Delaware

I just got polled in the NCCo. Executive Race.

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on May 23, 2012 • 9 Comments

For real this time. And by that I mean, it was a real poll, not a push poll from a union on behalf of Tom Gordon. The pollster asked my opinion on a host of issues facing New Castle County, and also asked me what I thought was the most important issue facing the county. I answered “development.” I was asked my opinion of Tom Gordon. I answered unfavorable because I consider him a criminal. Then I was asked my opinion of Paul Clark, and I said I wanted to answer undecided, but was told my only two options now were favorable or unfavorable. So I said unfavorable due to my concerns over his ethics.

I was then asked if the election were held today, who would be getting my vote, and the choices were Clark, Gordon, Shahan or undecided. I answered Shahan.

Poll Results — The Dark Side is too powerful

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on May 23, 2012 • 20 Comments

I will give Tom Gordon credit…. he has minions who follow his every edict, and those minions are pretty internet savy.

David Anderson is an evil Socialist Conspirator.

Filed in Delaware, National by Delaware Dem on May 23, 2012 • 11 Comments

I cannot wait until the showdown between Crazy Eileen and David Anderson. First Mr. Anderson claims birtherism is a distraction and that the President was born in the U.S. Then he blames Obama for birtherism because, well…. I don’t know.

Wednesday Daily Delawhere [5.23.12]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on May 23, 2012 • 15 Comments

Carney speaks at a 9th grade level – Coons speaks at a 13th grade level – Carper speaks at a 9th grade level

Filed in Delaware by jason330 on May 22, 2012 • 9 Comments

Fairly predicable. Coons is the erudite egghead in the bunch. Carney knows enough words to give a good pep talk to a JV football team and after 80 years in politics, Carper naturally speaks down to everyone. These are the findings of Sunlight Labs which crunched the numbers. Among their macro-findings, Congress talk more dumb this year.

The Al Mascitti Show Open Thread

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on May 22, 2012 • 4 Comments

Our own El Somnambulo will be live on the Al Mascitti Show this morning at 10 on 1150 AM, WDEL. Use this thread to talk about what they talk about.

Good News.

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on May 22, 2012 • 2 Comments

In case you were wondering where El Som’s Pre-game / Post-game posts are this week, well, they will not be appearing as the General Assembly is on a two week recess while the Joint Finance Committee meets to mark up the budget. And on that front, the Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council (DEFAC) announced yesterday that the state’s revenues are much more than expected.

Tuesday Daily Delawhere [5.22.12]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on May 22, 2012 • 6 Comments

Back to the Tracking Poll

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on May 21, 2012 • 5 Comments

Starting today, we will once again be doing our tracking poll, a completely unscientific and non-random sampling of our readers who voluntarily chose to vote in the online poll. So with all those caveats, the poll will be simply for entertainment purposes only, or, if you will, informative only as to who DL readers will be voting for.

Unlike our prior tracking where we asked only about your opinions on one candidate at a time, this time, and continuining on until the primary and general elections, we will be asking about one office at a time. Yes, horse racing time is here. We will start off with the County Executive Democratic Primary Race

Pants Pissing People Prefer Pricey Police Powers

Filed in Delaware by jason330 on May 21, 2012 • 85 Comments

That’s what this front pager in the NJ boils down to. There are some old farts in Sussex County who are just FREAKING OUT about all the crime and home invasions and loud neighbors and rap music and get offa my lawn!!!! So much so, that Jeff Christopher should get $1 million dollars to make like the Dark Knight on all the miscreants.

An Alternative Universe without the Filibuster

Filed in Delaware, National by Delaware Dem on May 21, 2012 • 8 Comments

Two months ago, former Senator Ted Kaufman spoke to the monthly meeting of the Progressives Democrats for Delaware, one of the things he said that took me by surprise was his opposition to filibuster reform. Kaufman viewed the filibuster as an indispensable part of the check and balances of our government, and while he agreed that the Republicans have abused it, he would hate to see what a Republican President, a Republican House and a Republican Senate would do if minority Democrats had no power to stop legislation. But Kaufman was almost acting as if it were a fait accompli that the filibuster was going the way of the dinosaur, because he quaranteed that the Republicans, whenever they regain control of the Senate, would immediately do away with it, especially if they have a Republican President and House to work with.

So what would the last four years look like without the filibuster?