Posts by jason330

I track the futures trading markets rather than polls because people are betting on outcomes with real money, and therefor stand to make (or lose) real money. That clears out the fanboys and pretenders. Of the predicting markets, I tend to look at IEM (Iowa Electronic Markets) because they have the history and larger volume of trades. So when I see "Dem to win White House" closing at $0.75, I'm impressed. [$0.75 means that people are buying and trading "Futures Contracts" called "Dem to win White House" for $0.75. If they hold onto them, those contracts will pay off $1.00 if/when that outcome happens. The more likely that outcome becomes, the close the trading price gets to $1.00] As a point of comparison, at on this day in 2008, "Dem to win White House" closed at $0.60.

Delaware's Tom Carper joined 39 Dem Senators in supporting Chris Murphy's filibuster to force a vote on closing the terror gap and gun show loophole. Where was Chris Coons?

You know you are in trouble when Kim Kardashian is thinking rings around you.

Last week I divulged my one essential candidate questionnaire question: Do you think that there is a “Democratic” approach to this office? Reading through some of the Lt. Governor candidates web sites, it appears to me that Poppiti's idea for giving the Board of Pardons direct legal authority to grant pardons for low-level, non-violent offenses is simple and rooted in Democratic principles of fairness. I can't cut and paste from the site, but click through here and give it a read.

He also snubbed Lt Gov candidates Greg Fuller and Park City's own Kathy McGuinness at this thing, but you have to wade through 651 of Celia's 693 plodding, meandering words to find it.

Friends, I don't have to tell any of you how terrible Peter Schwartzkopf is, so let's cut to the chase. Donate money to Don Peterson today and I'll match your contribution. $25.00..$50.00...$100.00 Whatever you can swing on your credit card today. Add $0.01 to the contribution so the Peterson campaign knows it is coming from this fundraiser.