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I like this Colleen Davis Lit
My mailbox is stuffed with campaign lit. This little postcard stands out.
Nov. 2 Open Thread: Signs of the Blue Wave
If you’ve read enough election stories over the years you know that the congressional district in Pennsylvania Dutch country around Lancaster has never elected a Democrat. Ever. Before Republicans existed they elected Whigs. Before Whigs, they elected Federalists. This year, even this district is in play. The Democrat, Jess King, trails incumbent Lloyd Smucker by […]
Help Turn Out Democratic Swing Voters
The Democratic swing voter isn’t the idiot “undecided” voter Chris Coons is trying to win over with his moderate incantations, and centerist voo-doo. The Democratic swing voter is not the dunderhead who thinks that “there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats.”
As Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put it “Our swing voter is not red-to-blue,” said Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old socialist who shot into the spotlight after beating 10-year party boss Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) in the May primary. “Our swing voter is the voter to the non-voter, the non-voter to the voter.”
Early voting in Texas is filling some with hope that those REAL swing voters are being reached.
Voters are turning out in record numbers in states with early vote options across the nation — and Democrats are excited about a lot of what they’re seeing.
Turnout is way up across the map, with both Democrats and Republicans far exceeding their early vote numbers in nearly every state with a competitive statewide race on the ballot this year. Eighteen states and counting have already surpassed their total early vote counts from four years ago.
That said, I’m going into a news blackout now. I can’t follow the minute by minute updates by 538.com or MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki. I can’t put myself through that. So I’ll be volunteering locally and making “warm” calls to everyone I know to make sure they are planning to vote.
Ken Simpler’s SM Consultant is Lighting Money on Fire
Ken Simpler really likes employing consultants. Whoever he got to handle his social media is simply terrible. Check out this post. Not only is it ridiculous, but FB has some pretty accurate targeting tools. There is no way in hell they should be paying money to show me this craziness.
And Now For a Little Comic Relief
The conservative dirty tricksters who tried to frame Robert Mueller went ahead with their news conference at the ultra-swanky Roslyn, Va., Holiday Inn even though — surprise! — the woman they say they represent didn’t show. Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl claimed Wednesday night that their accuser arrived in Washington but boarded a flight out […]
Nov. 1 Open Thread: Donnie Two Scoops Melts Down
The dishiest Beltway reporter these days is definitely Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman, who reports that Trump’s mood is grim and has been ever since Cesar Sayoc’s arrest. Sherman also hears that Steve Mnuchin is among the cabinet officials eyeing the exits post-midterm elections. Mnuchin’s name is the latest in a lengthening list of administration officials […]
Oct. 31 Open Thread: President Pariah
Something unprecedented in American history happened yesterday — a sitting president was universally shunned when he tried to stage a photo op pay his respects at the Pittsburgh synagogue where 11 people were gunned down because they were Jewish. Trump even pulled one of his old ratfucking tricks — he called Pennsylvania politicians one at […]
Scott Goss Hackery Now Goes to 11
There is a effort underway at the News Journal to try and save Mike Ramone. How else do you make a connection, and try to build a false equivalency between Republican dirty tricks (like planting fake signs and making up outright lies about support for abortion in the ninth month) to DelawareLiberal’s reporting on the Democratic Party’s legitimate protest of Mike Ramone’s crimes?
There is a story here but it has to do with Goss’ connection to Ramone. Why the yoeman’s effort to stretch this dirty tricks story to cover Ramone? Even in light of the NJ’s low journalistic standards – Scott Goss’ hackery is unprecedented.
Trump Seeks to Overturn 2nd Amendment Via Executive Order
President Donald Trump’s announced intention to end “right to bear arms” by executive order has pushed an already heated debate over gun control into a virtual inferno of election year politicking. At base, however, it is one of the longest standing debates in our Constitution: whether the 2nd Amendment affords unlimited gun ownership rights to […]
Ken Simpler – A Cheater Cheats
Check out the finance report for Foundation for Delaware’s Future: Ellen Barrosse = $10,000 Joseph Schell = $25,000 Kenneth Simpler Sr. = $10,000 Matthew Steinmetz = $5,000 Simpler Sr. and Schell are maxed out donors to Ken Simpler Jr., as is the FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE’S FUTURE LLC. Furthermore, it appears that Schell has maxed out […]
Coonsian Utopia
This is sickeningly predictable. If Trump leaves office, things just don’t snap back to “normal” as too many people seem to believe. The biggest mistake a Democrat will make in 2020 is running on the “let’s make Washington bipartisan and good again” as if the only problem is Trump, as if bipartisanship is good, as […]
Oct. 30 Open Thread: Domestic Terrorists 13, Foreigners 0
Trump is upset that some of his biggest fans are killing people — not because he doesn’t like them killing people, but he just doesn’t like it happening when he’s got other plans for the nation’s front pages and chyrons. That plan was to further demonize a ragtag band of about 3,000 poor Hondurans as […]
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