INTRODUCTION
Welcome, friends! Here’s what I have planned for you. First, you can click on this link and jump on Earthcam to get a live picture of me in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Hopefully, the giant “Trump Virus” sign is still up, and I’m not being attacked by Nazi jerkstores.
Next, you can click on this link, and you will get another Myrtle Beach Earthcam that is set up just a few feet away from me. Unless a Sturmentrumper has torn it down, you should see a second giant “Trump Virus” sign. I have placed other signs around the area.
Then, at 7:00 pm (Eastern) we will be visited by none other than the first-ever Professional Jaime Harrison Impersonator. He will wave and say a few words, but seeing as this is an Earthcam, you won’t be able to hear him.
From 7:10 to 7:20, I will try to launch a message attached to balloons. See if you can read it!
JAIME HARRISON
Let me tell you that on the ground here in South Carolina people are really excited about the next Senator from South Carolina, Jaime Harrison! I’ve donated to him three times already, he has a voracious email campaign, a large presence on social media, and he’s just started buying air time for television ads.
He is poised to ride the Blue Wave.
I had just moved to South Carolina when Nikki Haley first ran for governor against a very good Democrat named Vincent Sheheen. In a race where 1.3 million votes were cast, she won by less than 60,000. Since then, the demographics have gotten much worse for Republicans around here. There has been a great migration of people from the Northeastern corridor into the Palmetto State.
I think Georgia and Arizona may be the next purple states, but South Carolina could beat them to the finish line with a great candidate like Jaime Harrison on the ticket.
For additional information about the candidate, I would highly recommend JaimeHarrison.com and a recent Mother Jones article from whence I purloined this marvelous image:
Of course, I need to ask you to please consider donating to Mr. Harrison’s campaign. If you choose to do so, here is a handy link. It is run by ActBlue, so they already have your information!
I also had to share one more picture of Jaime Harrison that I found on his website. It reminded me so much of my family that I cried. Why? I couldn’t tell you exactly. How does it make you feel?
His opponent, Lindsey Graham, makes me want to cry in the bad way. Our friend poblano at 538 shows one poll of the race with Graham at +4, but deeply underwater in job approval and with 58 percent of respondents looking for somebody new to vote for. Additionally, another poll referenced in the Mother Jones article linked above showed a two-point race. This is the case even though Graham has a major name recognition advantage. As hard as Mr. Harrison is working, I expect that to shrink very quickly.
FREEWAYBLOGGING
The last thing I wanted to do was to introduce you to a couple of special people.
The idea for my political signs belongs to one of the heroes of the resistance, Patrick Randall. There are many here at daily kos and in the real world who revere the work of the man known as freewayblogger, the Yoda of political landscaping, as well as his Luke Skywalker, the CiscoKid2.
My first sign was a bed sheet that I put on an overpass above a freeway running through St. Louis, Missouri on the eve of Senator Barrack Obama’s first presidential election. Then, unfortunately, I got lazy for eight years. But with the political and microbiological plagues we are facing—the urgency of the now—it has become a hobby of mine.
That first sign was pretty amateur hour.
Here is the freewayblogger providing a tutorial on the making and placement of political landscaping. And this is where you go to follow him on Twitter. The CiscoKid2 can be followed here. You can be a freewayblogger, too. It’s easy. Cheers!
NOTE: The views contained in this post, and any messages on signs in Myrtle Beach, are my own. I have no relationship to the Jaime Harrison for Senate campaign other than donor.
Tuesday, Apr 28, 2020 · 1:01:40 AM +00:00
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Tortmaster
The Earthcam is still on, but I have left. Thanks to everybody who stopped by. This was a blast, and I hope that people can see that South Carolina is not a lost cause, that Jaime Harrison can win, and that my friend, Big D, is perhaps the greatest professional Jaime Harrison impersonator of all time. Cheers!