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Open Thread for Friday, October 7, 2016
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R), the chairman of the super PAC backing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, has refused to extend the Tuesday deadline for voter registration as requested by Hillary Clinton’s campaign due to Hurricane Matthew, Politico reports.
Said Scott: “Everybody has had a lot of time to register.”
Scott is the Chairman of the Trump's Florida campaign. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has extended her state's deadline.
Never vote for the party that does not want you to vote.
UD Poll: Markell, Denn, Coons, Carper, Carney and Simpler all viewed favorably
The UD Poll has released further results on the standings of our current elected officials, and the results are good across the board. Voters view Senator Tom Carper favorably by a margin of 64-17; Governor Jack Markell 62-25; Congressman Carney and 2016 Democratic nominee for Governor John Carney 59-18; Senator Christopher Coons 56-25; Attorney General Matt Denn 47-16; and State Treasurer Ken Simpler 34-10.
Open Thread for Thursday, October 6, 2016
The Atlantic, for only the third time since their founding in the 1850's, have endorsed a candidate: Hillary Clinton, who joins the ranks of Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson.
Today, our position is similar to the one in which The Atlantic’s editors found themselves in 1964. We are impressed by many of the qualities of the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, even as we are exasperated by others, but we are mainly concerned with the Republican Party’s nominee, Donald J. Trump, who might be the most ostentatiously unqualified major-party candidate in the 227-year history of the American presidency… Our interest here is not to advance the prospects of the Democratic Party, nor to damage those of the Republican Party. If Hillary Clinton were facing Mitt Romney, or John McCain, or George W. Bush, or, for that matter, any of the leading candidates Trump vanquished in the Republican primaries, we would not have contemplated making this endorsement. We believe in American democracy, in which individuals from various parties of different ideological stripes can advance their ideas and compete for the affection of voters. But Trump is not a man of ideas. He is a demagogue, a xenophobe, a sexist, a know-nothing, and a liar. He is spectacularly unfit for office, and voters—the statesmen and thinkers of the ballot box—should act in defense of American democracy and elect his opponent.
Michael Fleming’s Specious Argument
Because Tom Gordon and Karen Weldin Stewart lost, that means Harris McDowell, David Sokola, and Bruce Ennis will lose.
That's the gist of Michael Flemming's logic impaired craziness.
It Was Bound To Happen – Charters Sue Christina & State
"Fifteen charter schools have filed suit against the state Department of Education and Christina School District to get what they claim is their fair share of funding."
As you may be aware, the issue of public school districts hiding money from deserving Charters has been brought up before. Many times. Most recently in August, when the results of a months long funding adjustment made by DOE were first made public in the form of recalculated charter bills sent to the Districts. That was when the General Assembly, District leaders, and the public first became aware that changes were made and it eventually became clear that what started as a "statewide adjustment" of local per student funding was really just a thinly veiled attack on Christina School District originating from the Western Newark area.
Open Thread for Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Taegan Goddard:
Pence had a much tougher job at the outset. After Donald Trump’s disastrous debate performance last week, Pence needed to do something to reverse the momentum. He didn’t do it. Aside from brushing aside what Trump has said, it’s not clear what his strategy was. On some issues, like Russia and Syria, Pence actually disagreed with Trump. All Kaine needed to do was make the debate about Donald Trump but he couldn’t do it either. He came off as nervous and overly rehearsed. He didn’t effectively call out Pence for denying basic facts about Trump. If you scored the debate on style, Pence probably won narrowly. He looked into the camera and came off as the calmer of the two. I suspect most instant polls will find Pence the winner. However, Kaine was a much better running mate. He defended the nominee at the top of his ticket. Pence wasn’t willing to do it. After watching the debate, it’s clear that Kaine is running for vice president in 2016. But Pence sounded more like he’s running for president in 2020.
2016 VP Debate Open Thread
Have at it!
Poll: Carney, Rochester Cruising
The University of Delaware Poll that had Hillary winning Delaware over Trump by 21 points also has her down ballot Democrats doing well, unsurprisingly.
Something I Learned Today: Oct. 4, 2016
This may or may not work. It dawned on me that I come across new stuff all the time that I want to share with people. Not necessarily political stuff, but new discoveries that (I think) deserve greater attention.
So this is the start (and perhaps the end) of an infrequent series called "Something I Learned Today".