

In that scenario, the Democratic Party would probably end up pushing, not for the pipe dream of true single payer, but for a further bottom-up/top-down socialization, in which Medicare is offered to 55- to 65-year-olds and Medicaid is eventually expanded even more.

Meanwhile, the task for serious conservative reformers — already not the most politically effective bunch — might actually become harder, because they would have to explain how their plan to build an effective, exchange-based marketplace differed from the Obama White House’s exchange fiasco.

Well, when you call a former Heritage Foundation idea of establishing a private market place for health insurance “socialism,” what are you going to call actual socialism? LOL. Poor Republicans. They are just the petulant temper tantrum throwing boys who cried wolf.

Guest Post — New Castle County Council–2, Gordon Administration–0

Filed in Delaware by cassandra_m on October 24, 2013 • 2 Comments

During the October 22 committee meetings, some New Castle County Council members showed a surprising degree of independence from the Gordon administration by rejecting two of the administration’s proposals. It probably helped that vociferous Gordon allies Jae Street and Bob Weiner were not present during these committee meetings. The first proposal (presented in the Community Services Committee) to be routed was Ordinance 13-078, which would create an Office of Community Governing. This was an office established by Gordon during his first turn as County Executive.

Poised, professional Clinton gives a glimpse of 2016 campaign themes

Filed in National by jason330 on October 24, 2013 • 40 Comments

In contrast to the shrill and dystopian future championed by the GOP, Hillary Clinton will be running as the candidate of calm, reasonable professionalism. That’s how she brought the house down while dispatching this Republican heckler at the University of Buffalo. […]