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You are here: Home / Politics / We’re coming up on re-election day

We’re coming up on re-election day

by DougJ|  August 8, 20115:20 pm| 16 Comments

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Don’t forget about the recall elections in Wisconsin tomorrow. They look tight, within anywhere from 1-3 Democratic pick-ups…they need 3 to flip the Senate. We made our goal of 20K for it already, which is great.

GOS has polls and ways to get involved.

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  1. 1.

    Hal

    August 8, 2011 at 5:28 pm

    I hope the pulls are vastly understimating the results and there are at least several Dem flips. It would be great in these getting worse every day times to send a message that the GOP plan for un-doing America isn’t nearly as popular as Ryan, McConnel, and Boehner think it is.

    Then again, even if there are several pickups, the media consensus will be that it was a fluke.

  2. 2.

    Yurpean

    August 8, 2011 at 5:33 pm

    OT Any chance of an open thread? I need somewhere to vent about twats trying to burn my capital down.

  3. 3.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 8, 2011 at 5:35 pm

    @efgoldman:

    The Onion has been flirting with its demise for years now…what with Gillette actually going through with the five blade razor that The Onion discussed previously as the logical successor to the three blade razor.

    Not to mention the end of our “Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity”.

  4. 4.

    gogol's wife

    August 8, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    @efgoldman:
    Are they trying to compete with the great “Headless Corpse Found in Topless Bar” headline?

  5. 5.

    Spaghetti Lee

    August 8, 2011 at 5:40 pm

    @efgoldman:

    So pants aren’t allowed at all? Do you have to like, take them off immediately when you enter? If you take too long, do they throw you out? So many questions.

  6. 6.

    Spaghetti Lee

    August 8, 2011 at 5:44 pm

    And as for Wisconsin, it’s been on my mind for several weeks now. I think a lot of the analysis of whether Scott Walker’s acting nervous or Scott Fitzgerald seems confident is just filler, and no one’s really got a bead on what’s going on. I think the Dems are definitely going to take Kapanke’s seat, and Luther Olsen and Randy Hopper seem like the next easiest targets, although those races are about tied. Harsdorf is the farthest out in front of the GOPers. I won’t lie, I’m very nervous. I think if this is successful it could set the tone for the rest of election season, but if it doesn’t work, hoo boy. Has there been any talk about whether there’s a big campaign to recall Walker himself (4 months from now), and who’d run against him?

  7. 7.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    August 8, 2011 at 5:47 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Satire in general has been a dying art in this country when the mainstream outpaces it in absurdity at exponential rates.

  8. 8.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 8, 2011 at 5:54 pm

    @The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik:

    Tom Lehrer tossed in the towel when Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace prize.

    It’s been building for some time now.

  9. 9.

    RareSanity

    August 8, 2011 at 5:56 pm

    @DougJ:

    I don’t why, but it seems like that title should have a that in it.

    As in:

    “We’re coming up on that re-election day…”

    Gives it more of a “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”, “We Shall Overcome” feel to it…

  10. 10.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 8, 2011 at 5:57 pm

    Oh, jeeze, my comment at #9 is in moderation.

    I didn’t use “soc*ial*ist” in it, so what naughty word triggered it?

  11. 11.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 8, 2011 at 5:58 pm

    AND NOW my comment on moderation at #10 is in moderation.

    Will this madness never end?

  12. 12.

    askew

    August 8, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Wait, there are bars that have pantless nights? Man, do I live a sheltered life.

    On topic, as someone who spent 5 years living in Wisconsin, I am doubtful that we’ll win 3 seats tomorrow. But, I have my fingers crossed.

  13. 13.

    WaterGirl

    August 8, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: “Nobel Peace Prize”. Now that Obama won it, that is considered a dirty word.

  14. 14.

    James E. Powell

    August 8, 2011 at 6:37 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Is it Kissinger? The name itself often provokes reflex responses. I’m thinking of the Three Stooges, “Kissinger! Slowly I turn . . . step by step . . . inch by inch . . .

  15. 15.

    jfp

    August 8, 2011 at 6:48 pm

    Arcadia reference ftw!

  16. 16.

    ruemara

    August 8, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    props on calling out some… damn you jfp. I logged in just to make that comment.

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