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In the spirit of celebrating once again what may be the best ad of the political season…
In the spirit of sharing the most revealing graphic of the results of Udall's one note campaign:
In the spirit of calling it like it is:
He's earned this election cycle's "Baghdad Bob" Award…
Just the facts, ma'am:
OMG,
62,400 more returned R ballots than D ballots.
Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad. Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected.
I'm three time zones away and can't hear you – could you find a bigger font, nitwit?
Geebuz you interweb presence is reeking of desperation today.
Be glad this guy isn't your congressman http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/23/jason-chaffetz-surgeon-general_n_6036544.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
Chris Christie tries to walk back his minimum wage comment, minimum wage workers aren't buying it….
On the plus side for Chris Christie, he would probably get employee discount prices on all meals on the menu.
Was just going to post a few things about how things are going for the 47%.
How Chipotle and others steal from their employees:
This one I really like as I've always wondered what our outsourced jobs are worth in other countries:
Regulators seem to have made them honest on this one, but this is surely not the only time it's happened.
EFI has long been on my list of companies that are "evil", and the company's claim that it "didn't realize" it couldn't pay foreign workers their foreign salaries when working inside the US is ridiculous. The Feds let them off very lightly – only requiring back pay and a minimal fine of $3500 (which doesn't even amount to the petty cash drawer to a company that long had a stranglehold on colorspace mapping algorithm patents)
We wouldn't have to worry about minimum wage if A) the old manufacturing sector well paying jobs, along with the power of the unions, weren't disappearing for the masses and being replaced with minimum wage to low wage jobs for powerless workers on such a huge scale and B) if minimum wage was worth anywhere near as much in buying power as it was, say, 40 years ago. The only viable solution in the foreseeable future is to demand a minimum living wage for all workers to get the American middle class moving forward again after decades of stagnation and slippage.
If you're in the top 1% you're doing many times better than a 1 percenter did in the 70s. The middle class isn't doing any better at all. No progress. Period. That's no way to run a consumer economy dependent on a majority middle class with money to spend.
Providing more opportunity, training, etc. for advancement into higher income jobs is great, although we're no longer anywhere near number one in upward mobility anymore either, but that's it's only a small part of the solution because of simple arithmetic. No matter how much opportunity and how hard people work you can't squeeze more than 1% into the top 1% or 10% into the top 10%, etc. You're still going to need decent living wages for the majority unless you want a banana republic style society with a tiny elite and 90% struggling poor.
History tells us that kind of society is not at all compatible with the American system of government set forth in our constitution. If the wealth gap continues to grow at its present rate, the 200+ year great American experiment will soon be over and done with on American soil. Decisions like the Citizens United abomination hasten that day. A living minimum wage is the only way to put on the brakes and there isn't a scrap of evidence, despite what righties say, that raising the minimum wage costs the economy jobs over all. None.
And yet I drive by run down rentals and modest homes with GOTP campaign signs out front. It's truly tragic that so many to low to middle income Americans are so ignorant and easily manipulated into pretty much slitting their own throats.
Their throats and ours, too, when the GOTP wins.
Yup.
"…let me simply say that Walmart is the largest employer in the United States. It is paying its workers, if you include its part-time workers, on average $8.80 an hour. Now, compare that to 1955 when the largest employer in the United States was General Motors and it was paying its workers in today's dollars $37 an hour."
– Robert Reich
The great Kansas tea party disaster http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-kansas-tea-party-disaster-20141023
The really extraordinary part of that story is that nearly half of the voters in Kansas fail to see the disaster and are still supporting Brownback.
9 News had a sorry up this morning about JeffCo parent’s being passed that their kids have been photoshopped into mailers for Woods/Sanchez/etc
I only saw it in passing, so I don’t have details.
I saw it on ch7 as well, posted to it to another thread "'students being used as pawns" additionally, the mailers were using the Jeffco School District logo begging a cease & desist . Signs were photo shopped to read "I want my future back"
If you think the JeffCo School Board and its hand-picked "we're paying you to do nothing" lawyer are going to file a C&D against these Republican candidates you're deluded.
Okay – maybe it's me who is deluded. I'm shocked that the school district has actually asked for the removal of these logos.
Probably because they didn't want to give the recall movement any more ammo than necessary.
It might be just me but I would have been more pissed than passed – LOL
"Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Contributor", err, Turd Blossom, doing what he does best…
Udall and too many other Dems have been terrible on Obamacare messaging since 2010. Highlight the good parts, and vow to fix the bad parts, it is a winning message and the right solution to the problem.
I agree. They let the tea party frame the debate in 2010. Andrew Romanoff says an overwhelming number of Americans support the affordable care act, while a majority oppose Obamacare. The Dems have done a lousy job of education.
Drew, The problem with that approach is they have not done anything to fix the bad parts. Shaheen in New Hampshire took that approach and was asked what she would do to fix the problems and she said she would appoint a commission. The truth is the Dems own Obamacare. Some voters like it, many more don't.
And Achole – the republicans have nothing to replace it with. All they do is lie the way con man cory has. Hey, how's that nasty rash?
With conservative defined as anything that Obama doesn't like enough to borrow from them.
You are the supreme, ignorant troll. Your statement "some voters like it, many more don't" is the exact opposite of what actual facts bear out.
Bowelman, wrong as usual.
I've finally arrived…you've given me a nickname! What you dumbasses miss – as OrangeFree commented earlier – is a large chunk of the unfavorables are because it doesn't go far enough, ie: universal health care. You ignorant turds can't decipher the data – and then assume you're winning.
yes, achole is once again wrong http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/23/americans-are-clear-obamacare-just-isn-t-liberal-enough.html My favorite part The answer, for 15 percent of Americans, is that they oppose the Affordable Care Act because it’s not liberal enough in its approach toward health care reform. Indeed, when you look at the full results, you see an electorate that either supports Obamacare or wants a more liberal alternative. There’s still an open question as to what those 15 percent want, but—if they support more liberal policies—then it’s fair to say they don’t want to dismantle the law. What Republicans want—a majority that opposes Obamacare and wants its repeal—just doesn’t exist.
Exactly — we could've had the public option initially.
Another choice would be Medicare for all with optional private gap policies if desired. We don't even need single payer, although that would be the third choice.
All GOTP'ers can think is to drag us back to the bad old days of runaway medical inflation, big executive bonuses for denying care, and tens of millions of citizens going completely without coverage, leading to expensive emergency room care that gets passed on to taxpayers.
Numbnuts like Moddy and AC think that's a good thing!
There's "Little Orifice Andy," singing Tomorrow, tomorrow, sitting on Daddy Warbucks lap
Memorandum
To: Asshat Carnie, Libtard Pols Troll
From: Progressicat, poster
Subject: Look at the question on your own goddamned chart
"Given what you know about the health reform law…" As has been the case since inception, they don't necessarily know much, which is why this question polls about even, but questions which inform people about the law, or ask them about features of the law, get much higher favorables. And, of course, most folks still want repair rather than replace.
Bare in mind that a significant chunk of the "many more don't" crowd don't like it because they don't think it went far enough.
I agree they own the ACA, and have done a terrible job defending it. AC, the old system sucked. The GOP has not offered a coherent alternative, and people see the need for reform so a repeal is foolish. Coloradans are smart enough to figure that out.
Things going badly for mcconnel http://www.politicususa.com/2014/10/23/warning-signs-grow-mitch-mcconnell-losing-kentucky-senate-race.html
What could be the ultimate irony as one of the many possible outcomes on election eve: the Republicans take the Senate, Senator Obstructionism gets put out to pasture.
…a sure sign that your internals show "you're losing"… a scathing editorial on NoWay's latest campaign ad.
Next up: ad with child in foreground and woman tied up by man in mask with gun in background. Cue ominous music.
Kid: "My mom voted for John Hickenlooper in 2010"
(Three shots ring out)
Kid: (tears rolling down face) "Now I don't have a mommy anymore."
Paid for by Beauprez for Colorado
Obama http://www.politicususa.com/2014/10/24/fell-swoop-obama-announces-solar-jobs-50000-veterans-addresses-climate-change.html
Great program! Veterans (the real patriots, not trolls like the WIF that pukes on this page on a regular basis) 'get it. They understand the real costs, both in human and financial terms, that stem from our addiction to oil. They understand the perils of climate change, an issue that was brought to light during the Bush administration in the DOD's 2008 Quadrennial Review.
Even given all that, the Post apparently missed that our Patriot Snipe Hunter-turned-Catfisher has signed the Koch Climate Pledge promising Congressional inaction on climate to his money masters – and promised CPAC that Republicans are committed to defunding climate research.
What could possible go wrong?
A couple of very interesting write-ups concerning our senate race:
Will Colorado Democrats' Voter Utopia Save Mark Udall? – NationalJournal.com
Tracing the Line in Colorado, a State Split Left and Right – NYTimes.com
Are Colorado Polls Underestimating Democratic Turnout? – NBC News.com
Another indicator of how very close the CO senate race is (without the bullshit of crap pro-GOTP pollsters Suffolk and Quinnipiac and foXX nooZe in the mix):
Reuters poll finds Colorado guv and Senate races in statistical tie – The Denver Post
And finally, here's why you want to knock off as many GOTP governors as humanly possibly, and why you don't want these slimy, corrupt, anti-American right-wing sons of bitches ANYWHERE NEAR the electoral process:
Christie: Republicans Must Control the 'Voting Mechanism' | New Republic
Thanks for those links. Reading the one about Christie was especially telling:
Daily Kos:
You missed the dKos article that asks why pollsters seem to consistently underestimate Democratic performance in Colorado. Ask Ken Buck and Mitt Romney how well the polls predicted their Colorado victories – oh, wait…
(PS – the Daily Kos predictor charts are based solely on poll averages – they aren't an independent analysis by the folks at dKos.)
achole will hate this polling data http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/24/1338707/-100-percent-vote-by-mail-makes-Colorado-extra-unpredictable The best part :* 82 percent received a ballot in the mail
* 83 percent of these Presidential Surge Voters have already voted or plan to vote
* 22 percent have already voted in the survey. The voter file shows 90,446 of them have already cast a ballot, comprising 21 percent of all votes cast through Wednesday
* Senator Udall leads 48-34 percent among these Presidential Surge Voters
* 55-36 among those who already voted
* 48-36 among whites, 56-29 among Hispanics
* 44-40 among men, 52-29 among women
* 53-27 among cell phone voters, but Gardner leads 44-42 among landline
* Governor Hickenlooper leads 49-32 percent with slightly higher margins across subgroups
Aww, look what you just made ACHole do! Now he's going to have to change his underwear 🙂
You realize the reason he keeps posting those poll graphs isn't for our benefit. It's to reassure himself only. He's just whistling past the graveyard…
Details of that poll https://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50742/images/PNA%20CO%20Presidential%20Surge%20Voters%20Poll%20Memo.pdf
There are 1 million active registered voters in Colorado who voted in 2012 but didn't vote in 2010 or registered after 2012. They were sent a ballot last week. In our survey, 83 percent say they have already voted or plan on voting. According to Catalist voter file returns from Oct 23, 2014, 89,000 have already voted (making these Presidential Survey voters 21 percent of votes cast already).
Gee, I don't know. Over 800,000 under the radar voters that overwhelmingly support Democrats… Will that really make any difference? 😉
And these voters don't have to make the extra effort to actually get to the polls this year – they can simply mail in their ballots for the cost of a pair of stamps.
Denverco, You know what numbers I really, really like. Today's release by the Secretary of State.
Total Ballots returned: 518,600 (28.4% of 2010 total)
Republican: 43.8%
Dems: 31.7%
Ha. Unclear on the concept. You better hope those (still meaningless at this point) numbers turn around, actually; Republicans need a greater margin to win elections than that. Remember how many more Republicans than Democrats turned out in 2008 and 2012, and yet we sent our electoral votes to Obama?
NuckinFuts the Troll just keeps flailing anf flailing and flailing, waving his atrophied arms like he's suffering a seizure, jumping up and down, browning his threadbare shorts, hoping somebody — Dear God please, SOMEBODY — will actually listen to him, take his BS seriously, and maybe, just maybe, become "demoralized."
LMAO at the fucking idiot loser.
Robb, You would be wrong. In 2012, R's were up 2% and Obama won by 5%. Extrapolating if R's hold at 12% they win by 5%.
The expert in the field, Michael McDonald put it this way:
CO #earlyvote update: 518K voted, Rs steady with 44/32 lead. Gardner looking in good shape; Ds need to make up ground
*yawn*.. and yet you forget that there are /SANE/ Republicans out there.. oh like the Jeffo parents who are completely turned off by the right-wing fuckwits, and at the end, it'll be more Democratic that ever.
As our WIF likes to say, "when you take out all the noise..."
The Denver/Boulder/Jeffco/Arapahoe numbers (where the election will be decided) looks like this:
51,723 (D) / 50,381(R) Those, plus 33,286 (I) who are breaking left…and we haven't even yet hit the Dem wave, with what even as Ms. Maher describes as a typical early advantage for Republican (if, indeed, one exists)
These numbers are clearly not breaking in favor of our WIF.
Spot on. The vibe coming from Team Udall is a calm, steady confidence. Don't think the Gardner cabal isn't noticing…
The real wave is yet to come. I suspect when it makes shore, the troll will be no more.
Things are calm with Team Udall in the same way a calm exists when someone passes in the night. Udall accepts his fate. He ran a poor race in a bad year to be a Dem and lost.
And the troll will be no more…
The Bowel man is still full of it.
Gardner is looking good. Ds need to make up a lot of ground. Based on the number so far it looks like Udall will lose by 5%.
Heh..Heh…What a fucking moron….to quote Snagglepuss..
"It is to laugh!"
Hmmm. Wonder why Thing1 hasn't posted a link to the Denver Post source, nor mentioned that 77,000 unaffiliated voters have also turned in their ballots? Udall had a 12 point lead against Gardner with Independent/Unaffiliateds on the last poll I saw. Also, 16% is the highest % of ballots returned out of all the counties.
Oh, perhaps he just would prefer that we all despair and prepare for GOP DOOM!
Not happening, Thing1. Here is an excerpt from the real numbers:
Ballots returned 2014 election* County / Active voters** / Dems / Reps / Independents / % returned
Adams — 207,565 / 8,778 / 7,830 / 5,725 / 11%
Arapahoe — 323,527 / 13,548 / 18,813 / 9,554 / 13%
Boulder — 187,402 / 9,469 / 5,342 / 5,263 / 11%
Broomfield — 36,147 / 1,814 / 2,329 / 1,557 / 16%
Denver — 349,387 / 11,869 / 4,948 / 5,094 / 6%
Douglas — 187,939 / 5,689 / 16,110 / 5,655 / 15%
Jefferson — 347,240 / 16,801 / 21,278 / 13,375 / 15%
Weld — 137,508 / 3,583 / 7,307 / 3,363 / 10%
Colorado — 2.9 million / 105,401 / 145,824 / 77,285 / 11%
One must also remember not every republican is a wacko like AC and moderatus. There are sane republicans who will vote for Udall. These numbers will turn around. A lot of independents will vote for Udall.
Rs always are in the majority with early mail ins. This time, with all mail, that's going to be amplified. I'm guessing the late Dem catch up will be amplified too. We'll just have to wait and see. Nobody on either side will know what this first all mail midterm election is going to look like until it's over. In the meantime I'd suggest ignoring Piss Ant.
That's the wonderful thing – Piss Ant aka known as Thing1 aka the troll is VERY easy to ignore. I don't read what he posts, and I don't respond to his posts. It's EASY!
Here's an enlightening read regarding the basic problem Republicans seem to be having — after the GOP governor's won in 2010's wave year and implemented their cherished Voodoo economic policies, they've screwed the pooch, as it were, and the backlash is building steam:
So his experiment failed. You know how the GOTP feels about science. Probably just God testing them to make them prove their faith.
Looks like the GOP might not even hold Georgia for Pete's Sake! Are GOP candidates really all mean, vile and insensitive creeps once you peel back the thin veneer of humanity?
And here we have a bunch favoring Gardner. Why don't we all calm down and admit we really can't know for sure what all of this means. At this point we need to keep supporting GOTV , quit feeding the trolls every time new numbers come out and accept that there is now only one poll that counts and it won't be complete until Nov. 4. May the force be with the good guys.
PS. They promised the deluge of calls would stop after we got our ballots in. Hand delivered ours Monday AM. Got the "You have voted message" crossing me off the list as of the next day at the tracking site. Got two more calls asking me to vote for people today. If you promised to make calls days ago and are still working on the list you got days ago, please ask for an updated one!
Sorry — personal bias — being a 4th generation Georgian, and having donated money to Nunn's campaign, I had to share the encouraging news!
But yes, I agree, Nov. 4th is the only poll that matters at this point, so no feeding the troll (but I reserve the right to make nasty remarks behind his back 🙂
Just meant to point out it makes little sense to posture and happy dance when it's our candidate with a few polls showing a smallish lead and claim the same means nothing when it's the other guy's candidate. I wish Nunn all the best.
Another school shooting in Washington state, 4 wounded, 1 dead... and the righties are thinking, "How can we spin this to our party's advantage?"
ISIS and Ebola are doing very well for us. Thanks for asking.
Another Muslim attacking a police officer with a hatchet yesterday in NYC.
Another case of Ebola yesterday in NYC.
Dem government incompetence continues to be on display.
He's a sick, sick motherf–ker, ain't he mama?
Jesus everloving Christ. You need professional help.
A Muslim with a hatchet vs. two downed towers in New York.
I'll take the Dem government incompetence, thank you.
Someone call 911 and get a mental hold on AC. He's gone insane….
I didn't see you post. I am so dismayed. And all the library personage can do is sound sociopathic. I suppose there is a reason for that.
Actual sociopathy.
That would be my educated guess.
In support of JeffCo students, from the Wall Street Journal:
Employers are increasingly looking for critical thinking skills – the same skills that the latest AP History guidelines try to emphasize and which JeffCo School Board members like Julie Williams don't seem to want in the course.
Here's a taste of the hell on earth the clinically mentally ill GOTP plans to unleash on this nation if these twisted sadists take the senate:
From Secret McConnell Audio, 12 Destructive Things a GOP Senate Would Do | Richard (RJ) Eskow
Parenthetically, and now a word about McConnell's and the GOTP's scheming leash-holders:
Plutocrats Against Democracy – NYTimes.com
Another school shooting. Washington state. Two dead including the shooter, four injured, 3 in critical condition, 1 stable.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/2-dead-including-gunman-in-high-school-shooting/ar-BBaYo33
Our resident experts on political website etiquette, Moddy and AC, will accuse you and me of politicizing another tragedy. The ammosexuals say that after each school shooting. So everyone puts the subject aside until everyone forgets about the latest shooting or, until a new shooting pushes the last one off the front pages.
Fantastic NO on 105 argument being made by a medical doctor on KLZ Rush to Reason. Last place I would expect to hear it.
I'm sorry. YES on 105.
I did the same damn thing yesterday! I feel your pain. : )
Thanks. Maybe it's contagious. Probably airborne.
Rush referred to this doctor's daily 6 pm program on KLTT (I think). It was a much better defense of 105 than the one by that lady on Ch 12 the other night. Of course, the poor lady was constantly being bullied and interrupted (and I'm afraid, outmaneuvered) by some chemical industry shill from the West Coast. I have never listened to Rush before, but at least in this instance was favorably impressed.
KLTT 670 am, another God and Country station, but with a lot more God than KLZ. The program is "God's Plan for Your Health". A shudder making title, but the Rush segment was just common sense w/o religion.