― My Imperfect Cousin (MIC), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 06:35 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 06:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― am0n (am0n), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyhoo, i finally did some phone banking tonight. Wasn't too bad, actually.
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 07:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Virginia voters receiving robo-calls from "The Elections Commission" stating that they'll be arrested if they show up to vote tomorrow.
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 07:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 07:40 (seventeen years ago) link
xp
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 07:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link
But - early votes are counted early and the breakdowns are publicised? Jesus Christ, that's grossly, grossly improper. No decent election counting system would allow that.
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 08:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 08:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― the 48 states competition (1939) (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 08:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 08:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 08:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 08:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― the 48 states competition (1939) (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 08:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link
yes, in some cases, if by breakdowns you mean the party identification of voters (but not who they voted for)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 08:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 08:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― viborg (viborg), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Bernie Sandershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― viborg (viborg), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link
NB: I'm six hours ahead, much like many of the brits who may or may not be paying attention. But it comes out about the same since things don't seem to be clear until like 2am EST right?
― richardk (Richard K), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― And Dolph Lundgren as Himself (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
As is the case with the American people overall, the majority of ordinary Democrats want US forces leave to quit Iraq in the immediate or relatively near future. This was not the posture of Democratic candidates approved by [Rahm] Emanuel, particularly in tight races. Most of them have talked about withdrawal as a matter of many months. The Democratic leadership would sign onto a McCain beef-up plan in minutes, flailing away at Bush for the next two years for losing the war...
Campaign 2006 has shown us clearly enough that about the outer limit of popular sanction is the ability to lodge a formal protest on Election Day. ...The fact that this protest is purely formal is attested by the adamant refusal of the Democrats to offer anything by way of a substantive alternative, beyond saying Bush is an incompetent fellow. Indeed, the substantive effect of Campaign 2006 has been to state in terms plain enough for a simpleton to understand, that resistance is futile, since both Republicans and Democrats agree that the Bill of Rights is a dead letter and that wars must go on, and jobs to disappear, despite overwhelming popular disagreement with such policies.
Pick a topic--the war, the economy, a two million-plus prison population, the environment, the condition of organized labor, the Bill of Rights--and can you recall any Democrat this fall having said anything suggesting that in the event Democrats recapture either the House or the Senate or both anything of consequence might occur?
...As things stand in organized politics today a purely formal protest is the most we can hope for, and the significance of this fall's campaign is that no one has pretended otherwise.
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn11062006.html
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/homepage/hp11-7-06c.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.fingerforcongress.org
for guv and Senate, voted Green (Party, not Mark).
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― LISTEN U TURBO CROUTON (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
But I'm in New York, and I'm really rallying for John Spencer by default.
Orange was a pretty good album, after all.
― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
This is the last chance, really, by getting some new chairpersons to head committees in the House ... to have a clean sweep, which, in normal times, if we’d ever enjoyed them, would have happened by now. Now it has got to happen, or welcome to the Third Reich.
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20061105_gore_vidal_the_most_important_election_in_my_lifetime/
(video interview in full)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
you know, I think Harold Ford just might pull this off
I think today might be the first day in history in which Bernie Sanders has been described as a "bloke." Perhaps it will not be the last.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
(xxpost)
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001972.php
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/820/santorumph7.jpg
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― a.b. (alanbanana), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link
No real shocker there - feeling I'm gettting is that Bush II has been under heavy pressure from Bush I and other Republican big wigs to get with the program and a) replace Rumsfeld, and b) implement the Baker commission's recommendations, e.g. start dealing direct with Iran & Syria. They've got to arrange major changes before the Democrats force it on them.
Next thing you know, Condi will be out and Baker will be warming the assdent in her office chair.
― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 03:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh, on this point I'll fully agree.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 05:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 07:16 (seventeen years ago) link
I'd ask for your definition of "elite," but who am I kidding. (The non-elites obv include the legless female Iraq vet who IS STILL PROWAR, but I guess her non-elite potential constituents found the Republican winner not quite that fucking stupid, which is plausible.)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 November 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Tammy Duckworth is more 'elite' than 'non-elite' because she's Thai (and has an Intl Affairs masters from GW and was working toward a doctorate), but so were her intended constituents because they are Chicago suburbanites. i'm talking about many of the Dem candidates in less metropolitan areas.
great moments in journalism...
Ohio Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt, who called Democratic Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record) a coward, is ahead of her challenger by 2,862 votes. Rep. Barbara Cubin (news, bio, voting record), who threatened to slap her wheelchair-bound Libertarian opponent after a debate, is ahead by fewer than a thousand votes in her Wyoming contest.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 11 November 2006 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 12 November 2006 07:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Aside from a disastrous war, unpopular President, populace with little confidence in the economy, boy-touching Republicans, cover-ups for boy-touching Republicans and just a few ethics scandals?
John Oliver OTM
― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 12 November 2006 08:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 November 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link
This was the guy that Michael Medved was railing against in his rant I linked on the schadenfreude thread. For causing that alone, Stan Jones, I salute you -- blue skin and all.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 November 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link
He was hurtling down an asphalt road in upstate New York on the 47th trip of his ferocious campaign to win back the House. A lecture, even from political consultant James Carville, was the last thing he needed.
In just 12 days, his campaign would end in a historic victory--a triumph that almost no one believed possible when he took the job nearly two years ago--or in colossal failure.
And here were Carville and pollster Stan Greenberg telling him he had to make each of his handpicked candidates shift from attack mode and strike a conciliatory note in their final campaign ads.
"James. No James, YOU LISTEN," Emanuel barked into a cell phone, about to release a string of profane invectives more intense than usual. "Can you listen for one [expletive] minute?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link
You tell em for me the next time you hit Walter Reed with all the Dems who are gonna sign on to McCain's troop-level boost.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
"Since my kids are gone, I can say it: They can go ---- themselves!"
― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
dude, where have the santorum.jpg pictures gone?
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 25 January 2008 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link