Redstate: 50 state strategy "destroyed" Delaware GOP
Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 09:26:41 PM PDT
This is going to be some excerpts from
one of the most satisfying diaries I've seen all season, titled
"Is Howard Dean's strategy working?". And it's not even from DailyKos--it's from Redstate, our Republican counterpart. It was first linked by SouthSideDem in
this comment attached to Delawareliberal's
excellent diary about the 50-state strategy in Delaware. It describes (from the losing side's point of view) what the DNC did to win a specific downticket race in Delaware, but McJoan's
front page post about Chris Bowers' article shows the same thing happened everywhere in the country.
Below the fold I'll paste a few excerpts. You should really read the whole thing on Redstate yourself. The discussion thread there is interesting too.
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sigridsmith: How Joe got 18 Safe Years
Wed Aug 23, 2006 at 06:09:51 PM PDT
sigridsmith has posted a
great diary on myleftnutmeg on how we've managed to have a terrible senator like Lieberman for the past 18 years. It traces the background of Lieberman's four Senate runs, starting from 1988 where Lieberman ran against Weicker from the right, through the 1994 election where the GOP put its effort into the CT-Gov campaign of John Rowland instead of the Senate race, only to have Rowland resign and go to jail for corruption, through Lieberman's 2000 run against Phil Giordano (who is now in prison for a sex crime involving a minor) while concurrently running for VP (which if successful would have led to the CT-Sen seat being handed to a Republican). Finally, it describes the legislative accident that let Lieberman file petitions for an independent run in 2006
after losing the Dem primary.
With sigridsmith's permission I'm posting the entire diary here below the fold. It's one of the better diaries I've seen in a while and it's worth reading the whole thing.
recommended diaries from the past week
Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 09:35:09 PM PDT
There's been a huge number of diaries during the hurricane debacle and a lot of them have been excellent. Trying to chase down links I've found it useful to look at a list of recommended diaries, culled from the open thread autoposts like the last time I did this. There doesn't seem to be much interest in regular lists like this, but I think this week's batch is significant and useful to people putting timelines together etc., so here it is (on the flip). Because the diaries were coming so fast, the openthread bot may have missed a few, but this should be most of them.
Recommended diaries since May 1, 2005
Thu May 26, 2005 at 12:41:56 AM PDT
Responding to Chamonix's question about what's been happening here lately, and in the screen scraping spirit of the 17-best-comments guy, here (below the fold) is a list of all the recommended diaries since the beginning of this month, as found by scanning the lists at the tops of the open threads in reverse chronological order. Each story link appears just once even if it stayed in the recommended lists across several open threads.
If this is of enough interest I may do a fancier version sometime. Of course building it into Scoop itself would be even better.
George W Bush, narrowest "re"-election in history?
Sun Mar 20, 2005 at 05:27:05 PM PDT
Inspired by
DavidNYC's post about research sources, I've gotten around to checking out something I've suspected for a while. Looking at all the popular vote results in US presidential elections since 1824 (before that, the EC wasn't completely chosen by popular vote, so the PV was considered meaningless), it appears that as a percentage of the popular vote,
George W. Bush was elected to another term by the narrowest margin of any incumbent in history. Some "mandate". Data is below the fold.
Veepstakes 2, the South shall rise again
Sat Jul 03, 2004 at 06:32:29 PM PDT
Let's do another list, this time about geography of the ticket. We can arbitrarily define "The South" as the former
Confederate states: "The 11 states of the Confederacy were Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. (Note that the states of Missouri and Kentucky each had two separate governments, one Union, one Confederate. As such, they were claimed by both sides as members)". I'll count Missouri and Kentucky since Ashcroft is from Missouri. Again, we look at the tickets since WW2.
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Veeps and the white house
Tue Jun 29, 2004 at 12:47:37 PM PDT
This is the first of a few diaries I'd like to post about the Veepstakes. The VP nomination is important regardless of whether it affects the election, because so many VP's end up as future presidents or nominees. And an awful lot of them are not very good.
Let's take it for granted that presidential candidate chooses his running mate at least partly for campaign purposes, and this is especially true for non-incumbent presidential candidates. I'll make a list here of VP's since WW2 and what became of them, and ask what it means for John Kerry and the current election.
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Chomsky: The Apotheosis of Ronald Reagan
Thu Jun 10, 2004 at 07:55:03 PM PDT
From
http://www.counterpunch.org/chomsky06102004.html. This is so well-expressed that I had to paste it here.
The Apotheosis of Ronald Reagan
Divinity Thorugh Marketing
By NOAM CHOMSKY
There was something similar after the JFK assassination, but of course the assassination of a living president is quite different. I don't recall anything else remotely similar, perhaps since FDR, in the midst of a war, and of course he really was a significant figure, whatever one's judgment of him. Reagan is another story: mostly a PR creation in the first place, and massively so in recent years.
During his years in office, Reagan was not particularly popular. Gallup just published poll figures comparing him during office with other presidents. His average ratings during his years in office were below Kennedy, Johnson, Bush I, and Clinton; above Nixon, Ford, Carter. This is averages during their terms in office. By 1992 he was ranked just next to Nixon as the most unpopular living ex-president. Since then there has been an immense PR campaign to convert him into a revered and historic figure, if not semi-divine, and it's doubtless had an effect, radically shifting the rankings. Not on the basis of facts: rather, extremely effective marketing. The current performance is reminiscent of the death of Hirohito and Soviet leaders. One of the more depraved moments of US media. The lying is quite impressive, even by people who surely know better.
Dean bat on Kerry site
Tue May 18, 2004 at 02:07:31 PM PDT
Another old Dean song
Wed Mar 03, 2004 at 03:57:42 AM PDT
Here's an old song from the Dean blog (
another one was already posted to Kos earlier). Obviously both of these are from a happier time in the primaries, but I thought I'd post this tonight in honor of Dean's VT victory. The tune is
Bella Ciao (mp3 link).
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yet another media atrocity (MLP from Slashdot)
Sat Jan 17, 2004 at 07:20:43 PM PDT
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=93266&cid=8009464
On friday cnn.com was running an article about the upcoming Iowa democratic primary. Attatched to this was a photo, labelled as being Dean supporters busing to Iowa from another state, of four or five people standing on a bus and a big guy asleep in one of the seats with a "DEAN FOR PRESIDENT" t-shirt.
Also that day, cnn.com was running an article about how republican supporters were busing into the areas of democratic primaries to hold pro-Bush rallies in an attempt to blunt the effect of the media attention the democratic primaries drew. Attatched to this article was a picture labelled as the pro-Bush supporters busing in. The picture was the exact same one as from the other story, but with the guy in the "DEAN FOR PRESIDENT" t-shirt cropped out.
Dean vs Bush on security/foreign policy
Fri Jan 02, 2004 at 08:44:42 AM PDT
Some people are afraid that Dean can't compete with Bush on security and foreign and policy. That ridiculously overestimates Bush. Don't underestimate Bush, but don't be groundlessly afraid of him either.
How do you think Dean got to be the Dem front-runner? Has everyone forgotten his stump speech? He got where he is precisely by going smack up against Bush on security and foreign affairs, namely on Iraq, on regaining the trust of our allies, on container inspection, on buying ex-Soviet nuke materials under the CTR treaty, and of course on the ultimate national security issue which is the economy.
Never forget either that the economy is the basis of all security. You might remember that Soviet Union too. It was once our biggest national security threat--we had a cold war for decades--but it fell to pieces because its economy collapsed the way Bush is making ours collapse. Even if Bush ran foreign affairs perfectly, which he does the exact opposite of, his mishandling of the economy is the gravest national security threat we could possibly have. Dean can run on that.
Biden-Lugar
Fri Jan 02, 2004 at 05:52:51 AM PDT
The way I heard Biden-Lugar explained on the Dean blog, it required Bush to certify there were WMD in Iraq before invading. If he certified WMD had been proven, then invaded and no WMD were found (which is what happened), that would have been impeachable. That is, instead of talking about sending Bush back to Crawford, we'd be talking about sending him to jail. It also explicity forbid Bush from hopscotching from Iraq onward to other mideast countries the way he apparently planned to do before the Iraq operation got bogged down.
At that time, UN inspectors were still in Iraq and it was very plausible that they might find something. Biden-Lugar was an entirely appropriate thing to support. The blank check that Bush got instead was an outrage.
Is Kerry running for VP? continued
Tue Dec 30, 2003 at 09:28:54 PM PDT
I forgot to mention in the below post: it's based on the idea that Clark has already offered the VP spot to Kerry and they are cooperating behind the scenes. Remember that Kerry wanted the #2 spot from Gore pretty badly in 2000, and was on the short list, which means that Gore's campaign already did the necessary vetting. (Because of the need for vetting, Dean could NOT have made a similar offer to Clark).
Clark's claiming Dean offered him the VP slot then sounds like classic Republican projection. If Clark says Dean offered the slot to Clark, it really means that Clark offered the slot to Kerry.
Is Kerry really running for VP?
Tue Dec 30, 2003 at 09:23:00 PM PDT
Kerry's relentless attacks on Dean coupled with his vanishing poll numbers and his self-financed campaign (home mortgage) make it sound to some like he's really running for VP under Clark. Kerry does the dirty work, Clark stays above the fray, Clark gets the nomination and taps Kerry as running mate, and Kerry For President somehow gets folded into Clark/Kerry 2004 in a way that pays off Kerry's campaign debt. Kerry is going to keep chewing Dean's ass in state after state no matter what his own poll numbers do, because it's Clark's numbers that he's actually trying to prop up.
Does this make sense to anyone else? Am I missing something?
