All-Purpose NuILX thread for American Politics

ppl who use this kinda test-marketed jargon are the cynics, my dear.

But the demand for tickets was so high they've moved it a much, much larger venue on the banks of Town Lake. It would involve missing a half day of work to go down there and back so I don't think I can go. yay for him, boo for me.

otm, we've already got most of the single people

http://www.civicyouth.org/quick/youth_voting.htm

and what evidence do you have that humphrey was a "union-buster"? this is the 1st time that i've heard this accusation about him.

Advocating “one side of a social, political, or cultural issue that is a matter of partisan controversy.”

even professional douchebag David Horowitz released a statement that thi s was going a bit far

That's Dan Perry one step closer to the White House, then.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070221/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_obama

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/02/20/dreamworks-geffen-slams-_n_41732.html

Barney Frank will not seek reelection

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/11/breaking-barney-frank-to-retire.html

I think some other parts of the world might think differently about us if we elect a guy with Hussein in his name.

not so much as long as he keeps drone-bombing 'em, eh?

That Nobel Peace Prize may have been a mistake. Now that he has one, he obv isn't aiming for two.

Seeing Bill Frist and Sam Brownback's names on this thread remind me of how far we've sunk.

speaking of brownback

#heblowsalot

She tweets that a politician "sucks" and someone on his staff contacts her school principal about it?! I am speechless at this assininity.

yeh fuck him

wow!!!

I love the SRS BIZNIZ happening in the comments on that article

WDinDallas
Typical youth of today. No respect, no discipline, all about me attitude. She will not make it in the real world. Suicide waiting to happen.

very disappointed that there's no followup "oops that was supposed to only go to my friends" comment on that one

Loved this line from NRO yesterday: "This is the moment where it’s going to be hardest for Gingrich to restrain his Newtness."

http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/the-future-of-the-obama-coalition/?hp

Giving up on trying to appeal to white folks who do not have college degrees-

For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class.

All pretence of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up, on the one hand, of voters who have gotten ahead on the basis of educational attainment — professors, artists, designers, editors, human resources managers, lawyers, librarians, social workers, teachers and therapists — and a second, substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are disproportionately African-American and Hispanic.

It is instructive to trace the evolution of a political strategy based on securing this coalition in the writings and comments, over time, of such Democratic analysts as Stanley Greenberg and Ruy Teixeira. Both men were initially determined to win back the white working-class majority, but both currently advocate a revised Democratic alliance in which whites without college degrees are effectively replaced by well-educated socially liberal whites in alliance with the growing ranks of less affluent minority voters, especially Hispanics.

yeah that's based on very little evidence

"A top priority of the less affluent wing of today’s left alliance is the strengthening of the safety net, including health care, food stamps, infant nutrition and unemployment compensation. These voters generally take the brunt of recessions and are most in need of government assistance to survive. According to recent data from the Department of Agriculture, 45.8 million people, nearly 15 percent of the population, depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to meet their needs for food."

uh right clearly not things that would appeal to poor non-whites

basically there's a difference between 'the numbers look better for us in colorado than ohio' and 'obama gives up on poor whites'. if anything the story is 'poor whites gave up on obama'.

http://takingnote.tcf.org/2008/11/digging-into-th.html

(also mostly didn't vote for him in 2008)

That NYT article just accepts the reality that Reagan Democrats are now Rush Republicans.

The New Deal Coalition — which included unions, city machines, blue-collar workers, farmers, blacks, people on relief, and generally non-affluent progressive intellectuals — had the advantage of economic coherence. It received support across the board from voters of all races and religions in the bottom half of the income distribution, the very coherence the current Democratic coalition lacks.

Yes, although FDR flip-flopped a bit too. If Obama and the Democratic Party had offered a strong and consistent and coherent economic message (lets pretend the blue dogs and the Goldman Sachs crowd didn't exist) would that have won back Rush Republicans, or just aggravated them more?

we haven't had rush republicans for a long time and there's good reason to believe that the reason goes beyond economics.

we = San Francisco?

oh I'm sorry were you not aware I am a registered democrat

lets call the next politics thread #heblowsalot

sounds good to me