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Jay Taylor Envisions Scary Specter of 30s-Style
Depression

post from Jutia Group on 03 November 2009 09:21:05 PM. © Jutia Group

Source: The Gold Report Jay Taylor, who publishes Gold, Energy & Technology Stocks and hosts his "Turning Hard Times into Good Times" radio program each week, is…

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Overnight Caption Contest

post from Docudharma - Front Page on 03 November 2009 09:16:48 PM. © Docudharma - Front Page

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Overnight Caption Contest (new)

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Life Is More A Parliamentary System Then A
Presidential System

post from Texas Liberal on 03 November 2009 09:14:33 PM. © Texas Liberal

Life is more like a parliamentary democracy than a presidential system. Life is like a parliamentary system where there is no consistent majority to be won on Election Day. What we must try to do is cobble together a coalition of friends and family to be able to complete our term of life.It [...]

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Life Is More A Parliamentary System Than A
Presidential System

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New Jersey Returns Thread--28% Reporting, Corzine
pulls to within 6%

post from Open Left - Front Page on 03 November 2009 09:08:14 PM. © Open Left - Front Page

New Jersey Governor (28% reporting)Corzine (D)Daggett (I)Christie (R)42%6%52%Update 6--site update:[...]

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The New Face of Terrorism

post from Firedoglake on 03 November 2009 09:01:16 PM. © Firedoglake

Remember when The War On Terror was the biggest, most important struggle in the universe, and America's very survival was at stake? Well, that was but a trifle compared to the fearsome new danger which is gathering to threaten our great nation, and this[...]

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Giuliani on GOP Party Purification with a little
Hoffman whining thrown in

post from Crooks and Liars on 03 November 2009 09:00:25 PM. © Crooks and Liars

All day long MSNBC has had on one pundit after another using the election in NY-23 as their springboard to make the case that the Dems are weak. There hasn't been a Democrat elected in that seat for more years than I've been alive, but that doesn't seem to enter into the equation.

The real story, though, is the fighting going on within the GOP. Rudy Giuliani was on with Chuck Todd and saying that the GOP will never win national elections if they never win in NY and California and so there needs to be a more inclusive Republican party. NY-23 didn't pan out that way for Rudy and he had to figure a way to lighten the blow. He said that Scozzafava was really a liberal and implied that he told Newt not to back her. He said the GOP needs moderates in the party, but they have to be 80% with them on issues and 20% against.

Of course Chuck Todd either couldn't be bothered to check Scozzafava's voting record and history on issues or decided to give Rudy the floor with no opposition because Scozzafava is not 80% liberal and 20% conservative, as Giuliani claimed.

The reality is this: When people say ?don?t judge a book by its cover?, you should take their advice. The ?cover? on Scozzafava was that she was this progressive Republican because she was backed by the WFP, supported a woman?s right to choose and has been a supporter of marriage equality. But the ?book? tells the whole story (as it usually does). Scozzafava has a few positions that are more liberal (on abortion and marriage equality) but most of her positions are, at best, moderate-to-conservative. More often than not, however, she is a conservative.

This race is interesting to watch just to see the Villagers scurry around and try to make it a national story, but at least they could take the time and get their facts straight.

Duncan writes:

Tip Of The Spear
I'm not sure if the teabaggers will have much success in purifying their party, but it'll be interesting to see how the Villagers will react. My guess is they'll portray them as just folks exercising their patriotic duties, unlike those dirty fucking hippie traitors who ran a primary against the greatest man in America, Joe Lieberman.

The cable shows are covering these races as if the outcome will determine if Obama should step down as the president.

And very predictably, as the results come in, Doug Hoffman is claiming that ACORN is stealing the election.

At a short press availability in his campaign office here, NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman said that a GOTV volunteer?s tires had been slashed, and all but blamed Democrats for the dirty trick. ?There are reports that they?re bringing in the troops and they?re bringing in ACORN,? said Hoffman. ?I think the Democrats are doing anything they possibly can to steal this election away from the 23rd district.?
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Update: Anton Troianovski of the Wall Street Journal followed up with the Plattsburgh police on this, and was told that the volunteer actually damaged his tire on a broken bottle. I asked Hoffman campaign manager Dan Tripp about this?he said he had no comment because the campaign had not heard this yet.

They will blame ACORN for everything. Digby sees this through the prism of her brilliance.

I just hope that all the major networks and newspapers assign a special reporter to look into these accusations by the teabaggers' darling. Certainly Fox will be running with them and everyone knows that the mainstream press has been remiss by failing to follow up on such important Fox investigations.
It's actually a smart move. Since Fox has intimidated the pants off of the other news organizations, they will bend over backwards to be "fair and balanced" thus lending credence to the ACORN meme.
I just hope they don't end up accidentally arresting Hoffman's African American staffer in their zeal to reveal the ACORNs in the woodpile.

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Maine Election Results Thread

Update 7: In Portland 5-2 precinct, our worst place in the city, the numbers are approx 1,400 No,[...]

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Obama Not a Factor

Six in 10 New Jersey voters said Tuesday that President Obama had no effect on their vote in this off-year gubernatorial election, according to early CNN Exit Poll data. – CNN Except on Fox, where Bill O’Reilly and Karl Rove said the[...]

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