2004, part deux?

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Tuesday January 12, 2016 · 12:13 PM PST

2016/01/12 · 12:13

Guys, I registered my DK account in late 2003 expressly because of the Howard Dean campaign. I was 22 and it felt like we were going to nominate this actual liberal and run the table and he would demolish GWB and right the wrongs incurred.

We filled bats and made calls and wrote letters and I think generally felt something about politics again. Governor Dean led the polls everywhere — Iowa, New Hampshire, and beyond. Small donors powered the campaign in new and innovative ways. The campaign kept trumpeting how good its ground game was. We felt like we were outsmarting the other guys, who were still playing the game like it was 1996.

A few days before the Iowa caucus, Governor Dean went to Georgia and met with President Carter. The picture of the two of them looking “presidential” ran on the front page of newspapers far and wide. It felt right and it felt like we couldn’t lose.

And then the Iowa caucus came. The ground game never materialized like it should have. Dean got whipped by not only Kerry, but also by John Edwards.

And that was that. The campaign sputtered on for a few more weeks, but after NH it was very clear that the dream ended abruptly and dispassionately. And it hurt. A lot.

I have not really been paying attention to this election cycle. I know enough to know that I support Senator Sanders, but I can’t shake the feeling of that 3rd place finish in 2004. Part of me wants to believe that this time Iowa will get it right, but there’s just something in the back of my mind that makes me think that no matter what it looks like, Hillary’s got this one in lock.

How is it different this time around?

What's happening in PA? UPDATED with a metric ton of poll data

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Saturday November 03, 2012 · 2:47 PM PDT

2012/11/03 · 14:47

Has anyone seen any numbers in Pennsylvania lately? Our friends (?) at FR are trumping a Susquehanna poll there that shows Romney +4. Nate doesn't seem to have anything. I guess I'm just hoping that OFA has internals that show us to be free and clear there?

I'm trying my hardest not to be a concern troll, honest!

UPDATE: Thanks for the recent polling data. O is ahead in PA, and Romney's ad buy seems to be a hail mary. I love you guys... for almost 9(!) years now.

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Friday November 14, 2008 · 11:31 AM PST

2008/11/14 · 11:31

I apologize in advance for the short and overly self-absorbed diary. Feel free to haul me off to diary jail.

I just found out that I passed the New York State Bar Exam. This was my first try. I feel relieved and elated, but mostly just glad.

This really is the "end" of my formal education. No more classes, no more exams, no more law school. It is done.

whitedawn

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Thursday September 04, 2008 · 9:32 AM PDT

2008/09/04 · 09:32

It isn't life-and-death or anything even close to that, but one thing I've learned over my 5 years (can it really have been 5 years since the Sleepless Summer Tour?!) here is that the depth of the community is unmeasurably vast. The perspectives and resources here are simply amazing. I can't think of a better group of whom to ask advice. With that in mind, I hope someone who has been through this can help me out.

I'll be most grateful.

whitedawn

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Thursday August 28, 2008 · 8:06 AM PDT

2008/08/28 · 08:06

I'll be most grateful.

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Friday February 15, 2008 · 11:07 AM PST

2008/02/15 · 11:07

I'm a life-long democrat. Really. All my life. We had a straw poll in first grade (1988). I was the only one who voted for Dukakis. (Probably because everyone just voted for whoever their parents supported, and one girl circulated the rumor that "Dukakis wants to kill babies." I'm surprised I remember this.) In fifth grade, I was the "campaign manager" for then-Governor Clinton at my elementary school. We had all kinds of fun propaganda. I wrote a letter of support to President Clinton in ninth grade, when the Republicans shut down the United States that fall.

The 2000 election took place during my second year at the University of South Florida.

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Friday May 12, 2006 · 2:04 PM PDT

2006/05/12 · 14:04

Representative Murtha yesterday said that the President would be essentially forced to bow down to either public opinion or a Democratic House, and would have to bring the troops home:

WASHINGTON - Rep. John Murtha, a Vietnam veteran first elected in the anti-war fever of 1974, says American troops will be brought home from Iraq by 2007.
Either President Bush will bow to public opinion or Democrats will have won control of the House of Representatives and increased pressure on the White House, Murtha, D-Pa., said in an Associated Press interview Thursday.
Most likely, there will be a "tidal wave" that propels Democrats into the majority, said Murtha. He predicts Democrats will gain 40-50 seats -- well more than the 15 needed for the party to gain control.

[Source.]

That's all well and good, but can anyone else rather easily envision the administration challenging the Constitutionality of the War Powers Resolution of 1973?

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The Line Item Veto is Unconstitutional.

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Tuesday January 31, 2006 · 8:22 PM PST

2006/01/31 · 20:22

In 1998, the supreme court held that the line item veto act of 1996 was unconstitutional. Clinton v. City of New York, 524 U.S. 417 (1998).

In the concurrence, Justice Kennedy (rightly, i think) said that the "undeniable effects" of the Act were to "enhance the President's power to reward one group and punish another, to help one set of taxpayers and hurt another, to favor one State and ignore another."

the president tonight did something more shocking than normal -- he demanded that congress give him the line item veto.

the president tonight stood in the house of representatives, and demanded that rules that applied to the previous administration be changed for his exclusive use. he demanded that something once rendered unconstitutional be added to his arsenal, in clear violation of the separation of powers.

such executive arrogance is a hallmark of this administration, and a threat to the very fabric of the republic.

its not enough for this president to control both houses of congress -- he now wants to censor exactly what they say.

and people clapped for that.

king george, indeed.

Three years. Not a day more.

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Thursday January 19, 2006 · 8:33 PM PST

2006/01/19 · 20:33

Friends, Romans, Countrymen.

There are exactly three years left in the Bush Administration. On January 20, 2009 a new President will be sworn in by Chief Justice Roberts. (That's still really hard to say.)

I don't really have much to say tonight, other than that if the republic manages to survive for three more years, a black stain on the history of America will be removed on this date, no matter who is elected.

Sorry if it sounds bleak, but remember: five years down.

CBS: VP's Office Is Focus Of Leak Probe

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Tuesday October 18, 2005 · 8:04 AM PDT

2005/10/18 · 08:04

Didn't see this yet:

CBS news suddenly seems to have teeth

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/18/politics/main950915.shtml

CBS/AP) Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff apparently gave New York Times reporter Judith Miller inaccurate information about where Valerie Plame worked in the CIA, a mistake that could be important to the criminal investigation.

And with possible indictments coming as soon as this week, observers of the investigation say it is increasingly clear that Cheney and others in his office have been intricately involved in events surrounding the Plame affair from its outset, The Washington Post reports.

[...]

The three all spoke on condition of anonymity, citing Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's ongoing grand jury investigation into the leak of Plame's identity in 2003.

"secret evidence" after the jump Read More

Rove makes fourth grand jury appearance this morning

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Friday October 14, 2005 · 6:28 AM PDT

2005/10/14 · 06:28

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/14/cialeakinvestigation.ap/index.html

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Karl Rove walked into the federal courthouse Friday for a fourth grand jury appearance in the CIA leak probe, following public disclosure of his conversations with two reporters about the identity of a covert officer at the spy agency.

It is likely Rove's final chance to convince grand jurors he did nothing criminal in the leak case. Prosecutors have warned the architect of President Bush's 2004 re-election campaign that there is no guarantee he will not be indicted. The grand jury's term is due to expire October 28.

Its getting incredibly close now.

If fitzgerald has the goods, the day the indictments come down should be a day of celebration.

The Most Interesting Day of My Life

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Tuesday October 11, 2005 · 1:41 PM PDT

2005/10/11 · 13:41

I'm exactly one half of the way through my first semester of law school.

Friday, I got called on in Torts class.

Then I had a bottle of water and a slice of pizza while watching Christopher Hitchens demonize people who support moveon.org as people who have taken the same side as the terrorists.

That night, I saw Dave Grohl sing "Best of You" (a song about John Kerry's campaign) from the third row, and nearly started crying my eyes out.
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2004, part deux?

What's happening in PA? UPDATED with a metric ton of poll data

I passed the New York Bar Exam.

I need some ideas.

I Need Your Help.

This Party Will Lose Me For Life

Murtha, Bush, and the War Powers Resolution of 1973.

The Line Item Veto is Unconstitutional.

Three years. Not a day more.

CBS: VP's Office Is Focus Of Leak Probe

Rove makes fourth grand jury appearance this morning

The Most Interesting Day of My Life