Clark/Dean/Gep/Kerry/Lieb: Who is the most electable of them all?
Electability is often bandied about as a term of comparison among presidential candidates in the blogosphere with an air of certainty and not much else to back it up in terms of empirical evidence....
View ArticleIdea for bored Deaniacs
Mike S gave me an intriguing idea for something a bunch of lefty activists (e.g., Deaniacs) could do as a sort of activist project: crashing talk radio shows. Think of it as a political denial of...
View ArticleDemocrats lose again-- badly
Oy. Noone is running the circus under the Dem tent-- check out this one for some depressing analysis: Democrats get a wake-up call What will it take for Democrats to get their act together? I think...
View ArticleNew Democratic Establishment-- Winners and Losers
I believe we are witnessing a seismic shift in the Democratic party's center of gravity. A Gore-Dean alliance puts a lot of people on the outside that were heretofore considered pre-eminent....
View ArticleJust saw the IA speech
So totally underwhelmed. I literally cannot believe that is what I've been hearing about for the past four days. What a letdown-- I was expecting something so much more interesting. What's...
View ArticleI'm a new Dean delegate in WA 37-1934
Our caucus drew at least three times as many as expected (69). Dean won 2 delegates (30 votes) to 1 delegate for Kerry and 1 for Kucinich. I'm one of the Dean delegates who will go to the district...
View ArticleF9/11 Breaks $100M
Fahrenheit 9/11 has crossed into six digits for domestic box office gross. Not bad for a $6M movie.
View ArticleSnappy Answers to Stupid Debate Questions
Presidential Interrogator: Senator Kerry, you voted against Gulf War I and for Gulf War II-- please explain. JK: Well, I guess you could say that in the second Iraq war vote, I thought that Mr. Bush...
View ArticleToday, CELEBRATE in public at Bush's expense
The message all of us should be trumpeting today is this: Kerry WAXED Bush. Bush was in MELTDOWN. Never have I seen a president perform so HORRIBLY in a debate. It's amazing how terrible he does...
View ArticleEdward's Sleeper Hit in Cheney Debate
While John Edwards scored many hits on the current administration's record on jobs, health care and the war on terror, Dick Cheney had no rejoinder to his point that there are 60 nations with Al Qaeda...
View ArticleMedia buys mean Bush in TROUBLE
Last night's media buy thread (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/13/05854/550) left me with serious questions as to what is really going on in the race. I believe all the polls in the media are...
View ArticleDoes GOD want KERRY to WIN?
I am convinced that the Supreme Being in his/her/its infinite wisdom is sending us messages in the form of miracles in an attempt to prevent us foolish, falliable mortals from repeating a terrible and...
View Article9/11 Changed NOTHING
Can we please stop allowing the notion that "9/11 Changed Everything" to go unchallenged? Isn't it a capitulation to terrorists to even use the phrase? Aren't we supposed to be showing how little...
View ArticleArmchair QBs and the decline of US Democracy
I found myself more outraged than usual at Dick Cheney's latest effort (i.e., calling Chuck Hagel and all who question administration policy "armchair quarterbacks"), and I couldn't figure out why. It...
View ArticleRove is a two-bit loser hack
Let's rewind a few weeks, shall we? Robert Siegel: I'm looking at all the same polls you're looking at-- Karl Rove: No you're not! No you're not! I'm looking at 68 polls a week; you may be...
View ArticleAP: Democrats not backing down on Iraq; WAPO: WTF?!?
Um, WAPO and AP can't both be right. Here's WAPO front page from Tuesday:Democrats backed off after the House failed, on a vote of 222 to 203, to override the president's veto of a $124 billion...
View ArticlePalin apparently clueless about Primary campaign
The great thing about being Sarah Palin is that you can avoid actually answering questions so long as you wink enough and remember enough of what Rush said to string together coherent sentences. The...
View ArticleNo Concession; No Protection
I am done playing with this fool. If Trump cannot bring himself to accede to Presidential norms of power transfer, then he will not leave office in good standing. He will in effect be Dishonorably...
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