The people of Delaware have decided they don’t want to ride on the crazy train. (*WARNING* .PDF) I’d take Coons off the ActBlue page, but I’m not taking ANYTHING for granted.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity
Everybody saw this coming.
So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.
I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.
Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.
Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?
When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.
This really is a full service blog.
I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.
Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.
Let there be snark.
You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.
If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.
“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”
Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll
Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.
“woke” is the new caravan.
Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?
Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.
Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!
A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires
When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.
The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.
Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.
ricky
Proving Karl Rove to be wrong is not sufficient motiviation for you?
DCPlod
Why does Delaware hate witches?
Mudge
I say give all illegal aliens citizenship and deport the 1/3 of the Delawareans who believe O’Donnell is qualified to be a Senator.
WereBear
A breath of sane air?
I expect that from Delaware. I’m pleased.
cleek
i expect she’ll be haunting our lives for many years to come. she’s perfect for FoxNews.
TR
@Mudge:
That might be too harsh, but the 3% who say they’re voting for her to be their senator but say she’s not qualified to be a senator … yeah, they should be deported.
The Pale Scot
Please, a warning when the link goes to a PDF. Some computers are working on other stuff besides surfing
cat48
He came across well when Rachel featured him. Smart and we do need superbrains in the Senate.
Sentient Puddle
On the topic of 2010, Ron Johnson invoked Atlas Shrugged in the debate last night.
If this douche gets elected, I’m holding all of you assholes from Wisconsin personally responsible.
John Cole
@The Pale Scot: Sorry, I forgot. I updated it :)
Legalize
Breaking: Delaware voters not bug-fucking nuts! Mostly!
Gravenstone
@Sentient Puddle: I’m voting against his proudly ignorant ass. Sadly, I am but one voice. Hopefully the People’s Republic of Madison, Deepest Darkest Milwaukee and the CWD Corridor (SW WI) will hold true to their blue and come out in enough numbers to offset the spreading wingtard tide.
JPL
@Sentient Puddle: I read the article. Any chance Feingold talked about the lack of regulations helping investment banks almost driving us over a cliff?
Even Greenspan has changed his tune about regulations.
b-psycho
I wonder how many polls showing support for female wingnuts coming overwhelmingly from men have to come out before Chris Matthews stops acting like women just vote for the vagina…
Nimm
I’m kinda surprised her support isn’t at the Maniac Plateau; i.e., 27%.
Doesn’t speak too well of Delaware, although since it’s just 38%, they only have an extra 1 in 10 loons.
Bubblegum Tate
@cleek:
Maybe…how much do you get paid for being a guest on Hannity?
arguingwithsignposts
It was hilarious listening to a Tea Partier this weekend talk about how O’Donnell was closing the gap against Coons while I’m sitting looking at a Pollster.com composite index showing that she’s nowhere near close. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Dennis SGMM
OT: Why the fuck are people still using bloated pdfs which necessitate opening a bloated app to read them when most word processing apps now have an option to save a document as HTML? The format may have been a great idea back in the day but, then so were scribes.
BottyGuy
My fellow americans remain stupid. 10% of Republicans seem to think O’Donnell is unqualified by plan on voting for her anyway. Men are particularly stupid, with about have voting for her. As a man I think I’m close to supporting an amendment repealing male voting rights, 50% of us are dick heads.
MacsenMifune
Hey thats the college I went to, I didn’t know they had a polling Institute.
Linda Featheringill
In other contests:
DCCC says they have 75 close races for the House.
And, of course, they are concentrating resources on those races.
Punchy
@Sentient Puddle: I never figgy’d Wisky to be so illogical. Peeps in da ‘Kee and MadTown are fun, rather pragmatic (read: leaning progressive) people. Find it hard to believe that central and northern Wisconsin can deliver enough votes for the teatard. What’s GB’s tilt? I’d hafta guess that’s more pink than purple. Maybe we can link Brett Favre to this bagger and have the whole thumb vote blue.
Bob L
Pretty amazing she even gets the support she does. Political philosophies aside she is a really weak candidate: sure you can be a political neophyte but the candidate should be successful at something in their lives. From what I have read about here is she gets elected to the Senate it would be the first grown up job she’s had in her life.
El Cid
@Dennis SGMM: I used to hear that it was much harder to edit PDF’s or use the data without credit. These days, probably not.
lol
@Linda Featheringill:
Howard Dean would be concentrating resources in all 435 races if RAAAAAAAAAAHM and Obama hadn’t sold us out.
BenA
What’s really insane is that she’s no less qualified than any number of candidates the GOP is running who are much more likely to get elected. She just had the “misfortune” of running in Delaware
BenA
@Bob L:
Sounds a lot like George W. doesn’t it? Palin? Maybe she should have run for Gov. of a red state before seeking a national office…
Sentient Puddle
@Dennis SGMM: First reason is that with a PDF, you know exactly how it will be displayed on any machine. No differences in how browsers handle HTML or users futzing with settings or whatever.
Second reason would be that if the document is originally meant to be a print document, then it’s easier to throw the PDF up on the web instead of trying to adapt it to a browser window.
Whether or not these can be considered good reasons is an open question, but in my experience with dealing with PDFs vs. HTML formats, these are the kinds of considerations that come up.
BenA
@Sentient Puddle:
As a developer who makes these sort of trade offs and decisions all the time… I’d say you’re 100% right on both accounts. Saving a document as a HTML document produces something that probably wont work consistently on a lot of different browsers… and PDFs are MUCH better when it comes to producing documents that are intended to be printed.
Also PDF viewers don’t have to be bloated and horrible. There’s really no reason why it should be any more painful than viewing a web page. Adobe’s are bloated and horrible… but there are lots of third party ones that are very nice.
bk
This just in.
b-psycho
@Dennis SGMM: Here‘s a reader that isn’t bloated. I haven’t used Adobe in years.
gnomedad
Wow, look at the gender gap, particularly on O’Donnell. Makes me embarrassed to be male. Guys, wake up! She already said she won’t have sex with you!
Also, more people favor her than think she is competent?
Medicine Man
I like this nuance (which strangely never gets pointed out in the media):
Q12: Favorable/Unfavorable rating of the Dems in Delaware — 43%/50%.
Q13: Favorable/Unfavorable rating of the Repubs in Delaware — 40%/52%.
Q14: Favorable/Unfavorable rating of the Tea Party in Delaware — 36%/56%.
So I wonder how long it will take for the media to notice that people don’t like *any* politicians right now, especially the more loony ones?
4tehlulz
@Dennis SGMM: Sumatra PDF is a lightweight reader.
The Grand Panjandrum
So we are all safe to continue masturbating?
James Hare
@Dennis SGMM:
PDF includes the fonts used in the document so you have a little more control over how it is presented. Adobe Reader is a bloated piece of garbage, but there are alternatives. Macs have Preview (which should mean you never install Adobe, but that’s too much for some people to manage). Linux PCs have a similar program. For Windows I like FoxIt Reader. It’s lightweight and loads faster than Adobe Reader.
PaulW
The thing that bothers me: O’Donnell is still, after all the crazy stuff and the falsified resumes and the general ineptitude, getting 38 percent of likely voters. Just where the hell is she even getting that many people to vote for her?
Answer to my own question: from the simple fact that there will ALWAYS be a vast number of Republicans who will dutifully punch the ballot for the GOP even if the party puts up a dead armadillo as a candidate. I know well enough that there are Democratic voters who think the same way (all D all the time), but somehow the majority of Dems always seem to realize when a candidate is a terrible choice.
And this is where the Tea Party jihad and Club for Greed takeovers of the primary system is killing us. Because the Republicans are half of the two-party system that dominates our elections, all the crazies have to do is win in the primaries being as far-wingnut as possible and then not even care about the general election where they can coast to possible victories by A) keeping the fanbase stirred up, B) keeping the Independents confused, and C) keeping the Democratic voters too depressed to turn up to vote.
Smith
Let’s be honest here, no woman (unless she’s bugnuts) is voting for O’Donnell. Her only votes are coming from horny middle-aged (or older) teabaggers who see her as masturbation material. If she looked like Rosie O’Donnell she’d be in negatives, hell she probably wouldn’t even have gotten within sniffing distance in the primary.
It sucks to say this but nowadays looks matter more than substance. These days FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, hell even Reagan couldn’t get elected nowadays because they wouldn’t pass the “hottie” test.
YellowJournalism
@gnomedad:
So she really is Palin 2.0: Less Wrinkles, More Satan!
debbie
@cleek:
I look forward to the Fox Cat Fight she’ll have with Palin over who gets to hold the microphone.
Cacti
Considering Delaware has a Cook PVI of D +7, the fact that O’Donnell is down 19 should be considered nothing less than a thorough rebuke of teabagger-ism.
Martin
Can we please now get people to stop talking about O’Donnell and start talking about Republicans that can actually win the seat? Democratic strategists shouldn’t have the same objectives as SNL writers.
Bubblegum Tate
And one small piece of humor: How Americans see Europe.
Dennis SGMM
Than ks to all who took the good time and trouble to respond to my rant about pdfs.
Chris G.
Other potentially good news: The latest round of revelations about Ken Buck may be hurting him. Go to Pollster.com, click on the Colorado Senate race chart, and set it to high sensitivity. Buck’s numbers are going down, while Michael Bennet’s are slowly going up.
chopper
@Sentient Puddle:
god, this would be like the third time i’d link to that bob the angry flower bit about atlas shrugged, this week.
“my opponent thinks the only people in this country who do any work are rich dudes who only know how to pay other people to invent new alloys!”
Hal
Didn’t Allan Keyes, the crazy male version of O’donnel get 27% in Illinois? There are always some people willing to vote for the obviously insane.
Smurfhole
I believe Delaware natives already pointed out that she has a snowball’s chance in Hell of getting elected.