http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 23 May 2013 02:50:36 Thu, 23 May 2013 02:50:36 The more we know about 2004, the more we know how wrong the conventional wisdom was and has been: No, Bush didn't win. No, this wasn't a victory of right-wing so-called "values voters". And no, marriage initiatives did not win any states for Bush.

[div class="excerpt"]Kerry pollster Mark Mell... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/39 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:59:44 [div class="excerpt"]The six biggest Savage Love donors to either [b][link:www.noonprop8.com/action|www.NoOnProp8.com][/b] or [b][link:www.sayno2.com|www.SayNo2.com][/b] will see their letters in print, and everyone who makes a donation of at least $25 to either group—send me your donation con... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/38 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:39:13 And we need to keep John Sidney McCain III's page equally fair and accurate.

Right now, McCain's page makes him look like a bipartisan lovable mavericky hero, leaving out all the spots on his record except for the Keating Five, and Barack Obama's "objectively" lists as many flaws as strengths.
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/37 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:21:40 [div class="excerpt"]
[link:www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8131|Run Your Own Paid Media Campaign (Seriously)]
by Chris Bowers

...Instead of feeling disempowered by narratives I can't do much to change and messaging that doesn't speak for me, now I have my own anti-McCain ads. The two ads... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/36 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:34:01 [div class="excerpt"]Hillary Clinton speaks at convention. The press concocts a story

by Eric Boehlert
[http://mediamatters.org/columns/200808260005]


"....At the Democratic National Convention in 1992, Jerry Brown, who finished a very distant second to the party's nominee, had his name plac... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/35 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:01:25 [div class="excerpt"]
...Since OPERATION Iraqi Freedom began in 2003, more than 700 US soldiers have been infected or colonized with Acinetobacter baumannii. A significant number of additional cases have been found in the Canadian and British armed forces, and among wounded Iraqi civilians. The Arm... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/32 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:13:43 [div class="excerpt"]

[b][link:http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/11/why-beltway-class-cant-comprehend-russ.html|Why the Beltway class can't comprehend the Russ Feingolds of the world][/b]

. . . . It is hard to overstate how ignorant and wrong Beltway pundits are about everything, and how... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/30 Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:27:12 PREDICTIONS
[b]WHO GOT IT WRONG?[/b]
Paging
- Dick Morris: [link:http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/10/31/112842.shtml?s=lh|"GOP will hold both houses."] - SORRY, WRONG!
- Mark Crispin Miller: [link:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-crispin-miller/how-to-preempt-a-novemb_b_25234.html|"... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/29 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:43:26 and not passively wailing about how hopeless things are.

from Glenn Greenwald at Crooks & Liars:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/11/08/american-democracy-still-works/

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American democracy still works
By: Glenn Greenwald on Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 at 6:42 AM - PS... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/28 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:57:54 this is EXCELLENT. i strongly recommend reading [link:http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/11/great-victory-crushing-developing.html|the whole thing].

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[b]The Great Victory - crushing the developing myths[/b]

The outcome of this election -- even with the not-yet-ful... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/27 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:18:29 BIG picture, what principles are you voting and campaigning for?

what intentions are guiding your vote?

are you voting on behalf of any other individuals & groups who can't?

this election is a turning point toward... what?

this election is one step in the bigger movement toward.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/26 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:25:37 http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/11/1/133150/739
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[b]Strength Sells. Show Some.[/b] - Matt Stoller

To those people who are running scared about John Kerry's misstatement, I have a simple message. Get some integrity. John Kerry served in the military and put his life on the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/25 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:38:10 remember Microsoft's war against crossplatform software? they couldn't win on the merits, so they said flat-out that their strategy was [b][link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%2C_uncertainty_and_doubt|FUD: fear, uncertainty, and doubt][/b].

there's a lot of that going around, from Cheney's... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/24 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:44:34 fraud is not monolithic. this is not one election, it's many.

there will be dirty tricks, and there no doubt already have been dirty tricks in this election--probably at least a little bit on our side, too, just given statistics (though certainly nowhere near the systematic fraud the GOP is kn... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/23 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:52:58 so generic ballots have us 11-26 points ahead. excellent!

but how do you sell a newspaper with stories on the inexorable march toward a predictable result? BORING! what's a publisher or network to do?

what we're going to see is 6 days of ever-more-desperate attempts to paint these electi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/22 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:36:16 [b]a wishlist of best-ever dream headlines[/b] and lede sentences for newspapers & broadcast news segments on November 8th.

a few of mine:

[b]BLUE TSUNAMI - Dems Take Congress; Bush Becomes Lame Duck[/b]
Winning seven close Senate races and taking a 240-195 lead in the House, th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/21 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:42:31 ...to get out the vote for your side?... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/20 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:40:01 this keeps coming up all over DU, so i just have to shout this from the rooftops: KARL IS FULL OF KRAP!

1) Democratic voters are motivated, and independents can't wait to kick the bums out.
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. . . Let me just first of all state that Karl Rove is on crack. For all his t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/19 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:58:48 ...that some people are afraid to take a risk on actually *wanting* to win and *hoping* for a victory this time.

i started this poll because. i found myself wanting to ask people here on DU, "are you sure you *want* to win? because with your fatalistic attitude, you aren't helping the cause AT ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/18 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:51:31 http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/26/141555/30
[div class="excerpt"]In case you hadn't heard, the Use It Or Lose It campaign is a program where constituents call their ultra-safe Democratic House Representatives and ask them to help fully fund all of our competitive challengers this cycle. [link:ht... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/17 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:57:46 stay active and focused, even if you don't assume everything will be counted fairly. if we don't win in a fair fight, we sure as hell can't win with a few cards stacked against us.

this article describes the cards stacked against the Dems, and concludes that with an 8% lead in generic nationa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/16 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:56:57 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/15 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:08:56 http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/25/nj-supreme-court-gay-couples-entitled-to-equal-spousal-rights/

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. . . .{a}ttempts by Bush supporters to exploit this issue for political gain are plainly destined to fail, for several reasons:

(1) There is nothing new here. The rul... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/14 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:19:47 http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/25/13291/514

Chris Bowers and others analyze past polling vs. official results, and concludes that the Democratic Party needs to stay at 58% or more on the generic national ballot to ensure victory (or 53%+ for 90% chance of victory).
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. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/13 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:49:57 1) who got all those amendments on the 2004 ballot? Republicans. they are going to do whatever they can to divide us on race, sex, orientation, etc., because it's the only way they can win. whatever we do, they are going to bring up wedge issues. fortunately for us, polls show that Americans fav... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/greeneyedboy/12 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:39:45