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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 | 3 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 | 20 comments | Continued
Sunday Open Thread [2.5.12]
It is Super Bowl Sunday and many of you are tending to the food and drinks (and fine tuning the color calibrations on your TVs) that you’ll serve at your parties this evening. In case you’ve a few lazy minutes today to catch up on some reading, the theme of this Open Thread is The Media.
5Feb2012 | cassandra_m | 20 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
Thursday Open Thread (2.2.12)
This one’s for you, Jason! Other than that… I got nothing. I’m blogged out today!
2Feb2012 | pandora | 7 comments | Continued
There’s A New Blog In Town… And I’m Hooked!
Check out The Seventh Type. A blog whose tag line is: More parent involvement than you can handle. Love it! Welcome to the Delaware Blogosphere!
2Feb2012 | pandora | 0 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 | Continued
Susan G. Komen for the Cure Pulls Funding From Planned Parenthood
The Associated Press reports that Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, will cut off its funding to Planned Parenthood affiliates, where the foundation has traditionally paid for preventive screening services.
And here I thought they cared about breast cancer. I thought they cared about breast cancer screenings, early detection, and saving lives. Looks like I was wrong, since it seems that the Susan G. Komen Foundation has decided that breast cancer is political. Guess helping poor women with breast cancer detection is one of those entitlements that must be stopped.
1Feb2012 | pandora | 42 comments | Continued
Florida Election Results Thread
Romney is the winner. Yawn.
31Jan2012 | Delaware Dem | 21 comments | Continued
Tuesday Open Thread [1.31.12]
It is a slow news day and I am again slammed at work. Tonight, Mitt Romney will win the Florida primary and be the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party. Newt Gingrich takes issue with those, including myself, that say that. “You mean those who said I was dead in June? Those who said I was dead in December? They are about as accurate as they were the last two times they were wrong.” – Newt Gingrich, quoted by ABC News. He said the race would go on for “six or eight months” and then added: “unless Romney drops out earlier.”
31Jan2012 | Delaware Dem | 9 comments | Continued
Even Miss Piggy Knows about FAUX News
Miss Piggy decided to take on FOX News during a press conference in London last week.
How long do you think it will be before Rush and the other know-nothings start railing against Miss Piggy?
Monday Open Thread [1.30.12]
So Mitt Romney is pulling away in Florida. It looks like he will win the state by double digits, if not by 20 points. What does this mean for the Republican Primary race going forward? I suspect the race will continue for some time, and continue to be acrimonious, but the outcome is no longer in doubt: Mitt Romney will be the nominee. There are two question remaining: 1) Will Donald Trump jump in the race as an Independent if it appears Mitt Romney can’t beat Obama? and 2) What will Palin and Gingrich do? Given her comments over the weekend on her Facebook page, it appears she hates Romney with a passion, as does Gingrich. Do they cause trouble at the convention? Do they team up with Trump? Do they go third party themselves?
Well, here are some polls to occupy us for the time being. They are all pretty boring now.
30Jan2012 | Delaware Dem | 11 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
