GOTV - Donkey Style

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Friday October 20, 2006 · 8:57 AM PDT

2006/10/20 · 08:57

GOTV. It has been a key ingredient in Republican victories for the past decade. It is also something we need to counter in order to insure a win this November.

GOTV is simple. It is the "get out the vote" campaign. Republicans target key demographics on the days leading to the election and on election day itself. The main tool they use for this is phone banking to urge voters, who would lean to their side, to get to the polls.

This year the Democrats are working on a GOTV effort - an effort that must succeed if we are to win. To give you a general idea of how we are doing it here in Butler County Ohio:

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Sunday August 06, 2006 · 6:00 AM PDT

2006/08/06 · 06:00

No I am not talking about a sweet treat of a doughnut hole. This doughnut hole is part of the Medicare changes and is actually one that is really hitting seniors hard. It is a loophole in the new Medicare coverage that many seniors were not aware of, but are quickly finding out about. Here is how it works.

Medicare part D will pay 75% of your prescription costs for the first $2,250 worth of medicines for the year.
Once you reach that limit, the coverage drops to 0%, leaving seniors paying the entire prices
Once you prescription costs hit $5,100 for the year then Medicare kicks back in and covers 95% of the costs.

Now these amounts might seem like a lot, but consider the number of drugs a lot of seniors are on. You get a person suffering from emphysema and congestive heart failure, then that person taking 15-20 different prescriptions a month is not out of the question. It is not uncommon for one person to have a monthly medicine bill exceeding $1,000 and in some cases $2,000 or $3,000.

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Friday October 28, 2005 · 10:20 PM PDT

2005/10/28 · 22:20

This is cross posted from my blog Intoxination.

If you first read the cover story that appears on the November 14 issue of Forbes magazine you may think its just a typical article from a publication that caters to the business community. Further reading into it reveals something even more disturbing to people like me and other bloggers out there.

The article attacks bloggers around the country. It focuses on some of the isolated incidents where blogs were used to attack companies or individuals. Some of the attacks have actually been based on fact and there are some that are based on lies.

One of the key victims of this attack is Google who hosts the very service this blog is on. Read More

How NewsMax Spins Polls and Fails

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Thursday September 08, 2005 · 10:13 PM PDT

2005/09/08 · 22:13

After fighting with a right wing defendant on Bill Maher's forum, who insisted only 13% of Americans were blaming George Bush for the bad response last week in the Gulf Coast, I dissected his data and produced an enormous lie being reported by the right wing spin machine NewsMax.

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Thursday August 04, 2005 · 8:35 AM PDT

2005/08/04 · 08:35

Bush is relaxing on the ranch in Crawford Texas. He reassures the American people he is on the job and receiving daily security briefings. Can we see the similarity here?
August 6, 2001 Bush was handed a security briefing with a memo in it that read "Bin Laden determined to attack the United States". He ignored it and a little over a month later we saw the landscape of New York drastically change forever. Four years later and Bush is back at the place of his ignorance.
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Biden/McCain in '08

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Wednesday August 03, 2005 · 9:07 AM PDT

2005/08/03 · 09:07

Last night, Joe Biden was the guest on the Daily Show. Jon Stewart asked Biden about his potential run in 2008 for the White House. Biden, of course, said he is still out feeling the waters and seeing if he has a chance to win the race.
The more interesting part came later in the interview when Stewart asked Biden about his friend John McCain. Biden said he would love to see McCain get into the 2008 race, either as his opponent or even better, as his running mate.
Now we have to sit back and wonder what a dual party Presidential ticket in 2008 would be like. This does have a good potential of returning a Democrat to the White House, as well as repairing the drastic political divide that is plaguing our nation today. All we can do is sit back and wait for 2008!

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