CO-04 update: Markey leads Musgrave 50-43

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Tuesday August 26, 2008 · 8:10 AM PDT

2008/08/26 · 08:10

Great news today: in the first major poll that I've seen about the CO-04 race (my district), Betsy Markey is leading the disgusting Marilyn Musgrave by an impressive 50-43 margin:

http://www.rollcall.com/...

It's just one poll, and it's early of course, but what a great place to start from for Markey. Back in '06, Democrat Angie Paccione had to compete with ex-Republican, Reform Party candidate Eric Eidsness, and in the end they ended up splitting the anti-Musgrave vote. (Interestingly, Eidsness is now a Democrat.) Musgrave only mustered 46% of the vote in total back then, and right now she's off to an even worse start than before. It was predicted that she was one of the weakest Republican incumbents in '06, and she definitely looks the part in '08.

It would be fantastic to see Musgrave chucked out onto her Bush-hugging, gay-obsessed butt, especially in this district which includes pretty much all of eastern Colorado, as well as Fort Collins and Greeley.

Somerby disses the penguin - I take action

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Wednesday August 03, 2005 · 8:46 PM PDT

2005/08/03 · 20:46

I wandered over to the Daily Howler today to see what he's dishing out, and lo and behold, he talks about March of the Penguins, and how the Emperor Penguin is a terrific counterexample to the notion of Intelligent Design.

Sure, ID deserves heavy criticism, but to my bird-sensitive ears, his paragraph seemed marinated in contempt for this remarkable animal. I guess that's what it takes to get me going, so I wrote this short missive telling him to lay off my penguin homies (below the flip):
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Raised expectations for Bush tonight?

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Friday October 08, 2004 · 9:13 AM PDT

2004/10/08 · 09:13

Glancing through the morning headlines I saw this today:

Debate preview: Bush might have an edge in St. Louis

Yeah, we've all gotten used to the pro-Bush tinge to any election-related headline, to the point where I felt the same way looking at this one. "Of course," I thought, "another way for the media to keep the notion that this is still a horse-race and to play up the feeling that Bush is still competitive and hasn't had a horrible week." Which is true.

But another thought is that this raises the expectations for how Bush should do tonight. After all, the "town hall" is like "home field" for him in a way, isn't it? This is where he should do better.

Although I certainly sympathize with the siege mentality that many Kossacks show here, and that I often feel the same way, I think it's always important to think through a little more subtext in some of these headlines and stories, and take a longer view of the narrative they weave. Sometimes it's not all bad news.

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