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October 24, 2014 09:59 PM UTC

Weekend Open Thread

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  • by: dustpuppy

(Promoted by Colorado Pols)

"Be in love with your life. Every minute of it."

–Jack Kerouac

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94 thoughts on “Weekend Open Thread

  1.  

    Hence, wanting to beat ACHole in his own game for at least the weekend as we kick it off. I caught this gem, and wanted to give it its own thread, so enjoy somebody else's vote seen on a Facebook group.

    That's one more in the balls, there… 🙂 Have a great weekend, everyone! 

    1. Most excellent, dustpuppy.  Embrace life, be who you are.  This is such a good start, not just for the weekend, but …forever.  Love life, love people.  Treating people with respect is such an important characteristic for all of us, even if we don't actually like them.

      My daughter's best friend signs fo the deaf.  (Did I say that right?).   smiley

    2. DP, Well played.  Have a nice weekend.  I will be thinking of you.  But thought I should leave you something to think about, courtesy of the Secretary of State:

      Oct 20:  R+12,362

      Oct 22:  R+28,061

      Oct 24: R+22,057

      To date:  R+62,480

      1. Agreed, Miss Jane.  The only numbers that matter are 10 days away.  Speaking of that, perhaps our librarian has special access at SOS and gets different numbers (he's reporting +62,480; what is being publicly reported is +40,423).

        Here is what the TNSNBN reported yesterday:

         

        As of Wednesday, the most recent day the Colorado secretary of state's office released ballot return data, 145,824 Republican voters had mailed back their ballots while 105,401 Democrats had done the same. More than 77,000 unaffiliated voters had also returned their completed ballots.

        Republicans hold a slight edge over Democrats in terms of registered voters, but the biggest group of voters in the state is unaffiliated.

        As I mentioned yesterday, the D's already are ahead in the "Big 5" counties; that, with Denver only reporting 6% of their votes cast as of Wednesday.  

        Adults will put all of this in context: the state's largest voting block, Unaffiliated, factor heavily in the final tally – something missed by not only our resident librarian-turned-math guru, but every media organization that is breathlessly reporting the numbers as if there are only *two* voting blocks in this state.

        1. If you use Wednesday's numbers, it was only 40,423.  I used Friday's numbers.  The state's largest voting block are Republicans with about 44% of returned ballots.  News flash: unaffiliated don't do midterms.  Even the Dems with less than 32% of the returns beat them out.

          BTW Dems are behind in Arapahoe, Jefferson and Larimer counties, not ahead.  Of course the Dems are ahead in Denver and Boulder, just like you would expect as the Republicans are ahead in Douglas, El Paso and Weld counties.

           

          1. news flash achole – unaffiliated voters helped Dems win in 2010. 100,000 more republican votes in 2010 and yet Democrats beat the teabaggers – you will lose again. All you will have left is your nasty rash. You poor pathetic teabagging loser Care to provide any facts in your next post? Don't have any do you? Poor achole

              1. You conveniently left out unaffiliated voters.  The number for them that have turned in ballots is:  121,812.  So much for the theory that they don't vote.

                  1. ..to my more germane point, the TNTSNB states in their article from yesterday that the Wednesday numbers were the latest numbers available from the SOS.  If the numbers WIF is promoting are true, (they could be; even if they are they would still be irrelevant) then our librarian apparently has an inside track with Honey Badger, etal.  A quick glimpse at the DP website and a Google search produces nothing to substantiate his claims. Perhaps he's embedded inside the SOS office. 

                    1. The website wouldn't let me copy the link but this is the link I found:  www.electproject.org/2014_early_vote

                      From there you click on http//content.gov and this link will go to the SOS website.  Click on General Turnout 10242014.pdf.

                       

                    2. Gee, AC posts Oct 24 numbers just after midnight the same day.  Yes Michael, it seems we have a SoS employee campaigning with government equipment and on government time most days.

                      While Honey Badger's office could easily identify this person based on card key or vpn access logs, my bet is either or both those systems will suffer a mysterious loss of data should someone attempt to investigate allegations of misuse of government property.

                    3. After deconstructing some of the data, the R's are only 24,037 votes up in the Front Range counties from Larimer to Pueblo (where the election wil be decided) That number includes all of the Einsteins voting for Lamborn in El Paso).

                      Assuming the Unaffiliated's give us an average of a 17% advantage, the 'R' 'advantage' is virtually wiped out in early voting. 

                      Not a time to get complacent – but clearly no need to buy in to the media hype about any perceived Republican tidal wave.

              1. Oops.  Forgot to mention.  Pick Dems, and say Pubs (one on each axis) and hover over a county in one of the maps to see a comparison of just that place.

  2.  

    The loyal opposition….right.

     

     

    From Secret McConnell Audio, 12 Destructive Things a GOP Senate Would Do

     

     

    If Republicans take the Senate next month (and if he wins his own reelection race), Mitch McConnell will be that body's next Majority Leader. Then what happens?

    McConnell's been frank about what the GOP would do with the Senate — at least when he thinks nobody's listening. This quote comes from audio, obtained by Undercurrent's Lauren Windsor, of a talk McConnell gave to a Koch Brothers group in August:

    "Most things in the Senate require 60 (votes) … but not the budget. So in the House and Senate, we own the budget. What does that mean?

    "… No money can be spent to do this or do that. We're going to go after them on healthcare, on financial services, on the Environmental Protection Agency, across the board …"

     

     

    McConnell attacked the Dodd/Frank financial reform bill in further audio obtained by this week by Windsor, calling it "Obamacare for banks."

    McConnell said he would "definitely" defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, calling it "the biggest part of the Dodd/Frank bill."

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/from-secret-mcconnell-aud_b_6041782.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

    1. That must be an old tape.  Harry Reid and the Dems changed the rules and many things now only require 51 votes, like approving a Surgeon General which has been waiting for more than 6 months, not because Reid does not have the votes but because Dem Senators whose constituents do not approve of the whack job nominated hold their precious votes over the head of Dem Senators who are up for election for another 10 days.

      Expect plenty of irony like Obama and Reid decrying how the world would end if the Republicans changed the rules when they were in power, only to do what they decried when the came to power.  Payback can be a bitch.

  3. Colorado Dems and Women's Issues

    Mark Udall's campaign decided long ago that his key to success was what might be called "women's issues", personhood, abortion rights, etc.  So how does the Party of Women's issues stack up on running candidates for Statewide and Federal office?  Poorly.

    DeGette and Markey; 2 out of 13.  Dems expect their voters to be about 60% women.  It seems empowering women in the Dem playbook has its limits.

    A write up of Michelle Obama's campaign stop for Udall (her husband is still in quarantine but is expected to be released in about 10 days), where Udall killed Martin Luther Kings most famous quote, noted:

    The event's early speakers were dominated by influential women and coded references to abortion and contraception. Things began with a video of Sen. Elizabeth Warren paying tribute to Udall. Then came a video of Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, telling the crowd that Gardner "wants to take away women's rights." The video continued with New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, who noted that "a woman should be able to make her own medical decisions with her doctor." Campaign organizer Katherine Tinker took the microphone to call for "leaders who actually respect a woman's right to make her own healthcare decisions."

    But then came a woman named Betsy Markey, who reminded the crowd that she was elected to the House of Representatives in 2008 but lost the next time around, in 2010, to a Tea Party Republican named Cory Gardner. Markey is now running for state treasurer, and, almost as an aside, told the crowd, "I am also the only Democratic woman running statewide."

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in-colorado-michelle-obama-mark-udall-push-womens-issues-not-women-candidates/article/2555217

    If you are expecting to be the party of women and that is your ticket to getting elected, Dems might consider treating them better. 

     

  4. This piece of right wing pap is from Larry Kudlow at CNBC. Judging by his rhetoric,he should be working at "Fox Snooze"…

    The optimistic GOP story everyone is missing

     

    Unfortunately, the current GOP never put together a clear national-policy election agenda. Not even a downsized Contract with America. But I suggest two Big Think thoughts for the first 100 days of the new Congress.
     

    First, is optimism: We know what the problems are, we know what the solutions should be, and we can make these changes quickly. Second is a re-energized evangelism by the Republican party for pro-growth, market-oriented, consumer-driven, pro-family policies.

    Featuring typical Obama hate snark like this…

    Obama's head will spin with all the new paperwork on his desk. He may even have to cut back on his golf game.

     

    He comes to this conclusion

    The Republicans are going to recapture the Senate, picking up more seats than most any forecaster expects. And the House GOP is going to add to its majority. But then comes the big story: The beginning of a new conservative revolution.

    That qualifies as Kudlows' Big Wet Dream…

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/102120457

     

     

  5. Tiny:

    You still believe Dems are not going to lose the Senate?  

    Daily Kos has that down to 29%.  

    Udall going to win in Colorado?  

    20%.

     

    1. What I believe is irrelevant, shithead. What matters is how hard I work to get out the voters that will hopefully bury the Republican party for good…if not this cycle, then next. Your graphs are as meaningless as your reason for living.

      I repeat….No one cares what you think…

      Your cause would be better served if you just STFU and disappear…which you will do anyway on Nov.5th

  6. Tiny, Thanks for your prompt reply.  

    I will gladly continue on, but I thought it might appear too much like gloating, silly me.

    The true believers keep on working (trust me Udall knows he has already lost) I was just hoping to provide helpful information. I know many more Republican ballots have been returned than Dem ballots.  I am sure the Dems are holding on to all the ballots they are collecting and will be turning them in on November 5th.

    1. achole, your stupidity amuses me. In 2010 there were 100,000 more republican ballots than Dem. How are senator buck and governor tancredo doing today? Udall is ahead by more than 16% among Independent voters and like 2010 that is where the race will be won. Also in 2012 republicans had more voting ballots and yet president romney lost by more than 5% . At best your are an idiot, with your head shoved up your ass so far that you can't think properly. You poor tool troll.

  7. Yesterday President Obama met with one of the nurses who was infected with the Ebola virus and has recovered.  Only days ago, this woman was still sick.  I'm reminded of how many years elapsed before Ronald Reagan would even utter the words AIDS or HTLV-3 (as HIV was then known) because he had his head inserted so far up his ass, let alone be in a room with someone who had been infected with the virus.  

  8. Why is Cory Gardner running ads vowing to support Social Security and not cut benefits? Because Udall gave him the issue time and again.

    In Colorado, Rep. Cory Gardner (R) appears in a new ad with his “Grandma Betty” and vows to“honor every penny we promised today’s seniors” — a pledge that seems to conflict with demands by Republican congressional leaders for a less-generous inflation formula to calculate seniors’ cost-of-living increases.

    Older voters typically dominate the electorate in non-presidential years, so the resort to Social Security as an issue in the Nov. 4 midterms is hardly surprising. But what has drawn attention – and charges of hypocrisy – is the decision by Republican groups to attack Democrats for supporting conservative ideas in a proposed “grand bargain” on the budget drafted by Democrat Erskine Bowles and former Republican senator Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming.

    Is it hypocritical of Republicans to praise a program they hate and have wanted to dismantle since its inception? Yes. 

    Is it stupid for Democrats like Mark Udall to propose balanced budget amendments that won't work and are patently stupid for our nation to adhere to? Yes.

    Is it stupid for Democrats like Mark Udall to propose balancing the budget on the backs of the Middle Class with a Grand Bargain that even Obama's fiscal commission rejected? Yes.

    There have been few more misguided initiatives than the relentless pursuit of a Grand Bargain during the president's first term. And the Party continues to pay a price for that mistake. Fortunately for the Democrats no bargain was actually struck and a light is now shining on the inequities in the funding stream for the programs and a new approach is slowly being accepted as the new agenda: raise the cap on social security taxes and raise benefits. 

    I'm sure it got him a nice little pat on the head from Lawrence Kudlow on CNBC, and the everlasting admiration of the infamous Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, but here he is, stupidly again, pushing for a Grand Bargain and condemning seniors to pay for our nation's debt out of their monthly Social Security:

    The reason Cory Gardner, and our own ACHole here, have so much ammo against Udall, folks, is because Mark Udall gave it to them.

    The reason Mark is afraid for his job is his unwillingness to stand up for the Middle Class as strongly as he stood against the abuses of our national security state, the CIA, and the NSA.

    And the reason I remain critical is because it seems many here, most especially CPols themselves, only care if there's a (D) behind someone's name and not what they are doing to earn that (D). 

  9. MamaJ – Marilyn Marks is making the news…  The hysteria is amusing. 

    “Gardner got the Denver Post’s endorsement,” Marks tells me. “Amazing, and he has a real chance of winning. But this ‘100 percent absentee ballot’ disaster is likely to undermine every GOP candidate in a tight race,” adds Marks, a clean-vote advocate with the Rocky Mountain Foundation.

     

    1. Marks is dangerous to voting rights because she's very litigious. If she can find an opening to sue a clerk or a candidate, or the Democratic party, on the pretext of privacy violation or ????, she will. She's even sued Scott Gessler, and they're allies. She has admitted publicly that all-mail ballot elections disadvantage Republicans. 

      Marks has to be aware that there is no chance of overturning HB1303,  the Modernized Elections and Voter Access act. Marks, Victor Head and others tried pretty hard to carve out exceptions in it last legislative session, but were unsuccessful.  All-mail-ballot elections are here to stay in Colorado, and other states will be following suit. That is the basis of Marks' activism. It is much harder to suppress the votes of people not lined up on election day. Therefore, more Democratic and Independent votes will be turned in and counted than before 1303 was enacted. 

      Given that reality, I have to think that GOP strategists are seeing internal polls which tell them that they are in trouble. Our troll's BFFs at Redstate, are once again not declaring any sure Gardner win. (You have to sit through about 45 minutes of mind-numbingly stupid conversation about the moral implications of gay marriage to get to any substantive poll talk, though). So this is spin….as others have suggested, they are preparing to be sore losers, and declare that Democrats won false victories. 

      All of this nonsense with pawing through garbage for ballots is window-dressing – if these GOP activists were truly concerned about voter fraud, they would return unused and discarded ballots to their nearest election office, instead of trying to make political points with them.  They're looking for a way to create election fraud themselves, and to blame it on Democrats.

      And Marilyn Marks is looking for someone to sue. 

       

  10. Zapp, I get it.  You are a purest.  Udall is a politician.  He sees his job as to get reelected, not to be a martyr.  He has concluded that if he stated his real opinions, if they indeed those you share, he would not get reelected.  He has no spine because to have a spine would not help him get reelected. Colorado is snot a blue state.  It is a best a shade of purple.  Purple calls for pragmatism, not purity.

    1. Gardner is a politician.  He sees his job as to get elected, not to be a martyr.  He has concluded that if he stated his real opinions he would not get elected.  He has no morals because to have morals would not help him get elected. Colorado is snot [sic, but made me giggle] a red state.  It is a best a shade of purple.  Purple calls for dissembling, not purity.

       

    2. Gardner is a politician.  He sees his job as to get elected, not to be a martyr.  He has concluded that if he stated his real opinions he would not get elected.  He has no morals because to have morals would not help him get elected. Colorado is snot [sic, but made me giggle] a red state.  It is a best a shade of purple.  Purple calls for dissembling, not purity.

       

    3. Udall told Kudlow he'd gladly lose his job due to a vote for the Grand Bargain. He tried to play the same game as Bennet who said he'd be willing to lose his job over a Public Option. I'm no purist. These are not radical positions, and any Dem should know basic Keynesian economics and be able to explain it to voters…….not that difficult. Tho it is a challenge in a state dominated by radio wingers yelling 24×7.

  11. This is for our ISIL loving troll…

    Iraqi security forces and Kurds gain ground against Islamic State

     

    BAGHDAD/ARBIL, Iraq, Oct 25 (Reuters) – Iraqi government forces and Shi'ite militias seized control of the strategic town of Jurf al-Sakhar near Baghdad from Islamic State on Saturdayand Kurdish fighters made gains in the north after heavy coalition air strikes against the Sunni militants.

    Iraqi troops and their Shi'ite allies broke the grip of Islamic State in Jurf al-Sakhar after months of fighting against insurgents determined to march on the capital.

    "Our forces with the support of the volunteers are in total control over Jurf al-Sakhar now and the terrorists fled to the southwest areas of the town," a spokesman for security forces there said.

    A victory could allow Iraqi forces to prevent the Sunni insurgents – positioned in several locations around Baghdad – from edging closer to the capital, sever connections to their strongholds in western Anbar province and stop them infiltrating the mainly Shi'ite south.

     

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iraqi-security-forces-and-kurds-gain-ground-against-islamic-state/ar-BBbalkL?ocid=iehp

    1. Well of course Republicans like to get people all scared about ISIL. They would know. All of ISIL's weapons came from brilliant decisions by the Bush administration's geniuses in Iraq.  (Look up Coalition Provisional Authority Order No. 2, Dissolution of Entities.)

      I blame the liberal media for not harping on this constantly. 

        1. achole, there is no liberal media. The newspapers, TV and radio are all right wing corporate owned. There hasn't been decent journalism in this country for years. They now cater to right wing trolls like yourself ( although most of them probably don't have a nasty rash like you). All they do is stir up fear and hysteria. Like your idiotic ISIS and Ebola posts – no facts. Do you enjoy being stupid and wrong?

  12. Just got a call on my cell from McGuire Research Services.  Based on the questions, I believe they are polling the Senate race internally for one side or the other.  I couldn't tell which, as it seemed pretty straight down the fairway (despite an oddly structured response mechanism for part of the interview).  I don't think I have ever gotten a polling call on my cell before.

    1. Probably Udall calling.  He is the one who needs to leak favorable polling info to keep hope alive and they are probably calling campaign donors as their Independent pool of voters.

      1. Ask ken Buck about the polls moron. Ground game>polls

         

        Those are the people who sent their ballots back SO FAR you ignoramus. 🙂 If you think Gardner is going to win based just on polls, you are dead wrong.

        1. Udall is in trouble. Let's get real. He could still win but I wouldn't be crowing about how his winning is a done deal. This is why I no longer read Piss Ant, though reading replies to Piss Ant is pretty unavoidable as so many posters I do want to read are still replying to him.  He's managed to get everybody participating in his very own Piss Ant pissing contest and sounding pretty much as ridiculous as he sounds in the process. 

          Piss Ant will probably have some swaggering, snarky reply to my comment. I suggest you just scroll past it. That's what I'll be doing, in any case.

            1. "If" and "which I believe it will" are a welcome return from premature, in your face, silly Piss Ant style posturing to a reasonable statement of your opinion, nota. We shouldn't let Piss Ant drag us down to his level. That's all I'm saying.

        2. I think Udall is in trouble, but not just based on the polls.

          The returned ballot lead by the Republicans continues to grow at over 10% with the Republicans showing up at 44% to the Dems 32%.  In my opinion, if that keeps up the race is over.  Republicans are voting for Gardner and there is no way in hell that the 24% Independents breaks more than a few points for Udall, if at all.

          Udall has made no movement in the polls, other than the one's he has leaked, in the last week or two.  He ran a bad campaign in a bad environment and he lost.

           

            1. With an all mail in ballot, you apparently missed the early returns count after more than 500K votes.  

              The first returns af about 80K ballots with the Republicans up 12K plus you might have thought, those are the classic Republicans vote earlier and held out hope.

              The second returns of about another 250K ballots, where the Republicans picked up another 28K plus, that hope had to be severely questioned.

              The third returns of about another 185K ballots and the Republicans picked up another 22K plus, it is over.  

              That last group, which is not your traditional republican early voter, has the Republicans with 43.5% of the voters and Dems at 31.6%.  Udall can't win with that turnout.  It is a matter of math.

              1. What an idiot. The election will be over when all the votes have been counted. That will be on Nov. 5. Until then you are just the same jackass, braying to hear the sound of your own voice, trying to convince anyone that you have something relevant to say.

      2. I am not a Udall donor. I am too much of a purist, I guess. Voted for him with a smidge more enthusiasm than I could muster for Hick (whom I also voted for), or Obama (were he on the ballot). Still looking forward to beating the Rs like a drum.

        1. It is possible to see people, even candidates, as whole people who make boneheaded, as well as smart and savvy, political decisions. 

          Mark Udall's in that category. The sum of his environmental, social, privacy polcies far outweights his calculated, pandering "balanced budget" blathering, or his backing away from the anti-fracking initiatives, which is what I was originally pissed at him about. The over-emphasis on reproductive issues was inevitable, given his opponent's vacillating in that area. He just overdid it, is all. I don't think it's a fatal error, as some have suggested. 

          And the sum of Cory Gardner's policy positions is an abyss, a complete caving to corporate interests,  a vacuum where character should be. It would be very bad to have Gardner as our Senator. 

          1. And I've canvassed for Udall, will work GOTV again for him and other Dems, depending on time available. Once he is re-elected, that will be the time to write him snarky letters about his policies, bring constituent pressure to bear, etc.

            1. Agree. The only area of disagreement I may have if I'm reading you correctly is in taking his reelection as a given as implied by the use of "once he is" instead of "if he is". I don't take it as a given.

              1. BC, i told you that dustpuppy is my soul brother in unreasonable optimism. It's just how I have to roll.

                And I do think that the Independents / unaffiliateds are going to break for Udall, and for Dems generally, hopefully up and down the ticket. So it's not completely unreasonable.

                1. Sigh. If you read my posts I'm not saying that the prospect of a Udall win is any kind of unreasonable, much less "completely". I'm saying that taking it as a happy dance worthy given sounds pretty much as silly as the what comes out of AC's ass on a regular basis and this whole pointless back and forth passed getting old on it's way to completely obnoxious a while back. 

                  1. In the end, ACHole will be way off by a large margin… and a MASSIVE Democratic wave will be hitting shortly….

                    I'm seeing it, I'm being serious.

                    The GOTV is going to blow away any stupid polls, and it'll favor the Dems.

            2. The Udall GOTV effort is robust where I live – can't speak for other areas of the state. I hope everyone here who does not ever want the words "Senator Gardner" to pass their lips, will do their part in getting out the vote during the next 9 days.

    1. No need.

      Udall will lose by 5%.

      It is not going to be close.

      Did polls ever retract the Gardner football story that turned out to be untrue?  I  do not seem to remember that they did.  Deadspin where the story appeared did.  Here is how they put it:

      So, that's the story. We're still not sure what happened with Pfalmer between his certainty Tuesday that Gardner hadn't played and his certainty Wednesday that Gardner had—Pfalmer told us last night he'd checked his records after our initial conversation and discovered Gardner's forgotten three years—nor can we explain why he is now giving Gardner a year on the varsity team that the candidate himself isn't claiming. But whatever the case, the most damning implication of our story, that Gardner didn't actually play high school ball, is wrong. That's shitty of us. As serial collectors of media fuck-ups, we add this self-portrait to the gallery. For more thorough coverage, you can read Erik Wemple over at the Post. As I told Wemple—and I sincerely meant it—given that our main source went and unsaid everything he'd said 24 hours earlier, the only thing for us to do now is to eat shit.

       

      http://deadspin.com/how-deadspin-fucked-up-the-cory-gardner-story-1647195366

      1. achole, you compare one story to fox lying on a daily basis? You sad, pathetic desperate fool. As far as Udall losing – that is what teabaggers said in 2010 about Bennet. How are senator buck and governor tancredo? The republicans got 100,000 more votes in Colorado in a wave year and still lost. Your nasty rash is making you delusional. poor con man cory – too extreme for Colorad.

          1. Well achole, I will take sam wang over anything you can post since you never have any real facts – like your voting totals – you are pathetic. Don't you get tired of always being stupid and wrong. still have that nasty rash?

    1. He understands it.  He sees the same polls, chooses to ignore the Independent / unaffiliated voters, which far outnumbers either Ds or Rs, but tends to break towards Dems in CO. That would be bad news for his candidate, so he just keeps harping on the R advantage.

      My own opinion is that he trolls here primarily to get material for his own websites and writing – so I don't think that he'll disappear after the election.  Plus, he's the kind of guy who likes to stir up negative emotions, just for grins.

      We just have to keep our eyes on the prize, keep on GOTVing in whatever ways we are capable of.

       

       

  13. He understands it.

    I am quite sure you are right about that. Piss Ant is an experienced troll. We should take some sort of perverse pride in being assigned such a troll… well trained in provocation and obtuseness.

    so I don't think that he'll disappear after the election.

    but I am not so sure about this. He may be different than the dozen or so that have preceded him…time will tell.

    Perhaps we should start a betting pool on when we will see the last of Andrew Carnegie…who is probably one of Corys' friends.

     

     

    1. Well I certainly hope so. My index finger is overworked from speed scrolling past his comments which are increasingly making up huge chunks of multiple threads and he's succeeded in eliciting such quantities of pissing contest replies that are approaching his level of the very brain deadness we love to accuse him of, I'm going to scroll right past anything in reply to a Piss Ant comment as well. What a waste of a good blog.

      The polls are either pretty accurate, not so accurate, off or way off. We won't know until it's over, especially with this being a new kind of election. If a new poll comes out tomorrow saying Udall is ahead, that would be worth some new speculation. In the meantime or in the absence of that ever happening between now and election day, this constant rehashing of polls that say pretty much the same thing, all at the behest of Piss Ant, is all sounding pretty brain dead.  

    1. Can't you hear Moderanus' reaction:  Pay no attention to those endorsements.  Newspaper endorsements do not matter.  Except for the Denver Post which does. 

  14. Here's something else new, as if my mentioning it made is it so . Just checked RCP and found this.  It's not much but it's the first  positive territory in a while and therefore something

    CBS News/NYT/YouGov

    10/16 – 10/23

    1611 LV

    4.0

    46

    47

    Udall +1

    new that may or may not be the beginning of a significant last minute move up:

      1. Also a Marist with Gardner at just +1,  resulting in a downward arrow for Gardner's RCP average lead, now at 2.8, in  spite of the wacky Q polling.  So….. at least something new to argue about.

        1. Can't you hear AC now?  Pay no attention to that biased and misleading poll.  600,000 Republicans have already been returned and only 600 Democratic ballots statewide.  

          1. Frank, if 600K Republicans have "been returned", are they "raptured", consigned to the ninth circle of hell, or to Purgatory, (also known as Cleveland)? If so, do they vote at their old or their new addresses?

    1. All style and no substance. Making ridiculous Hitler comparisons is stupid, even when you point out that it's stupid.

      Oh and poor Julie Williams! She's just a parent of a special needs kid! We should let her propose stupid crap because her kid has special needs. Are you *$&%ING KIDDING ME?! Why even bring that up? Can you imagine the shitstorm that would ensue if someone who isn't a Williams supporter brought up her kid's special needs in any way? Her supporters would become the perfect image of Instant Moral Outrage. Heads would explode! Caps locks keys would be broken! It would be nuts!

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