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November 03, 2014 06:19 AM UTC

Monday Open Thread

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          1. And what's the message? We're idiots? We'd rather have Gardner win if it gives us a chance to vent? We care more about our own self righteousness and purity as environmentalists than we do about the actual environment? We could really use a good swift kick to bring us back to our senses?

      3. Last night I had the opportunity to speak about my experiences in DC over the past two years advocating for industrial hemp legislation.  The event was orchestrated by the Mike Dunafon for Governor campaign – and the panelists, in addition to myself, included business owners, media specialists, community organizers – and a marijuana refugee mother (from the northwest) who brought her son, afflicted with blood cancer and whose condition has completely reversed itself with CBD therapy.

        The evening also included a surprise guest and speaker, Tom Tancredo.  Had I known last night that he (as reported tonight) is openly advocating the impeachment of President Obama if the Republicans take the Senate – I may have been slightly less pleasant in our exchange.

        I'm not a one-issue voter – I care deeply about things like who is the Commissioner of Agriclture (and their support for the industrial hemp industry), who sits on the majority at the PUC and who controls the Colorado House and Senate.  However, I found this very frank, open discussion about our failed War on Drugs and Colorado's role in forcing (and leading) a very different national narrative refreshing. 

        What saddened me is that every major candidate for public office in Colorado didn't facilitate a similar discussion during these campaigns.  55% of Coloradans voted in the affirmative to repeal prohibition; nationally, the numbers are now 58% in favor or legalization.  The wake of destruction (both in human and economic terms) of our miserably failed War on Drugs is hard to understate.  It must end.

        There is a pervasive belief amongst the cannabis community that it simply doesn't matter who is elected to Senator on Tuesday – a belief I strongly disagree with.

        Given the record built by our candidates, it appears the challenges for addressing the myriad of actions necessary to effect change only increase with a Republican-controlled Senate: McConnell is on record saying that he opposes marijuana legalization, even in the case of medical marijuana.  (Boehner holds the same position). We need a Attorney General that will work with DEA along with two other open positions at DOJ; the likely hood of getting a friendly appointee confirmed by a Republican Senate seems unlikely.

        I've mentioned before my concerns about Cory.  While he has used his 'Yes' vote on a broad-based DEA bill that constrains the ability of the DEA to interfere in our emerging cannabis industry (and using that to gain favor with the marijuana community), what very few people seem to know is that Cory voted against the amendment to the final bill that put those constraints in place.

        But it gets even more complicated: tomorrow in Florida they will vote on the marijuana legalization.  The "anti-pot campaign" has been highly successful in driving the favorable numbers down and the money behind the campaign is casino mogul Sheldon Adelson.  That in itself isn't that odd – he's just another old white coot who has an incarceration fetish.  But what does make it interesting is this: last Spring Cory journeyed to Las Vegas to kiss the ring.  According to KDVR:

        Congressman Cory Gardner will head to Las Vegas this Sunday to take part in a conference organized by billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.

        "…Gardner will need a lot of support from outside groups like Adelson’s."

        Adelson donated more than $100 million in 2012 to Super PACs backing Republicans Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, almost singlehandedly keeping Gingrich’s presidential campaign afloat through much of primary season.

        Now if Adelson, a Nevada resident, feels strongly enough about maintaining prohibition that he's writing multi-million dollar checks to Florida, you can bet that his money for Cory's campaign comes with the same strings his Koch money comes with ala environmental issues.

        Tomorrow evenings outcomes remain uncertain – but one thing is clear: connecting the dots to a Republican-controlled Senate, a potential new Senator and his IOU's may provide a very difficult, if not impossible, pathway to end this scourge wrought upon our nation seven decades ago. 

         

         

        1. Good on you for speaking at the event, Michael, and good on Dunafon for organizing it. I didn't vote for Dunafon ( still can't stomach the nudie bar thing) – but in our current Bizarro world, he does seem to be the "least bought" and most sane gubernatorial candidate.

          Cannabis reform would impact Adelson's pocketbook in many ways – fewer dollars spent on alcohol for recreation and medication, and, as you pointed out, less money into the private prison industry if there are fewer arrests for low-level possession and distribution incidents.  In HIS bizarro world, there are only certain moral ways to sponsor vice. If that makes sense, which it doesn't.

          Cory Gardner "kissing the ring" of Adelson the casino magnate is just another example of his hypocrisy and fundamental moral vacuum. 

          Can't wait for Tom Tancredo to fade into irrelevance like Lou Dobson and his ilk. His pathetic attempts to attach himself to the cannabis cause only show how opportunistic he is.  How many times did he rail about Mexican immigrants corrupting the young with marijuana? In his book "In Mortal Danger", Tancredo advocates for militarizing the southern border to keep the drug cartels out. 

          I predict that cannabis reform will be the next big social issue reform, because, like equal marriage, it is primarily a fair treatment and economic issue. 

          1. When you peel both onions back, there is really very little (substantially) that separates Cory from Tom: they both left their own party for political expediency; their extremism manifests itself fully in the issues they care about.  Tom is a firebrand on the border issues and impeachment 'stuff'; Cory is extreme on social issues, the environment and women (and he's not against starving a baby or two to give his funders another tax break).  The difference? Tom wears his issues on his sleeve, Cory hides his behind his perfectly coifed hair, brilliant smile, good looking (and insured) children and a wife who is on the payroll of the people he protects in DC.  Tom will never be elected to public office again – Karl and Sheldon's millions have a much different plan for the Congressman.

            1. PS: I agree that cannabis reform is the next big social change.  While there was a lot of railing on POTUS at the event as not being aggressive enough on this issue, I have a much different view.  It's Professor Obama playing this game, and it's a game of chess.  Just as he did with marriage equality – he let out enough rope to keep the issue alive, the courts finally had to intervene and the dominoes fell – and fell fast.

              It's playing out in an identical fashion in the cannabis world if one takes the blinders off.  The Cole memo with DOJ gave an 'all's clear' to states that legalized the plant; today two more states may follow CO and WA's lead.  The Tenth Circuit is dealing with a case right now that argues that marijuana has health benefits (remember, a condition to be a Schedule 1 drug means the drug has no known health benefits).  23 states have already legalized the plant for medical purposes; 18 states have legalized industrial hemp.  If the 10th does find that health benefits are real (we all know they exist), then the judicial cards will start falling.  I'm not quite sure how a Majority Leader McConnell or Speaker Boehner hold back this inevitability – but I never underestimate those two.  This, plus the fact that McConnell's father-in-law looks to be a virtual 'mule' for another Schedule 1 drug, this makes for an interesting set of dynamics. 

              POTUS does understand the human and social costs of this bizarre, failed war and the mass incarceration of men of color.  I don't think he's going to exit 1600 Penn without making some movement on this issue.

              My two cents.

        2. two weeks ago, via email contacted Michael Roberts of Westword, asking if some ink could  be spared  for this subject. one would think, …In the future, if needed Roberts solicits story ideas and contact info on his page.

        3. Michael, if I'd have had advance word on that event, I might have attended, said hello.

          Florida will be voting on medical marijuana. Unfortunately, they need over 60% in order for it to pass. No statewide medical marijuana initiative has ever passed with over 60%.

          I am hoping that Oregon, Alaska, and Washington, D.C. will pass their legalization measures tonight. Oregon is going to be a cliffhanger.

        4. Speaking of CBD therapy for children and others…

          After Dr. Sanjay Gupta presents his finding on TV, families have been moving to Colorado by the scores in order to treat their children with low-THC marijuana for chronic epilepsy, for instance. A public relations nightmare for the War on Drugs, all around.

          Now along comes the pharmaceutical version, with speedy trials going on for the CBD drug Epidiolex:

          The study is being conducted in two stages. The first part will enroll 30 children 4 to 10 years old and focus on determining safe and effective doses. Patients, tested the first month for the severity of their Dravet syndrome, thereafter will receive any of numberof potencies of the drug or a placebo.

          The second part, expected to begin in early 2015, will enroll 80 children 2 to 18 years old.

          Epidiolex, a liquid medicine taken by mouth or through a feeding tube, is made by GW Pharmaceuticals. It has been studied in a previous "precursor" trial, in which researchers reported on results with patients, not all with Dravet syndrome, not randomized to either a treatment or placebo arm and taking other medications. The researchers showed some benefit.

           

          I've heard public officials say that research ought to be done first, before anyone is ever allowed to use cannabis therapeutically. Well, I'll call bullshit on that: There would never be research at its present rate if there hadn't have been the political pressure first due to people using it already with some success.

          1. Canine – would have been great to meet you.  I committed to that event late in the game as we are still harvesting corn and I wasn't sure I could get away.  You are absolutely correct:  these changes wouldn't be unfolding before our eyes today had we left it to the politicians.  The "Great Social Experiment" (as it has been called) isn't the ending of Prohibition…the failed social experiment was Prohibition. These discussions are too important not to have; I hope we continue to see our state leading on "second chances" such as sealing records, etc.  This madness has to end.

    4. They're not completely brainless. It's just that they share one among the whole sorry crew. Poor zombies would have to figure out who's using it at any given moment

  2. A few things about the 2014 midterms:

    If you are easily frightened the R's have a daily dose to offer up .  If you are easily impressed with a smiling, two faced hypocrite, Cory Gardener is your man.  If you think Hick was a bit too willing to compromise (pick your issue), then go with Bob – he's all for guns, oil and  gas, personhood and big money.  And if the potholes in your street aren't fixed soon enough or you plane is late arriving at your final destination – then it's Obama's fault.   Now that's the biggie folks – everything is Obama's fault.  The man is relentless – right?  He wakes up every morning trying to think how to make our life miserable.  I mean, he's the one who let Thomas Duncan out of the Texas hospital to spread Ebola, wasen't he? 

    The truth is it's going to be a bad year for those who want to move our country forward and end inequality in the work place, schools and the voting booth.  Fear is the big winner and the Republicans have a lock on it.  Sad.

    1. If you like a dour two faced hypocrite, you can stick with Udall.  Personally I like my hypocrites to have smiley faces.

      ​The truth is you lost.  Been there.  Know the feeling.  It sucks.  But life goes on.

        1. Piss Ant commenting on the truth is like a mullah commenting on a plate of Carnitas…tain't happenin'. He doesn't know the first thing about the subject….

  3. Dem Voting Surges: Fifteen Percent Vote For Gardner

     

    The final PPP (D) poll out today has to put a chill down the back of camp Udall. 15% Dem registered voters are voting for Gardner.  The PPP poll has Gardner winning by 3, and only sees the R's as outnumbering Ds by 2%, but here is the killer cross tab fact Dems: Udall 81%, Gardner 15%; Republicans Gardner 87%, Udall 9%.  

    Dems can't win if more Republicans vote and a greater % of them vote for their candidate than vice versa.

    In Colorado, Cory Gardner leads Mark Udall 48/45 in the full field of candidates and 50/47 in a straight head to head contest. Udall is running up the score with Hispanics- he's ahead 64/35- but he's also down 53/40 with white voters. He is also ahead 46/37 with independents, but 15% of Democrats say they're going to cross over and vote for Gardner compared to just 9% of Republicans who say they're going to support Udall. Udall continues to be plagued by poor approval numbers, with only 38% of voters giving him good marks to 51% who disapprove. Meanwhile Gardner's proven to be a pretty appealing candidate, sporting a 49/39 favorability rating. Our 4 post Labor Day polls of this race have found Gardner up by 2, Gardner up by 3, a tie, and now Gardner up by 3 again.

    http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2014/11/gop-holds-slight-leads-in-co-ak-senate-contests.html

    1. Does this mean the GOP is going to take Voter ID off the table now?

      Clearly, no fraud going on, now that everyone is voting GOP, right?

      Voter ID for thee, but not for me, says the GOP. 

       

      1. BT, I think we agree that only those eligible to vote should be allowed to vote.  The question is how do you ensure that takes place without unduly creating a barrier to voting.  That is in the interest of both parties.  I don't see it as a big issue, particularly in wave elections like this one.

        2. AC, for you own sake and for the sake of conservatives generally, and you don't have to believe Ruth Bader Ginsberg when she says Voter ID is a poll tax and a return to Jim Crow, take it from Richard Posner (a Reagan appointed federal justice who is considered one of the brightest legal scholars of our time and a conservative) who calls Voter ID a scheme to disenfranchise Democratic voters.

          Let's not turn back the clock to that ugly period of our history. 

          Haven't conservatives moved on from that? Don't they think their ideas should be what wins out in elections, rather than laws and procedures that are solely meant to suppress Democratic voters?

          The data are in, and Posner and other justices are seeing it in cases brought before them – Voter ID is not there to ensure the integrity of the vote, it is there to suppress certain voters (Democratic voters).

          The GOP has pushed Voter ID for in the states – laboratories of Democracy – and the laws have been in place long enough to see their effects, and the ruling is in:

          Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner's courageous reversal of his Crawford v. Marion County Election Board opinion on photo ID voting laws in a recent dissent should convince the US Supreme Court that such laws are both unconstitutional and a violation of the Voting Rights Act.

          http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26832-posner-s-penance-revered-reagan-appointed-jurist-pens-plea-to-scotus-to-overturn-his-own-landmark-ruling-on-photo-id-voting-laws

          ​

    3. Small sample error. That sub-sample has a margin of error, I'll guess without looking, of over 8%. So it could just as easily be 7% of Dems are voting for Gardner. Which would be correct.

      2. Margin of error – 3-4 points – you dipshit – learn to read. achole – you still going to gaurantee that 150,000 voter edge? Your rash has messed with your little brain.

        1. Denverco, I thought the range would be 125,000 to 150,000,  More great news. Two thirds of the vote in and the lead keeps growing.

          Statewide it is now R +112,518

          Jefferson County is R + 12,433

           

          1. Jeffco not looking that friendly for loser con man cory 

            Jefferson county is considered the bellwether county for Colorado.  Now keep in mind Dr. McDonald believes A Republican 7.2% turnout advantage means the race is probably tied.  So here's the Republican lead in bellwether Jefferson county, today's report and the previous report.

            10/31/14          7.3%

            11/03/14          6.9%

    2. Oddly, their final polls throughout the nation seem to tell the same story: all of a sudden Q-poll numbers are much closer to the rest of the polling, and show tight races.

      I hope Q-poll hasn't come down with Rassmussen-itis.

      1. Indeed; very much like the corrupt Rasmussen of yore: Shill, shill, and shill again shameless for the GOP all cycle long, drive home the GOP-will-win narrative for months on end, then, at the very last minute, go honest/legit, actually perform some decent polling, then cry, "See how accurate we were last cycle!" based on the very final, actually legitimate.

        Absolutely craven, crooked and contemptible, just like the party for which they shill.

  5. The truth of it is that no one knows who the winner of this election will be.  This morning a pollster said that 27 pollsters had done polls in Colorado and not one of them came up with the same result.  I hope Udall and Hickenlooper wins to keep Colorado on the right track but there is not a certainty of that.  I have voted and have no regrets for the way I casted my ballot.

    1. You are right, Debbie. We have never done an all mail ballot…this is something like a "Black Swan"…we have not seen this before and absolutely no one can predict how this will turn out. However, with as many different results as we are seeing, someone will get lucky and get it right. They will be the darlings of the next polling cycle.

  7. As if anyone needed another reason to not let the Senate fall in to the hands of the Republicans..(although that may be the best way to assure a Democrat once again occupies 1600 Pennsylvania for another eight years).

    Would you like a big ol' bag of popcorn with that order of green eggs and ham'?

    Cruz Aims to Take on Obama; Won't Vow Support for McConnell

     

    In an interview at the Hotel Captain Cook here between campaign stops for Sullivan, Cruz made it clear he would push hard for a Republican-led Senate to be as conservative and confron­tational as the Republican-led House.

    3. Let the fun begin………

      Don't be surprised if Teddy (assuming Yertle wins tomorrow) challenges Yertle for leadership of the GOP.  That will put a few Repubes in an awkward position (Susan Collins, Mark Kirk, Kelly Ayotte, Lisa Murkowski).  Rand Paul will throw Yertle under the bus.  Remember how his nephew-in-law/campaign manager, Jesse Benton, did his nose-holding gesture when he took over running the Turtle's campaign last year?  

      If he should win, I wonder which side Con Man would come down on………..

  8. I visited with my cousin in Wichita last Friday, and outside of KS Governor Brownback losing his election (the 'Kansas Comeback'?  Really???) , she thinks the Republicans will keep the House and win the Senate.

    I agree that the Democratic Party has a long haul to keep the Senate, and little-if-any chance to take over the House, but I'm not as pessimistic as she is.

    Driving across the country, it was amazing to see the number of signs for/against certain candidates and issues, and made me long for the election cycles in other countries, i.e., a much shorter campaign season.

    I've voted, and I await the results tomorrow night.

  9. Where are your goalposts?

    A lot of my energy this year went into maintaining pro-choice majorities in the Colorado legislature and the defeat of Personhood. So that is what victory will look like to me on Tuesday.

    With so many battlegrounds, I think that the Senate race is getting a lot of attention precisely because the Republicans have miserably failed to take advantage of so many other opportunities in what might be their last good year before history and demographics crush them.

    Give me a Andy Kerr win, a Democratic State Senate, and 67 run out of town, and I am calling it a victory party. What about you? Is it Hick, Quick, Neguse, Romanoff, Kagan, Primavera, Zenzinger, GMO foods, or something else that is the win for you?

     

      1. Dems are better organized, better funded, better candidates, incumbency advantage, and battlegrounds in places like Pueblo where the map is in their favor and Jeffco where the school board sucks all the air out of the room.

        The challenge for the Dems is that their State Senators are some of the strongest lines on the ballot in a really difficult year nationally. They need to be the engine this year rather than depend on coattails – and that is a big lift for the smaller races. The phone banks and door knocks are going to be the whole story. (In fact, I am off to join a canvas right now.)

        The Democrats are a really hard working crew, and I think on net they come away with a 19-16 lead, but there will be some win some – lose some on the way to that number.

    2. I'm with you on the statehouse, but not so worried for the reasons you outline. 67 is my biggest priority, but again I'm not so worried.  The margin won't be as big as in the past because of the deceptive language, but it's going down.  Really the most important race is Governor.  Udall is a piece of the puzzle in Dem control of the Senate which will remain a cesspool of obstruction regardless of which party is in control, and Obama can't get anyone good appointed regardless, and Udall's a better public servant than con-man Cory.  Still, what will have the biggest net effect on the quality of governance in our state is who's in the Governor's office, assuming a continued Democratic majority in the state house.

      1. True that what happens at the state level is more important.  As far as the US Senate goes, I'd hate to see it switch but really, how much can either side accomplish with the size of majority that's at stake?  It will be the same case of getting nowhere. There will be added aggravation if the Rs win it in that they'll head all the committees and indulge in the same endless stupid politically motivated investigations as the House. But nothing much is going to pass whether we have a small Dem majority or a small R majority.

        Neither side can overcome a filibuster and the Rs can't overcome a presidential veto. No conservative Supremes can be added. It really is the state races and ballot issues that will make the most difference for Colorado. At the federal level, Dems will win the presidency and the Senate in 2016 and there's not much that's going to change until then anyway. Not that it won't be very painful to lose the Senate if it happens.  It will be. But we should keep it in perspective.

        Nothing's going to change much even if we win it. We aren't going to have state or federal personhood. Equal marriage rights will move ahead as a done deal. Federal lands will not be turned over to the states and then privatized. Obama won't have any political reason to refrain from doing everything he can unilaterally on issues like immigration reform. In fact, it's kind of hard to see why Rs are so thrilled at the prospect of having a tiny temporary Senate majority between now and 2016 which everyone knows will be a much tougher year for them. The way they're carrying on you'd think it was going to be possible for them to actually do something, not that they've articulated what they plan to do besides continuing to hate Obama and spending lots of time on symbolic, can't pass legislation to prove how much.

        Whatever happens Tues. I plan to have a nice vodka martini and move on without making myself nuts with stress.

        1. The GOP is convinced they'll stop Obama's agenda with their 53 seats in the Senate.  Like the House has been a rubber stamp for Obama for the last 4 years.

          I still think that if and when they get their 51 (or more) seats, our side doesn't pull the filibuster stunt.  We give them a debate.  We're not the obstructionists.  If the president then vetoes their pet bills, let Yertle (or Cruz) run around and try to round up 67 votes for an override.  Ditto in the House where Boner (or whoever replaces him in January) has to get 290 votes for an override.

  10. Udall working on concession speech

    Colorado Senator Mark Udall's press secretary had unexpectedly complimentary things to say about Udall's Republican challenger, before attempting to backtrack on their praise:

    “Gardner is quite possibly the best Senate candidate in the country, and he’s a formidable foe,” said Kristin Lynch, Udall’s press secretary. . .

    1. What she said is what I always hope for. I'm a liberal voter, but when it comes down to it, I don't want to choose between a Democrat and a batshit crazy Republican. I want to choose between a Democrat and a Republican. Two solid candidates with potentially good ideas. So saying that Gardner is a formidable foe and the best candidate in the country isn't something we should point and laugh at, AC. It's something we should applaud.

      1. This…

        “Gardner is quite possibly the best Senate candidate in the country" can mean a number of different of things. In this case, I think the context is "competitiveness"…not quality of message or integrity. Cory is being personally backed by two of the worlds' wealthiest men and their entire organization. He is a product…not a person.

        The product you see is not the person I know….

    2. Of course, you left out this part …

      "said Kristin Lynch, Udall’s press secretary, who quickly added that Gardner’s strength is his ability to “tell outrageous lies” that mask his ranking in a 2012 National Journal survey as the 10th most conservative member of the House."

      That's Cory's story and when he actually has to vote, he will have plenty of people on both sides of the aisle that can paint him as a disingenuous flip flopper and put a frown on his face, and then when he runs for President, he will have to try to turn that frown upside down.

      But by that point, he will have so many smiles and frowns painted on his face, he will be known as Cory the Clown. 

    3. …

       

      “Gardner is quite possibly the best Senate candidate in the country, and he’s a formidable foe,” said Kristin Lynch, Udall’s press secretary, who quickly added that Gardner’s strength is his ability to “tell outrageous lies” that mask his ranking in a 2012 National Journal survey as the 10th most conservative member of the House.

       

      Con man cory is a good LIAR. 😉

    4. It's always good to have a concession speech and victory speech.  Remember how Mittens looked 2 years ago when he hadn't bother preparing one because he was certain of victory?

  11. At least we won't have to scroll past all the Piss ant bull anymore, no matter what. If his guys lose it will be an immediate benefit. If his guys win we'll just have to scroll past a brief burst of gloating. In either case the best Rs can do is continue to obstruct for another two years, which they've been doing without a Senate majority anyway. Whatever they gain, they lose in 2016 and, in their present form, they never get it back after that.

  13. OH, NO 

    Per the Washington Post:

    Prominent Democratic strategists are growing increasingly nervous that the national political environment is not only bad for their side but moving in the wrong direction in the final days before the election, a trend that not only could cost their party control of the Senate but also result in double-digit House losses.

    “The environment has settled, and it’s bad,” said one senior Democratic Party operative closely monitoring the party’s prospects. The source added that Democratic candidates’ numbers among independents and seniors — critical voting blocs — have begun to erode. “They are just not as friendly to us as they once were,” the operative said.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-democratic-strategists-acknowledge-challenging-environment-as-tuesday-looms/2014/11/02/2c4d2f28-629b-11e4-9fdc-d43b053ecb4d_story.html

    1. Take a good look at Cory's face …  the lies behind the smile are going to be the defining story of this election for Cory the Clown:

      Now if there's a smile on my face
      It's only there trying to fool the public
      But when it comes down to fooling you
      Now honey that's quite a different subject

      But don't let my glad expression
      Give you the wrong impression
      Really I'm sad, oh sadder than sad
      You're gone and I'm hurting so bad
      Like a clown I pretend to be glad

      Now there's some sad things known to man
      But ain't too much sadder than
      the tears of a clown
      When there's no one around

      Oh yeah baby, now if I appear to be carefree
      It's only to camouflage my sadness
      In order to shield my pride I try
      To cover this hurt with a show of gladness

      But don't let my show convince you
      That I've been happy since you decided to go
      Oh, I need you so, I'm hurt and I want you to know
      But for others I put on a show

      Now there's some sad things known to man
      But ain't too much sadder than
      the tears of a clown
      When there's no one around, oh yeah

      Just like Pagliacci did
      I try to keep my sadness hid
      Smiling in the public eye
      But in my lonely room I cry
      the tears of a clown
      When there's no one around

      Oh, yeah baby
      Now if there's a smile upon my face
      Don't let my glad expression
      Give you the wrong impression
      Don't let the smile I wear
      Make you think that I don't care
      Really I'm sad I'm hurting so bad

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsI-DB-25e8

       

  15. One thing this cycle has shown clearly is that we really don't have a plurality of solid polling being done. It'll be interesting to see, when it's over, who had the right models — because clearly everyone's got a different plan. Polling shouldn't be all over the place like this.

  17. Dear Dems,

    ​I say this with love in my heart.  Regardless of what happens tomorrow, if you run in 2016, for the love of all that's holy, please have the smallest goddamned vision for this county's future.  Oh, and fucking express it, too, because I'm not the only one isn't interested in voting to protect America from the crazies by stocking the government with one-dimensional, visionless, gas bags again.

     

  19. Not so fast!

    Here I come. I am dropping off my ballot tonight. (No congratulations, please…I'm not even looking for one of those "I Voted!" stickers.)

      1. Cool! With the Independent Dem bias, average 7.25 points (12 +11+3+6 points in various polls averages to 7.25), and the historic Dem late turn in advantage, we definitely have a fighting chance. ….Maybe the American Constitution Party will play kingmaker like they did in 2010 with Tancredo…the wackiest of the whackjobs.

        It ain't over til it's over.

  21. If these numbers were truly as ominous and sad as you claim, we'd be hearing a lot more about it right now.  No one really knows how those races are going to turn out. 

  22. And who, you might ask, produced this pdf release?  Magellan Strategies.  Let's see what Americans For Prosperity's Jeff Crank says about them:

    "Magellan has been a trusted partner throughout the years. We have used many of their services because their quality is outstanding and their customer service is great. We’ve used their polling capabilities quite often and have found them to be highly accurate and useful."

     

    Jeff Crank, Former COO and Colorado State Director, Americans for Prosperity

     

    Other clients include the "New Prosperity Foundation," and the Colorado Republican Committee (!)

  24. Zmulls, it is best to ignore AC for now.

    All he is trying to do is piss people off, and it's on him when his favorite party concedes everything and gives up on their 'hold'… and it'll be over before Colorado starts to count their votes..

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