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Chart of the Day
In the long journey for equal rights for gays, it feels like we have come a long way. But then you look at this interactive chart from the Guardian and you realize we have a long long way to go. And then you realize that Obama’s announcement last week was even more courageous and ground breaking than you think.
14May2012 | Delaware Dem | 1 comment | Continued
Oh Yeah?!? Take That, Time Magazine!
As if a six year old breast feeding from his mother had to be topped?
14May2012 | Delaware Dem | 14 comments | Continued
Friday Open Thread [5.11.12]
I think it is going to become so acceptable as conventional wisdom that Romney is a liar, and Romney will continue to tell the most outrageous and pathological lies over the next five months, that President Obama will actually be forced to call him a liar to his face during the debates.
11May2012 | Delaware Dem | 21 comments | Continued
Friday Polling Report [5.11.12]
Now, normally, we focus on polling of races that will occur this year. But today we have some polls of races far into the future. Let’s just say that if Hillary wants it, it is hers.
11May2012 | Delaware Dem | 3 comments | Continued
Romney was a psychotic bully in High School
The Washington Post reports on how Mitt Romney, when he was a young adult at 18 years of age, was a homophobic bully who beat up and assaulted people he thought were different that he was.
10May2012 | Delaware Dem | 59 comments | Continued
Continued Reaction
I have been busy this morning reading through all of the reactions from readers of TPM and Andrew Sullivan that were posted by each blog, as well as the reactions of others columnists and bloggers and opinion makers, etc. Here are a few that stood out to me.
10May2012 | Delaware Dem | 12 comments | Continued
Mitch Crane kicks off his Campaign today in Dover
It starts at 12:30 over at the Old State House on the Green in Dover. Mitch will be joined by a number of legislators who already support his candidacy to unseat the incompetent advocate for the insurance industry, Karen Weldin Stewart. Indeed, I am told that a few legislators plan to announce their support today at the kickoff.
10May2012 | Delaware Dem | 69 comments | Continued
Thursday Polling Report [5.10.12]
So how does a President’s embrace of same sex marriage play in our polling world? The real answer to the question is no one knows because it has never happened before. Will Obama lose states because of his support of same sex marriage? Maybe. North Carolina probably got a little harder to win, since the CW is “well they just banned gay marriage by 20 points, that must mean Obama will lose North Carolina by 20 points now, right?”
Nope.
10May2012 | Delaware Dem | 5 comments | Continued
The Obama Special Report Open Thread
ABC News is breaking into live programing at 3 pm. It is expected that he will announced the end of his evolution and that he supports same sex marriage.
9May2012 | Delaware Dem | 96 comments | Continued
Wednesday Open Thread [5.9.12]
“I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.” — Indiana U.S. Senate nominee Richard Mourdock (R), quoted by Politico. Some of us have known that was the Republican view for some time. Perhaps the media and certain Democrats (cough cough Carper Coons Carney) can finally wake up to it.
9May2012 | Delaware Dem | 3 comments | Continued
Patience
President Obama, “who is under mounting pressure to clarify his thinking on same-sex marriage after top aides publicly embraced it in recent days, will sit down for an interview with ABC News on Wednesday during which he is likely to discuss his ‘evolving’ views on the issue,” the New York Times reports. I find it hard to imagine that he will endorse gay marriage in this interview and at this time, but I could be wrong.
9May2012 | Delaware Dem | 52 comments | Continued
Wednesday Polling Report [5.9.12]
Finally, new state polls. We have good news in Iowa and Ohio, requiring a change of color in both states on our map.
9May2012 | Delaware Dem | 19 comments | Continued
That Sound You Hear is the Scream of the Swiss Nation as One
Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann is now, officially, a citizen of Switzerland.
9May2012 | Delaware Dem | 13 comments | Continued
Lugar Got O’Donnell-ed.
Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) lost his bid to stay in office for a 7th term to Richard Mourdock (R). With 45% reporting, Mourdock is leading with 60% of the vote. This makes the Indiana Senate race a more competitive one in the fall, and gives Democrat Joe Donnelly a good chance to pick up this seat against the teabagger Mourdock. His name sounds an awful lot like Mordor. Fitting, I think.
8May2012 | Delaware Dem | 4 comments | Continued
An Equal Opportunity Push Poll in the NCCo Executive Race
I just got push polled by an outfit that I think was called Voter Research. The call came from a Newark, DE number (302-894-7627) that, of course, is “not a working number” according to the automated message you get when you call it back. The poll starts off asking if you are planning to vote in the primary on September 11, 2012. You have to press 1 for yes or 2 for no. I pressed one. The poll then asked if I was planning to vote for 1) Tom Gordon, 2) Paul Clark or 3) Undecided.
8May2012 | Delaware Dem | 18 comments | Continued
“The Real Me” by Tim McBride
If you are poltically involved in Delaware, then you have probably met or at least seen Tim McBride at some point. He was very active as a member of the Jack Pack in 2008, which was what young supporters of then State Treasurer Jack Markell were called during his primary campaign against then Lt. Governor John Carney. Tim actually introduced Jack Markell after his primary win over Carney. Last week, he completed his term as President of the Student Government at American University, and in so doing made the following announcement on his Facebook page and in an Op-Ed to the student newspaper. He has asked us to republish it here on Delaware Liberal.
8May2012 | Delaware Dem | 34 comments | ContinuedFOLLOW DL
