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When you gonna criticize your hero, Tim? Been gettin a lot of that. There’s plenty to criticize, but one big one stands out for me.
Much is made of Barack Obama’s many trips to Ohio. They had no appreciable impact on voter turnout in African American precincts, who voted over 90% Democratic.
I could be wrong, so please correct me if I am, but Barack Obama never went to a black church in Ohio during this cycle. In fact, the rally in Cleveland on Sunday was not at a church, but in the CSU arena, which ODP could not, [...]
Full Story... →In 1994, as a field staffer in Cuyahoga County, the day after the election was so depressing, all I wanted to do was see Bill Clinton on the TV. It was a strange, helpless feeling. Today, I kinda had the same feeling when Barack Obama came out to the East Room for a press conference after taking, in his words, “a shellacking”.
When Clinton held the same press conference in 1994, Democrats had lost both the House and Senate. In Ohio, it was our Rob Burch year, when ODP nearly lost major party status because Burch’s 25% was so catastrophic. [...]
Full Story... →Stepping away from blogging for long periods at a time gives you a little perspective, for better or worse. Sound and fury indicating nothing ebbs away, and what’s left to see is remarkably familiar.
The election of the first black president in our history was bound to smoke out the worst instincts in a very small number of Americans. Typically for our age, it began online. The email smear campaign of 2007-2008 has completely mutated into what is now today’s Republican Party. This was inevitable, given how little credibility remains of Republican dogma and policy. They are bankrupt intellectually and [...]
Full Story... →Being a reformed Clintonista myself (read: more liberal now), whenever I hear Bill Clinton get into campaign mode, I’m reminded why Clinton was so impossible to beat. Bill’s back on the air lately, and I’m emerging from post-election cocoon, so here it is.
The email smear campaign against Barack Obama hasn’t stopped since it bubbled up from the primordial wingnut ooze in 2007. It’s metastasized into the backbone of their policy. In fact, it has become the Republican Party’s entire message. The birther wing took over. That means there is nothing in the Republican playbook this year, this mid-term, that [...]
Full Story... →Here’s Tom Ganley earlier today in Roll Call (“Ganley won’t say whether he thinks Obama is Muslim):
“I don’t have a position on whether he’s a Muslim,” Ganley said Thursday in a telephone interview with Roll Call.
Here’s Tom Ganley just a few hours later in the Plain Dealer:
"For the record, he doesn’t believe the president is Muslim." [says Ganley’s campaign spokeswoman.]
The Ganley campaign claims that Ganley made the statement to Roll Call to indicate the irrelevancy he believes the question has.
Except, of course, that’s not what he said. He [...]
Full Story... →This one I wanted to put at my campaign site.
Full Story... →So, here’s all that happened today in the Ohio Governor’s race. I think you need to review the day just to see how bad it, and the rest of the week, was for the non-existent Kasich campaign:
The day started with a new Ohio jobs report that showed a drop in unemployment fueled by gains in manufacturing, construction, and other private sector job growth… putting Ohio ahead of most states in job growth in May, especially per capita. No reported response from the Kasich campaign. The jobs report also showed that Nevada, a non-income tax state now leads [...]
Full Story... →Not a teabagger piece – Lee Fisher’s.? Jennifer Brunner has a diary on the Kos rec list denouncing it.? Good.
Full Story... →Asteroids?? Cracks in the earth opening up?? Or birds chirping.? And “old people magazines”.
You see, when you predict that the earth will end if something happens, then that thing happens, and the earth doesn’t end, well…..that’s usually when people stop listening to you, and start treating you like that lunatic down the street who keeps saying the world’s gonna end.
Full Story... →All your base are belong to you.
45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was “not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president”
38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama is “doing many of the things that Hitler did”
Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall) say that Obama “may be the Antichrist.”
Enjoy!
Full Story... →March 17-20 polling numbers in Gallup’s Presidential Job Approval Rating already up net 7%.? Approval up 3%, Disapproval down 4%.? 50/43.? Net 7%.? Look for it to improve further as health care reform gets done and the benefits start to reach actual consumers.? A major campaign promise was just realized within the first half of the first term of this President.? Book it.
Not one single solitary Republican will be on the right side of this.
Pity.
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- RT @BarackObama: January was the 23rd consecutive month of job growth: http://t.co/Zn3KOQrC
- RT @kpangrace: Interesting to compare Kasich's #SOTS word cloud (via @plunderbund) http://t.co/zggguHvf with Obama's #SOTU word cloud. h ...
- Plunderbund interviews State of the State protester Portia Boulger http://t.co/OG19SD4H
- OH Sen GOP hires "Digital Media" person, sounds like someone hired to refute us on social media. We've created more jobs than #JobsBudget!
- @garlandgates Yes, Husted and DeWine said they couldn't make it. Likely boycott over Kasich/Kevin DeWine civil war. OSC couldn't make it.
- First Ohio Senate gives raises, now they're expanding their staff. #AusterityForTheeNotForMe
- RT @BirdatHannah: #Ohio Senate GOP adds staff: Angela Meleca is press secretary; Kevin Bingle, director of digital media; Donn Parsons, ...
- Kasich appointee IG Meyer fires all employees in office, then cites lack of institutional knowledge as excuse for no #Coingate report? #Huh
- This news about #Coingate makes it appear that IG's office never intended to let the public fully know what it learned.
- @JohnKasich must fire Randall Mayer immediately. IG's office got substantial increases in funding with promise of #Coingate report.
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