Posts Tagged ‘reality’

…at the Post Party Summit today.

Anita MonCrief at the Post Party Summit

I think we’d better not tell Joan Walsh about Anita being here.. If anyone told her that the attendees of her Voter Registration workshop didn’t express shock, call her Nigger or walk out I think Joan would get the vapors.

Did she ever retract her claim concerning John Lewis? I don’t think so.

(Oh and in case you didn’t know I don’t do this “N-word” nonsense.)

Update: Wrong link updated.

Update 2: Better not tell Charles Blow either.

Here is he breakdown among democrats on a few questions in that poll:

Q: Do you think Arizona was right to take action by passing it’s new immigration law?

Yes 43% No 41%

Q: Who deserves to be targeted by demonstrations over the immigration issue. The US or Mexico?

Mexico 60%
US 17%

Q: Do you favor building a wall or fence across the border?

Yes 46% No 47%

Q: Do you favor using US troops to patrol the border?

Yes 53% No 41%

Q: Do you favor using the National Guard at the border?

Yes 73% No 22%

Q: Do you favor fines and criminal charges against employers who hire illegal immigrants?

Yes 71% No 23%

Remember these results are all among DEMOCRATS who were a plurality of those polled by a margin of 41% to 37% of republicans with 18% independents.

Democrats please please please keep bringing this up. Protesters please please please keep protesting this law. Rachel Maddow, earn more flowers!

Update: Glenn makes a very important point:

Forget the Arizona bill itself. What this poll says is that despite weeks of national-media coverage that was unrelentingly negative, calling the bill racist, drawing Nazi analogies, etc. — only 15 percent are really against it. Sorry guys — you’re still talking, but people aren’t listening.

When you only talk to yourself that’s all you ever hear.

Just before the break Mika gave the number with all frowns. I think they didn’t expect this number. After the break the spin began.

For god sake guys this is going on even with a bunch of temp census jobs out there and they are all going nuts over it.

C’mon guys help me out here. Justify my faith in you. I know you are MSNBC but C’MON!

Update: The Captain is with them today but notes that as you sow politically so shall you reap:

On the decline, the Obama administration was able to claim lower numbers by using the unemployment rate and avoiding the issue of discouraged workers. They’ll pay for that on the incline as those workers start looking for jobs again. For the next several months, that unemployment rate may hide good news as it hid the bad news last year.

The difference, the media didn’t call the administration on playing with numbers when it favored them. They will certainly back them up now.

Of course they did!

Apparently 50% of the public has said they would vote for a generic opponent to this president if the election was held today.

Joe & co are correct it is very early and a lot will depend on what happens over the next couple of years but if they are surprised by this then they just haven’t been paying attention.

His numbers have been poor for his policies for quite some time, they have even said so. The surprise was that his re-election numbers hadn’t tanked earlier.

Somebody has got to hit some of these people with a reality stick. FAST!

Oh and a word to Republicans remember it only took 9 months for the president for the meme to change from realignment to crash and burn.

Update: Believe it or not they actually managed to do worse just an hour later.