Posts Tagged ‘elections’

PA-12 is out but GA-4 gets a slight boost $830 to go

Posted: May 14, 2010 by datechguy in blogger for hire, elections, opinion/news
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As it is already Friday and there is only 4 days left before the Election in PA i’ve concluded that PA-12 will have to do without the presence of a Sicilian in a Fedora. Lucky for Tim Burns he had a much more popular visitor from Massachusetts and Robert Stacy provided the Fedora. Hopefully it will be enough.

Meanwhile My plans For Ga-4 have not yet fallen through. The contributor to Pa-12 agreed to apply his gift to Ga-4 putting me $830 away from my initial goal.

Well there is still a week to make up as much of that as I can. If you think some coverage in GA-4 would be worthwhile and would like to help me get there, hit DaTipJar and get me closer to the prize.

The Lonely conservative notes Patterson

Posted: May 14, 2010 by datechguy in elections, opinion/news
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…stalling on Ny-29:

I guess Governor David Paterson, the one who wasn’t elected and isn’t running again, has decided the people of New York’s 29th Congressional District don’t deserve representation in Congress. When the creepy Eric Massa (Demented) resigned, he left an open seat. Paterson refuses to set a date for a special election.

I would feel good about this if I were you. It was stuff like this that made Scott Brown possible.

I suggest that if the democrats had not tried to game the Senate Election in Massachusetts. If Kennedy was simply replaced in Nov at the time of the regular election Brown might not have one and he was the domino that made everything else fall.

You know Morning Joe finally noticed Pa-12 today

Posted: May 14, 2010 by datechguy in elections, opinion/news
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and politico called it a bellwether race.

Strangely enough all the time that Tim Burns was leading it didn’t make the cut, but now that the latest poll shows Critz leading it becomes critical.

I could be totally wrong about this, Politico on Morning Joe mentioned that it could go either way but I’m shocked it didn’t warrant interest last month.

Update: Now David Gregory is calling Pa-12 a “toss up race”. The plan apparently is to set the race now that the polls favor the dems as a possible or probable loss, so if they win, it becomes a HUGE win for democrats and if they lose, well it was a tight race in a conservative district. This is spin.

Shock Headline: Ariz. referendum drives targeting new law dropped!

Posted: May 11, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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Even funnier than the headline are the reasons that the organizers give for dropping them:

Andrew Chavez, a professional petition circulator involved in one of the efforts, said its backers pulled the plug after concluding they might not be able to time their petition filings in such a way as to put the law on hold pending a 2012 public vote.

Jon Garrido, the chief organizer of the other drive, attributed its end to a belief that the law would have been subject to legal protections under Arizona’s Constitution if approved by Arizona voters.

The actual reason. People in Arizona support the law by 70% and throughout the country by 60%. Plus you have stuff like this going on. They would not only lose, they would lose spectacularly!

When you have the Suns trying to remove fans who disagree with their political views these guys are getting nervous.

The last thing they need is to show just how little support they actually have.

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