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| Notes to Self, by Sarah Palin | MeMeMeMeMe | 02/07/2010 | 38 | 27 | - | 32 |
| Spotted at a Sarah Palin Rally | MeMeMeMeMe | 02/09/2010 | 428 | 302 | - | 137 |
| Cheapest Ticket in Town: Sarah Palin Speech
Via Think Progress ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/17/2010 | 161 | 90 | - | 115 |
| When White Guys Attack Newt Gingrich , in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/18/2010 | 55 | 35 | - | 192 |
| Question of the Day: Why is Economic News Always "Unexpected"? Seriously. Haven't you ever wondered that? |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/08/2010 | 19 | 7 | - | 23 |
| Two More Senators Sign the Public Option Letter Add two more to the growing list: Debbie Stabenow (MI) ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/22/2010 | 31 | 21 | - | 31 |
| January, 2010: "the hottest January we've ever seen" Pssst, don't tell the climate change deniers, but despite the fact that parts of the world had a colder-than-average winter, the planet as a whole somehow still managed to ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/01/2010 | 87 | 41 | - | 29 |
| The Far Right is Arming and Organizing The Southern Poverty Law Center , which has been monitoring rightwing hate groups for 40 years, has ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/02/2010 | 179 | 56 | - | 38 |
| But What Will We Tell the CHILDREN??? Okay all you gay marriage advocates, I've got one question for you: just how on earth do you think you're going to explain to young children the concept of same-sex marriage? How will they ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/11/2010 | 35 | 17 | - | 51 |
| A Brief History of Social Security The Social Security Act was passed in 1935. Benefits did not begin until two years ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/16/2010 | 42 | 35 | - | 103 |
| Gun Marches Planned for Anniversary of Oklahoma City In what can only be described as rather unfortunate timing, a pro-gun group known as Second Amendment March is planning ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/30/2010 | 67 | 33 | - | 98 |
| Latest Rightwing Complaint: Taxes Are Too Low No, that's not a typo. In their endless quest to put a negative spin on anything Obama does, the rightwing noise machine is now bitching about the following AP story, ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/08/2010 | 68 | 35 | - | 39 |
| Obama Slams Massey Mining (With Video) President Obama delivered some remarks this morning on the West Virginia coal mine disaster and about mine safety in general, and I was pleased to see that he didn't refrain ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/15/2010 | 63 | 65 | - | 46 |
| Almost A Diary Cat shits in toilet, then falls in: |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/20/2010 | 85 | 54 | - | 170 |
| Could Financial Reform Actually Break Up the Banks? It's a slim hope, but it's at least possible.
As mentioned in ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/21/2010 | 10 | 12 | - | 41 |
| RNC Breaks the Law, Sends Out ANOTHER Fake Census Well, it's been exactly one month since Congress passed a law forbidding misleading political mailers designed to look ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/26/2010 | 45 | 55 | - | 68 |
| Reid Eats His Wheaties: Calls GOP Tactics "anti-American" Whoa. We've been seeing a new and improved Harry Reid lately, |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/28/2010 | 20 | 24 | - | 27 |
| Real Financial Reform Just Got More Likely Three strong candidates for the Federal Reserve Board have long been rumored, but now President Obama ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/29/2010 | 9 | 30 | - | 36 |
| New Poll: Tea Party Going Nowhere Fast There are many interesting things to be found in a new ABC News-Washington Post ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/05/2010 | 32 | 30 | - | 660 |
| Obama's Katrina? Not So Much, Says America This looks like yet another rightwing meme fail. A new poll is out about American's perceptions of the oil spill, and there are some encouraging numbers. We'll look at opinions on offshore drilling ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/06/2010 | 29 | 40 | - | 51 |
| Citizens United Freaking Out Over Kagan A couple of days ago, the diary Why Kagan Makes Sense: Citizens United made the case that Obama's litmus test for Kagan was the ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/11/2010 | 20 | 23 | - | 111 |
| Meet the Minerals Management Service Today you may have heard that President Obama made some remarks about the ongoing oil spill. In ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/15/2010 | 15 | 24 | - | 42 |
| Margaret and Helen Strike Again From where I sit, the entire Republican Party should head to OZ – looking for a brain, a heart and a pair of testicles.
These are the words of 82-year- |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/17/2010 | 24 | 42 | - | 39 |
| Another Palin Cashes In: What It's Really All About Bristol Palin has reached the age of majority, and as is customary in her family, it's time for her to start exploiting her celebrity : |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/18/2010 | 93 | 25 | - | 86 |
| Whitehouse Amendment Fails - Usury Remains Legal This is disappointing :
The Senate has rejected a proposal aimed at lowering credit card rates by ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/19/2010 | 22 | 20 | - | 156 |
| Support the GOP's Plan to Strengthen Wall Street Reform No, that's not a misprint. And I attest that I am of sound mind and body.
Just what, you ask, is their plan? |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/21/2010 | 8 | 10 | - | 20 |
| GOP Nominates Someone Nuttier Than Angle You've probably heard of Sharron Angle . She's been nominated by her party to challenge Harry Reid for his Senate seat in Nevada. ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/22/2010 | 13 | 17 | - | 31 |
| Blagojevich Holdout Juror Target of Wingnut Wrath It's well beyond the point where you can make this shit up. First they lapped our satire, and now they've lapped our worst estimates of how low they could sink. From John Cole ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/19/2010 | 50 | 38 | - | 42 |
| "Every time Boehner opens his mouth, we're going to mention it" The looming election seems to have sharpened the focus of White House messaging considerably. The diary title is directly from a White House official quoted ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/13/2010 | 47 | 40 | - | 49 |
| South Carolina GOP Holds Nostalgic Gathering
This photo is from a gathering entitled "A Southern Experience", held by The National ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/18/2010 | 17 | 23 | - | 57 |
| The Stuff Harry Reid Is Made Of
Pictured: Harry Reid's essence. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/23/2010 | 35 | 9 | - | 38 |
| Fire Dept. Goes Galt, Watches Home Burn [Video] I got yer Pledge to America right here :
The conservative vision was on full display last week in ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/04/2010 | 87 | 67 | - | 195 |
| Things You're Not Hearing from Democrats Today
You aren't hearing talk of secession :
Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/03/2010 | 39 | 48 | - | 66 |
| Smoking Gun: Vatican Ordered Cover-Up Advocates for those abused by Catholic priests may have just gotten all the proof they were ever looking for ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 01/18/2011 | 18 | 13 | - | 53 |
| Curveball Admits He Was Lying Who could have foreseen , etc. etc.:
The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/15/2011 | 4 | 10 | - | 94 |
| BofA and Wells Fargo Rush to Beat Wikileaks Looks like they're cutting a deal :
U.S. regulators may ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/25/2011 | 11 | 18 | - | 208 |
| Atlas Begged "For America to compete effectively, businesses must work with local, state and federal entities.''
That was our Galtian hero, John Aglialoro, producer and ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/27/2011 | 13 | 25 | - | 143 |
| 'Scuse me while I whip this out | MeMeMeMeMe | 05/01/2011 | 26 | 27 | - | 193 |
| Snowball Launches Bid for Hell Newt Gingrich is planning a big announcement this Wednesday:
Former House ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/09/2011 | 16 | 7 | - | 112 |
| The Statute of Liberty
Are you ready for an American history ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/01/2011 | 14 | 20 | - | 108 |
| LOL - Rotten Tomatoes on New Palin Film This will be short. You've probably already heard about the new documentary The Undefeated , all about Sarah Palin, written by Sarah Palin. She ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/29/2011 | 22 | 36 | - | 545 |
| Republican AZ Senator Points Loaded Gun At Reporter As Raw Story so aptly puts it, "A freshman Arizona state Senator may be in need of some gun ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 07/11/2011 | 66 | 50 | - | 342 |
| Paging BruinKid... There better be a BruinKid diary in the works about tonight's episode of Bill Maher , because:
On his show tonight, Bill Maher squared off with Dinesh D’Souza, the face of a new anti-Obama ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/31/2012 | 22 | 11 | - | 220 |
| ZEE-ROH Zee-Roh. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/05/2012 | 13 | 10 | - | 227 |
| 'Register to vote' Google searches double after Obama speech Diary title shamelessly stolen from this story on MSNBC :
Google reported that searches for "register to vote" doubled nationwide in the moments directly following Obama's speech. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/08/2012 | 14 | 30 | - | 211 |
| When Obama Calls a Late Night Press Conference | MeMeMeMeMe | 09/17/2012 | 15 | 35 | - | 382 |
| Just one more data point: Nate Silver shows *improvement* for Obama Updated just a little bit ago. Yeah, it's a teeny tiny incremental improvement, but still an improvement .
• Nov. 6 forecast goes from 86.1% yesterday to 86.4% today
• Nowcast goes from 96.9% ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/04/2012 | 17 | 27 | - | 452 |
| Fox News is on it... Have no fear, Republicans, Fox News is here!
All ya'll wingnuts chill the fuck out...Fox has got this! |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/05/2012 | 12 | 10 | - | 161 |
| Nate Silver: "Gallup vs. the World" For those of you who respect Nate Silver (and I think most of us do, even when the analysis he brings is less than promising for our side), you're going to love what he has to say today about Gallup : |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/18/2012 | 20 | 43 | - | - |
| CNN Oh SNAP: O 48, R 40 [Update: CNN confirms Obama win by declaring it "a draw"] Just in from CNN :
BREAKING: Results of CNN-ORC post-debate poll of debate watchers. Who won debate? Obama 48, Romney 40. +/- 4.5% #CNNDebate
If this snap poll had the same heavily Republican ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/22/2012 | 66 | 32 | - | - |
| That's it, we're done. We win. Barack Obama just won the election.
Bill Kristol has declared Mitt Romney the winner of tonight's debate:
Mitt Romney is more than holding his own with Barack Obama tonight.
That's Bill Kristol. ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/22/2012 | 16 | 19 | - | - |
| MARIST NV: Obama 50, Romney 47. [More polls added] Overall a pretty good polling day for Obama. Would like to see Colorado less tight, of course.
NBC First Read :
The race between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney is locked ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/25/2012 | 132 | 23 | - | - |
| Following polls and GOTV are not mutually exclusive activities Just thought I'd get that out there. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/26/2012 | 3 | - | - | - |
| New GNM-HRM Poll: Race Deadlocked A new poll conducted by Good News McCain Research™ on behalf of HorseRace Media has the national race tied, showing Mitt Romney trailing President Obama by only 20 points, within the poll's 30-... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/28/2012 | 22 | 33 | - | - |
| What happened? Where am I? I think I suffered some kind of blackout. It's like the last few hours just...disappeared. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/02/2012 | 124 | 67 | - | - |
| PPP National: O50, R48 Our national tracking poll finds Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney 50-48 based on interviews conducted Friday-Sunday: publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/11211… — PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/04/2012 | 24 | 10 | - | - |
| Trump finally tells the truth... Talking Points Memo is reporting that Trump has finally agreed to three debates with Hillary Clinton:
“I will absolutely do three debates,” Trump said in a phone interview with Time.
He also made a promise that, for once, he is sure to... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/09/2016 | 10 | 14 | - | - |
| Trump Campaign and RNC Schedule a 'Come to Jesus' Meeting Politico is reporting that the totally-not-in-disarray Trump campaign and the RNC are going to have a serious talk:
Donald Trump’s campaign and top Republican Party officials plan what one person called a “come to Jesus” meeting on Friday in... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/11/2016 | 40 | 23 | - | - |
| "What I did do was have a personal computer that was hooked up to a private phone line" - Powell Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, has released an email exchange between Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton:
House Democrats late Wednesday released a full email exchange in which Colin Powell advised Hillary Clinton just after she was sworn in as... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/07/2016 | 19 | 27 | - | - |
| Trump's birther event in its entirety | MeMeMeMeMe | 09/16/2016 | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| GOP blames Obama for Congressional override of his veto (yes, really. Not a joke, I swear) Well folks, pack it up, head home and await the sweet meteor of death. We have reached peak “Thanks Obama”:
On Wednesday, Congress was so determined to pass a law to sue Saudi Arabia that it overrode President Barack Obama’s veto.
Let’s just... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/29/2016 | 25 | 38 | - | - |
| Breaking NYT: Yet another story of Trump sexual misconduct Nicholas Kristoff had originally scheduled this story for Sunday, but decided to move it up to today for obvious reasons:
JILL HARTH’S first concern with Donald Trump’s hands wasn’t that they were small. It’s that they were everywhere.
Harth... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/07/2016 | 229 | 269 | - | - |
| Harry F@cking Reid Preach:
In the name of decency, Republicans should admit that this deviant - this sociopath - cannot be president.
Please read the entire thing. It is beautiful. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/07/2016 | 13 | 45 | - | - |
| GOP office in NC firebombed. Trump responds about as you'd expect A GOP office in Hillsborough, North Carolina was firebombed last night:
A GOP office in Hillsborough, North Carolina, was firebombed overnight, with a swastika and the words "Nazi Republicans get out of town or else" spray painted on an adjacent... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/16/2016 | 273 | 152 | - | - |
| PPP North Carolina: Clinton +3, huge lead for Dems in early voting The latest from Public Policy Polling in North Carolina:
The Senate race is also close:
The Senate race remains very close with Richard Burr at 42% to 41% for Deborah Ross, and 6% for Sean Haugh.
PDF with full results. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/24/2016 | 64 | 32 | - | - |
| U.K. Telegraph exclusive investigation: Donald Trump faces foreign donor fundraising scandal The UK Telegraph has done an exclusive investigation:
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is facing a fundraising scandal after a Telegraph investigation exposed how key supporters were prepared to accept illicit donations from foreign backers.... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/24/2016 | 17 | 43 | - | - |
| Wapo: Trump halts big-money fundraising, cutting off cash to the party Apparently Donald Trump is not done burning down the Republican Party:
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has effectively shut down his high-dollar fundraising operation for the rest of the campaign, a highly unusual move that deals... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/25/2016 | 186 | 219 | - | - |
| LOL, Newt Gingrich melts down on Fox News Not a terribly important diary, but I enjoyed the desperation of Newt Gingrich on Megyn Kelly’s show, struggling to steer the conversation back to Bill Clinton and away from Donald Trump:
As we enter the final two weeks, the desperation grows... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/25/2016 | 463 | 233 | - | - |
| New Quinnipiac Polls: TIED in GA and IA, up in NC and VA It’s actually Trump +1 in Georgia, but Quinnipiac is calling it a tie, so I’m going with their wording (Edited to add: they are tied in the head-to-head as opposed to 3-way):
Several new state polls have come out, and they all look good for... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/27/2016 | 79 | 49 | - | - |
| Another very quick look at national polls Just a follow up on teacherken’s diary of yesterday, wherein he posted a tweet from Jeff Gauvin, who tweets out the state of national polling every day. Here is today’s edition:
The average of those 14 polls is exactly 9 points, down from 9.5... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/29/2016 | 33 | 9 | - | - |
| Whoa: Clinton up 4 in Alaska Never heard of this particular pollster before, and the sample size was only 400, but that may be a decent sample in Alaska.
Full report is here. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/29/2016 | 30 | 24 | - | - |
| Survey USA: Clinton +10 in Minnesota. No, Donald, you're not going to win Minnesota. From the article:
* One month ago, Trump led among independent men by 20 points, now that group is tied.
* One month ago, Trump led among all independents by 6, now trails by 5.
* One month ago, Clinton led among women by 15 points, now by 20. ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/29/2016 | 47 | 29 | - | - |
| PPP: Slew of good results for Clinton, Senate Only less-than-great news was in NC, where Burr is up by 3, and MO, where Blunt is up by 2. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/04/2016 | 414 | 267 | - | - |