Edwards and matching funds
If it does come down (as Kos predicts) to Kerry vs Edwards, how much should we care about federal spending limits? Robert Kaiser (in this eve's WaPo) points out that if our guy took matching funds for...
View Articlestate-by-state polls, anyone?
Poll junkies, or just people focused on electability, may be looking for new state-by-state vs-Bush numbers around now. We've got 'em in the North Star state:...
View ArticleTom Schaller's in the New Yorker
Current double issue, cover date Feb 16 & 23 (with a wonderful essay by Alex Ross in the back) leads Talk of the Town with a Hendrik Hertzberg piece: "As Tom Schaller, a University of Maryland...
View ArticleNYT animation ad?
Today's NYT web front page includes an animated ad soliciting Kerry donations. I thought it was cute, could have been worse, and could have been much better; given the recent debate about D-/F+ ads...
View ArticleRun for the MN state house!
Just got back from a MN for Kerry meeting (nothing went wrong, nothing stood out, went fine): apparently there are several MN House districts still lacking a challenger to an R incumbent-- if you live...
View ArticleJFK flipflop memewatch
The Washington Post editorial board chastises JFK for not saying now just exactly what he said in December (about stability in Iraq). Here's the WaPo piece, self-righteous and kinda ridiculous:...
View Articlelooks like specter
link from Atrios to the Philly Inquirer: 61-39 Specter with over half the precincts in: http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/ Good news for moderates and moderations, or bad news (because it proves that...
View Articlemoving powell out
News, but mostly a funny. USA Today (via TPM): Powell wasn't told of new Iraq funding request: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-05-06-powell-funding_x.htm ...and when you scroll down past...
View ArticleNew NM poll: Bush 45, Kerry 42
Albuquerque Journal poll, taken Aug 27-Sept 1: www.albuquerquejournal.com/elex/218536elex09-05-04.htm The poll ended before Bush's RNC speech. Kerry is now net negative in New Mexico, with 42/47...
View ArticleExplaining the MN poll divergence
Wondering how Kerry can be ahead in MN by 9 (LVs, Star Tribune poll), but also behind by 1 or 2 (RVs and LVs, Gallup/CNN and Minnesota Public Radio)? Here's an explanation which doesn't require...
View Article"9/11 state" state polls...
...anyone seen more than I have? Has anyone polled CT lately, or anyone other than ARG (last week) and SUSA polled MD? The Quinnipiac NJ poll's not as bad as it looks, though it's not good compared to...
View Articlewww.youforgotpoland.com
Just the image so far but I hope they'll be putting up more. Watch that space, I guess. I wish there were a Daily Show tonight.
View ArticleKeep playing the expectations game
I'm as happy with the debate as you are, but we need to remember to keep it up-- not just the happiness but the tactical thinking. One of the reasons this debate had such an impact was that nobody...
View Articleplease post media phone numbers!
Before the Thursday night showdown someone here posted national contact numbers for the Big Three broadcast networks, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. I called these during (not after) the debate to say that...
View ArticleMpls Star-Tribune: stop Sinclair!
Appropriately outraged editorial from Minnesota's paper of record, the (generally decent) Star-Tribune:http://www.startribune.com/stories/561/5027508.html The faster and louder we are, and the more...
View ArticleMpls Star-Tribune online poll re: Sinclair
The Strib asks Web viewers: Should Sinclair air the film?http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5028198.html Vote now! "Yes" is winning at an incredible 69% (i.e. the poll has been Freeped)-- let's...
View ArticleThank the Mpls Star-Tribune...
...for this right-on commentary about the third debate:http://www.startribune.com/stories/561/5033478.html As with the Philly Inquirer's Kerry endorsement, it's not odd to find this particular paper's...
View ArticleCNN: military families say Bush screwed up Iraq
More than six in ten respondents to CNN's poll of servicemen, servicewomen and their immediate families say the Bush administration didn't plan right for Iraq, didn't send enough troops, or didn't...
View Articlemy OBL LTE
I just sent this to the mpls Star-Tribune, and something similar to the St Paul Pioneer Press-- use it as a model if you like it. Dear editors-- During last month's presidential debates John Kerry...
View ArticleMilwaukee J-S covers vote suppression
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the most important paper in the Badger State, covers GOP attempts to slime the voter rolls and suppress the...
View ArticleMN Dems' neat stunt
The DFL (that's the Dems in MN) delivered a giant fake check to our Rethug governor. Message: his no-new-state-income-or-sales-tax pledge leads localities to jack up property taxes or cut essential...
View ArticleBill Richardson on NPR
Governor Richardson just spent a couple of minutes on Morning Edition and hit, well, all the Reform Democrat buttons (except the tech button-- not sure if he gets that one). In a nutshell, the NM Gov...
View ArticleWaPo: Snowe, McCain vote with their butts
The WaPo reaction-to-SOTU story this morning emphasizes reactions from Conscience Caucus members and other not-entirely-robotic Rethugs, who declined to applaud the controversial lines and remained...
View ArticleNew Senate polls (mostly good) from USAT
USA Today has now released six states of Senate polls. Looks much better than the Mason-Dixon round: if these results match Tuesday's vote we seem to have five pickups. In Missouri, McCaskill up by...
View ArticleMA-Sen: how you can help
The race is still on, and it's still a virtual tie: "all hands on deck," as others have noted before. I write this diary because all the other how-to-help-Mass.-Dems diaries seem to have dropped off...
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