After last night, Republican office holders as a whole are more conservative and more diverse than last decade’s version of the GOP.
I am particularly glad to see we now look less like a bunch of crackers. Strong Black conservatives Tim Scott and Alan West are now congressmen. Hispanic Republicans Brian Sandoval and Suzanna Martinez are now governors. And Marco Rubio is Senator-Elect from Florida and a star already.
In a country where Obama and Democrats try to inflame ethnic divisions for political gain, last night’s results are a healthy development.
But, but, I thought us Tea Party Republicans were supposed to be raaaaacist. Apparently not.
I may further address GOP gains among Hispanics in a separate post.
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Rossi-Murray Update
Although Patty Murray *spit* is still ahead, by 14,000 votes at the moment, the count in the Washington U. S. Senate is far from over, largely because of its mail-in system – a method that is asking for vote fraud. But anyway, here is the best explanation I’ve seen of where things stand, even if it is a few hours old:
With 65 percent of “precincts reporting” (nearly all voting is done by mail), Sen. Patty Murray (D) and Dino Rossi (R) are neck and neck:
Murray: 721,742 (50 percent)
Rossi: 707,481 (50 percent)
The remainder of the ballots will be counted in the next several days, but there’s no telling how long it might be before we get an official result. State law mandates a recount if the margin between candidates is less than 2,000 votes.
According to the Secretary of State, there are more than 508,000 remaining ballots to be counted. Exit polling appears to favor Murray slightly; she trails Rossi among independent voters by just eight points, which is less than what a number of pre-election polls had shown. However, the Seattle-area of King County, where Murray draws most of her support, only has 27 percent of the remaining ballots to be counted, according to County Election reports, even though King County accounts for 31 percent of all registered voters in the state. This could bode well for Rossi, as he leads confortably in most other parts of the state.
Yes, I was mistaken last night in saying King County was in.
Also, Buck is narrowly behind in Colorado again with 87.7% of the precincts reporting. I got happy too soon on that one.
With 65 percent of “precincts reporting” (nearly all voting is done by mail), Sen. Patty Murray (D) and Dino Rossi (R) are neck and neck:
Murray: 721,742 (50 percent)
Rossi: 707,481 (50 percent)
The remainder of the ballots will be counted in the next several days, but there’s no telling how long it might be before we get an official result. State law mandates a recount if the margin between candidates is less than 2,000 votes.
According to the Secretary of State, there are more than 508,000 remaining ballots to be counted. Exit polling appears to favor Murray slightly; she trails Rossi among independent voters by just eight points, which is less than what a number of pre-election polls had shown. However, the Seattle-area of King County, where Murray draws most of her support, only has 27 percent of the remaining ballots to be counted, according to County Election reports, even though King County accounts for 31 percent of all registered voters in the state. This could bode well for Rossi, as he leads confortably in most other parts of the state.
Yes, I was mistaken last night in saying King County was in.
Also, Buck is narrowly behind in Colorado again with 87.7% of the precincts reporting. I got happy too soon on that one.
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Live on Election Night!
Well here goes with the live blogging. I can promise it will not be orderly. I will blog what most grabs my interest on this important night. And, remember, it’s my blog, and I’ll rant if I want to.
A few polls have closed, but no results that stand out to me just yet.
5:21pm CDT
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Something encouraging and possibly very important. Most of the indications I’ve seen so far today, which are admittedly very anecdotal, indicate that Republican areas have turned out to vote today more than Democrat areas.
Now come whispers that exit polls indicate that turn out gap may be more than anecdotal. I don’t rely on exit polls at all, but still . . .
In Delaware, the Coons camps has expressed concern about their turnout, for what it’s worth.
5:34pm
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The early House results are encouraging so far. As Nate Silver notes, the Republicans are kicking some rear in Indiana. And in Virginia 11, Griffith is looking good against Boucher so far. The fivethirtyeight cheat sheet has this as one that would indicate a big red night. Virginia 5 (Perriello-D vs Hurt-R) is very close so far though. And Republicans were supposed to pick that one up.
6:49pm
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Virginia 5 isn’t so close anymore. Hurt-R is up by about 10,000.
6:53pm
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Fox has already called Marco Rubio a winner in Florida.
That brings back one of those small memories that stick in the mind for some reason. I was out slowly driving down Flour Bluff when I heard the radio talking about Crist appointing a crony to keep the Senate seat warm for him. Crist winning that Senate seat was a foregone conclusion back then. And I felt resigned to that outcome. It put a damper on an otherwise pleasant night.
Wow, how things have changed. Crist is not just losing. Crist is history, he has so alienated people with his orange chameleon act. Good riddance. And thank you, Marco Rubio!
7:06pm
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Those of you who see the early returns from Texas 25 and Texas 27 and think Lloyd Doggett and Solobama Ortiz are going down, don’t get too excited. In 25, the People’s Republic of Travis Co. (Austin) hasn’t reported any numbers yet. In 27, most of the votes are from Nueces Co. where Farenthold-R would be expected to do well. And the returns are quite early in both.
If the Demorats do lose these, believe me, I will let you know. I will be more excited than a Pentecostal.
7:40pm
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Grrr. The State of Texas election site has gone down. Heavy traffic I’m sure.
And is it me, or is the Fox coverage boring and tedious?
7:46pm
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Whoa. Fox just called the House for the Republicans with a gain of around 60 seats.
FWIW, I am not that confident just yet.
8:13pm
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Well, NBC has projected a 58 seat gain. Hmm.
North Carolina is not participating. Don’t see any red gains there yet although Price-D vs. Lawson-R is close for now. By the way, David Price was a prof of mine at Duke. No, he was not that good.
8:23pm
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Toomey-Sestak in PA is worrying me. It would be sickening to lose that one.
I also fear America is becoming even more divided. Unless I’m missing something, the Northeast is not riding the Republican wave.
8:37pm
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Looking at Texas 27, I’m thinking if Solobama Ortiz holds on to his seat, he will have Libertarian Ed Mishou to thank – the idiot.
8:42pm
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In PA 11, I’m surprised to see Kanjorski-D go down by a substantial margin. He is a long time incumbent and not that obnoxious. Even I almost like him.
I might have spoken too soon about North Carolina. In the 2nd district Elmers-R vs. Etheridge-D is very close.
9:17pm
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Folks, I think Blake Farenthold will beat Solobama Ortiz in Texas 27. The early vote totals are finally all in. And Farenthold is up by over 4000 in those. On the election day vote, Democrat Cameron Co. has not reported. But only two precincts in Republican San Patricio Co. have reported. So it is looking good. This would be quite an upset.
Ortiz was first elected in 1982.
9:29pm
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In Nueces Co., Texas (Corpus Christi), two Democrat state House incumbents may be going down. One of them is Solobama, Jr. If the Ortiz machine would come crashing down tonight, it would be a beautiful thing.
But Solobama Ortiz, Sr. is doing very well in Cameron Co. Farenthold leads Texas 27 by just over 1000 with most of Cameron Co. still out. Most of San Patricio is still out as well and will offset some of the Cameron Democrat vote.
9:43pm
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Toomey just took the lead in PA! Up by 4000 with 85% in. 11,000 now with 89% in! Rural PA may be putting him over.
9:47pm
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House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt (D-SC) goes down. You think not actually putting out a budget might have hurt?
9:53pm
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Mark Kirk taking the lead in Illinois now. Maybe the Mafia won’t get a senator after all.
9:55pm
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Toomey’s lead is over 30,000 with 91% in. Yes, I am excited about this!
9:59pm
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Ugg, Fox projects for Boxer. California should be ashamed. Disgusting.
10:00pm
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Just heard Elko, Nevada is having trouble with long lines. I think Elko is Republican. So maybe a good sign for Angle. That Nevada race has me nervous by the way. Reid is not called Dirty Harry for nothing.
As for Texas 27, the results seem stuck. I haven’t noticed new numbers in almost a half hour. The Libertarian has just under 5% of the vote. Again, if Solobama Ortiz squeaks through, you know whom to thank.
I doubt I will sleep well tonight.
10:20pm
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I haven’t said much about it, but I soooooo want Patty Murray beat. I have detested that baby-killing Leftist for decades. *calms down* Having said that, she is ahead by over 40,000, but King County (Seattle) has already reported. So there is hope.
10:37pm
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Wow. Kasich came from behind to win the Ohio Governor’s race.
In MO-3, Ed Martin has pulled narrowly ahead of Russ Carnahan. Robin Carnahan got beat in the Senate race. I would love to see the sleazy Carnahan family wiped off the political map.
10:56pm
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FINALLY, some more numbers came in on Texas 27. The good news: Farenthold has increased his lead some to over 2000 votes. The bad news: San Patricio is all in, and no new numbers have come in from Democrat Cameron Co. And this is South Texas folks. Remember Duval Co. and Landslide Lyndon? Democrat Counties which are slow to report make me nervous.
11:02pm
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Fox has joined AP in calling PA for Toomey. Yea!
11:12pm
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Democrat State Reps Abel Herrero and Solobama Ortiz, Jr. have indeed been beat in Corpus Christi, Texas.
And Fox has called Illinois for Mark Kirk (R) over Giannoulias (Mafia). That was Obama’s seat. Rove rightly points out that Illinois Democrats have only themselves to blame for not holding a special election earlier when Obama was more popular.
11:20pm
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Fox projects Nevada for Harry Reid. Disgusting.
11:30pm
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Russ Carnahan (Scumbag) has pulled 500 votes ahead of Ed Martin in MO-3 with 97.1% in.
I don’t trust myself to comment further on that at the moment.
11:34pm
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By the way, I will personally fight a bail-out of California tooth and nail. They keep electing big spending liberals and expect us to pay for their profligate ways? To hell with that.
11:41pm
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Well, I’m going to bed I think. Cameron Co. is still out in that TX-27 I’m sad to say.
But to end on a happy note, Buck has pulled ahead in Colorado as the rural AMERICAN votes are coming. For a while there, he, Kirk, and Toomey looked to be in trouble. It looks like all three are pulling through.
Hold on. . . .
BREAKING: According to the Texas State site, all precincts are now in and BLAKE FARENTHOLD HAS BEATEN SOLOBAMA ORTIZ in Texas 27! With Solobama Jr. losing earlier tonight, the Ortiz Machine has come crashing down!! I’m going to sniff around and verify. . .
11:57pm
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Yes, every precinct has indeed reported and Black Farenthold just tweeted, “Its official. I won by 799 votes. Thank you everyone!”
What a sweet upset! I will sleep well after all.
12:01am
A few polls have closed, but no results that stand out to me just yet.
5:21pm CDT
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Something encouraging and possibly very important. Most of the indications I’ve seen so far today, which are admittedly very anecdotal, indicate that Republican areas have turned out to vote today more than Democrat areas.
Now come whispers that exit polls indicate that turn out gap may be more than anecdotal. I don’t rely on exit polls at all, but still . . .
In Delaware, the Coons camps has expressed concern about their turnout, for what it’s worth.
5:34pm
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The early House results are encouraging so far. As Nate Silver notes, the Republicans are kicking some rear in Indiana. And in Virginia 11, Griffith is looking good against Boucher so far. The fivethirtyeight cheat sheet has this as one that would indicate a big red night. Virginia 5 (Perriello-D vs Hurt-R) is very close so far though. And Republicans were supposed to pick that one up.
6:49pm
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Virginia 5 isn’t so close anymore. Hurt-R is up by about 10,000.
6:53pm
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Fox has already called Marco Rubio a winner in Florida.
That brings back one of those small memories that stick in the mind for some reason. I was out slowly driving down Flour Bluff when I heard the radio talking about Crist appointing a crony to keep the Senate seat warm for him. Crist winning that Senate seat was a foregone conclusion back then. And I felt resigned to that outcome. It put a damper on an otherwise pleasant night.
Wow, how things have changed. Crist is not just losing. Crist is history, he has so alienated people with his orange chameleon act. Good riddance. And thank you, Marco Rubio!
7:06pm
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Those of you who see the early returns from Texas 25 and Texas 27 and think Lloyd Doggett and Solobama Ortiz are going down, don’t get too excited. In 25, the People’s Republic of Travis Co. (Austin) hasn’t reported any numbers yet. In 27, most of the votes are from Nueces Co. where Farenthold-R would be expected to do well. And the returns are quite early in both.
If the Demorats do lose these, believe me, I will let you know. I will be more excited than a Pentecostal.
7:40pm
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Grrr. The State of Texas election site has gone down. Heavy traffic I’m sure.
And is it me, or is the Fox coverage boring and tedious?
7:46pm
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Whoa. Fox just called the House for the Republicans with a gain of around 60 seats.
FWIW, I am not that confident just yet.
8:13pm
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Well, NBC has projected a 58 seat gain. Hmm.
North Carolina is not participating. Don’t see any red gains there yet although Price-D vs. Lawson-R is close for now. By the way, David Price was a prof of mine at Duke. No, he was not that good.
8:23pm
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Toomey-Sestak in PA is worrying me. It would be sickening to lose that one.
I also fear America is becoming even more divided. Unless I’m missing something, the Northeast is not riding the Republican wave.
8:37pm
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Looking at Texas 27, I’m thinking if Solobama Ortiz holds on to his seat, he will have Libertarian Ed Mishou to thank – the idiot.
8:42pm
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In PA 11, I’m surprised to see Kanjorski-D go down by a substantial margin. He is a long time incumbent and not that obnoxious. Even I almost like him.
I might have spoken too soon about North Carolina. In the 2nd district Elmers-R vs. Etheridge-D is very close.
9:17pm
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Folks, I think Blake Farenthold will beat Solobama Ortiz in Texas 27. The early vote totals are finally all in. And Farenthold is up by over 4000 in those. On the election day vote, Democrat Cameron Co. has not reported. But only two precincts in Republican San Patricio Co. have reported. So it is looking good. This would be quite an upset.
Ortiz was first elected in 1982.
9:29pm
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In Nueces Co., Texas (Corpus Christi), two Democrat state House incumbents may be going down. One of them is Solobama, Jr. If the Ortiz machine would come crashing down tonight, it would be a beautiful thing.
But Solobama Ortiz, Sr. is doing very well in Cameron Co. Farenthold leads Texas 27 by just over 1000 with most of Cameron Co. still out. Most of San Patricio is still out as well and will offset some of the Cameron Democrat vote.
9:43pm
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Toomey just took the lead in PA! Up by 4000 with 85% in. 11,000 now with 89% in! Rural PA may be putting him over.
9:47pm
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House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt (D-SC) goes down. You think not actually putting out a budget might have hurt?
9:53pm
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Mark Kirk taking the lead in Illinois now. Maybe the Mafia won’t get a senator after all.
9:55pm
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Toomey’s lead is over 30,000 with 91% in. Yes, I am excited about this!
9:59pm
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Ugg, Fox projects for Boxer. California should be ashamed. Disgusting.
10:00pm
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Just heard Elko, Nevada is having trouble with long lines. I think Elko is Republican. So maybe a good sign for Angle. That Nevada race has me nervous by the way. Reid is not called Dirty Harry for nothing.
As for Texas 27, the results seem stuck. I haven’t noticed new numbers in almost a half hour. The Libertarian has just under 5% of the vote. Again, if Solobama Ortiz squeaks through, you know whom to thank.
I doubt I will sleep well tonight.
10:20pm
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I haven’t said much about it, but I soooooo want Patty Murray beat. I have detested that baby-killing Leftist for decades. *calms down* Having said that, she is ahead by over 40,000, but King County (Seattle) has already reported. So there is hope.
10:37pm
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Wow. Kasich came from behind to win the Ohio Governor’s race.
In MO-3, Ed Martin has pulled narrowly ahead of Russ Carnahan. Robin Carnahan got beat in the Senate race. I would love to see the sleazy Carnahan family wiped off the political map.
10:56pm
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FINALLY, some more numbers came in on Texas 27. The good news: Farenthold has increased his lead some to over 2000 votes. The bad news: San Patricio is all in, and no new numbers have come in from Democrat Cameron Co. And this is South Texas folks. Remember Duval Co. and Landslide Lyndon? Democrat Counties which are slow to report make me nervous.
11:02pm
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Fox has joined AP in calling PA for Toomey. Yea!
11:12pm
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Democrat State Reps Abel Herrero and Solobama Ortiz, Jr. have indeed been beat in Corpus Christi, Texas.
And Fox has called Illinois for Mark Kirk (R) over Giannoulias (Mafia). That was Obama’s seat. Rove rightly points out that Illinois Democrats have only themselves to blame for not holding a special election earlier when Obama was more popular.
11:20pm
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Fox projects Nevada for Harry Reid. Disgusting.
11:30pm
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Russ Carnahan (Scumbag) has pulled 500 votes ahead of Ed Martin in MO-3 with 97.1% in.
I don’t trust myself to comment further on that at the moment.
11:34pm
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By the way, I will personally fight a bail-out of California tooth and nail. They keep electing big spending liberals and expect us to pay for their profligate ways? To hell with that.
11:41pm
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Well, I’m going to bed I think. Cameron Co. is still out in that TX-27 I’m sad to say.
But to end on a happy note, Buck has pulled ahead in Colorado as the rural AMERICAN votes are coming. For a while there, he, Kirk, and Toomey looked to be in trouble. It looks like all three are pulling through.
Hold on. . . .
BREAKING: According to the Texas State site, all precincts are now in and BLAKE FARENTHOLD HAS BEATEN SOLOBAMA ORTIZ in Texas 27! With Solobama Jr. losing earlier tonight, the Ortiz Machine has come crashing down!! I’m going to sniff around and verify. . .
11:57pm
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Yes, every precinct has indeed reported and Black Farenthold just tweeted, “Its official. I won by 799 votes. Thank you everyone!”
What a sweet upset! I will sleep well after all.
12:01am
Eugene Robinson Plays the Race Card
Wow, even now that it’s election day, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post has not gotten the word that the race card is maxed out. Or maybe he does get it in a way. For he plays the race card while feebly trying to appear he is not:
First, I'll state the obvious: It's not racist to criticize President Obama, it's not racist to have conservative views, and it's not racist to join the tea party. But . . .
Here it comes!
. . . there's something about the nature and tone of the most vitriolic attacks on the president that I believe is distinctive -- and difficult to explain without asking whether race is playing a role.
Gosh. I wonder what he will conclude.
Obama has made mistakes that rightly cost him political support. But I can't help believing that the tea party's rise was partly due to circumstances beyond his control -- that he's different from other presidents, and that the difference is his race.
RAAAAAAACISM! Uh, huh.
The Democrats are in denial mode.
MORE:
Victor Hanson takes apart Robinson’s column quite well.
Jonah Goldberg declares it the worst column of the day.
First, I'll state the obvious: It's not racist to criticize President Obama, it's not racist to have conservative views, and it's not racist to join the tea party. But . . .
Here it comes!
. . . there's something about the nature and tone of the most vitriolic attacks on the president that I believe is distinctive -- and difficult to explain without asking whether race is playing a role.
Gosh. I wonder what he will conclude.
Obama has made mistakes that rightly cost him political support. But I can't help believing that the tea party's rise was partly due to circumstances beyond his control -- that he's different from other presidents, and that the difference is his race.
RAAAAAAACISM! Uh, huh.
The Democrats are in denial mode.
MORE:
Victor Hanson takes apart Robinson’s column quite well.
Jonah Goldberg declares it the worst column of the day.
Obama: I “probably” should not have called you “enemies.”
Obama has backed away from his “punish our enemies” comment . . . sorta, kinda: “I probably should have used the word, ‘opponents’ instead of enemies.”
Gosh, you think?
His comment shows he still does not get it how offensive, unpresidential, and inappropriate “punish our enemies” is when referring to patriotic Americans. He thinks he “probably” should not have said that?
His backtracking is weasel words. It is hardly the apology that is called for. And I, for one, will not accept it as such.
And if you think I am hard on “our divisive president,” read what two Democrats have to say.
Gosh, you think?
His comment shows he still does not get it how offensive, unpresidential, and inappropriate “punish our enemies” is when referring to patriotic Americans. He thinks he “probably” should not have said that?
His backtracking is weasel words. It is hardly the apology that is called for. And I, for one, will not accept it as such.
And if you think I am hard on “our divisive president,” read what two Democrats have to say.
Monday, November 01, 2010
Political Bloodbath Election Preview
Well, tomorrow is the big day. Frankly, I’ve been as anxious as a kid waiting for Christmas.
And my long-standing prediction of a political bloodbath is looking good. Further, I think matters have gone from bad to worse in the final week for the Democrats. I say that after looking at notable slippage in Obama’s numbers and in a number of individual races. And the last Gallup Poll hints at apocalypse. I think Obama running around and declaring “enemies” and various other Democrat acts of desperation (such as trying to push Meek out of the Florida Senate race) and vote fraud have deepened national revulsion as the campaign concludes.
I may live blog the results tomorrow night. Yes, you may get to watch me rant, agonize, and perhaps even gloat live as it happens. Yes, I know – exciting, tortuous, entertaining or horrifying depending on your point of view.
For those who want something more orderly, a scorecard even, for watching tomorrow night, this cheat sheet may helpful in tracking House returns.
And my long-standing prediction of a political bloodbath is looking good. Further, I think matters have gone from bad to worse in the final week for the Democrats. I say that after looking at notable slippage in Obama’s numbers and in a number of individual races. And the last Gallup Poll hints at apocalypse. I think Obama running around and declaring “enemies” and various other Democrat acts of desperation (such as trying to push Meek out of the Florida Senate race) and vote fraud have deepened national revulsion as the campaign concludes.
I may live blog the results tomorrow night. Yes, you may get to watch me rant, agonize, and perhaps even gloat live as it happens. Yes, I know – exciting, tortuous, entertaining or horrifying depending on your point of view.
For those who want something more orderly, a scorecard even, for watching tomorrow night, this cheat sheet may helpful in tracking House returns.
Murkowski, Media Scum Exposed
This has been an eventful weekend in Alaska. First, reporters at a CBS affiliate have been caught plotting against Republican candidate Joe Miller in the most vile way for all the world to hear. Amidst a firestorm, the CBS affiliate’s explanation is lame.
Second, RINO write-in Senator Lisa Murkowski has revealed she might not even be a RINO anymore. She has declined to commit to caucusing with Republicans. Another reminder that the Princess has no principles.
I was very nervous about this Senate race. But I now think disgust at these developments will push Joe Miller to victory. It certainly should.
Second, RINO write-in Senator Lisa Murkowski has revealed she might not even be a RINO anymore. She has declined to commit to caucusing with Republicans. Another reminder that the Princess has no principles.
I was very nervous about this Senate race. But I now think disgust at these developments will push Joe Miller to victory. It certainly should.
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