Posts filed under “2010 Midterm Carnage”
Buyer’s Remorse
The Pew Research Center has some startling new numbers about Tea Party favorability in alleged “Tea Party Districts”: Another snippet from this poll indicates a sharp decline in Republican Party favorability in Tea Party Districts: The Republican Party’s image also has declined substantially among people who live in Tea Party districts. Currently, 41% say they [...]
Rigging the Vote 2012
In case you haven’t heard yet, many conservative-leaning state legislatures are doing whatever they can to disenfranchise as many citizens as possible from voting in the upcoming 2012 Presidential elections. In their effort to prevent Obama from being a two-term president, they have resorted to passing all types of new laws that tweak the election [...]
Town Halls, so passé
Joining the Republican Anti Town Hall Movement this August is Pennsylvania Rep. Lou Barletta who has decided that it’s just not worth holding free open forums anymore for voters in his district. From The Times Leader: “What other elected officials are having town hall meetings?” Barletta asked. “How can you blame someone who has been [...]
Depends on the Definition of Accessible
A few days ago, Politico ran an article that detailed how many Republican Congressmen are opting out of holding open Town Hall forums and instead are charging their constituents upwards of $35 to attend private gatherings. For however much Congressional Republicans proclaim that the American people gave them a mandate to enact their right wing [...]
Sarabeth Has Gone Fishing…
…so you all are stuck with me for the next few weeks. Posts will be intermittent as my schedule these days is not especially conducive to blogging. Expect less Republican-bashing and more douchebag-Democrat-bashing. Yesterday the Douchebag-in-Chief hosted some of the more popular bloggers who are critical of him for a discussion on the many ways [...]
Rand Paul, Man Of Principles
(1) The gloss on Rand Paul has been that he is one of those lunatic libertarians who allow themselves to be hypnotized by their least-government-is-always-best principles into embracing some truly ridiculous and even some clearly reprehensible positions. The most glaring example of this is his view that America would be better off if businesses were [...]
Cruel Halloween Trick
Meg Whitman was hoping for a treat, but California voters seem to have played a cruel Halloween trick on her instead. Unless something rather unexpected happens in the next week, she is going to get roundly beaten by Jerry Brown in the gubernatorial election. According to a Los Angeles Times/USC poll released over the weekend, [...]
Surrender
Me two-and-a-half years ago: But back to Obama and the liberal 527s. Occam’s razor time: what’s the simplest reason that Obama would want to see donors shun these groups? Probably the simplest would be that he wants all the money to himself. But even the wealthiest Democrats can only give Obama $2,300 more, and if [...]
Some Crazy Possibilities And Probabilities: An Update
On October 14, I had a post about the probabilities assigned by Nate Silver to victories by four of the crazier Republican Senate candidates. Now that we are five days older and wiser, how does it look? The 56% he had for Sharron Angle beating Harry Reid in Nevada has climbed to 62%. Ken Buck [...]
Some Crazy Possibilities And Probabilities
The weather I have this morning is cold and wet and dreary, so here’s a post to match that mood. Let’s pick, pretty much at random, four of this year’s crop of truly lunatic Republican Senate candidates. And let’s look at how likely they are to be making a complete fool of themselves on Capitol [...]