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Election Day Daily Delawhere [11.4.14]
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The New Castle Opera House, on Delaware Street in New Castle. The opera house was built in 1879, and is now used as a meeting space. Photo by Xzmattzx.
Monday Open Thread [11.3.14] — MY PREDICTIONS for tomorrow.
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If you had told Republicans a couple of months ago that they would win Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, Louisiana and Arkansas, all the while defending Kentucky, which at the time was the only competitive GOP-held seat, they would have been ecstatic. All they would need is just one more seat to win the majority of 51 from the following Democratic competitive seats: Alaska, Iowa, Colorado or North Carolina. The GOP would bet that they would win at least one of them, most likely Alaska.
I predict that the GOP will win none of them. And they will lose two of their own seats: Georgia and Kansas. That means, in the end, the Democrats will have 52 seats (51 without the Independent Orman) and the GOP will have 48. I could be completely wrong, and the GOP could win 8 seats. But I am not sensing the deep malaise and depression amongst the Democratic electorate that preceded the 2010 blowout.
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A Kent County Example of a Lack of Clean Hands: Sign Stealing in the Recorder of Deeds Race
I warned Republicans not to get too triumphant and self righteous last Thursday when it was revealed that Dana Long, the husband of Senator Bethany Hall Long, was caught stealing GOP signs that threatened Delaware with a return to their Depression-causing economic policies. What Mr. Long did was wrong, and he will pay the consequence for his crime. But certain Republican Party officials and commenters here acted like all Democrats engaged in sign stealing, and no Republican ever did. I warned them because, at that moment, I was aware of an incident in Kent County allegedly involving Lamar Gunn, the Republican candidate for Kent County Recorder of Deeds, who allegedly and personally removed the signs of his opponent, the Democratic Recorder of Deeds, Betty McKenna. I commented that I knew some evidence had been turned over to the Delaware State Police at the Troop 3 barracks. We held off on publishing the allegations until I had the evidence in hand and reviewed it. I received it last evening.
First, we have a sworn affidavit of the witness, Ronnie Allen. And we have a video….
Sunday Daily Delawhere [11.2.14]
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The Washington Street Memorial Bridge, over the Brandywine River in Wilmington. The bridge was built in 1922 and was dedicated to Delawareans who served in World War I. Photo by Xzmattzx.
Saturday Open Thread [11.1.14]
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Good news on the real Ebola outbreak in West Africa from NPR:
If you want the inside scoop about what’s happening with the Ebola outbreak, then just hangout at the Mamba Point Hotel in Monrovia.
It’s packed with scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, international reporters and a bunch of guys and gals in camouflage from the U.S. Army.They all like to hang out at the bar during lunch time. That’s where I met Joel Montgomery, a top epidemiologist at the CDC. We head off to a quiet side room, and he starts telling me about all of his trips to Monrovia.
“When I was here in August, not to sound like, making this too colorful but, I mean there were … literally dead people on the streets,” Montgomery says. “And the burial teams were picking up 50 to 60 bodies a day.”
At that point, the country had been on a devastating path. Clinics were stretched way past capacity. And even getting an Ebola test could take days, or weeks if you lived in the jungle. Samples had to be sent by a series of canoes and motorcycles to the only lab in the country.
The epidemic was doubling every few weeks. Some computational biologists were predicting more than 20,000 cases by the end of October.
But officials are seeing a very different situation on the ground now. The country has had about 6,500 cases. New cases are on a decline, dropping off by about a 100 a week, on average, since early October.
The American response prompted by President Obama is succeeding. It will be a true American success story.
More on the Illegal GOP Mailers
We have multiple violators here. There is the House Republican Campaign Committee. The Delaware House Republicans themselves. The Reform Delaware Now PAC and the Common Sense Delaware PAC. Common Sense is funded by Delaware GOP National Committeewoman Ellen Barrosse. Reform Delaware is largely funded by Dan Anderson, Delaware’s version of the Koch Brothers. If you look at the Barosse piece propping up Bryant Richardson below, and the Reform Delaware now, you’ll see that the iStock images and graphics are identical. So even though these are two separate PACs, they are clearly coordinating with messaging. That is also illegal.
Please view each of the violating and illegal mailers inside. The sections of code they’re violating are also inside.
Each candidate on whose behalf these mailers were sent should immediately denounce this illegal activity, lest they be complicit in it. I await their press releases and condemnations by close of business today.
Saturday Daily Delawhere [11.1.14]
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Red Clay Creek Presbyterian Church, on Mill Creek Road at McKennan’s Church Road in Mill Creek Hundred. The church was built in 1853. Photo by Xzmattzx.
Lack of Clean Hands: Complaints filed against GOP Organizations for Campaign Finance Violations
After the Dana Long incident, I warned Republicans against triumphalism, indicating to them that they better have clean hands when it comes to this election. While this is not necessarily directly analogous, indeed I would say this is worse, the Democratic Party has filed a complaint with the Elections Commissioner over multiple campaign finance violations by state Republican organizations. Come inside for the full release….
Kevin Wade’s Ebola Ad: A New Low for Delaware
Really, this is just…
First off, Chris Coons never said or tweeted “Stop freaking out about America’s single Ebola death.” It was the title of an article he linked to. But deception and lies are to be expected when we are dealing with Republicans. Second, even if he did say it or tweet it, Chris Coons is right, which is why is linked to that article. There is no outbreak of Ebola in the United States, no matter how much fear mongering the media and the Republicans engage in. Indeed, this ad is an hysterical attempt to make you scared of something, and then blame Chris Coons for it. Hence the allegation that being a chairman of a sub-committee on Africa in the Senate gives Senator Coons the power to stop Ebola!
That is just rich, coming from a Republican such as Kevin Wade. Let’s pretend for a moment that being a chairman of a sub-committee on Africa did empower a Senator with God-like powers to stop a virus in its tracks. Kevin Wade, as a Republican, would not have any interest in using that power to help the people of Africa. He would cut funding for scientific research the first chance he got. Hell, he would not even consider sitting on a sub-committee on Africa.
But really, I am spending too much rebutting this fearmonger of an ad, and what we should be doing is condemning Kevin Wade. I call on Charlie Copeland and John Fluharty to condemn their candidate’s fearmongering and see to it that Mr. Wade apologizes to the people of Delaware for it.
Halloween Open Thread [10.31.14]
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“Democratic efforts to turn out the young and nonwhite voters who sat out the 2010 midterm elections appear to be paying off in several Senate battleground states. More than 20 percent of the nearly three million votes already tabulated in Georgia, North Carolina, Colorado and Iowa have come from people who did not vote in the last midterm election,” according to an analysis of early-voting data by The Upshot.
I have felt all along that this election was not going to play out according to the normal media’s Republican Landslide/Obama/Democrats Repudiated narrative. The reason why is 1) the Democrats were going to do a presidential level GOTV operation to make up for the embarrassing loss in 2010, and 2) like in 1998, I felt like there was going to be GOP overreach and a pushback from the public. In 1998, the result of that was the Dems breaking even in the Senate and winning 5 seats in the House. In 2014, it will be the Dems holding onto the Senate. I will be releasing my full predictions of how the Dems will do that on Monday.
Come inside for more polls…
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