Archive for November, 2016
The Epic Fail of the Clinton Campaign
This race shouldn’t be close. But it is. Why? Because, IMHO, the Clinton Campaign had an incredibly powerful message to attract working-class voters, but decided not to use it. Virtually every commercial and everything thrown out by the campaign against Trump that I’ve seen falls under one of two themes: (1) He doesn’t respect women. […]
The Daily Delawhere – November 4, 2016
Bayard Sharp Hall, at Main Street & Delaware Avenue in Newark. The University of Delaware building was originally St. Thomas Episcopal Church. The church was built in 1844. When the congregation moved to South College Avenue in 1956, the church became the town library, until a new library was built on Library Avenue in 1974. The university saved the structure from demolition, and turned it into a performing arts center in 1999.
The November 3, 2016 Thread
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball: “Hillary Clinton has picked an awful time to hit one of the rough patches that has plagued her throughout the campaign. Now with just days to go until Election Day, there’s added uncertainty about the outcome. But while she may not be on the brink of an Electoral College win the size of Barack Obama’s in 2008 or even 2012, her position as the clear frontrunner in this race endures.”
Cook Political Report: “A tightening race nationally has also translated into tightening at the state level. States that were trending Trump’s way in September started to slip away from him in early October. Now, with the focus more on Clinton’s emails than on Trump’s debate performances or his Twitter spats, states like Iowa and Ohio are moving back in Trump’s direction… However, these are minor, not major adjustments to the overall Electoral College map with Clinton now at 278 (8 more votes than she needs to win) and Trump at 214 (56 short of 270).”
Everybody better fucking vote, that’s all I’m sayin’
Authorities investigating a historically black church burned Tuesday night in Greenville also found “Vote Trump” spraypainted on the side. Mayor Errick D. Simmons called the attack on the century-old Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church “a heinous, hateful and cowardly act,” which is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
White Nationalist, Trump supporter sought in killing of two police officers
Possibly emboldened by the acquittal of the Bundy gang, a 46-year-old Iowa man, Scott Michael Greene, is wanted by the Des Moines Police for the ambush style murder of two police officers.
Where the money is coming from….
Chris Williams has set up a great resource called Delaware Elections 2016. There, you can track campaign donations by zip code with maps and everything. It even has our new favorite thing: heat maps. You can also get breakdowns by donation type, and given a politician (or committee), see what other committees donors are donating to. Check out John Carney’s page and then Republican nominee Colin Bonini.
Delaware Coalition Against Gun Violence’s Ranks your State Legislators
Delaware Coalition Against Gun Violence (DCAGV) took a look at how our state senators and representatives voted on a few relevant pieces of legislation, which are:
HB 217: Mandates that law enforcement enter ballistic data relating to violent crime into a national database.
HB 325: This bill closes a loophole to our gun background check laws. The current loophole allows for guns to be given to a potential purchaser if the background check is delayed for 3 days or more. In some cases a gun is given to a person who should not be in possession of a firearm.
SB 83: Among other provisions, this Act provides that any person who is prohibited from purchasing, owning, possessing, or controlling a deadly weapon because the person is subject to a Family Court protection from abuse order is so prohibited immediately upon the entry of the protection from abuse order from purchasing or otherwise obtaining, and within 24 hours of personal service of the order, from owning, possessing, or controlling any deadly weapon.
Here are the grades:
The November 2, 2016 Thread
New York Times: “Now, even as Hillary Clinton contends with inflamed Democratic anxiety over renewed scrutiny of her private email server, these once-red areas — a string of states that voted twice for George W. Bush — are providing an unexpected firewall for her campaign.”
“Democrats are already strongly confident of victory in three of them — Colorado, Nevada and Virginia — and believe that a fourth, North Carolina, is likely to break their way as well. Added to the party’s daunting advantage in the Electoral College, these states have impeded Mr. Trump’s path to amassing the 270 electoral votes needed to win, limiting his ability to exploit Mrs. Clinton’s late vulnerabilities and forcing him to scrounge for unlikely support in solidly Democratic places like Michigan and New Mexico.”
The Daily Delawhere – November 2, 2016
Houses at 3rd & Delaware Streets in New Castle. On the right is the Kensey Johns House on 3rd Street, and was built in 1789. Johns served as Chief Justice of Delaware. On the left is the Kensey Johns Van Dyke House, on Delaware Street. The house was built in 1820.
Democracy was nice while it lasted.
The sore-loser shit is really out of hand, and they haven’t even lost yet. Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) told supporters over the weekend that if Hillary Clinton is elected president he is going to work overtime to ensure she will not be able to move forward with a Supreme Court justice, according to audio obtained […]
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