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Monday February 10, 2020 · 7:32 PM PST

2020/02/10 · 19:32

ScreenShot2020-02-10at7.20.22PM.png — Just keep pushing her down

You know — it’s great that Sanders has passed Biden in the national polls (as shown here on 538’s website), and based on these numbers — he deserves to be on top. BUT!

If you were just glancing at that graph in the image you would also think that Bloomberg had passed Warren.

C’mon poblano — she’s still beating him by a wider margin than Sanders is over Biden.

Visual presentation is so important in a world where we get inundated with data.

How hard is it to let the numbers guide the order? It just feels wrong. Like disinformation.

If you look at the NH graph the same upside-down order is happening with her and Biden, too. And her and Bloomberg in SC.

Anyway — that’s my rant.

Good luck to her in NH tomorrow!

Edit —

I think Nate Silver is trolling me — here is the current graph on the site:

CA-AD15 (East SF Bay) Candidate Forum next Monday

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Friday January 26, 2018 · 4:11 PM PST

2018/01/26 · 16:11

Come meet those that would represent you!

Come hear your candidates speak about issues and answer your questions! The Albany Democratic Club is hosting a Candidates Forum for the race for California Assembly District 15. This district includes all of Albany, as well as other cities in Contra Costa and Alameda County from Emeryville to Hercules.

Tony Thurmond is vacating this seat as he is running for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. All nine candidates have agreed to participate in the forum at the Little Theater of the Albany High School, 603 Key Route Blvd. from 7 to 9:30 on Monday, January 29.

Please submit questions in advance to nicky@mindspring.com. We'll try to get to as many questions we can, and we'll take some audience questions that evening, as well.

Hope to see you there!

Note — this is a district that is only ~6% registered Republicans, so because of California’s jungle primary in June, 2 of these people will be going to the November ballot for the runoff.

Come choose your candidate!

Judy Appel – Berkeley School Board member. Website: https://www.judyappel.com/

Ben Bartlett – Berkeley city council member. Website: https://www.benbartlettca.com/

jovanka Beckles – Richmond city council member. Website: http://www.jovanka.org/

Dan Kalb – Oakland city council member. Website: https://www.dankalb.net/

Andy Katz – EBMUD board member. Website: http://www.andykatz.com/

Rochelle Pardue-Okimoto – El Cerrito city council member. Website: http://www.rochellead15.com/

Owen Poindexter – community activist and advocate for UBI. Website: https://www.owenpoindexter.com/

Cheryl Sudduth – community activist. Website: https://www.crowdpac.com/campaigns/338340/cheryl-sudduth

Buffy Wicks – Obama campaign operative. Website: https://buffywicks.com/

Somali Pirates: A quick roundup

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Thursday April 09, 2009 · 4:25 PM PDT

2009/04/09 · 16:25

I am surprised that there has not been more discussion here about the Somali pirate situation that is currently being played out. Surely this is important enough to at least warrent a mention on the Midday open thread, but no such luck! Just ACORN, Sarah Palin's wardrobe, and spanking amendments, among other worthy notables.

For the quicky update is this:

* Somali pirates captured US flaged ship yesterday
* Crew got the upper hand and recaptured ship along with one pirate
* Three pirates escaped on lifeboat with Captain
* Crew attempted to trade captured pirate for Captain
* Pirates reneged ("Hello? Pirate!" - Captain Jack) and took back captured pirate and kept Captain hostage

Details below...

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Thursday October 16, 2008 · 12:33 PM PDT

2008/10/16 · 12:33

Speculation has been whizzing around about Joe the Plumber. A lot of it is compelling.

I thought it would be wise to take a step back and see what we do know. I am worried about this blowing up the same way that Bush's National Guard documents did.

In that case, there were forged documents that confirmed what we all knew to be true. But because the "proof" was demonstrably fake, it blew up that whole line of attack.

And there is an even more important angle here, and it is worth a read:

It seemed pretty clear to me from the get-go, and probably pretty clear to Obama, that this wasn't an Obama voter. And yet what did Obama do?

He engaged Joe the Plumber. He spoke with him for five minutes, outlining his plans for the economy. And he tried to convince Joe the Plumber that he was right.

You should read it. (Of course by the time I hit publish, I see that it is at the top of the Rec list!)

But I wanted to find out what I could about the Wurzelbackers. Here is what I have so far. It involves the actual connection between two Roberts, a Richard, and a plumbing business...

Poll

177 votes Show Results

Joe the Plumber. Worth investigating?

177 votes Vote Now!

Joe the Plumber. Worth investigating?

Eh... flip a coin

7 votes

Yes, lets nail this one!

132 votes

No, nothing to see!

11 votes

I dunno. Seems a stretch.

14 votes

Put that coin in my cup

13 votes

Assassination is a Red Herring

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Friday May 23, 2008 · 4:37 PM PDT

2008/05/23 · 16:37

There is a lot of talk that Hillary Clinton's comments about Robert Kennedy's assassination are hinting that she is staying in the race just in case something happens to Obama.

I don't think that is true.

But I don't think the truth paints her in a very good light, either...

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Thursday February 21, 2008 · 11:31 AM PST

2008/02/21 · 11:31

I feel like this is simply a confirmation of what a lot have been saying: Most of Hillary Clinton's Superdelegate lead was from early "jumpers on," and as Barack Obama started winning, the Superdelegates would shift his way.

Let's see...

Poll

129 votes Show Results

How is the nomination going to be decided?

129 votes Vote Now!

How is the nomination going to be decided?

Flip a quarter

3 votes

We the people

89 votes

Smokey back room

5 votes

Superdelegates

14 votes

Media

4 votes

Convention floor

3 votes

Hey - why is there a quarter in my pie?

11 votes

Dodd fundraising email: Sloppy campaign or Clever ploy?

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Friday November 30, 2007 · 10:28 AM PST

2007/11/30 · 10:28

How many times a day do you get emails that you realize were sent in error? How many times do you send emails to one place when you meant to send them somewhere else?

Check out this email (below) that I got from the Dodd campaign. Tell me what you think it is...

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Monday November 12, 2007 · 11:15 PM PST

2007/11/12 · 23:15

“It is my greatest hope that those who read this book will choose to become part of a new movement to rekindle the true spirit of America.”
- Al Gore in The Assault on Reason

For those of us entrenched in the Draft Gore movement, we think we know exactly what that means.

And in California, we have been going full bore to qualify him for the Democratic Primary, whether he runs or NOT. The beauty of it is, that if he doesn't want to be on the ballot, he can simply ask Secretary of State Debra Bowen to remove his name. And by law, she will have to.

And it will not have been a wasted effort. We will finally have our Shermannesque statement. Thus far, we have had nothing close to that.

We are 3 weeks away from the deadline, and are on the cusp of doing it, and things have gotten weird...

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Wednesday October 03, 2007 · 4:00 PM PDT

2007/10/03 · 16:00

Just in case you didn't think there were enough Democratic Presidential Candidates, those that are voting in the California Democratic Primary on February 5th seem likely to have another choice: Al Gore.

The effort to put Gore on the ballot is definitely picking up steam, and they are going to be all over the state next week as the period in which they are allowed to collect signatures begins.

For full disclose, I am involved in this effort, and as a matter of fact I first pointed out the relevant laws at the beginning of the year. I was unavailable over the summer, but the idea was picked up by Roy Gayhart who built an amazing grassroots effort that is going to be successful and has started to get some attention.

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Saturday February 03, 2007 · 1:40 PM PST

2007/02/03 · 13:40

There has been much attention paid lately to the fact that the They Work For Us offenders list was scrubbed soon after its debut. Many wonder how that bodes for a primary challenge against Ellen Tauscher.

For example, the East Bay Express, which takes what I consider an honest look at it, if a bit on the pessimistic side:

What appeared in the first 24 hours to be a new, aggressive effort to replicate the libertarian Club for Growth muscle quickly fizzled into a tepid attempt at damage control. This is hardly an auspicious beginning for the Netroots campaign against Tauscher, and it shows that for all their online anguish, getting rid of the congresswoman will be a lot tougher than people think.

Personally, I think this is a good thing because it makes sense that this project have a populist component. At the least it makes it seem less personal. And that is as it should be (when you have a chance go to the link and nominate Ellen Tauscher or your other favorite).
But some seem to take this as an opportunity to cheer on Tauscher...

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Tuesday January 23, 2007 · 2:46 PM PST

2007/01/23 · 14:46

As kos pointed out, Lisa Vorderbrueggen is "exhibit A" for the incompetence of "the people that are supposedly 'informing' the public about our nation's politics."

Originally she said:

Yes, Tauscher voted to allow President Bush to start the Iraq war. But so did every other Democrat in the nation except one.

Now it reads:

Yes, Tauscher voted to allow President Bush to start the Iraq War. ~~But so did every other Democrat in the nation except one.~~ But she wasn't alone: 40 percent of Democrats voted with her.

That is even worse! It exposes the fact that she is simply trying to make the facts fit her predetermined conclusions...

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Friday December 15, 2006 · 4:23 AM PST

2006/12/15 · 04:23

Hey folks get your collective butts over to the weblog Awards and vote for LesbianDad. The nutjob scum bags over at Hang Right Politics are winning and voting closes on Friday. Recommend this diary if you want to make sure everyone else votes too, because to let that loser win would be tragic.

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Visual presentation at a glance

CA-AD15 (East SF Bay) Candidate Forum next Monday

Somali Pirates: A quick roundup

I know. More Joe and the Plumbing business. Here is what I found.

Assassination is a Red Herring

Math to the White House: Superdelegate Momentum

Dodd fundraising email: Sloppy campaign or Clever ploy?

Moment of (Inconvenient) Truth

Looking at the California Draft Gore Movement

CA-10: Tauscher and the Primary, a closer look

Wherein I give Vorderbrueggen some grief about Tauscher

Hang Right Politics Beats LesbianDad? Are you kidding?