ETA: The posts are coming fast and furious, aren’t they. Well, heck. This is a full service blog. Graze and munch as you like. While we wait for consequential news, this is a good time to point y’all to an article that ran in the Gray Lady a few days ago by a friend of mine, …
Election 2011
Always a pleasure to see their brilliant tactics end up… maybe not so brilliant
A dilemma arises: Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele on Wednesday continued his critical talk of his successor, wondering how current RNC chair Reince Priebus can mesh the organization’s much-ballyhooed minority outreach with the GOP’s push for tougher voter registration laws widely viewed as discriminatory. “How does Reince Priebus reconcile his approach and his …
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Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas…
I went to the OFA organizing meeting in DC today. We’re staying in Baltimore and the original plan was to just roam around among the crowd in DC for the inauguration tomorrow, but then we got tickets for the swearing-in and a ball and that all led to the OFA meeting. Here are some pictures: …
Help me out here, I’m not that creative
I’ve been reading comments along the lines of “how do we repeat 2012 in 2014?” and I’ve been thinking about that, too. Here’s the thing, though. The 2012 effort was huge, even the small section of it that I witnessed. We had a full-time organizer staying at the house beginning in May, I think, although …
True the Vote
Thanks to commenter Burns for this piece on a legal theory that could be used to protect voters from True the Vote: In an ostensible hunt for voter fraud, a Tea Party group, True the Vote, descends on a largely minority precinct and combs the registration records for the slightest misspelling or address error. It …
See what you think
This is Sherrod Brown’s “Both From Ohio” ad: <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/ettjF5iOc4E?rel=0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> I asked my focus group of one person, my just-turned-19 year old son, what he thought about this ad when we saw it on tv and he thought it was funny and memorable but only because it looks like …
He’s sorry if he created any confusion in that regard
Good for Sherrod, and good for the FOP for remembering who supported them when they were under attack by former Fox News personality John Kasich: The Ohio Fraternal Order of Police today endorsed Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown for re-election to the United States senate. “Senator Brown was one of our strongest allies in the fight …
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