CalGal -- Wednesday, February 09, 2011 -- 10:47:32 PM --
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I remember a time, back in the late 90s, when I thought nonsense like this mattered somewhat more than I do now. Now I see well-educated people yammering about the birth control choices of their daughters, or gay marriage, and I think they are morons.
Webb won't seek re-election
Sterling Dingleberry -- Thursday, February 10, 2011 -- 01:53:40 AM --
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Jesus loves liberals. However, the rest of us know they're total assholes.
Is it me or is Webb's thick and bulbous skull shaped like a pot roast?
Nicholas Kronos -- Thursday, February 10, 2011 -- 03:43:29 PM --
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In the darkness of barbarism men knew the truth without the facts. In the twilight of half-civilization, they saw the truth illuminating the facts. In the full blaze and radiance of complete civilization they found all the facts and lost the truth forever
Kyl out
CalGal -- Friday, February 11, 2011 -- 10:48:39 PM --
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I remember a time, back in the late 90s, when I thought nonsense like this mattered somewhat more than I do now. Now I see well-educated people yammering about the birth control choices of their daughters, or gay marriage, and I think they are morons.
Why Webb won't run again
Sterling Dingleberry -- Friday, February 11, 2011 -- 10:53:39 PM --
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Jesus loves liberals. However, the rest of us know they're total assholes.
The thick-skulled idiot won't run again because he knows he will get his ass kicked by Allen.
jenrenton -- Saturday, February 12, 2011 -- 01:16:37 AM --
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Snowflake mother
I have to say, being unsuited to the Senate isn't much of a character assassination.
CalGal -- Friday, April 22, 2011 -- 04:01:00 AM --
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I remember a time, back in the late 90s, when I thought nonsense like this mattered somewhat more than I do now. Now I see well-educated people yammering about the birth control choices of their daughters, or gay marriage, and I think they are morons.
Ensign Resigns
Mr. Ensign’s resignation, which will take effect May 3, will allow Nevada’s governor, Brian Sandoval, to appoint a Republican to fill out the rest of the Senate term, thereby increasing the chances that the party would hold on to what may be a hotly contested seat next year. One likely candidate is Representative Dean Heller, a Republican House member already running for the job. Mr. Ensign had not been planning to run for re-election.
GregD -- Friday, April 22, 2011 -- 03:27:33 PM --
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After the power to choose a man wants the power to erase. --Stephen Dunn
This should have also hit Sen. Tom Coburn, a southern baptist minister, for trying to assemble a further hush-hush cash deal between his friend the senator and the guy who's wife he slept with.
Pincher Martin -- Thursday, May 05, 2011 -- 05:28:57 PM --
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"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.”
-- Edward Abbey
Karl Rove: The 2012 Electoral Math Looks Good for the GOP
Mr. Obama narrowly won three traditionally Republican states in 2008: Indiana, Virginia and North Carolina. Democrats last carried the first two in 1964 and the third in 1976.
The president will be hard-pressed to win these states and their 39 electoral votes next year, especially Indiana and North Carolina. Democrats will have their convention in Charlotte in an attempt to hold the latter. But a 2009 study by political scientists Michael J. Berry and Kenneth Bickers (of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Denver, respectively) found "no evidence that hosting a national nominating convention has any discernible effect on the ultimate vote in that state."
Ohio, with 18 electoral votes, and Florida, with 29, both went Democratic in 2008 (they went Republican in 2004), but the swing in each was less than the national average. This indicates some weakness for Mr. Obama that has persisted: A recent Quinnipiac University poll in Florida shows the president losing to a generic, unnamed Republican by three points.
There are nine other states that have frequently been battlegrounds in recent contests. There is every reason to believe they will be so again.
CalGal -- Thursday, May 05, 2011 -- 05:32:27 PM --
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I remember a time, back in the late 90s, when I thought nonsense like this mattered somewhat more than I do now. Now I see well-educated people yammering about the birth control choices of their daughters, or gay marriage, and I think they are morons.
He only won those states because tons of new black voters came out and whites weren't energized to vote against him. The black voters will still be there; the white voters probably (hopefully!) won't.
GregD -- Thursday, May 05, 2011 -- 05:47:53 PM --
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After the power to choose a man wants the power to erase. --Stephen Dunn
NC is trending a good deal more Democratic than the other two. Many more hispanics & high-tech people.
rubberducky -- Wednesday, May 25, 2011 -- 05:23:06 PM --
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If you really want the thread to die, give it to ducky.
theMote's PoJdon't know much about her or the area, but i thought this is interesting. does it signal trouble for the GOP?
Democrat Kathy Hochul wins House seat in New York special election
Democrat Kathy Hochul swept to victory Tuesday night in a closely watched congressional election in New York state that turned into a proxy battle on a House Republican proposal on Medicare.
The race in New York's 26th Congressional District was to fill the seat of former Republican Rep. Chris Lee, who resigned over pictures and e-mails of him trying to find a date on Craigslist.
The seat had been considered safe for Republicans, who had held the district for more than four decades.
Democrats claimed the victory "had far-reaching consequences around the country" over Medicare, while a top Republican warned trying to "predict the future based on the results of this unusual race is naive and risky."
MsIt -- Wednesday, May 25, 2011 -- 06:05:29 PM --
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Could be. The Dem ads in that campaign were clearly fearmongering targeted at seniors. Lied about the Ryan plan and its possible impact on those currently on medicare and about who would be affected if it were passed.
However, I think it indicates the direction the Dems will take in the 2012 campaign. Lie about debt reduction plans of republicans and scare any special interest groups they can.
It's going to get very ugly.
ana -- Thursday, May 26, 2011 -- 03:04:48 AM --
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I live in the area at the ads for all the sides were ugly and unending, The republicans kept trying to use Nancy Pelosi as the big bad in ads that would often be run twice in a row during Prime Time. They were rather comical and abstract. Surprising really, republicans spent a huge amount of money in the race, but somehow didn't get their best messenging people.
CalGal -- Thursday, May 26, 2011 -- 02:21:16 PM --
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I remember a time, back in the late 90s, when I thought nonsense like this mattered somewhat more than I do now. Now I see well-educated people yammering about the birth control choices of their daughters, or gay marriage, and I think they are morons.
From what I can tell, the Dems won because the Republicans split the vote.
Cliff -- Thursday, May 26, 2011 -- 02:51:06 PM --
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Exactly. The Tea Party candidate received 9% of the vote, and most analysts think that it came at the expense of the Republican candidate. Adding together the GOP and Tea Party total would have given the GOP the win. Will the Tea Party in 2012 be Ralph Nader, ensuring victories by the party with which they have least in common?
MsIt -- Thursday, May 26, 2011 -- 05:36:45 PM --
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Yes, the Tea Party candidate swung the vote to the Dem, but from everything I read, the contest shouldn't have been as close as it was, even with the third party candidate.
You can't discount the defensiveness of the republican candidate over the Ryan plan either. She was not a good representative for the party with respect to supporting the deficit cutting platform, and the needed reforms to medicare/social security programs. As a result the democratic candidate pushed the fearmongering, gained the upper ground, and never looked back.
ana -- Thursday, May 26, 2011 -- 06:00:59 PM --
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Corwin also got caught up in a couple of ugly incidents. One was when tape was leaked of Davis the Tea Party candidate ( and former Democrat), pushing/shoving a cameraman, who was pestering him with questions about his refusal to debate Hochul and Corwin. Turns out that it was a setup, as the cameraman was actually the chief of Corwin's campaign.
CalGal -- Monday, August 22, 2011 -- 06:47:27 AM --
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I remember a time, back in the late 90s, when I thought nonsense like this mattered somewhat more than I do now. Now I see well-educated people yammering about the birth control choices of their daughters, or gay marriage, and I think they are morons.
Race to succeed Weiner shows a surprising anger to Obama
Surprising? Really?
Pincher Martin -- Monday, August 22, 2011 -- 07:05:28 AM --
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"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.”
-- Edward Abbey
For Weiner's district? Sure. Especially since the NYT reports that the district's voters are most upset about spending.
