CA-25: Candidate Defends Bevin's Pardon, Accuses Pelosi of Murder
Continuing with the unfortunate recent history of some self-identified “progressives” adopting GOP talking points and making outrageous statements for social media impact, today, Cenk Uygur, Democratic...
View ArticleSen. Elizabeth Warren and Her Art of Radical Persuasion
Democratic Party Politics is the art of addition; the candidate who can build the largest coalition not only stands the best chance of winning, but the best chance of governing successfully.Last week,...
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Are We, Uh, Forgetting Biden's Biggest Accomplishment?
It’s after Christmas, and once again, we were treated to images of a President serving Holiday Meals to our Service Men and Women in harm’s way overseas.Oh.Wait a minute...No we weren’t.For the first...
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Proof That Yes Government Can, From The Void of Space
I had made a New Years Resolution to return to diary writing, but I didn’t get more than two diaries in before I contracted COVID. I am COVID positive.Our whole family is fully vaccinated, and the...
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Into a Political Heart of Darkness
You’ll never believe who the New York Times interviewed. Despite Democrats representing the majority of American voters, with more voters having chosen the Democratic nominee the last 7 out of 8 times....
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How to Answer: "Democrats Need to Win Rural Voters"
Dear FSM, look at all that red.Let’s get Computer to enhance just Tennessee as an example:Hard to believe Republicans only won Tennessee 51% to 47% in 2000. Al Gore actually had little to do with...
View ArticleAnd “Why Can't Democrats Message Like Republicans?”
As I discussed in a previous diary, Republicans don’t have exclusive rights to knock on political consulting industries. The previous diary was about the rural voter whisperers (and how to ignore...
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The Terror of Republicans
Eliminationist, perigenocidal rhetoric was a part of the Republican Party for decades, albeit a fringe. A levee separated what was talked about in polite quarters on the Sunday Morning shows from what...
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Anatomy of a Polling Failure: Part 1 (Motive)
I come with a warning.I read dKos multiple times every day. I have since 2003! But haven’t written much in the past few months. I had been spending most of my time over on election Twitter (until space...
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Anatomy of a Polling Failure: Part 2 (Garbage In, Garbage Out)
I promised warned you there’d be more. And where we last left off, I talked about how elite pundits were motivated to call this election wrong before it even began.How could a Daily Kos nobody such as...
View ArticleSo We Went Back to The Moon Yesterday
We all know Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the lunar surface, Gene Cernan stepping off the lunar surface December 14, 1972, with the following quote:Bob, this is Gene, and I'm on the surface;...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Polling Failure: Part 2.1 (The Aggregators Strike Back)
Thank you very much to all who read Part 1 (why elite pundits were motivated to call this race so wrong from the get go), and Part 2 (the garbage polls, and garbage poll aggregators).Before we get to...
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Anatomy of a Polling Failure: Part 3 (The Fundamentalists)
Thank you very much to all who read Part 1 (why elite pundits were motivated to call this race so wrong from the get go), and Part 2 (the garbage polls, and garbage poll aggregators). In Part 3, I want...
View ArticleCarthage Must Be Destroyed
The year is 152 BC. Rome has fought two wars against its neighbor in the Mediterranean, Carthage. Although Rome was ultimately successful in both wars, it suffered a number of humiliating losses along...
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2023: Democracy Dying in Darkness is The Plan
This may be your first day back to work in 2023. I want to tie together two, seemingly unrelated stories from the end of 2022.* * *The first is our friend from Royal Island, George Santos.Look at how...
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The Polls Are Still Wrong. Let's Talk About Why.
Welcome back statisticians, masochists, and/or pollercoaster enthusiasts. When we last met, I wrote a series of diaries dissecting how (and why) the media called the 2022 midterm election so wrong. For...
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The Polls Are *Still* Wrong. Very Wrong. (Part 2)
Back in March, I wrote about how the polls this cycle are wrong, just as they were wrong in 2022. Perhaps it was out of some foolish hope the polls would self-correct as we entered the middle stretch...
View Article"Fellas, it's been good to know ya"
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin' "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya" At 7 PM, a main hatchway caved in, he said "Fellas, it's been good to know ya""The Wreck of the Edmund...
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It's Okay to Let The Establishment Media Die
THE PATH TO JUDGMENT DAYIn the 1991 dystopic science fiction film Terminator 2: Judgment Day, America has created an artificial intelligence called Skynet, unto which it inexplicably gave control of...
View ArticleIraq War Vibes
I feel like part of my soul will forever be left at 8:00pm on Saturday night, November 2, when the famous DMR Selzer poll found Vice President Harris up by 3 on Trump. While I didn’t actually expect...
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