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Nov. 8, 2018 Open Thread: California Bloodlines
Yet another mass murder, this time at a country & western bar that catered to college students. Something tells me that the shooter wasn’t a music critic. Nope, a Marine vet with symptoms of PTSD, including apparently a suicidal incident in his past. He was a Marine, though, so of course he should keep his […]
Limited blogging from me for a while
Gotta get the bills paid. You know… Anyhoo.. I had Fox News on for a whole minute last night and heard that CNN’s Jim Acosta punched a defenseless little White House aid in the face. He’s a bad hombre. Eh? I had MSNBC on for a full 20 seconds this morning and heard that the […]
BREAKING: Trump Fires Sessions
While expected, it reminds us that there is no break from Trump’s perfidy: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/us/politics/jeff-sessions-fired-trump.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
Last Night’s Overlooked Winners and Losers
Some candidates won, some lost. But the people and ideas that were not explicitly on the ballot also won and lost. I was going to put together a post looking at the overlooked winner’s and losers but I’ll just get it started and allow you, Dear Reader, to crowdsource this mf’er.
Winners:
Jesse Chadderdon – Executive Director of the Delaware Democratic Party. While ERS deserves a lot of credit, it was Chadderdon’s work behind the scenes that drove a lot of last night’s success. His stock has clearly gone up.
Cassandra Marshall – Wilmington must be a force in Delaware Democratic politics and under Marshall’s no nonsense management, it is becoming that. This cycle she took on Wilmington’s insular Democratic Party and put in some real reforms. Wrong on Hillary Clinton, right on everything else.
Matt Denn – He did the right thing for his family and still has a lot of street cred going forward if he ever decides to use it.
Losers:
John Carney – Lackluster governorship outsourced to Ken Simple doesn’t look like a viable model going forward.
Scott Goss – Yeah, I’m still talking about how bad your reporting was, Scott. Clean up your act.
Anthony Delcollo – Sturgeon showed how to take out the garbage in the Senate. Anthony is next up.
The notion of “nice” Delaware Republicans – No more of this pretending to be cool on social issues, then stabbing the middle-class in the back when writing budgets. Ramone and his ilk have been revealed for the scumbags that they are. The next election will finish the job.
The DEGOP – On a similar note, the DEGOP is a wreck. A regional rump party of evangelical nutbags. They have no legitimate statewide candidates on the horizon and their ability to obstruct the state legislature has been diminished. Third party status achieved.
A couple of quick takeaways from the Doubletree
1) Campaigns and Candidates matter. It seems self evident, but success is a process. The Colleen Davis win is a good example. That was a race I had had “R’s Hold” but Davis’success was no fluke. It was a long term project by a group of people who all worked their asses off to make it happen. ERS and his team deserve a lot of credit on that one.
2) Tom Carper is just horrible. It was kind of sad really. He should have retired with some with some dignity. Instead he is playing the cranky old man. He talked about turning female candidates around and pulling on their coattails. He yelled at everyone to shut up. It was crazy. I’d be very surprised to see him finish this term.
3) A movement, not an election. I got the feeling from people in the party and the patchwork of progressive groups in the ballroom that today is day one of taking out the execrable a-holes (both D and R) who are dug in. Democrats have a clear view of what they are up against and that the next election cycle started before the last red,white and blue balloons hit the ballroom floor.
2018 General Election Results Thread
I’ll try to comment on this thread from the Stitch House and later the Doubletree.
Polling Place Reports
Put your first hand voting observations here. “Few dozen in line already at Highlands Elm. Including Mike Castle.” Rags and Dutch waiting impatiently for me to vote in the 9th.
Will Ken Simpler’s Trump Support Pay Off?
Today’s results will answer many questions. One of the biggest is, did Ken Simpler make the right choice? He could have renounced Trump and run as the non-partisan moderate, a statesman and heir to Mike Castle. That might have created some momentum for the prize he is really after, the Governorship. Instead, he chose silence and thereby became a “Republican party above all” Trump supporter.
It may yet work for him. But he will have lost by winning. He will have locked down the GOP nomination for Governor, but will have simultaneously incinerated any chance of ever being Governor.
Delaware Prepares to Vote Against Trump – A Tea Leaf
I just spoke to the most fair-minded, nonpartisan voter I know. He is a true independent who has always voted his conscience on a candidate by candidate basis. He has never held any loyalty to any party. He said: “I’m voting the straight Democratic ticket. We need to send a message.” “But Trump isn’t on […]
“Shut Up, You Dick! You aren’t funny.”
I was watching “Bohemian Rhapsody” in Middletown. Spoiler alert – Freddie Mercury was a great singer and a homosexual man. Someone in the audience needed to let everyone in the theater know that he disapproved of homosexuality by audibly grumbling and groaning when, two-thirds of the way into the movie, Mercury (gasp!) kissed another man. […]
Any Tuesday Night Plans?
I can’t sit home and watch the national coverage. I’m still too traumatized by the Manchurian Pumpkin’s 2016 electoral success. So I think I’m going to the DelDems watch party at the Wilmington Doubletree. The last time I was in Wilmington on an election night the Democrats had a HUGE night, so maybe I’m being […]
This is the Delaware Woman’s March that matters – is the fire still there?
If Delaware Democrats are still as fired up as they were to work for Stephanie Hansen, if they are still eager to send a message to Donald Trump as they were during the Woman’s march on January 21, 2017 – then Republicans will be swept from office throughout the state. All Republicans in districts that […]
Scott Goss is Bad at Journalism
Democrats are hoping the midterms prove to be such an overwhelming referendum on the president that it produces a “blue wave” that filters down ballots and threatens Republicans running for state seats.
But the intro is just window dressing. The real point comes later when Goss adopts a Philip K. Dick style alternative reality frame to discuss how Hansen and Paradee are vulnerable and what the Senate will be like when Lavelle becomes the leader.
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