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Liz Carter provides A perfect illustration of Republicans vs Democrats in GA-4

Posted: October 25, 2010 by datechguy in congress, elections, politics
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Liz Carter (Ga-4) at Candidate Forum

You might recall back in May I took a trip to Ga-4 to cover the republican primary race as Liz Carter faced 3 other opponents and won the Republican nomination outright to face Hank Johnson in the general election.

In a district that with a black majority, who went for president Obama with one of the largest margins in the nation and that was represented by Cynthia McKinney the election of a white republican woman would be considered impossible, but Liz has fought hard and not conceded a single vote.

On her blog today she shows the FCC report for the campaign and there is a perfect illustration of the difference between republicans and democrats therein.

More democratic Deficit spending

Johnson is a well liked sitting congressman in a majority black district. Liz Carter is a republican who is fighting the good fight in a district as blue as the state of Massachusetts, yet not only has she out-raised Congressman Johnson during the October home stretch but Her campaign is running a $6500 surplus while Congressman Johnson is running a deficit of over $24,000.

Tell me who would you rather have managing your tax dollars?

Holy Guacamole! the Sentinel & Enterprise endorses Bill Gunn in Ma-1!

Posted: October 25, 2010 by datechguy in congress, elections, local issues, local stuff, politics
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Three cheers for my hometown paper!

Gunn has already made good on his promise to listen to the people, holding several town hall-style forums across the far-flung district. (Here the incumbent, ever the earnest lecturer, could learn something from his challenger.) Gunn’s candidacy is truly a grass-roots effort born of the tea-party movement, and he acknowledges that his is an uphill battle. He said he is relying on the more conservative pockets of the districts, such as those right here in the North Central region, to deliver him victory.

Oh, lest we forget, there is an independent in the race, Michael Engel, who is a self-described Democratic socialist. Enough said there.

The race for the 1st Congressional District is a microcosm of the battle for control of Capitol Hill being waged across the country. It’s a race of big government vs. smaller government. More taxation vs. less taxation. Government telling you what’s best for you vs. you telling the government what’s best for government. That’s why we endorse Bill Gunn for Congress in the 1st District.

I beg I URGE my readers to consider kicking in to help Bill, if he had 1/10 of the money that is going to Sean Bielat he would have this race in a walk.

Help us make ma-1 part of the big red wave!

Don’t worry Ari we’ll purge them for you

Posted: October 24, 2010 by datechguy in elections
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Although Tim Kaine won’t admit it (as it is his job not to) and the media doesn’t want to say it, I think the left knows the Big Red Wave is coming and has decided to has decided it’s time to make Lemonade:

A smaller majority, minus the intraparty feuding, could benefit Democrats

The only problem is that without blue dogs you can’t get that “majority” part done.

Ari I hate to break it to you, but the values and priorities of the Nation magazine are not, have never been and will never be the values and priorities of America. If they were then you side would be running on them.

But don’t worry about those nasty blue dogs, we’ll get rid of them for you come Nov 2nd.

Update: Betsy’s page opines:

After having passed their stimulus bill, assorted bailout, and the most monumental change in our nation’s health care since perhaps the 1960s, he’s complaining that they haven’t gotten enough done. Does he think that ObamaCare would have passed without the help of those Blue Dogs? Sure some voted against it, but some fell in line.

Actually Betsy Nancy had quite a lot of those blue dogs Fishbait Miller democrats in her pocket to use if needed. Ari knows this but wants to spin the defeat into a good idea for dems.

Update 2: Hotair gets it

The Big Red Wave washes away Clinton’s Crowd

Posted: October 24, 2010 by datechguy in elections, opinion/news, politics
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We are constantly told by the media that Clinton is riding to the rescue of democrats but apparently that old gray stud he ain’t what he used to be:

he began his speech just before 3 p.m. in a high school gym that was less than half full. The appearance was in support of gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero, shown in most polls to be trailing Republican candidate Rick Snyder by 20 percentage points.

The most amazing thing about this story is was the next paragraph:

Shortly before Clinton took the stage, the Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit branch of the NAACP, urged attendees to leave bleacher seats along one side of the gym and try to fill the area in front of the podium before Clinton began his address.

It reminds me of his rally for Coakley in Jan, held at WPI full of kids who don’t vote, Union guys whose stewards were watching them and aging activists lined up as if it was a Tom Jones concert.

In that post I compared President Clinton to a thief in an episode of Dr. Who and quoted this line:

DOCTOR: I wonder if ol’ Taffy knows the real value of it. “Scringe stone” found in a dead man’s pocket? A lost mine? A phony ma… are people still falling for that old guff? I mean are they?

Apparently this year, they aren’t.

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