Comments on: Polling the Clusterfuck

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:36:24 +0000

In NV the internet provides an interesting glimpse at another machine politics internecine maneuver in which the educator unions centrists attempt to shift caucus delegate apportionment at the 11th hour to at-large instead of district-based, effectively disenfranchising 60k service worker union members in the entertainment strip whose participation would be assured to shift the candidate selection more toward new wave candidates. The hotel workers are taking the secondary school teachers to court about that influence exercise.

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:27:01 +0000

ACLU finally has taken part of the eccentric law of elections in the state of MI to court, the part about keeping splinter parties from seeing the voter rolls.

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:16:42 +0000

That blame the DNC move is interesting. How would they expect HoHO to have dealt with this? After all, if we schleps have to abide by party discipline, why not a Senator and DNC Delegate.

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:15:20 +0000

You never had the choice, “Bush or McCain?”

By: Rayne

Rayne — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:31:00 +0000

Interesting. Explains the rash of mystery phone calls I’m getting that I refuse to pick up since the caller isn’t identified — all push polls for Huck.

UGLY at the local party meeting tonight. Rank-and-file are really pissed off about the primary, and are all over the map as to how they’ll vote. Whites are more likely to use the dartboard approach to voting; African-Americans more likely to go ‘Uncommitted’, but that’s on a very small sample.

And the one guy volunteering for HRC’s campaign badmouthed the DNC right and left, couldn’t find any blame to assign to anybody in the congressional delegation or state government about this mess. Have a suspicion this is a meme within this particular campaign.

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:10:00 +0000

I found a humorously draw map of the voting districts in the midwest on a Danish blog. Also learned Kucinich discovered the subcontract for primary canvass machine count of ballots is based upon the Premier equipment known formerly as a hackable Diebold machine. But the principle is to vote; the apparat discipline that confounded FL and MI primary early dates could amount to votes for HClinton as the centrist choice. I still think the message from IA was youthful promise, one that should resonate well in the primaries.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:13:41 +0000

Thats hilarious. I have voted in every election St. McPompous has run in, with him on the ballot every time, since he walked out on his first wife and plopped his crappy bag down here; and you have voted for him more than I have.

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:05:13 +0000

You know, if Huck can find me, that might tip me over into Romney land. Otherwise, I’m uncommitted.

To date, I’ve gotten inundated with the Mitt commercials, but have received just one mailer–from McCain, for whom, after all, I actually have voted for once.

By: JGabriel

JGabriel — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:03:31 +0000

Yep, I was implying that, but it’s better to have it stated straightforwardly as you did.

By: watercarrier4diogenes

watercarrier4diogenes — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:55:34 +0000

and it’s not likely that those rules would have much chance of changing if the Rethugs aren’t feeling a little pain, at least enough to see the ‘error of their ways’. Not that they wouldn’t try to revert the rules to what they are now if they ever saw it would be advantageous.