Red-State Republicans keep kid from talking to Mom in Iraq
[Checked last 50 diaries and didn't see this] I cannot believe the Republicans on this. A high-school kid in Georgia receives a call from his mom who is stationed in Iraq, on his cell phone. Teacher...
View ArticleDems lost in the "compromise" - AP framed us.
If this has already been diaried (I didn't see it, AP story is a couple hours old) then I'll delete. All of you are aware of the great "compromise" where the Dems agreed not to filibuster judicial...
View ArticleSen Warner (R-VA) - now *SUPPORTS* Nuclear Option
Many of us, myself included, were at least somewhat proud of Sen. Warner, one of most senior Rep. Senators, for standing up to their leadership and leading the "gang of 7 Republicans" who supported the...
View Article"You can't win fights unless you wage them."
Very nice editorial today in the Washington Post written by E. J. Dionne about Rep. David Obey (D-WI) and his battles in congress for religious freedom. The closing paragraph really struck me:It's...
View ArticleJohn Conyers allied with Tom Delay against Pelosi?
I would hope that Rep. Conyers would take the time to respond to this press report in the Washington Post. The latest Tom DeLay trick is to undermine Supreme Court decisions by denying funding to...
View Article"Devil" banned from Virginia school by wingnut
This may sound like a halloween diary but it is not. The Hylton high school marching band has been banned from playing the 1979 Charlie Daniels Band hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" because of a...
View Article(Almost) Final VA results in - Dem loses AG by 947 votes
Update: Changed the title - while 100% of the vote is counted including absentees, the official official totals won't be officially made official for another couple weeks. After that point, Deeds has...
View ArticleUS to Monitor All Travel, Detain at Will (WaPo)
this story in tomorrow's wapo gives me the shivers. If you recall, in the name of "national security" we got the patriot act, something that gave the government unprecedented powers to spy on and...
View ArticleVideo: Sparks in Miller vs. Webb debate - VA Sen Primary
WVEC TV in Virginia Beach taped a 20 minute debate between Jim Webb and Harris Miller today. It will likely be the only televised debate between the two candidates. Video link here Much of the debate...
View ArticleJim Webb almost lost my wife's vote today
The Virginia Democratic primary is June 13th, and the other day I realized that my family and I would be on vacation that day and unable to vote. Fairfax County has in-person absentee voting up until...
View ArticleVA-Sen Webb Supporters: Not too late to GOTV
I spend most of my "news gathering" time here on dKos, reading external sources linked from here. I got tired of the Right-Wing Corporate Media ages ago, although sometimes I'll go to news.google.com...
View ArticleGreetings to all our Jewish guests
Jews tend to vote overwhelming for Democratic candidates. In fact, 77% of Jews voted for John Kerry in 2004. Since this is a website dedicated to electing Democrats, and Jews tend to work to elect...
View ArticleThe power of incumbency - Keep donating
Several diaries have been written here and elsewhere on how well our fundraising is doing. Friday there was a front page diary on the 50 most competitive House races and how 40 are Republican-held....
View ArticleWhat's wrong with Ethanol - it's more expensive than gasoline!
The August 7, 2006 issue of Barron's has an article on page 17 entitled "The Corn Conundrum." The article is an analysis of the ethanol market from the perspective of stock market investors. It looks...
View ArticleEthical Dilemmas of Israel
I posted this on an open thread last night because I didn't have the energy to diary it then, but I ran across this Jerusalem Post article yesterday evening. It is a 3-page op-ed piece entitled "The...
View ArticleAnyone else get this Robo "Poll" I just received in Northern Virginia
This isn't technically a push poll but I am wondering if anyone else in Virginia has received it. Caller ID said this came from "S2006" at 703-961-9120. First the robo voice identified itself as...
View ArticleShould we google bomb our friends as well as our enemies?
I think just about everyone is familiar with mydd's google bomb project (latest status update is here). If you're not, then the general gist is that we are using our knowledge about how Google ranks...
View ArticleBloomberg: Leaked Obama internal predictions?
Bloomberg storyBy the time the last primary is held June 7, Obama's advisers project he will have 1,806 delegates to 1,789 for New York Senator Hillary Clinton, according to a document outlining the...
View ArticleClinton in Arlington, VA (with prediction poll)
I did not make it to the Clinton rally last night at Washington-Lee high school here in Northern Virginia but I did hear some of it on the radio. Washington-Lee's gym seats 2200 - the gym was full and...
View Article[Debunked] Help me debunk this Michelle Obama rumor
UPDATE: The rumors below were started by Larry Johnson a.k.a. LC Johnson who has been banned from dKos. One of the many posts about Mr. Johnson goes into some detail here.Rest of diary left intact to...
View ArticleI'm scared we're about to be sucker punched
Guys - Virginia is a toss-up state that leans McCain. I know it, Larry Sabato knows it,and anyone who actually follows Virginia knows it (even if we don't want it to be true). Sabato said in...
View ArticleAP/WaPo: Government to insure market losses of rich; we get nothing.
I went out for a quick morning walk this morning and looked down at my neighbor's Washington Post. While the story is a bit buried now at washingtonpost.com, the headline above the fold on page A1:...
View ArticleJust donated again to Obama...
Well, that's not true. I maxed out. (Wish the Obama campaign could figure that out and stop asking me to donate more). However my wife hadn't, so she kicked in some more coin today. Why? The...
View ArticlePeriello (D-VA5) wavering on HCR - let's help him out
Am in Charlottesville today, having watched the UVA women's soccer team upset #4 FSU last night to keep their post-season hopes alive. Walked down to the hotel lobby for the free continental breakfast...
View ArticleNye releases statement - voting NO
Citing baloney logic about how veterans will have health care cut, DINO Glenn Nye (VA) has said he will be voting no.He is going to lose in November, no matter what, he only got elected because of the...
View ArticleHealthcare Reform Debate Liveblog - Roundabout #10
Here is the next shuttlepod for the liveblog of the HCR debate. Please do NOT rec this diary; please rec the Mothership by Adam Blomeke.EDIT: Link to roll call votes h/t Adam Blomeke.
View ArticleJobless claims fall, Trade deficit falls, AP still a bunch of morons.
First part of the good news:New Filings for Jobless Claims TumbleThe Labor Department reported Thursday that new claims for unemployment aid plunged last week by a seasonally adjusted 27,000 to...
View ArticleGreat Ohio news + Bounce wasn't just the debate, and that's a good thing
PPP tweets: "Barack Obama was a lot stronger in our Saturday Ohio polling than Friday night. We'll have the final results soon."UPDATE: PPP - Obama 51-Romney 46 in Ohio - extending his lead to +5...
View ArticlePowerful "letter" to Mourdock from Melissa Harris-Perry
This is one of those where I feel like if I write a diary, I'm just taking away from the message. I'm not a sexual assault survivor myself. I don't know what it's like. However Melissa Harris-Perry...
View ArticlePPP didn't give us SQUAT tonight
Unless your power is out due to Sandy, or you've been living under a rock, you probably saw something like this tonight:@ppppolls: Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney 49/47 in New Hampshire, a 3 point...
View ArticleAny Worry-Warts want a reason to worry?
It is very hard to find things to worry about. The polling has looked really good, the stories are being written that the pundits are lining up behind an Obama re-election. POTUS standing next to...
View ArticleI've hit 90+ houses today
2 canvassing packets down, headed back for more. I am in Fairfax County, Virginia.What have you been doing? If you have nervous energy and are hitting refresh on dKos every 3 minutes - why not go...
View ArticleHow to win (or lose) a Thanksgiving argument
Really short diary, because Thanksgiving dinner is about to start. But here was my thanksgiving. First I had to endure my fascist-leaning Father-in-law berating the president with his right-wing...
View Article"Lobbyists rake in cash for Hillary..." right?
This isn't another "pile on Hillary" diary, because this site seems to have one of those every ten minutes. It's to point out the flaw in the dKos (and mass media) narrative.Go look at this story:...
View ArticleOur Strong Progressive Candidate just nailed Bush at the Urban League
Yes, that Strong Progressive Candidate - Hillary Clinton - toasted Jeb Bush at the Urban League this morning. Bush speaks later today.Some highlights:I don’t think you can credibly say that everybody...
View ArticleTea Party now fueling the Bern
Make of this what you will, from The Hill:GOP Group releases video of Sanders crowdsSeems that the Tea Party realizes that their interests are best served by making sure as many people as possible are...
View ArticleBiden surges past Bernie into 2nd in new Bloomberg national poll
The headline from The Hill referring to a Bloomberg poll:Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is supported by 33 percent of Democrats surveyed in the poll, followed by Vice President Biden at 25...
View ArticleHow we win Iowa ... or how we lose
This is more a quick thought than a diary, but it’s been on my mind today.How do we win Iowa? Yes, I know the voting already happened, but the total delegate difference is negligible. We win Iowa if...
View ArticleThe Republicans absolutely will support their nominee in November, you betcha.
Don’t underestimate the Republican unity that will happen between now and November. I mean, look at our own issues. We had Obama vs. Clinton in 2008, and we know how that turned out. 4 more years of...
View ArticleEvan McMullin update - on ballot in 3 states
Just a quick update so you guys don't have to search the internet.1) McMullin is now on the ballot in Colorado, Minnesota, and Arkansas, and I believe he has turned in petitions in Utah. In at least...
View ArticleNew (potentially fake) independent pollster: Trump +5 in PA (Gravis has HRC...
CEPEX Center for Excellence in Project Execution:www.cbs8.com/…Trump 41.9Clinton 36.5“One of the reasons for Trump’s surge is attributable to seemingly strong support from the women.”In good news —...
View ArticleReally crappy Ipsos state polls - Trump has unlikely leads
OK, the bad news first. The first six of these polls suck. Not just because of the results, but because they were in the field for 2 weeks (Aug 19 — Sep1). But the numbers are what they are.Iowa:...
View ArticleDCCC needs to stop with the doom and gloom
In the 2014 cycle — the DCCC and DSCC outdid themselves with fundraising appeal after fundraising appeal about how we were doomed to lose so please donate. You know what — they worked great as far as...
View ArticleSome quick analysis about the last 100 national polls
So everyone is familiar with the pollster.com graph above. That is a little old, showing C +3.9. Right now, it’s C +4.0. However, their customization tools don’t seem to work for me in that I get...
View ArticleClinton down 4 in Wisconsin with RV's... because Scott Walker
www.thenation.com/…“ Wisconsin Is Systematically Failing to Provide the Photo IDs Required to Vote in November”Per the article — 9% of Registered voters in Wisconsin do not have an ID that would let...
View ArticleUPDATE 7: BREAKING:HRC raises $154MM in Sept from 900k donors, DNC+HRC =...
My commentary: It was going to be interesting to see who reported their numbers first. If Trump really did raise $18MM in one day last month, he should have had a really impressive haul. If he...
View ArticleEarly voting: Ahead in FL/NC. Behind in WI, OH, IA
Bad News: Iowa — pretty much everyone has chalked it up to a loss, barring a total Trump collapse. It’s the state where demographics support Trump the most — more whites without college degrees,...
View ArticleAnother Republican charged with voter fraud - this time in Miami
I am too lazy to do a real diary, but let’s just say the voter fraud that is being caught is all in the favor of Republicans, and all of the voter suppression that is going on is 100%...
View ArticleWeather Impact - Dallas, Michigan, Ohio tomorrow rain
I’m sure a real weatherperson could do a better job but look at tomorrow’s weather channel forecast:weather.com/…If you look at states that matter / are close:Dallas, TX — rain/stormsNorthwest...
View ArticleJust turned off the R talking head on CNN
In case you can’t watch:CNN had a Republican guy on saying that in NC the R vote was 144,000 ahead of 2012 and that D’s were down. Said that in Florida the R areas of Hillsborough around Tampa and...
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