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No Republican candidate chasing the party's 2024 nomination has more at stake than four-time indictee Donald Trump. His fate (and whether he ever sees the inside of a jail cell) could very likely depend on whether he manages to recapture the White...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Fri Jan 12, 2024 at 01:30 PM PST
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The Hill has never had any real credibility, but they threw away any pretend credibility they had when they came up with the title that Democrats make Mike Johnson their new Boogeyman . There is no doubt that this is an attempt to deny that Johnson is...
by Dem
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on Sun Oct 29, 2023 at 03:33 PM PDT
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Okay, here is the link to the list of songs I chose from: en.wikipedia.org/… The Black Eyed Peas, at number 88: Party song! Linkin Park, at number 79: Lively, fun, and dramatic. Five For Fighting, at number 77: Nice ballad. Finger Eleven, at number 66:...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Sun Oct 01, 2023 at 09:13 AM PDT
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I wrote this post for facebook. I don’t post there a lot. A long time ago ( about sixteen years ago), I left fundamentalism and became an independent and then a Democrat while I was in graduate school. Prior to then, my entire circle of friends was a...
by Dem
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on Thu Jun 03, 2021 at 12:30 PM PDT
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Ossoff is ahead by 16,000 votes, .38 %. A 24,000 vote margin (actually less) would get Ossoff outside of the .5% margin meaning it would be too big a lead by percentage for a request for a recount. It appears that the networks won’t make the call until...
by Dem
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on Wed Jan 06, 2021 at 02:40 AM PST
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In a spasm of botherism, the staff of Morning Joe on MSNBC chose to attack (former) Sen. Barbara Boxer for holding up the pro forma counting of Electoral Votes in 2005, comparing it (superficially) ...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Mon Jan 04, 2021 at 08:58 PM PST
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Senator Josh Hawley has tried to justify signing onto a written objection to the electoral college vote count by tweeting that it is just like what happened in 2004 and in 2016. I don’t believe that he is ignorant of the differences between those...
by Dem
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on Wed Dec 30, 2020 at 09:00 PM PST
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What if the poles are right and the votes are wrong. I will write one diary about the possibility of election fraud. Hopefully, this will help us all learn how to write about conspiracy theories using facts and data. I realize that this is not a...
by Groundnut
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on Sun Nov 15, 2020 at 09:48 AM PST
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Good morning, Comrades. Today is my sixteenth Kossack anniversary. Boy howdy, it feels like it, too. Remember how much younger we all were 16 years ago? I can barely recognize the girl I was that fateful Election day so long ago. So...
by sockpuppet
141 comments
on Tue Nov 03, 2020 at 06:41 AM PST
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Journal from the Democratic National Convention in Boston, July 2004
Monday.
Thirty-one police motorcycles are parked in front of the Boston Public Library, lined up in two neat rows. �They seem ...
by AliceT4
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on Mon Aug 10, 2020 at 04:17 PM PDT
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There is an interesting article from The Hill, and after silently biting my tongue the last few days as Mayor Pete has been thrown everything but la cocina. So this Left-Handed, Gay, Anchor Baby, White LatinO pondered about what lies ahead as this...
by El Mito
87 comments
on Sun Dec 08, 2019 at 06:57 AM PST
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Much has been written on the 2016 failure of the “blue wall”, the grouping of swing states Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania which Hillary Clinton narrowly lost. This allowed Trump an electoral college victory despite losing the popular vote by...
by Skaje
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on Fri Nov 15, 2019 at 04:00 PM PST
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Breaking news: Republicans plan to attack Sen. Elizabeth Warren about her past claims of Native American ancestry if she becomes the Democratic presidential nominee. No, really? You mean the same people who attacked John Kerry for getting three Purple...
by Laura Clawson
328 comments
on Tue Aug 27, 2019 at 07:38 AM PDT
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When rape allegations first surfaced against him, Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax quickly retained the services of the same law firm later used by Supreme Court Justice and beer lover Brett Kavanaugh, NPR reports.
Fairfax first brought on the...
by Jessica Sutherland
57 comments
on Wed Feb 06, 2019 at 02:43 PM PST
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I’ve been around here since 2004 — number in the low 5,000. I was put on suspension for approving a comment using the word b…ch. I’m an oldster compared to the rest of you, 73 years old. I had observed in recent modern culture that the word b...ch...
by left of center
224 comments
on Sun Nov 18, 2018 at 10:49 AM PST
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Something happened for the first time in our nation’s history in the last election. Something that has to have a profound impact on the future of our party. I have not seen much commentary...
by pdxbuckeye
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on Sat Jul 08, 2017 at 09:51 PM PDT
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Anyone else remember when Trump said the economy does better under the Democrats? Get ready for debt Check out this article on Forbes here. In 2004 Donald Trump said to Wolf Blitzer “I’ve been around for a long time and it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans.” He probably expects the insane recession that...
by Trotskyist
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on Wed Feb 08, 2017 at 07:08 AM PST
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I thought it would be interesting to compare 2004 to 2016, as a pre and post-Obama look at the electoral landscape. The immediate 2012-2016 trend shows a total collapse in white rural America, but this trend is lessened if you go back to 2004, where...
by Skaje
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on Sun Dec 11, 2016 at 01:47 PM PST
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2000 Gore won the popular vote and lost the electoral
en.wikipedia.org/…
2004 This election was stolen plain and simple and the establishment democrats rolled over.
www.truth-out.org/…
“At the official counting of the electoral...
by drummer55
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on Thu Nov 10, 2016 at 10:05 AM PST
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Remember November 3, 2004?
I do. I remember the all the ups and downs of Bush vs. Kerry, the first time I really became engaged in the political process beyond just voting. I remember Zell Miller screaming at Chris Matthews. I remember the “we’re...
by KevinP43
11 comments
on Mon Nov 14, 2016 at 04:41 AM PST
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