The most important thing we can do as Democrats is to vote against corrupt triangutards in low turn-out primaries. So if you live in New York State, be sure to vote for Teachout-Wu. Here’s my song tie-in for Wu (I dig his retro 70s facial hair, btw). Don’t have one for Teachout yet.
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rreay
The Time’s non-endorsement article was enough to get my wife in the Teachout-Wu camp
Bob
As song tie-in I propose (slightly mishearing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVZh4WcdC3s
Napoleon
Some suggestions:
Hot for Teacher – Van Halen
Teach Your Children – Crosby, Stills Nash & Young
Don’t Stand So Close to me – The Police
Suffern ACE
What has surprised me is that I haven’t recieved a robo-call, a push poll, a mailing, a door knock, nothing. This entire cycle. Just one interruption at my door to sign a petition to get some conservative cranks on the ballot. I recieve more requests for donations to wisconsin democrats than I do from my own state’s party.
I spoke with one of my friends down in the city and their household has been barraged. I’m not certain if I should feel relieved or unwanted.
NCSteve
Actually, voting against corrupt triangutards in low-turnout primaries is the second most important thing we can do as Democrats. The most important thing, far and away, bar none, is to get off our complacent asses and vote in midterms and make sure our still more complacent and busy Democratic friends get off their complacent asses and vote as well.
And, unless you live in a district so blue that the corrupt triangutard’s primary win is an offense before the Noodly One, you do that even when the corrupt triangutard won the primary. Because the one vote the corrupt triangutard casts to at the start of the session on the organizational resolution is more important than all the times he or she fucks us between now and the next primary.
If you live in a red or purple district and you don’t understand that after the lost opportunities and slow rearguard action against objectively evil and/or insane policy demands from the House Republicans for the last four years, you’re not simply useless, you’re the enemy.
Yeah, I know I’m preaching to the choir, but it bears saying.
Catherine D.
@Suffern ACE:
I’ve been drowning in mailings, calls and emails. Can’t wait until 4:30 this afternoon when I can give Andy the finger!
Randy P
@Suffern ACE: A wise guy at the local discount store several elections ago put a sign up on the display of trash cans: “Holds 35 gallons of campaign literature!”
Mnemosyne
It’s so weird to me that some states have their primaries so late in the year. Here in California, our primary is in April, and that’s the way we like it!
/shakes fist, mutters about lawn
DougJ
@Napoleon:
Hot For Teacher is a good one
Xantar
I’m going to take this as the closest thing we have to an open thread right now and ask:
What’s up with the top Newsmax headline?
“Dr. Carson: ‘Demonize’ Ray Rice? See DIRECTV 349, DISH 223”
Is Newsmax now in the satellite TV business?
Sherparick
This may a little nuanced for some folks, but the rule should be you vote for the candidate closest to your ideal representative/governor/president who you think can win the general election in the Democratic primary. If your candidate loses, then you vote for whatever yellow (or blue) dog candidate on the Democratic ticket, because he or she, no matter how corrupt and stupid, is still better than the the generic Republican under current circumstances. Between elections, you organize and agitate to form grass root movements to shift the Overton window of your particular political unit to the left (which in my particular boondocks would probably shifting it back left so that the district would become somewhat to the right of King George III).
Anoniminous
@Xantar:
That’s their cable channel.
Tom Q
@Catherine D.: I’m likewise bombarded with robo-calls — it’s been relentless for the last five days or so. Thank god it’ll stop after tonight.
srv
How can you people be voting when the iWatch is coming out?
Why aren’t you in line already at the Apple stores?
Elizabelle
@Randy P:
That’s perfect.
In Virginia, we have absentee voting in person (“early voting”) if you select an acceptable reason (long commute; will be out of town on Election Day or working too many hours to get to polls; ill or caring for ill relative) …
anyhoo: one big inducement is the campaigns will leave you alone as soon as you’ve cast your vote. Registrar shares the list. Bye bye incessant calls.
Can be a big motivator to get the vote out, early.
Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]
I seem to remember a segment of the BJ community that roundly toasted GOS for exactly this approach. I think it is the right path and the only way we are going to get better Dems. I just also feel it is important to point out the plank in our (collective) eye as it is instructional so we do not become the pack of ravaging dogs that populate the wingnut side of the Intertubes.
I’ll just slip into my asbestos undies while waiting for the gentle and reasoned responses about how its different when we do it.
Eric U.
@Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]: In primaries, I have a hard time not voting for the dem I think is most likely to win in the general, no matter how odious. I have never lived in a place where I had the luxury of voting for someone I really liked anyway. OTOH, the first election my (well-hated by some) blue dog rep Rick Boucher was a happy day, because he replaced a POS republican. I am not sure why this is such a hard concept to grasp for the purists. What we really need to do is work on electing dems to dogcatcher, treasurer, school board, mayor, etc, so they can work their way up the ladder
Jebediah, RBG
for Teachout I keep hearing Cat Stevens’ voice – “If you want to sing out, sing out…”
Belafon
@srv: Why? Samsung has had one out for a while, which is compatible with the best selling phone in the country.
WereBear
@Suffern ACE: I believe we are getting ALL you missed. Yesterday, five robo calls from different sources.
JPL
Decades ago, when my first born’s due date was on election date, I voted early. Hopefully, the statute of limitations is up, because LA only accepted, out of town. I waddled in and voted.
JPL
@Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]: Teachout and Wu have an excellent chance of winning the general, so it’s not the same as a throw away vote.
I’ve held my nose and voted for the democratic candidate in the general election.
kindness
Love that song. Steely Dan had such a nice mix of Jazz & rock. Drove critics crazy that the lyrics frequently didn’t mean anything, but sounded good strung together. Didn’t bother me. Back in the 70’s, much like the question posed to Dr. Wu, I was high more often than not so it didn’t matter.
rikyrah
Go Wu!!
nellcote
@Mnemosyne:
don’t you mean June?
Mnemosyne
@nellcote:
Oh, probably. That’s what I get for posting without coffee — I was thinking of municipal elections, which happen in April around here.