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Tuesday Open Thread [9.11.12]

Filed in Open Thread by on September 11, 2012 6 Comments

It is called Schadenfreude, and I enjoy it immensely.

Chuck Todd:

“In boxing, you know one fighter is trailing in points when, in the final rounds, he throws everything he can to land a knockout blow against his opponent. The same is largely true in presidential politics. And so yesterday while campaigning in Ohio, we saw Mitt Romney and his team try to throw the kitchen sink at President Obama.”

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Monday Open Thread [9.10.12]

Filed in Open Thread by on September 10, 2012 21 Comments
Monday Open Thread [9.10.12]

President Obama’s re-election campaign and supporting committees brought in more than $114 million last month – the first time the incumbent has outraised Mitt Romney since April. Mittens raised $111 million.

Josh Marshall has a simple axiom:

[T]he more Romney goes hard Culture War, the more his campaign chiefs are getting freaked by the polls.

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Open Thread – Christine O’Donnell (perhaps) not done wrecking the DEGOP

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I didn’t watch the whole interview, but I caught O’Donnell on Bill Maher responding to the question, “Are you going to run for office again?” with…

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Friday Open Thread [9.7.12]

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Friday Open Thread [9.7.12]

Friday! It was the longest short week in memory. But it is the first day of the last weekend before the Primary, so your mailboxes will be overflowing, your message machines will max out from the robocalls and I hope that many of you are working with your favorite candidates for the final work of GOTV.

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Wednesday Open Thread [9.5.12]

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Tonight is the Big Dog’s night. But there are other speakers, and as we saw last night, they rock too.

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Tuesday Open Thread [9.4.12]

Filed in Open Thread by on September 4, 2012 2 Comments

Damn. That summer went by fast. I guess time flies when you are defining Mitt Romney. Below is the Democratic Convention Speaker Schedule tonight….

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Labor Day Open Thread [9.3.12]

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Labor Day Open Thread [9.3.12]

Happy Labor Day, everyone! The annual Labor Day parade and picnic is definitely on in Wilmington and everybody who wants to be elected to something is there. The downpour isn’t stopping this event!

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Saturday Open Thread [9.1.12]

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Saturday Open Thread [9.1.12]

Officially September and the air already seems that much more political. Sorry for the lateness of this thread — apparently we are all busy today.

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Friday Open Thread [8.31.12]

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Friday Open Thread [8.31.12]

It is amazing to me that it is the end of August. The good news is that Fall should be here any time now. What are your plans for Labor Day weekend? Me, I’m working on the last lit drop of the season and possibly helping on a canvass.

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Thursday Open Thread [8.30.12]

Filed in Open Thread by on August 30, 2012 4 Comments

The Obama Team is producing some of the best messaging I’ve seen from Democrats in a while — and they seem to be having fun at it. This video they posted prior to Ryan’s speech last night:

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Wednesday Open Thread [8.29.12]

Filed in Open Thread by on August 29, 2012 9 Comments

“A well-placed Republican source tells Townhall that Oscar-winning director and actor Clint Eastwood will travel to Tampa, Florida to attend Mitt Romney’s nominating convention this week… Our source — who spoke on the condition of anonymity — could not confirm if Eastwood is, in fact, the intriguing ‘to-be-announced’ speaker, but stated unequivocally that the Dirty Harry star will arrive in Florida late on Wednesday or early on Thursday, and will return to southern California on Friday.”

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Monday Open Thread [8.27.12]

Filed in Open Thread by on August 27, 2012 22 Comments

With Isaac headed toward New Orleans, Republican National Convention officials are considering a number of worst-case scenarios including a quick roll call and a truncated speech by Mitt Romney, National Journal reports.

“Officials conceded on the record for the first time Monday that plans for an already shortened three-day convention were in doubt… A senior GOP official said no decision had been made and none was likely Monday, but said the convention conceivably could be as short as a single day.”

Other reports suggested the convention could be cancelled entirely. I’d imagine the Democratic convention, also already shortened to three days due to the Labor Day Weekend, may also take a hit if the damage from the storm is bad. And if that occurs, I wonder if we have already seen the last political convention ever…

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Open Thread [8.26.12]

Filed in Open Thread by on August 26, 2012 11 Comments

Another Sunday and it’s another weekend where I haven’t gotten my own projects or errands done. Time for the primaries to get here!

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