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The NYTimes has an interesting look at De Blasio's history as an activist: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/nyregion/a-mayoral-hopeful-now-de-blasio-was-once-a-young-leftist.html?pagewanted=1&ref=javierchernandez Made me like him more to be honest.
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Sad Banana posted:The NYTimes has an interesting look at De Blasio's history as an activist: Yeah reading this makes me glad I voted for him. It's a shame that these positive qualities are a political negative in America though.
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OAquinas posted:The answer is: both parties are absolutely terrible in florida. It's just that the Democratic party is just that much worse that keeps hamstringing their efforts. I am pretty sure all the FDP cares about is money and not actually building the party. At least that was the feeling I get when I was down there. Any chance like Kevin Rader or another state senator runs?
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Sep 23, 2013 12:26
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Sad Banana posted:The NYTimes has an interesting look at De Blasio's history as an activist: Wow, I've been hearing that De Blasio is supposedly a "fake" and just pandering to progressives, but this makes me think he's the real deal (at least comparatively).
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Sep 23, 2013 18:40
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The race to piss away a bunch of money on a useless senate seat in North Carolina further narrows with the other likely contender senate pres pro tem Phil Berger finally getting around to deciding to sit this one out against Kay Hagan. Likely because Art Pope handpicked house speaker Thom Tillis, last seen tying for 6th place in a five man primary race, about a year ago. http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/09/23/3221260/senate-leader-phil-berger-wont.html
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Sep 23, 2013 23:04
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I figured with how far right NC has gotten that it could be another easy pickup for the GOP but the polling from earlier this month is decent for Hagan. But it's still really early.
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Sep 23, 2013 23:14
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The big thing is none of the declared candidates have any name recognition. Tillis, who'll be the candidate, is tied to the legislature which is likely going to face a huge backlash next year. That coupled Hagan having about $4 million on hand before fundraising even begins in full makes it more competitive than conventional wisdom dictates.
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Sep 23, 2013 23:26
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NY Post, but interesting nonetheless: http://nypost.com/2013/09/23/gov-cuomos-odd-alliance-to-stop-democratquote:Gov. Cuomo has secretly joined with former US Sen. Alfonse D’Amato and other top Republicans to stop Democrat Tom Suozzi from recapturing his old job as Nassau County executive, key Nassau Democrats angrily charge.
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Sep 24, 2013 01:41
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Reading all these NY political stories remind me of 1992. When you're from some place like Texas, it's all, "Oh a bunch of Italian names. Must be New York."
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ReindeerF posted:Reading all these NY political stories remind me of 1992. When you're from some place like Texas, it's all, "Oh a bunch of Italian names. Must be New York." Unlike all the others, this one's probably not even about corruption. Cuomo Sr. is NY's Clinton before NY had a Clinton, so the enemies list for Junior is pretty large. Al D'Amato has spent the last two decades being on the board of every possible lobbying group (he's the head of the Poker Players Alliance ffs) so rather than being Republican he's really more of an indiscriminate sellout by now.
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Sep 24, 2013 09:44
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Wasn't Mangano the guy who hosed up so bad a regional body had to come in and take over their finances?
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So it seems Joe Lhota has picked up on that NY Times piece, which after a press conference in which both de Blasio and Lohta both agreed that sanctions on Iran were a good thing Lhota said that him supporting the Sandinistas who were "fighting America and Capitalism was not the right thing to do during the Cold War, and going to Cuba illegally is bad." And it seems de Blasio is trying to back off the supporting democratic socialism comment. So I guess politics in America.txt
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Sep 24, 2013 16:40
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KomradeX posted:So it seems Joe Lhota has picked up on that NY Times piece, which after a press conference in which both de Blasio and Lohta both agreed that sanctions on Iran were a good thing Lhota said that him supporting the Sandinistas who were "fighting America and Capitalism was not the right thing to do during the Cold War, and going to Cuba illegally is bad." And it seems de Blasio is trying to back off the supporting democratic socialism comment. So I guess politics in America.txt The thing about de Blasio, which the Times piece picks up on in the end but doesn't go into in great detail, is that after his leftist youth he's spent most of the past 20 years as a wholly mainstream Democratic politician; he's really Andrew Cuomo's guy in this race. Kind of hard to see him suddenly running back to the extreme left at this point.
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Well that is true, hence why I see it as standard boilerplate American politics. But Lhota's gross depiction of America's involvement in Nicaragua really stood out to me.
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So WaPo has an article up today with new poll numbers on the VA governor's race (no link due to phone post). McAuliffe leads 47-39, with Libertarian Robert Sarvis with 10. Without Sarvis McAuliffe's lead is only 5 points, so Sarvis is clearly playing spoiler here. The majority of McAuliffe's advantage comes from women where he leads by almost 25 points.
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Sep 24, 2013 17:36
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In other polling news, Quinnipiac went back to Jersey for the first time since the primary and found Booker only having a 53-41 lead over Lonegan, which is in pretty sharp contrast to other post-primary polls. No confirmation from a better pollster on whether this is legitimate movement yet, unfortunately.
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jeffersonlives posted:In other polling news, Quinnipiac went back to Jersey for the first time since the primary and found Booker only having a 53-41 lead over Lonegan, which is in pretty sharp contrast to other post-primary polls. No confirmation from a better pollster on whether this is legitimate movement yet, unfortunately. 47-44 among independent voters and 46-49 among whites is laughable, this poll sucks.
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JoeCL posted:So WaPo has an article up today with new poll numbers on the VA governor's race (no link due to phone post). McAuliffe leads 47-39, with Libertarian Robert Sarvis with 10. Without Sarvis McAuliffe's lead is only 5 points, so Sarvis is clearly playing spoiler here. The majority of McAuliffe's advantage comes from women where he leads by almost 25 points. Minor spoiler it would seem.
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The Libertarian candidate for Governor in Virginia puts out his first ad, which Mike Bloomberg would probably call racist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeOZKzWNgcs
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Another video. Alison Lundergan Grimes gets picked up at the airport by her husband and the Kentucky College Republicans are ON IT! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjn58-PIVGk Joementum fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Sep 25, 2013 |
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Sep 25, 2013 21:32
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JoeCL posted:So WaPo has an article up today with new poll numbers on the VA governor's race (no link due to phone post). McAuliffe leads 47-39, with Libertarian Robert Sarvis with 10. Without Sarvis McAuliffe's lead is only 5 points, so Sarvis is clearly playing spoiler here. The majority of McAuliffe's advantage comes from women where he leads by almost 25 points. Aside from direct women's issues, women tend to be more liberal on all social issues, and it probably doesn't help Cuccinelli is a person who needs to have "Sodomy" as a major header on his fact check page http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/24/1241046/-Your-gubernatorial-campaign-might-be-in-trouble-if} That's something that shouldn't have to even be mentioned in 2013.
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Joementum posted:Another video. Alison Lundergan Grimes gets picked up at the airport by her husband and the Kentucky College Republicans are ON IT! We're supposed to be bothered that shes not riding shotgun or..? edit: Also, thats the LEXINGTON airport. For those not in the know Lexington is an ultra liberal city with a gay mayor.* *one part of this sentence is not true 
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hobbesmaster posted:We're supposed to be bothered that shes not riding shotgun or..?
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Joementum posted:The Libertarian candidate for Governor in Virginia puts out his first ad, which Mike Bloomberg would probably call racist. Reminder: he ran for a State Senate seat as a Republican in 2011 and lost terribly badly after spending $21k of his family's money for a grand total of 9,000 votes. Robert Sarvis is big sack of sore loserdom.
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Lycus posted:Yeah, I'm confused. Is that really nothing more than her getting into her SUV and driving away, or am I missing something? Clearly you can't see it's a precursor to the slavery she'll put Americans through if elected Senator. 
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Sep 26, 2013 03:31
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Someone should alert the Lexington police that Alison Lundergan Grimes has a stalker.
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Sep 26, 2013 03:33
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Lycus posted:Yeah, I'm confused. Is that really nothing more than her getting into her SUV and driving away, or am I missing something? I have met the University of Kentucky College Republicans. They are exactly that stupid, yes.
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:I have met the University of Kentucky College Republicans. Usually theres some kind of logic to it.
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Sep 26, 2013 03:45
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Yes, they are being exactly as stupid as you think.
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hobbesmaster posted:Usually theres some kind of logic to it. A Democrat did a thing. It is bad.
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Joementum posted:Yes, they are being exactly as stupid as you think. No actually they aren't. It's a whole new goddamn level of stupid. The whole controversy, the reason they posted the video is.... She's sitting in the back seat. That's it! E: gently caress it just in case they take it down. quote:ICYMI: Grimes Wants You To Know She's A VIP Raskolnikov38 fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Sep 26, 2013 |
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Joementum posted:Yes, they are being exactly as stupid as you think.
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Apparently, they're bewildered that she got in the back seat instead of the passenger seat, which makes an important difference to you if you're a crazy person.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:No actually they aren't. It's a whole new goddamn level of stupid. The whole controversy, the reason they posted the video is.... She's sitting in the back seat. Right. That's what they are implying with the "Driving Miss Daisy" reference and the use of the word "chauffeured". This is a big deal, obviously.
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Sep 26, 2013 03:57
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To be far that is a little weird.
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Joementum posted:Right. That's what they are implying with the "Driving Miss Daisy" reference and the use of the word "chauffeured". Mitch McConnell would never be in the back seat.
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comes along bort posted:To be far that is a little weird. Yeah, comity in marriage is an important thing to the electorate, and this is weird. On a basic level it's idiotic, but it's still a mistake. Presumably one that she won't make again, knowing she's being stalked.
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Joementum posted:Right. That's what they are implying with the "Driving Miss Daisy" reference and the use of the word "chauffeured". Oh, I just took chauffeured as being driven, I didn't even think of the connotation wrt the seating. This whole thing is just  .
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comes along bort posted:To be far that is a little weird.
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Lycus posted:Today I sat on the floor when I ate my sandwich and watched TV instead of sitting in my chair like I usually do. It was a little weird. Why did I do that? Nobody cares. Are you running for US Senate? If so, I'd suggest closing the blinds before you did that.
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