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The Gall of Mitt Romney
“When Republicans act like Democrats, they lose. And in Newt Gingrich’s case he had to resign. In Rick Santorum’s case, he lost by the biggest margin of any Senate incumbent since 1980.” Mitt Romney, quoted by NBC News.
Mitt Romney WAS a Democrat as late into his life as 1992.
8Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 5 comments | Continued
Liberal Critics of President Obama Did Not Follow FDR’s Advice
President Obama receives criticism from the left wing of the Democratic Party with respect to several national security and civil liberties issues. The first is is the closing of Guantanamo. Guantanamo remains open, largely due to Congressional insistance rather than any direct action on Obama’s part. He asked Congress to close it and Congress said no, and that was the end of the fight. The second issue is the use of unmanned drones to kill suspected terrorists abroad, including terrorists who are American citizens.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said to a group of progressive reformers “I agree with you, I want to do it, now make me do it.” The obvious implication there is that progressives have to convince enough of the public as to why the reform is needed so as to create a public clamor for the reform that is so loud and demanding that FDR would be forced to make the reform.
Would it surprise you to learn that keeping Guantanamo open and using drones is popular…. among liberals and Democrats?
8Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 9 comments | Continued
Wednesday Open Thread [2.8.12]
The next Republican primary contest is in Arizona on February 28th. And there is no new polling on that. So here is some Virginia polling, showing President Obama doing very well there. Meanwhile, Nate Silver thinks this primary race will now be prolonged, and Chuck Todd says we know that the economy is improving because the Republicans are reverting back to their culture war playbook.
8Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 9 comments | Continued
Every Nominee Has a “Near-Death” Experience, but this is Ridiculous
No candidate can win the nomination of either party without suffering a near death experience, a moment when the campaign suffers what appears to be a substantial if not fatal setback that would doom other less worthy campaigns. Mitt Romney’s near death experience appeared to be his loss of South Carolina. At that moment, everything was conspiring against him. But he survived. And then last night happened.
8Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 17 comments | Continued
The Good Ones Always Leave Us.
First Ginger Gibson left our fine state for the Star Ledger up north, and then onto Politico. Who can forget her stellar reporting on Christine O’Donnell and her race against Mike Castle? Now Chad Livengood, who has taken Ginger’s place as the premiere political reporter in the First State, is leaving the News Journal for the Detroit News, where he will be covering Republican Governor Rick Synder in Lansing. I am sure Governor Synder is going to wish Chad stayed back east.
8Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 9 comments | Continued
Tuesday Open Thread [2.7.12]
Some more polling goodness inside.
7Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 13 comments | Continued
Santormentum II: The Lubrication
Are we really going to experience Santormentum II? We have three contests today and Public Policy Polling has polled them all: the Colorado and Minnesota caucuses, and a non-binding Missouri primary in which Newt Gingrich did not make the ballot. That fact has made Santorum the defacto conservative candidate for all right wing radicals, and proves that if one of the two Non-Romneys drop out, the right wing radicals could easily beat Romney.
7Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 4 comments | Continued
The SuperPAC War is Joined
President Obama has signaled to “wealthy Democratic donors that he wants them to start contributing to an outside group supporting his re-election, reversing a long-held position as he confronts a deep financial disadvantage on a vital front in the campaign.” That is fine by me. We must do everything and anything legal we can to win this election. Super PACs are legal. We want to make it illegal in the future, but we fight in the present. We fight in reality, not fantasy.
7Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 11 comments | Continued
Monday Open Thread [2.6.12]
“The biggest victim of [Friday's] blowout jobs report — aside from the millions of Americans who still lack jobs, of course — is Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. Romney has rested his entire case for election on the sluggish economy… [I]t’s all Romney has. Obama remains personally well-liked. Romney is personally unpopular. The Republican Party is extremely unpopular. Obama has had no major scandals, and his foreign policy has been highly successful to date… He simply has to keep plugging away at his theme, because his only real winning scenario involves winning on the back of a bad economy.”
6Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 8 comments | Continued
Christine Might Have to Get a Job
Christine O’Donnell’s political action committee, ChristinePAC and her Senate campaign have a combined $35,100 at the end of 2011. With such a paltry sum in an election year, I think it is safe to assume that Christine will not be a losing candidate again in 2012. With the poor reception her book received, and how hilariously her endorsement of Mitt Romney played out, Christine O’Donnell may also be finished as a national talking head. I mean, aside from losing statewide campaigns in spectactular fashion, being a guest on Fox News is the only thing she is really qualified to do. If Wingnut Welfare cuts her off, what is she to do?
6Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 9 comments | Continued
Obama is pulling away from Romney
I have long said this election will not be close, that it will be a 1996 style reelection for Obama at best, or a 2004 style reelection at worst. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that while Mitt Romney has solidified his position for the Republican nomination and now leads Newt Gingrich by a substantial margin, 39% to 23%, President Obama has also soldified his position for reelection against Mitt Romney. Obama now leads Romney 51% to 45%.
6Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 3 comments | Continued
Halftime in America
That Clint Eastwood Chrysler ad last night not only won the best commercial award (at least in my book, but it is receiving glowing accolades on Twitter and the Internets last night), but it was also a two minute Re-elect President Obama advertisement.
6Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 21 comments | Continued
Friday Open Thread [2.3.12]
The primary polling is all Romney all the time, except in Michigan, a “home” state of his but also a home to the American auto industry, which Romney wanted to pull the plug on. The general election polling is all Obama all the time.
3Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 7 comments | Continued
New Trailer for Game Change is out….
I both can’t wait to see this, and am shaking in horror at the prospect of seeing this.
1Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 3 comments | Continued
Delaware Tidbits
Downstate, in the race to replace Sussex County GOP Chairman Glen Urquhart, whose resignation becomes official on February 13, Executive Committee Members Jerry Wood and Michael Triglia have sent letters of their intent to run for the chairmanship. Thoughts, downstaters? Which one is more insane?
1Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 5 comments | Continued
Polling Goodness
Obama leads Romney by a pretty substantial margin in Ohio, 49% to 42%, according to a new Public Policy Poll out today. What is most impressive about this poll is not Obama’s lead, but it is the fact that only 28% of Ohioans have a favorable opinion of Mitt Romney, and 56% have a negative, unfavorable opinion of him. That is unelectable. Those are toxic numbers. Or at least, when Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich had those numbers, we called them toxic.
1Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 0 comments | Continued
Wednesday Open Thread [2.1.12]
With 94% of the vote counted in Florida, there have been roughly 1,583,000 votes cast. In the 2008 Republican primary in Florida, roughly 1,950,000 votes were cast. There’s probably about 100,000 votes left to count tonight, but we can already see that despite a growing population, approximately 300,000 fewer Republicans voted tonight than four years ago.
1Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 7 comments | Continued
Progressive Democrats Annual Meeting tonight.
Just a quick reminder about the Annual Meeting coming up tonight at 7 pm at the Delaware Democratic Party Headquarters, 19 E. Commons Blvd in New Castle County. The Annual Meeting is an opportunity for you, as a progressive, to get involved or get reinvolved in Delaware politics. Today’s meeting’s purpose is to shape the PDD organization as it prepares for the election year ahead. You can get involved in interviewing and endorsing candidates for office.
1Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 0 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
