Election Day primer — and pushback against preemptive Democrat-media spin
Joshua Culling at the National Taxpayers Union has a handy primer on the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, plus overviews of state ballot initiatives across the country.
Read and bookmark here.
For NY-23, check 73wire, The Other McCain, Riehl World View, and TCOT Report.
Mark Blumenthal at Pollster.com has analysis on NY-23 polls and concludes:
…my experience conducting surveys for political campaigns, especially in Congressional districts in non-presidential year races, taught me the value of the vote history available on registered voter lists. More often than not, surveys I helped conduct based on such lists came closer representing the true likely electorate than media RDD samples which, like the Siena survey, disclose little to nothing about their likely voter screen or demographic composition.
Add to that the potential advantages of a self-administered automated survey in getting voters to provide more honest answers about whether they plan to vote and who they plan to vote for, and I find it difficult to ignore the PPP results. Hoffman looks like he’s headed to a comfortable victory.
Democrats and their media water-carriers got a head-start with this preemptive AP piece downplaying anticipated GOP wins.
So:
Tea Party movement? Doesn’t mean anything.
Nationwide government health care takeover revolt? Doesn’t mean anything.
Gallup poll showing “Conservatives Maintain Edge as Top Ideological Group?” Doesn’t mean anything.
Tomorrow doesn’t mean anything.
Tomorrow doesn’t mean anything.
Tomorrow doesn’t mean anything.
Tomorrow doesn’t mean anything.
If they plug their ears, stamp their feet, and say it often enough, maybe they can wish tomorrow and the conservative surge all away.
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Notice I said conservative surge. Not Republican. Read and send Doctor Zero’s excellent essay on the Stupid Party to every clueless GOP leader you know. Excerpt:
The radical nature of the current Administration makes the idea of “moderate” compromise laughable. What’s the moderate position on freedom-crushing trillion-dollar health care and environmentalist legislation? They’re okay, as long as the Democrats pinky-swear to keep the cost under $800 billion? That’s the kind of promise no politician could keep, even if it was made in earnest. A moderate Republican is someone who lives in a state of perpetual surprise as he ponders the monthly bills for nanny-state government. What’s the point of electing people who are guaranteed to spend the rest of their political careers complaining about how they’ve been played for fools?
Too much of the Republicans’ “Stupid Party” strategy is based on the mechanics of getting people with little elephants on their campaign signs elected. They view the election as the conclusion of a contest, when in fact it’s only the beginning. A successful Republican Party doesn’t have to be ideologically rigid, but it should insist on candidates who possess an intellectual foundation of conservative theory, and the ability to explain it at least as well as the thousands of people posting comments on conservative blogs.
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Dr. Zero is spot on.
Why has there been no mention of California 10th?
Why has Maine’s Question 1 not merited a post?
It is easy to claim a surge when you self select the races that apparently count.
If I may, Michelle… it’s time to give Doc Zero a permanent front-page slot on HA. You’ve got a real gem there.
*I’m predicting a sweep for Hoffman, Christie, and McDonnell in NY-23, New Jersey, and Virginia on 11/3; Not sure how the Minor League Media will spin it, but it should effectively kill the MediCrap Bill as Dems will race away from Pelosi, Reid, and P-BO after tomorrow.
Probably for the same reason as why there’s no mention of ribbon cuttings at the local shopping malls, Chap. Besides, it’s the Democrats who’re worked up to near-panic and psychosis over the races Michelle has mentioned. That tells you something.
And you must have missed the opening of Michelle’s post:
“Joshua Culling at the National Taxpayers Union has a handy primer on tomorrow’s gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, plus overviews of state ballot initiatives across the country. Read and bookmark here.”
You’ll have to go search the DNC or the CPU-USA site (eh, interchangable) to read what elections the leftists are all a-tingle over; citing them here really just isn’t in Michelle’s job description.
But as Michelle correctly notes the Dems are in overdrive, desperately yelling “Please don’t look! Nothing to see here!!” re: their soon to be, very likely defeats. They wanna change the (to them) bleak topic as much as you do here.
*Dr. Zero is spot on about the Stupid Party; Being from Canada, the GOP reminds me of the Progressive Conservative party that no longer exists there; They slowly strayed from original principles to be all things to all people; They were so badly trounced in the 1993 elections, they ceased to exist; A new Conservative Party eventually emerged, and their current leader, Stephen Harper, is now running the country, 16 years later; Will the GOP finally admit, “we have seen the enemy, and it is us”?
Oh. I get it. California 10 doesn’t count because it is presumably a gimmie for the Democrats. I guess that is somehow a different gimme than NY 23, which hasn’t elected a Democrat since the 19th century.
No..really not. I defy you to find any left blog that looks upon NY 23 with anything other than curiosity. Sure, we would have loved to pick it up. But that race is all about the infighting on the right. Not about the Dems. As for VA, it is the purplest of purple states, No one is panicking because a Republican is going to beat a weak candidate there. NJ is far too close to call, so I wouldn’t count any chickens there.
It is if she wants to claim a “conservative surge”. Its like saying the Buffalo Bills are undefeated. Well, they are if you only consider Weeks 2,6 and 7.
The RINO repubs also better take note that this is a Conservative movement on the rise. They will undoubtedly claim they are the reason for tomorrow’s wins.
What’s with MM’s website displaying only one story at a time?
Has the Cyber Czar been installed and nobody told us of the changes?
Or am I doing something wrong here?
Oh, and Obama and his administration are traitors to the American trust.
Everything okay here. Well…okay in the sense that the site appears normally.
As someone who lives in California 10th district, I have no illusions. The district is so gerrymandered that it is safely in Democrat control. The district meanders and skips around avoiding any strong republican enclaves like Danville while at the same time encompassing a small enclave of registered democrats completely surrounded by another district. The district is supposed to have a 65% democratic registration with the remaining 35% comprised of republican, independents, libertarian, and other outlier political parties.
In my opinion, Harmer would need to get at least 30% of the registered democrats to vote for him to win or if by some reason, registered democrats become apathetic and fail to vote.
Republicans will win back the House of Representatives in 2010.
The real battle won’t be a between Democrats and Republicans. The Democrats don’t have a prayer for holding the House as Democrats.
The real battle will be between true Conservatives and Scozzafava-type RINOs who will try to win as “Republicans” but act like Democrats.
A win for Hoffman will be a significant win for the true battle… the battle for a true Conservative majority in the House, not just a RINO majority.
You almost get it, Chap. NY-23 has never elected a Conservative Party candidate. This year there were too leftists: Owens and Scozzafava (who has thrwon her support to the other leftist) and it looks like a third party candidate will have taken them both to the woodshed come Wed. morn. “Conservative whups Tweedledum and Tweedledummer” is big news.
I mean in the real world the Dems are panicked: Newday reports ”
Voters received recorded phone calls from President Barack Obama on behalf of Owens”. The WH has sent Biden in, the Administration is taking this one personal – the Administration’s perceived power and prestige is on the line. Hence the panic among Dem politicos. (But if you want cyber-world takes instead, just do a search for “Hoffman” at Kos, the nutroots are frothing rabid over this race.)
LOL, that’s like saying Reagan or the Contract With America sweep wasn’t that big of a deal because a Dem was elected mayor of East Buzzard Creek, Arkansas.
I know it’s upsetting, but all parties take their lumps and sometimes get a good & needed buttkickin’, as is most likely to happen to Obama and the Dems tomorrow. The pendulum swings back & forth, but the amazing thing is that it only took 10 months of Obama with the Dems in Congress to get it swinging the other way! That usually doesn’t take place until the real “off year” elections (i.e. “the even years”) but that it’s at work so very early now just is not a good harbinger for the Obama/Dems.
That’s an easy question to answer. The big-government, statist Republican answer is always “Democrat light.” We don’t need a trillion dollar health care bill. We can get by on $500 billion, or $650 billion…. tops.
Just look at Bob Dole’s senile jabbering on the subject a few weeks ago during an interview with Cavuto…
NEIL CAVUTO- “All right, well, Bob Dole speaking out and stirring up the GOP, urging Republicans to get more involved in health care reform and not just be the party of no.”
****Note Dole’s response and his inability to comprehend that the whole idea should just have a stake driven through its heart.
DOLE: “Well, my message is not telling them what to do or how to vote or what bill to vote for. I have not endorsed any of them.”
“But I think we need to stay in the game. I mean, that is not a criticism. That is a reality, because I have been around long enough, or was around long enough, to know that these things are never over. And there will be opportunities for Republicans, if — if they are in the game.”
“And they can amend — they are probably going to carry some amendments, if they offer amendments, to the Baucus bill. It is not any criticism. It is just my feeling, having been the leader for 10 years, that, if you hang in there, things will happen. They will have to make some compromises. They are not going to get everything they want. And neither party ever does.”
“So, that is the essence of my comment. It was not any criticism.”
**** I rest my case.
Yeah, it’s kinda like the shock that a Dem is going to be elected mayor of Minneapolis. We’re talking the epitome of been there, done that & got the T-shirt type-things here, pdv.
And to Dems, whether an R or a NYC is pretty irrelevant. Again, that race has nothing to do with D vs. R and everything to do with infighting. We are looking at it with bemusement. The headline vis a vis Dems is “NY 23 is still not Democrat. In other news, the Pope is still Catholic.”
They were rabid about the potential to pick up a district they have no reason to be competitive in and they are rabid(ly excited) about the implosion of the GOP there. They are not concerned about its long term implications for the Democratic party. Big difference.
LOL, indeed. That is like saying a conservative winning a conservative district and a couple potential governorships in competitive states is the equivalent of the Republican sweep in 94. Don’t be absurd.
chapoutier,
The reason this race is so important is because conservatives see a race that they can finally win away from both the democrats and a liberal republican.
Many conservatives see liberal republicans as the real problem in this country. If real republicans had been in office over the past 10 years, then the current economic downturn probably wouldn’t have occurred. The spending deficits that liberal republicans have allowed has hurt this country. This has confused voters into thinking that MORE liberal fiscal policies are necessary.
So, many conservatives see liberal republicans to be as much of a problem as democrats. Conservatives have sent a very clear signal to the Republican Party. They’ve made it clear that they are prepared to bring a liberal Republican candidate down. Republican Party leaders now know that they can’t run liberals.
BTW, we need to clear something up. There is plenty of room for MODERATE Republicans in the Republican Party. There is no room for liberals in the Republican Party. Liberal Republicans have falsely labelled themselves as moderate Republicans for too long.
I don’t think the GOP is imploding. It’s being fixed. This has bad long term implications for Democrats.
Which of course is why Kos has been polling the race. Give it up, Chap. The Dems were all excited hoping that the Republican vote would split and they’d pick up the seat. And you know it.
CA-10 has potential to be intersting. It’s in Pelosi’s back yard.
Maine gay marriage question will go down (win?) by a slim margin.
I think Corzine is going to win New Jersey. ACORN has been busily voting the nursing homes again. You can only beat a Democrat on his home ground when you can muster a big enough margin to overcome the stuffed ballot boxes and bogus absentee ballots. I don’t think Christie is going to be able to pull that many. Of course, I’d be tickled pink if I were wrong.
Tomorrow, I’ll vote for McDonnell and other local, conservative candidates. I’m adding what small effort I can to the conservative movement, in hopes that others follow and, in the end, triumph over the liberal, socialist cause. “A body in motion tends to stay in motion”. A strong conservative showing could, very likely, influence the 2010 elections. Best I’m hoping for, is to embarrass the liberals and get them to worrying. I’ll know that we’ve embarrassed them by seeing them calling us “fascists” and condemning another “right-wing conspiracy”, in the MSM and congress.
You’re half correct, Chap. Since it’s Conservative Party v. D, with the Republican candidate having been already bumped off by the “C”. It must have something to do with “D”, unless Obama was misinformed on making calls for the “D”.
I thought there was no “D” factor in the race, Chap. (See above)
If that were the case, they would not be doing their frenzied “preemptive Democrat-media spin” (per Michelle’s post title). You can engage in that spin in a fit of denial, Chap, or – as I said – accept that sometimes you take your lumps and hopefully learn from it.
They’re excited at having their butts kicked by a Conservative? I’m all for such “may I have another, Sir?” Dem masochism myself. I’m not sure how Dems feeling celebratory on a Hoffman win is consistent with what you’re saying.
What we’re speaking of here is the swing of the pendulum, as I said above, Chap. That and how quickly it has happened in the shadow of the “Obama Magic”. However with the plurality of Americans now IDing themselves as conservatives we have to consider that factor too – and thank Obama for switching so many into the “C” column in such a short time.
But the Dem obsession with trying to preemptively downplay their losses is probably the most telling factor of all. You don’t risk the prestige of the Presidency for something that doesn’t matter. The only reason to do that and engage in pre-election damage control is if you know something BIG is at stake.
If the Dems wanted folks to think they really believe it doesn’t matter, they’d be ignoring the elections altogether. Kinda just shrug and say, “eh, what election?” – instead they’re doing just the opposite by “protesting too much”.
Chappy once again displays his disingenuous nature. The importance of NYC-23, Virginia and New Jersey is obvious to everyone. If not, the MSM wouldn’t be out the day before telling us why it isn’t important and how it isn’t a referendum on Obama. We all know it is precisely that.
Virginia hasn’t elected a Republican Governor since 1997. Twelve years later, in a supposed leftward shift, lead by Obama, Virginia is on the verge of saying, “enough is enough. It is time to rethink ‘socialism’ and we Virginians want none of it.”
The only question in very Democrat 10th California District was which Democrat was going to beat any other candidate. Look at the results of the special primary. The top 4 Dems took 63% of the votes. The top GOP took 21%. It is not the same as NY-23 and Chappy knows it.
You can bet if the leftists were going to sweep these three races on the East Coast Chappy would be telling us a very different story.
I will be voting for Christie, but only because there is no conservative option in the race. Republicans have generally done well on the economy, if not on other issues, and when things pick up to the point where New Jerseyans can get back to work, we can resume the fight against the liberals here.
Not holding my nose, but acknowledging the power that the State is SUPPOSED to have.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Yup, Eagle, it’s not a new political phenom, the public turnabout. What is novel is how quickly it happened. Obama posed as a moderate, evoked Reagan in the election and fooled a lot of people. But now they see the reality and , outside of the hardcore leftists, there’s a lotta voter remorse.
The very sudden turn of (mis)fortune probably really caught the Dems by surprise, so I don’t blame Chap for feeling a bit flummoxed. But it is as Michelle sez: “If they plug their ears, stamp their feet, and say it often enough, maybe they can wish tomorrow and the conservative surge all away.”
I wonder if Tuesday’s defeats will set Obama really off on a warpath. He just doesn’t take rejection very well, y’know.
If only …
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
That is a very interesting question. A full sweep will get the attention of Dems facing election in 2010. It will suddenly be a little more difficult for Reid and Pelosi to strong-arm members. And Obama doesn’t have the influence of an LBJ in Congress to push any agenda through on his own.
In order for anything good to happen, the GOP MUST implode. The liberals that control the party infrastructure MUST be shown the door.
Conservatives NEVER controlled the Republican Party. Good luck taking it over. If you succeed, I’ll join you.
Not a minute before.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I don’t think there’s much chance Obama and the Dems will see the handwriting on the wall and do the right thing(s), so I’m guessing they will just wildly lash out instead. Maybe go truly nuclear nutso against Fox News, Sarah Palin, Tea Partiers, etc.
Liberal heads will be exploding everywhere with the fury and sorrow of it all. I expect Chris Matthew’s tingly leg will break out sobbing in denial.
Why are these races important?
Adenendum: Chapoutier, just so you know, all of the links above, by the way, come from liberal media sources. Again, time for you to put up or shut up…
Jang,
I am having same problem the frontpage is not loading properly.
WAKE UP WEBMASTER
downplaying anticipated GOP wins.
Such as Peter Jennings calling Americans two year olds after his beloved Democrats took a beating in 1994.
We have done it to ourselves. We let welfare rum rampant. We allowed gangs to grow and flourish. We have let the border be open, and now want to let them all stay… remember Senior Bush and Juan McAmnetsy.
We need a great purge. Let’s put some fear in the species.
Head em up, move em out? Sounds right–now how many of them would then take jobs as lobbyist or with Non Governmental Agencies is to be seen-but move em out. Nothing puts fear into a politico like being cut off from the House Post Office or Capitol Dining room and the limousines-ask Tom Dashle. Is there anything so sad as a Former Capitol Drama Queen actually forced to pay their taxes?
So we have the Urge to Purge
Interesting article at Rasmussen.
I suspected as much. I haven’t registered as a Republican in years. They don’t represent me and I don’t wish to be identified with them. We are in fact the majority, but without a leader.
The problem with GOP leadership is simple, no vision, no principles, no leadership. There is instead a centrist black hole sucking in misguided cosmic debris like McCain, Steele and Newtie.
The GOP has made itself irrelevant. Conservatives are the majority and will vote accordingly, as NY 23 illustrates. Whether they wake up or not is irrelevant. Independent conservatives can and will win. Finally change we can believe in!
Yup, Swede – I know whatcha mean. I’m a “small i” independent, with no party registration/affiliation. If I had a “Zell Miller Dem” to vote for, s/he would get my vote over 99% of the Republican candidates (i.e. the elitist RINOs).
I left the Republican Party after they moved away from conservative values and more toward a spend, spend, spend philosophy. Under the Bush administration, who I supported twice with my vote, there was an average of 251 pages of legislation passed that added to the financial crash started by Carter, enhanced and expanded by Clinton, and completed under Bush.
From now on, Independent with a capital “I” is my affiliation. I suspect it will become the dominant party of the future.
If you’re having problems viewing the page you should mention which browser you’re using – I suspect that’s where the issue lies or else everyone would notice a prob.
Might wanna try looking at the site with a different browser to see if it also displays things wrong or not.
If you’re using IE 8 you could try clicking the “Compatibility View” toolbar button to display the website as viewed in Internet Explorer 7.
(Whatever broswer you’re using you should make sure it’s current/updated).
But generally if it’s a site/page problem, everybody will see it.
Really? Kick people, lie to them, tell them to get in line and shut up and wonder where they went. The McCain team blames Governor Palin for his defeat. I doubt too many non-Republican Conservatives vote Democrat often–but as we just saw they often don’t vote-so we need to kick them, lie to them and tell them to get in line and shut up BUT PLEASE SEND MONEY
On again…off again. Something is amiss…
If dems were leading and winning in Virginia, New Jersey, and in NY-23, the headlines would be blaring that it shows Americans back Duh One and his un-holy agenda.
But, since it’s Republicans leading, the headlines say:
John Cornyn and Newt Ginrinch seem to think putting and “R” by ones name is good enough. That’s why Conservatives have lost faith in them.
Using IE7 at work and IE8 at home, I’ve had the same problem since last night.
I strongly suspect my browser is not the problem.
Oh, and it’s only the main page that has the problem.
Leprechauns!! Little beggers.
Andrew Breitbart is out and about with his cameras in New Jersey. Never again will what happen in last year’s elections happen!
Voted this morning in Kearny, NJ, for Christie/Guadagno, polling place at 6:30 AM seemed really dead and without the sting of ACORN. Not sure I can say the same for my parents, living in Newark’s Forest Hill section.
Every election, without fail, the Democrats swarm the polling place, going in and out and even being so brazen as to camp out at the front door of the polling place (Robert Treat Academy on Clifton Avenue, for those interested in stopping by and keeping ACORN and the Dems in check).
Same problem; both at home last night and in the office this morning.
Very annoying.
Please fix!
Well, lookie there!
Fixed!
Ask, and ye shall receive….
Hmmm….
The problem is back!
Can you spray for the little buggers? Use bait? Remember their cousin, the Gremlin George Romney, took down American Motors-or was that the UAW? One of those.
Off topic (sort of), but:
House Health Bill Totals $1.2 Trillion
and
House Republicans Find 111 New ‘Bureaucracies’ in Health Care Bill
True, but consider that, given the constant “reporting” that the Republicans (not to be confused with conservatives yet) are “not supposed” to be able to win any election in this age of “hope and change”. Of course the Democrat party is concerned about the long term implications of these races! If they weren’t, Obama and others wouldn’t be so quick to fly in to bolster an “insignificant” election.
It is absolutely an indicator of how the country perceives the Democrats and their agenda, and by extension, Obama.
That is exactly what I think when I see that the Democrats can’t push through their schemes with the majorities they hold. The infighting in the Democrat party is apparent, otherwise, why would they need Snowe or Lieberman, other than for reasons of political cover?
I’m not convinced…still having problems, and it’s not my browser.
granite: have you tried Firefox? Less bugs than IE and has Spell Check for Dummies.
I think it is very important to Republicans and conservatives corkie. I do not think it is particularly worrisome to Democrats. You fine people here may consider the chasm between conservatives and Republicans significant. Dems either do not or think that the push right is going to help Democrats by pushing out more electable Republicans. Right from the beginning, when Dede was still competitive and it looked very possible the vote actually would be split in Owens’ favor, many on my side were still hoping Hoffman would win. They want the conservative wing to put up hellacious primary battles. They would love nothing more than to face Rubio rather than Crist. And at what cost? Not winning a seat that they would not have been able to hold onto in 2010 or would be redistriced out of existence anyway.
You can disagree with their logic or strategy, but that is the feeling.
Yes I said they were excited about the possibility of picking up a seat they have no business being competitive in. But its kinda like getting a free pull at a slot machine. You win–super. You don’t–well its not going to ruin your day, is it? With the added bonus of getting to see two people behind you that you dislike scratching and clawing to be the next person to get to pull.
You, not you specifically corkie, can delude yourself into thinking that this is something its not. Just as you have deluded yourself into thinking liberals consider Palin an electoral threat. But if McCain would have won in 08, I guarantee that NY 23 would still not have been won by a Democrat and McDonnell would still be beating Deeds. Virginia seems to have a tradition of running at least one truly incompetent campaigner in each Governor’s race, but Deeds is almost at another level.
For what its worth, purple, I have no idea where you are getting the idea Obama is robocalling in NY 23. I have seen nothing on this and have contacted a number of family members up there who have indicated they have not heard of it.
Inconsistently fixed.
Boy, it’s a good thing we fools have someone who is all-knowing to explain to us how things really are, and to give us free “advice”, to boot!
Voted early this am in VA. Pulled the lever for McDonnell. Probably not surprising anyone.
I’m having the same problem with the main page. Had it late last night when I checked in after work. Again today. Is this Word Press screwing around with your site again, MM?
FWIW, Compatability View does not fix the problem.
Vis a vis Democrats (which is what this post is about), yes it is. NY 23 is a district Dems have no business being competitive in. The only reason they were for a little while was a vote split. And at the end of the day a guy who will caucus with Republicans will win it. Set aside all the drama and that is all you have. A seat which has been Republican for 150 years now Republican for 152.
Same with Cal 10. An unwinnable seat remains so.
Along with those goofy posting numbers.
Is this the work of yet another czar?
I’ve grown to like the big number. My hope is to hang around long enough to hit magic comment number 1,000,000.
Errah, Chappy perhaps you Corzine, Deeds and Owens can get together tomorrow at the local Uhaul store and discuss it while they’re selecting boxes and labels.
On the news this morning: DeDE “DoneGone” Scozzafava is making robocalls to both of her supporters. He Who Has Won One was going to make calls but did not want to get too close to a Typical White
PeonPerson.I voted for McDonnell, Bolling, and Cuccinelli in Virginia. Voting seems really light. Hopefully, all the stupid Oprah women who vote Democrat are staying home. Also, the 2008 election in Virginia was marred by thousands of illegal aliens and others who were not supposed to be voting (non-American citizens) who did. Hopefully, this election will be a lot cleaner.
Cuccinelli is a devout Catholic from Northern Virginia who has been vilified because of his Catholic faith in the Washington Post that called those who live out their Catholic faith, including Cuccinelli, “bigots.” I really hope he wins in a landslide.
I didn’t know about this. I don’t read papers anymore. I voted for him too, so according to my sampling, Cuccinelli wins 2 out of 2 votes, or 100%. Should be a landslide.
There is a margin of error in my sampling, but I’m not interested in figuring out.
Christie will have to win at the actual ballot box by 50,000 votes (unlikely) in order to have any chance of winning the recount that must ensue. Corzine will not lose a recount regardless of what the actual tallies show. Democrats are infinitely better at manipulating recounts. Just look at Minnesota. Although Coleman won at the polls, the recount ensured a Franken victory. Here is why. Franken hired some down in the dirt Minnesota trial lawyers to represent him in the recount. Coleman was stupid enough to hire some egghead of a lawyer from Washington, D.C. who A) didn’t know the difference between Minneapolis and St. Paul and B) didn’t know the local judges. I was reminded of the old Roy Cohn remark: “Don’t tell me what the law is. Tell me who the judge is”. Franken’s trial lawyers were guys from the malpractice bar who had surely invited the judges to the office Christmas party, socialized with them at the local country club etc. Coleman’s team of lawyers were strictly K Street guys who don’t know how to get their hands dirty. Coleman never had a chance. The same thing will happen in New Jersey if Christie does not win at the polls by at least 50,000 votes. Sorry to say this but Republicans are really that stupid when it comes to these things.
I voted early in my heavily Republican district in Orangetown. This is the first time I have ever had to wait on a line. The woman who signed me in said she’d never seen it this heavy so early in the morning. If this is any indication of the turnout of Republican voters elsewhere, it will be a very long night for the evil party!
Actually, the AP piece has some points:
People are no longer voting the R, they’re actually scrutinizing the record and beliefs of the candidate. This shows up as a third party candidate dwarfing the liberal Republican candidate in NY.
The Republican party needs a strong, conservative leader. So far, no one is really out there being this leader. Palin is trying, God bless her, but she just doesn’t cut it. The waters have been muddied by several big name Republicans (Newt), including the party itself, supporting the liberal Republican in NY.
Wins today can help the republican party, but it better get back to its conservative base or it’s sunk.
help save the GOP: Just say “No” to the RINOP!
Same ol’ playbook:
1. Downplay
2. Compare and contrast apples and oranges
3. Use immoral equivalence, if above does not work
To hit upon an earlier point I made Reality shot for anyone that thinks the NJ or VA governors races are indictments of Obama.
NJ
So…since Obama took office, Corzine went from handily losing in the polls to… winning or tied in the polls.
VA
So…since Obama took office, Deeds went from losing horribly in the polls to…losing horribly in the polls.
THE GOP NY23 call center was EMPTY at 8:30pm last night – E-M-P-T-Y
ENOUGH SAID – IT IS UP TO US – GET INVOLVED – FIRE THEM ALL – Start with Michael “Hip Hop” Steele
Redstate.com LOOK IT UP
Who is Doctor Zero and where do I get in line to have his baby?
Gerrymandering should be illegal. It is illogical from a “fair and reasonable” point of view. Why not simply ignore the Constitution and just declare that all seats in designated areas will be Democrat, period. Dispense with the illusion of democracy.
It’s interesting…For 8 years every election was a referendum on GW Bush. Now that the Obama regime is in power only elections that his side wins are a referendum on him, all other elections are discounted as being meaningless.
Who could have predicted that? /sarc
We must beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing. Meaning, liberals who masquerade as conservatives in order to subtly undermine our leaders and strategies.
PALIN 2012
Yes. I agree 100%.
And I think we need to be clear about making a distinction between moderate republicans and masquerading liberals.
Moderate Republicans are welcome in the the R party. Masquerading liberals are not.
I’m pretty sure it was the Sandinistas.
Curious how you define.
What are the absolute non-starter issues for you?
Well ya woulda if ya had read my comment, Chap, where I quoted Newsday. But my bad for not including the link to the story, so here yuh go:
Poll: Doug Hoffman in lead in upstate race
(Newsday, Tue 03 Nov 2009)
Thanks purp.
Careful how you bite that bait corkie, it bites back.
RedDog: meet Richard Daley, BroBama and the rest of the herd. Ignoring, even mocking, the Constitution is Holy Writ to them and stealing elections is a Sacrament second only to abortion or graft depending. As one pundit put it: Chris Christie has only a two point lead over Corzine-if Corzine can’t steal two points he isn’t a real Democrat.
Hmm, it could be a glitch in the page script, but ornery cuss that I am I stil think it’s a problem with a browser not rendering the page correctly. I could very well be wrong – we’ll have to see if more of us report the same problem.
What are you guys not seeing when you say it just shows one story (blog entry) at a time? You mean you can’t see the recent entries that are usually listed to the right of the of the current/main blog entry or ?
Back from the polls just now. Voted for the conservatives running in Virginia. I have some hope that McDonnell, Bolling and Ken Cuccinelli.
I believe McDonnel and Cuccinelli are actual conservatives and I have some hope they won’t be compromised by the IDIOTS running the GOP. Time will tell. Still, “No Newt is Good Newt” as we say in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
I dunno if Newsday got the story right, Chap. It’s like they say: “Alls I know is what I read in the paper”.
And I still haven’t figured who they are – the they who keep saying things…
That’s it. It shows the sidebar when you are in the comment section of the main story. Sometimes when you go from the main story back to the main page, the side bar shows up (maybe 1 in 4 times). Then when you navigate back to the main page, you lose all the side topics again.
Michelle is doing her own purge. Sorry. You didn’t make the cut.
Naw, Chap’s a good pup – barks but he doesn’t bite…..gnaws a little…
Drats. Well, better to be a one in four poster than not at all!
chappie, don’t get your knickers in a twist, i have faith that the democrat machine (acorn rent a voters and union rent a voters) will allow corzine to maintain the strangle hold on jersey. but we will probably be shocked to find that absentee voters swung the election. we will probably be further shocked to find the 3rd party candidate was funded by corzine and the dems usual suspects. this is why chicago politics is so fun, you create a rule, we’ll find a way to corrupt it.
Or, maybe 1 in 10-12 times….
Could be, haven’t really been watching that close. I do know it’s annoying.
Okay, I see what y’all mean. I just checked it out with IE8 (not my usual browser) and when you go to the main page the right hand side is missing in action. Until, as you said, you click on something like “Archives” and then go back to the main page.
Well, that is a glitch – it looks like it affects IE mostly or exclusively. I believe Michelle uses Firefox (as do I mostly) and, if so, she won’t get the bad display.
So, if she’s checking the comments she’ll catch it. Otherwise Michelle’s email addy is in the “Contact” section if you want to let her know what’s not looking right.
Hitting refresh worked for me.
Wait…I thought firefox was the liberal browser and IE was the conservative one. Don’t tell me I am going to have to switch to Google Chrome.