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Entries Tagged as 'Democratic Party'

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

In for the kill

We’ve lived in a political culture where, for the past seven-plus years but really longer than that, Republicans have defined themselves - and then been defined by popular culture - as strong and aggressive. Democrats, by contrast, were weaklings and whiners.
Boy, how things are changing.

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

The good race

Hillary cruises in Kentucky, and it doesn’t mean much:
As recently as May 6, Obama trailed Clinton among superdelegates, the officeholders and party leaders who will attend the national convention by virtue of their positions.
But in the days following his convincing victory in the North Carolina primary and his narrow defeat in Indiana, Obama has […]

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Pelosi doesn’t play anymore

RS sends me a bit this morning, regarding the special congressional race in Mississippi yesterday, where a district which once voted for President Bush by a 25 point margin instead elected a Democrat, Travis Childers, by an eight-point margin.
This is one of the many tea leaves which suggests that as competitive as we think the […]

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Obama’s tech advantage

Via Jay at Atrios (himself via Matt Stoller), we get a clue to Obama’s success - and how this is the wave of the future for sure:
Money: MyBarackObama.com: With 1.5 million donors, this campaign has blown away anything we’ve ever seen in terms of grassroots fundraising. The technology is all centralized, so Obama knows […]

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Kids today

I hadn’t called Shawn the drummer for months, and I felt cheesy about it. With the class and the kids and everything else there’s just no time to rock and roll, but my stuff - an amp, microphone, various stands, etc. - were still at his house. So I dropped him an e-mail: Uh, I […]

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

MySpace as the future of politcs

Hm. NY Times takes a look at the “Milennial Makeover,” a book which theorizes that the future of American politics is being crafted by the Facebook pages of today:
Why are Millennials [those born since 1982] inclined to vote Democratic? Thanks to “their protected, structured and positively reinforced upbringing” (lots of quality time with their parents, […]

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Our Obama trend

So with all the votes counted, Obama garnered more votes than Hillary here in Lancaster County, 27,126 to 22,710 - 54 percent to 46 percent.
That just amazes me.
Lancaster County Democratic registrations soared this year, with more than 12,000 new voters registered since last November. The local party was hoping for 10,000 by this November; they’re way […]

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Divided they stand

So Hillary picks up at least 80 delegates, Obama at least 66. Obama still enjoys a healthy lead - but neither candidate now is expected to get the 2,025 delegates needed to win this thing by the end of the primary season in June.
As noted last night, I do think Obama represents the future of […]

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Want some more?

Sullivan nails it:
The “bitter” spat is gold for Morris-Rove politics, which is why Clinton is exploiting it so baldly. It is exactly the kind of debate that has constructed American politics since Vietnam; it is exactly the kind of politics that Obama has been trying to transcend. Clinton will use anything at this point to […]

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

None of the above

See, I’m not opposed to this, I’m not opposed to this at all:
U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel writes in a new book that the United States needs independent leadership and possibly another political party, while suggesting the Iraq war might be remembered as one of the five biggest blunders in history.
Well, yes on both the former […]

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

They’re blowing it

One of Sullivan’s commenters mirrors my feelings exactly:
Watching the Democrats self-immolate during this election, which should have been a slam-dunk for the party, has really made me question its abiity to lead this country at all, ever again. If someone, anyone, could explain to me how this party is fit to lead, please, let them […]

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

The ideology of competency

I hear it’s some kind of big important day out there in election land or something. Though, as usual, Kunstler makes us wonder why anyone would want to preside over what looks, by anyone’s metric, as a growing mess:
       Whoever wins on November 5 will wake up to preside over a different America than the […]

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

LOLDems

Sadly funny. Sadly, No! running something of a contest for new slogans to vote Democratic:
Democrats: We’re marginally less likely to march the whole country down the slow road to actual fascism.
Vote Democratic! We’ll probably kill fewer brown people than the other guys. Maybe.
Democrats - for when your biggest hope for government is that they won’t […]

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

The coming GOP crackup

Drudge’s headline story right about now is a WaPo piece about how Huckabee’s national chairman, Ed Rollins, gets so angry and Romney that he wants to knock out the Mittster’s teeth.

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Why won’t Hillary end the war?

Maybe because she’s getting so many campaign donations from so many defense contractors?
The defense industry this year abandoned its decade-long commitment to the Republican Party, funneling the lion share of its contributions to Democratic presidential candidates, especially to Hillary Clinton who far out-paced all her competitors.
An examination of contributions of $500 or more, using the […]

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

“Your team”

So in addition to fending off right-wingers here on this site, I also do quite a bit of fending off via regular old e-mail. One group in particular for some reason decided to include me in all of their local right-wing clubhouse e-mails; I’ve come to know the guys, they’re musicians, I’ve downed a few […]

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

On that Democratic impotence

The suggestion being that the party doesn’t take on Iraq because it wants to use the war as a club to beat Republicans about the head with in 2008:
The silver lining behind Democratic capitulation on Iraq, to talk like a mathematician, is that it reduces the 2008 election to a problem previously solved. 2006 showed […]