Election 2012
Grass Roots Need Sunlight, Astroturf (Apparently) Does Not
After losing the 2004 Presidential election, a group of us here started a state-registered PAC. The point of the PAC was to find, promote and elect local candidates who share our views. The PAC works like this: we collect twelve dollars a year from anyone who wants to join. We spend the money to promote …
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Next Up: Poll Taxes
A reader from Wisconsin sent me this Adam Serwer piece: From the look of it, there is simply no time to lose in Wisconsin to pass the most draconian and disenfranchising voter-identification law in the country (it surpasses even an extremely controversial Indiana law that requires voters to present government-issued photo ID). The new Republican …
Even Randall Terry’s Given Up on the Repubs
No doubt jealous of all the high-visibility media Fred Phelps has been hogging with threats to picket the funeral of a murdered nine-year-old, “anti-abortion noisemaker” and professional terrorist enabler Randall Terry is making a show of running for President: … [A]t a press conference held outside the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington today, Terry outlined …
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Open Thread: The New Crazification Factor
In an otherwise innocuous column reassessing Palin’s chances for the nomination in 2012, Nate Silver mentions an interesting statistic: There aren’t a lot of moderates in the Republican base, and their numbers are declining somewhat. But there are some: 27 percent of Republicans identify as either moderate or liberal. So… has identifying oneself as a …
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Zombie Apocalypse: Return of the Goo-Goos
Recycling gets a bad name because too many well-intentioned people think it involves taking leftover crap nobody wanted in the first place, cutting it into smaller portions, and repackaging it with a stridently ‘better for you, nicer for THE PLANET’ marketing campaign. And there are always grifters looking to use these nice folks’ good intentions …
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Open Thread: History Repeating
Dave Weigel, at Slate, with an interesting bit of historical trivia explaining “Why the ‘Liberals Can Mount Primary Challenge to Obama’ Talk Makes No Sense“: Beware, liberals! Beware the specter of John Ashbrook. As you “murmur” and “bubble” about the bright idea of challenging Barack Obama in the 2012 Democratic presidential primary, remember that there …