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Carper Tries a Campaign Combover…Er, Makeover

By El Somnambulo August 9, 201014 Comments

The Red Phone must've rung in the stately Carper manse, meaning that Ed Freel was likely on the line. The conversation could well have gone like this: Freel: "Boss, we're…

‘Non-Partisan’ CRI Reveals Its True Agenda

By El Somnambulo August 7, 201012 Comments

Any lazy members of the media who still consider the Caesar Rodney Institute non-partisan 'go-to' guys will want to reconsider after they've read this post. Either that, or admit that…

‘The Lower 41’: Fool’s Gold

By El Somnambulo August 3, 20107 Comments

"Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream." Gilbert & Sullivan Inspired by DelDem's incisive district-by-district analysis, today I focus on two districts where the conventional wisdom…

El Somnambulo’s List

By El Somnambulo July 26, 201014 Comments

*Who I'm Giving $$'s To This Campaign Season.* PRIMARIES: RD 8-Quinn Johnson: Far too valuable a first-termer to risk in a low turnout primary. RD 9-Richard Griffiths: Whoever wins the…

Working Families Party Polling for…Themselves

By El Somnambulo July 24, 20107 Comments

Got called by a pollster tonight. Always love to try to figure out just who's polling and for what purpose. Tonight's was easy. Some guy from Canada (he even said…

The ‘Lower 41’: Q: Are We Not Districts? A: We Are Paramecium!

By El Somnambulo July 23, 201066 Comments

Guidelines for drawing districts following the Census call for compactness, contiguity, and honoring the integrity of community, wherever practicable. Today, we 'honor' four districts that were drawn with none of…

5 Who SHOULD Be Challenged

By El Somnambulo July 12, 201028 Comments

2nd RD-Hazel Plant: "Vote for me and I promise to not show up for work. This is a promise that I've proudly kept for the last two terms, and I'm…

The ‘Lower 41’: Smith & the City

By El Somnambulo July 12, 20101 Comment

Three districts. All three tied up in the redistricting politics of 2002, particularly as applied to the City of Wilmington. At least two of the three to inevitably be very…

The ‘Lower 41’: To Cathcart and Beyond!

By El Somnambulo July 7, 201044 Comments

SECOND OF A CONTINUING SERIES My scholarly treatise on semiotics, the Hapsburg dynasty, Game Theory, and Gerald Brady will just have to wait for another day. Exigent circumstances in the…

The ‘Lower 41’: Surveying House Elections for 2010

By El Somnambulo July 5, 201017 Comments

FIRST IN A CONTINUING SERIES 2010 represents the Last Best Chance for Republicans to retake control of the Delaware State House of Representatives, control that they lost in 2008 after…

Disgraced DeLuca To Call Senate Back

By El Somnambulo July 3, 201020 Comments

Tony "I'm Only Lying When My Lips Are Moving" DeLuca has agreed to call the Senate back for a September session to consider HB 399, the Inspire Scholarship legislation. A…

Tony DeLuca Has Disgraced His Office. Markell MUST Call Senate Back.

By El Somnambulo July 2, 201038 Comments

One person. One person with power he does not deserve. One person who has continuously thumbed his nose at the public's right-to-know. Tony DeLuca. Remember the name. That one person,…

Blogging the House: The Final Chapter

By El Somnambulo June 30, 20109 Comments

House is back in session. I'm starting this at 7:45 p.m. and will continue until I and/or the wine hold out. House is considering SB 228(McDowell). Gerald Pepper of the…