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DocDawg's Profile
Doc is an itinerant farmer and a practitioner of the ancient art of turning tempests and sunbeams into fleet-footed steeds.
Location: North Carolina
Occupation: Stall mucker extraordinaire
Groups: SciTech, DKos Asheville, Black Kos community, LatinoKos, North Carolina BLUE, Triangle Kosmopolitans, Moral Movement Forward Together, SOS Puerto Rico
Hobbies: Pushing buttons to see what happens
Diaries published: 240 (74 days since last diary on Thu Feb 27, 2020 at 10:01 AM PST)
Comments posted: 9732 (60 days since last comment on Thu Mar 12, 2020 at 01:09 PM PDT)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 5955
Total Comment Ratings: 0
Most Recommended Diary: Victory! We stopped a Republican National Committee trojan malware op dead in its tracks, 184 comments, 658 recommends
People Following DocDawg: 262
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Primary elections are always low-turnout affairs, and North Carolina’s early-voting run-up to Super Tuesday is no exception, with a turnout thus far of just 6.6% statewide. In a biennial orgy of obsessive-compulsive disorder, every election year EQV...
by DocDawg
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on Thu Feb 27, 2020 at 10:01 AM PST
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The GOP is all about ‘shaping’ Democratic voters’ attitudes to its own liking this year. But recently its skullduggery has taken a mysterious new turn. Trump has, of course, long been toying with Bernie Sanders’ supporters, alternately urging them to...
by DocDawg
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on Wed Feb 12, 2020 at 05:06 AM PST
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As lax as America’s campaign finance laws are, there’s at least one bright red line that no political operative can cross without fear of legal consequences: candidates and the PACs that support them are forbidden to coordinate their efforts. Among...
by DocDawg
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on Thu Jan 23, 2020 at 12:17 PM PST
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Buying a $4 million ticket to nowhere is a luxury few of us can afford...except, it seems, Cal Cunningham’s backers in the NC-Sen Democratic primary to choose an opponent against Republican Sen. Thom Tillis. Tillis, with a scant 34% approval rating in...
by DocDawg
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on Wed Jan 22, 2020 at 03:37 PM PST
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Endorsements are the life blood of political campaigns — particularly in primary elections. For every one voter who invests serious time and effort in carefully studying the opposing candidates’ positions, backgrounds, and records, ten or more really...
by DocDawg
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on Tue Jan 21, 2020 at 02:21 PM PST
with 57 Recommends
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In 2020, a Democratic primary candidate promising not to accept corporate PAC money is the new normal. Some live up to their word. Others, not so much. North Carolina’s Democratic US Senate primary is shaping up to be a classic case study, illustrating...
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on Sun Jan 19, 2020 at 08:16 AM PST
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- A Daily Kos user came up with what he calls the 140 District Project to flip Florida BLUE. The reason Florida is so important is that they have 29 Electoral College votes. While there are multiple paths to victory for the Democrats without Florida,...41 comments 54 Recs
- The author of this tweet is Moe Davis, a Full Bird Colonel, Air Force JAG Officer, who stood up to the Bush administration during their Guantanamo Bay prosecutions. I doubt he makes accusations lightly so when he does I take them seriously. NC CD 11 -...152 comments 347 Recs
- A 3 star Admiral, Michael Franken, who spent almost 40 years in the Navy, says he’s had to make a lot of tough calls. In 2002, as a Captain, he represented the Navy, and was the most junior person in a room full of Generals and politicians when the...79 comments 191 Recs
- The coronavirus pandemic has roiled our country, sent our economy into a tailspin and created a desperate need to support everyday workers who have been devastated by a loss of income. Now is a critical moment for leaders to step up to the challenge...37 comments 53 Recs
- Mark Meadows rose to power in Washington because he had a gerrymandered congressional seat in North Carolina for eight years. Now that state courts have ruled the lines are unconstitutional and the districts have been redrawn to be more competitive,...15 comments 29 Recs
- Who stands with Reverend Barber in North Carolina? The DSCC, who concerns itself with senate candidates and judges them by their bank accounts, has inserted itself into the senate primary in NC. They've made it clear that their favored candidate is the...181 comments 239 Recs
- The other week a Daily Kos commentator, Zen Trainer, wrote a piece called “I Have a Political Crush” about Tom Winter, a member of the Montana state legislature who is running hard to be the 2020 Democratic nominee for Montana’s sole, at-large seat in...29 comments 51 Recs
- To be fair, he says a lot of crazy shit. Right before Roger Stone was sentenced today Matt Gaetz said he should be pardoned. In his spare time he likes to call for ethics investigations into people like Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi.18 comments 27 Recs
- Meet Democrat and Florida House District candidate Jim Bonfiglio from Ocean Ridge located in Palm Beach County in Southeast Florida. As most states were receiving their election results on November 6, 2018, it took Jim Bonfiglio 12 more days, plus a...12 comments 36 Recs
- Go ahead and mock me for liking this guy because I think he’s pretty gorgeous, but I bet that a lot of people were first attracted to JFK because he was easy on the eyes as well. Like JFK, Tom Winter isn’t just another pretty face, he’s also great on...101 comments 112 Recs
