I hate polls. I hate polling. I am not fond of newspapers or TV "news." The questions are who is registered to vote and who actually votes.
We’ll know the answers tonight, but to paraphrase Ted Strickland: if the election were held in August, radical Republicans would win. (More)
What enthusiasm gap?
Thankfully the election wasn’t held in August. It’s being held today, November 2, and President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, former President Bill Clinton and former Senator John Glenn made Ohio their last stop in this election cycle.
Every election is important, not just presidential elections. Today’s result will determine what legislation and hearings will be held, as well as apportionment and redistricting after this year’s census. The issues are critical, and the choices are clear.
Do the rich get their tax cuts?
Do bankers and other big businesses get more corporate welfare?
Do jobs and industries continue to ship jobs overseas, boosting investors’ profits at the expense of workers’ dreams?
Do we continue to use the earth, our home, as a garbage can?
The failure of profits-over-people conservatism is on display every day: decaying roads and bridges, failing sewer systems and electrical grids, inadequate schools and health care, tainted food and toys, collapsing oil rigs and coal mines. These are the inevitable results of radical Republican policies, peddled with messages of fear and anger.
President Obama comes to Cleveland
I saw the President on Sunday. At Cleveland State University, 8000 people were there and very enthusiastic. It was Sunday, a cold day, Halloween. I was glad to be in an enthusiastic body. I felt close to him although I was 400 feet away. Needed binoculars instead of a digital camera.
Felt the love. Felt the hope. Felt the enthusiasm.
This is about us not about President Obama. This not about some magical past that never existed. This is about us, and our future.
As the President said, How a Republican government was to blame for the current mess. He had some pretty good lines, particularly about how the GOP has been sitting on the sidelines "drinking Slurpees" while the Democrats tried and get the economy back in motion. "We can’t give them the keys back. They don’t know how to drive." He liked the car analogy, telling the room that when you want to move forward, you put it in "D"; when you move back, you go to "R". Coincidence?
"Cleveland, I need you to keep fighting, I need you to keep believing," he concluded to the crowd. "If you are willing to step up to the plate, Ted will win. Lee will win."
The event was very organized with volunteers wearing a t-shirt that said volunteer on the back. Many of them were young. The event was at the Wolstein Center on Cleveland State University campus in the middle of Cleveland Ohio proper. I assume that they picked the spot since it is just down the street from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. They had a bus waiting to take people to vote after the event since it let out in plenty of time to vote.
Now of course instead of reporting the NYT disses the President like the nice little RW media outlet that they are.
The Cleveland Plain(ly Republican) Dealer does the same.
However, who showed up for John Kasich when he went home to rally the troops?
From The Columbus Dispatch (another radical Republican rag)
Sarah Palin didn’t come, I assume because that would have left a bad stench in the air. Where were the big wigs of the radical Republican Party? Where was John Boehner? He supports Richard (who plays a Nazi/SS on the weekend to bond with his son) Iott.
ABSENT!
MSM gets it wrong again. Sorry Mark from DC or New York, this is the wrong way to look at the November 2010 election.
The American people want stuff fixed and they want cooperation. Don’t see that happening when the radical Republican Party doesn’t work for us and wants capitulation from the President and the Dems..
We remember.
What do we do?
I voted, how about you? Please vote it is a civil right and a civic duty.
Please remember your ID.What enthusiasm gap?
Thankfully the election wasn’t held in August. It’s being held today, November 2, and President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, former President Bill Clinton and former Senator John Glenn made Ohio their last stop in this election cycle.
Every election is important, not just presidential elections. Today’s result will determine what legislation and hearings will be held, as well as apportionment and redistricting after this year’s census. The issues are critical, and the choices are clear.
Do the rich get their tax cuts?
Do bankers and other big businesses get more corporate welfare?
Do jobs and industries continue to ship jobs overseas, boosting investors’ profits at the expense of workers’ dreams?
Do we continue to use the earth, our home, as a garbage can?
The failure of profits-over-people conservatism is on display every day: decaying roads and bridges, failing sewer systems and electrical grids, inadequate schools and health care, tainted food and toys, collapsing oil rigs and coal mines. These are the inevitable results of radical Republican policies, peddled with messages of fear and anger.
President Obama comes to Cleveland
I saw the President on Sunday. At Cleveland State University, 8000 people were there and very enthusiastic. It was Sunday, a cold day, Halloween. I was glad to be in an enthusiastic body. I felt close to him although I was 400 feet away. Needed binoculars instead of a digital camera.
Felt the love. Felt the hope. Felt the enthusiasm.
Wanna see it on C-span? He comes in ~13 minutes into the video:
President Obama speaking
This is about us not about President Obama. This not about some magical past that never existed. This is about us, and our future.
As the President said, How a Republican government was to blame for the current mess. He had some pretty good lines, particularly about how the GOP has been sitting on the sidelines "drinking Slurpees" while the Democrats tried and get the economy back in motion. "We can’t give them the keys back. They don’t know how to drive." He liked the car analogy, telling the room that when you want to move forward, you put it in "D"; when you move back, you go to "R". Coincidence?
"Cleveland, I need you to keep fighting, I need you to keep believing," he concluded to the crowd. "If you are willing to step up to the plate, Ted will win. Lee will win."
The event was very organized with volunteers wearing a t-shirt that said volunteer on the back. Many of them were young. The event was at the Wolstein Center on Cleveland State University campus in the middle of Cleveland Ohio proper. I assume that they picked the spot since it is just down the street from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. They had a bus waiting to take people to vote after the event since it let out in plenty of time to vote.
Now of course instead of reporting the NYT disses the President like the nice little RW media outlet that they are.
The Cleveland Plain -(ly Republican)- Dealer does the same.
I voted, how about you? Please vote it is a civil right and a civic duty.
Please remember your ID.
Please support our Democratic candidates:
Ted Strickland and Yvette McGee Brown for Governor and Lt. Governor
Lee Fisher for U.S. Senate
Richard Cordray for Attorney General
Maryellen O’Shaughnessy for Secretary of State
David Pepper for Auditor
Kevin Boyce for Treasurer
Chief Justice Eric Brown for Ohio Supreme Court
Judge Mary Jane Trapp for Ohio Supreme Court
Remember what is really important:
- People before profit
- The earth is our home not a trash can and we need GOOD government for both 1 &2.
Corollary: The Republicans cannot run a good government as demonstrated by the 8 rotten W. years on top of the previous 20 years.
GOTV!
A mighty fist bump to you all!!
Crossposted at //www.bpicampus.com
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