| Title | Author | Published | Views | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Following polls and GOTV are not mutually exclusive activities Just thought I'd get that out there. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/26/2012 | 3 | - | - | - |
| Last Word I got the last word. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/12/2011 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 44 |
| Trump's birther event in its entirety | MeMeMeMeMe | 09/16/2016 | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| Can We Talk??? How silly has airport security gotten? This silly:
Joan Rivers was among the many travelers to get snared in the ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 01/05/2010 | 14 | 5 | - | 10 |
| Question of the Day: Why is Economic News Always "Unexpected"? Seriously. Haven't you ever wondered that? |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/08/2010 | 19 | 7 | - | 23 |
| Snowball Launches Bid for Hell Newt Gingrich is planning a big announcement this Wednesday:
Former House ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/09/2011 | 16 | 7 | - | 112 |
| The Stuff Harry Reid Is Made Of
Pictured: Harry Reid's essence. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/23/2010 | 35 | 9 | - | 38 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Tell me I'm worrying about nothing In a diary earlier today entitled Howard Dean on the Process Moving Forward , diarist lowkell quotes Howard Dean on NPR discussing ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/05/2008 | 85 | 10 | 1 | - |
| GOP State Senator Has Food Poisoning He ate some meat that's been hanging for years :
BUTTARS: I meet with the gays here and there. They ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/20/2009 | 19 | 10 | 1 | 120 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| ZEE-ROH Zee-Roh. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/05/2012 | 13 | 10 | - | 227 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Chuck Norris Special Offer: Desecrated Flags, Only $73.50! | MeMeMeMeMe | 09/23/2009 | 36 | 11 | 1 | 69 |
| 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 |
| SuperShallowEgotistWithMultipleNeuroses
Um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye
Um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/10/2009 | 19 | 12 | - | 135 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Pardon me, but would you have any grey | MeMeMeMeMe | 05/08/2009 | 28 | 14 | - | 33 |
| And That's What Stupid Is All About, Charlie Brown! A Tennessee mayor was so upset at having "A Charlie Brown Christmas" preempted by Obama's Afghanistan ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 12/04/2009 | 25 | 14 | - | 55 |
| J.P. Patches, R.I.P. There may not be many readers here (especially at this particular time of the weekend) who know what this is about, but I thought I'd share it anyway :
SEATTLE —
Chris Wedes, the loveable iconic ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 07/22/2012 | 28 | 14 | 1 | 167 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Newt Gingrich Invites Porn Exec to "Intimate Event"
Above: Gingrich in a menage a trois . H/... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/11/2009 | 46 | 16 | - | 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 |
| 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 |
| Carbon Unit Josh Romney at Debate
Prepare to initiate jump to applause subroutine. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/17/2012 | 12 | 17 | 1 | - |
| Joe the Plumber: Cub Reporter [with poll!] Samuel Joseph "Jimmy Olsen" Wurzelbacher has attacked a new career. And along with it, the future of satire.
Via Think ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 01/11/2009 | 56 | 18 | 1 | 21 |
| 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 |
| Unemployment: Obama vs. Reagan The next time a wingnut starts shouting at you about Obama's poor employment record, you might want to share a few of these charts with them:
Reagan:
Obama:
Note the unemployment rate when each ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/05/2012 | 10 | 18 | 2 | 87 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Dear Mr. President: Make BP Pay More Than It Has! By now, we've all heard the news that BP has agreed to put a paltry twenty billion ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/16/2010 | 29 | 20 | 1 | 53 |
| I See BM You may have caught a brief mention of this in today's Midday open thread . Or maybe you just skimmed over it ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 07/07/2010 | 32 | 20 | 1 | 119 |
| The Statute of Liberty
Are you ready for an American history ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/01/2011 | 14 | 20 | - | 108 |
| GOP Chair: Obama Changes Non-Existent Speech...VICTORY!1! About a week ago, we all learned of the latest bit of ripe insanity to emit ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 09/07/2009 | 59 | 21 | - | 49 |
| 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 |
| Ebert on the Prescott Mural If you have a few minutes, you might want to read this extraordinary essay by the ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 06/07/2010 | 6 | 21 | 2 | 30 |
| GOP Candidates Got Some 'Splainin' to Do Thanks to this post at Balloon Juice , we've got a nice rundown of various GOP candidates looking like assholes on the Libya ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/21/2011 | 19 | 22 | 1 | 227 |
| BREAKING: Spain Moves to Europe, Becomes U.S. Ally Great news!
Spain, which until recently had been ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/13/2009 | 37 | 23 | 1 | 52 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The Scozzafava Purge: I Got Your PURITY For Ya The brilliant Roy Edroso of alicublog regularly does the dirty work that most of us shun: he actually reads the wingnutosphere. I mean ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/02/2009 | 54 | 27 | 2 | 47 |
| Notes to Self, by Sarah Palin | MeMeMeMeMe | 02/07/2010 | 38 | 27 | - | 32 |
| 'Scuse me while I whip this out | MeMeMeMeMe | 05/01/2011 | 26 | 27 | - | 193 |
| 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 |
| "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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| '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 |
| Break-ins and arson: STUNNING U.S. Attorney news [UPDATED] From Raw Story . See the disgusting details below the fold. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/01/2008 | 8 | 31 | 1 | 29 |
| It's Amazing What a Primary Challenge Will Do Senator Blanche Lincoln seems to have had a come to Jesus moment : |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/13/2010 | 33 | 31 | 1 | 62 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Schwarzenegger's Coded Message I couldn't find anything very substantive to diary about today, so I thought I'd submit this for a few laughs. I certainly got a kick out of it.
It seems a California Assemblyman submitted an ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/28/2009 | 67 | 35 | - | 99 |
| When White Guys Attack Newt Gingrich , in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/18/2010 | 55 | 35 | - | 192 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| When Obama Calls a Late Night Press Conference | MeMeMeMeMe | 09/17/2012 | 15 | 35 | - | 382 |
| Asimov Tells Moyers About the Internet This diary is presented with little comment. I apologize in advance if this 1989 interview of genius Isaac Asimov by Bill Moyers has been posted here before. I frankly didn't take the trouble to ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/31/2010 | 58 | 36 | 1 | 52 |
| 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 |
| Incontinence Comix Presents: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed-SUPERVILLAIN!!1 Since Republicans see the world like a comic book anyway, we might as well have some fun with it... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/15/2009 | 22 | 37 | 1 | 204 |
| Glenn Beck: Hey Jesus, Get Out of My Bible! A few months ago when I diaried about a wingnut movement to rewrite the Bible to ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 03/09/2010 | 60 | 37 | 1 | 23 |
| Markey to Deniers: Go Live on the Greenland Iceberg Saw this and thought it was too good not to pass along:
The Hill reports that on Saturday, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/09/2010 | 21 | 37 | 1 | 54 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Dear Wingnuts: Propose A Nutty Bill, Expect Nutty Testimony This is too funny. First, a bit of backstory :
The Georgia state legislature, on top ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/20/2010 | 61 | 39 | 2 | 60 |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| PPP Virginia: O+4 Our final Virginia poll finds Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney 51-47 — PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) November 5, 2012
Bonus:
Our final Virginia Senate poll finds Tim Kaine leading George ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 11/04/2012 | 55 | 41 | 2 | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| CPAC: More Republican Presidents Become Un-Persons Last week, I wrote this diary about the 1956 Republican Party platform; about how, by today's admittedly ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 02/21/2010 | 64 | 46 | 1 | 48 |
| Limbaugh: "Screw Sebelius", I'd Rather Die Quickly So determined is the Party of No to reflexively oppose anything supported by a Democrat, I truly believe that if you told them that Obama felt you shouldn't take a hair drier into the shower, a rash ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/07/2009 | 159 | 47 | - | 70 |
| Rove Finally Admits Bush F*cked Up Katrina Well, it was a long time coming, but I'm pleased to see that Karl Rove is finally acknowledging what most of us have known all along. He's spent years defending the Bush Administration's response to ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 05/27/2010 | 33 | 47 | 1 | 37 |
| Stephanie Miller Comes Out Oh well, sad news for us straight guys and potential "future husbands". But good ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 08/13/2010 | 45 | 47 | 2 | 229 |
| Fox Outdoes Itself. Again. Oh man, just when you think they can't dial up the paranoia any more, along ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/07/2010 | 74 | 48 | 1 | 38 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Remember Tucker Carlson? Me Neither | MeMeMeMeMe | 03/22/2010 | 88 | 51 | 1 | 46 |
| Rewriting the Bible Wasn't Enough: Now They're Gonna Burn It As if rewriting the Bible to remove "liberal bias" wasn't enough, a group of ... |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/14/2009 | 139 | 52 | 3 | 77 |
| Almost A Diary Cat shits in toilet, then falls in: |
MeMeMeMeMe | 04/20/2010 | 85 | 54 | - | 170 |
| 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 |
| Chris Matthews: NOT Smartest Person on TV Today Chris Matthews had superclown Jim Cramer from CNBC on to discuss the economy. Okay, that right there ought to be sufficient warning that a whole lot of bullshit and misinformation is on the way. |
MeMeMeMeMe | 10/12/2009 | 119 | 56 | - | 89 |
| 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 |