North Carolina Early Vote: Crushin' It!

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Saturday October 17, 2020 · 11:33 AM PDT

2020/10/17 · 11:33

After two and a half days of early voting, the turnout in North Carolina is 1,356,406, out of a total of 7,292,471 registered voters in the state. That’s a hefty 18.6% of registered voters! There are fourteen more days of early voting, which ends October 31. Of the total, 597,878 are by mail, and 758,528 are one-stop early voting. The NC Board of elections provides these numbers here: www.ncsbe.gov

No guarantees, but that looks excellent to me so far. Fingers crossed. GOTV!

Cal Cunningham raises $1M Q3 for NC Senate

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Monday October 07, 2019 · 3:10 PM PDT

2019/10/07 · 15:10

Cal Cunningham, Democratic challenger to Tom Tillis for NC’s junior senate seat, raised over $1 million during quarter three. His $1.1M CoH is still way behind Tillis the Toady’s $4.4, but it’s a great start, and a very respectable total for 5 months before the primary. Tillis plans to spend half of his cash on hand for the primary, apparently, tying himself close to Trump. The story can be found here: www.wfae.org/…

Earlier today, Kos suggested we did not have a top tier challenger in NC. I beg to differ. Word is, the DSCC is all in for Cal. None of the other announced candidates have raised significant money.

Having met Cal, I can say that he is smart, charismatic, and probably very telegenic. He’s a vet, businessman, and environmentalist. I think he’s a good fit for the state, and he’s already ahead of the hapless Tillis in multiple polls.

His campaign site is here: www.calfornc.com, so go give him a few bucks if you can. This is a very winnable seat, and we have the right guy running.

CA-39: Cisneros now up by 941 votes!

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Thursday November 15, 2018 · 4:16 PM PST

2018/11/15 · 16:16

The California Secretary of State now reports the difference between Gil Cisneros and Young Kim at 122 votes (99,379 to 99,501), and indicates more outstanding. If this district voted at 85% of its 2016 total, there are still about 30,000 votes outstanding. This one could flip to us! SOS website tracker here: vote.sos.ca.gov/…

Updated @ 8:10 PM: CATargetBot now has Cisneros up by 1000 votes. So Young Kim has has one of the shortest tenures ever as an elected Congress person. Go Gil!

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When every vote counts: a success story

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Sunday November 18, 2012 · 5:11 AM PST

2012/11/18 · 05:11

I live in Buncombe County, North Carolina, just outside the liberal enclave of Asheville. In 2008, Buncombe County went for Obama by 14,000 votes, which was almost exactly his statewide margin (he won Buncombe by 16,000 in 2012, so we didn't roll over).

The 2010 elections put a pretty rabid bunch in charge in Raleigh, and in addition to passing culture wars bills, they gerrymandered the whole state pretty hard. Locally, the impact meant that the four at large seats for county commissioner became six district seats. This meant the two outlying districts could control the seven member commission. So I chose that race to work on. More after the fleur de Kos...

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Tuesday November 06, 2012 · 10:27 AM PST

2012/11/06 · 10:27

It was 38 degrees and raining when I started my shift at a slightly/moderately red precinct just north of Asheville. Turnout was steady, and pretty soon we had three dems, and then five working, alongside a half dozen Rs. Everyone was pretty well behaved, although not many voters wanted to talk or pick up slate cards, compared with early voters. The weather stayed pretty miserable, with steady rain mixed with snow.

When I checked out at 11 AM, the count was 294 voted, out of a precinct total just below 1200, so 25% had voted in the first 4 1/2 hours on election day. They couldn't give me stats on how many from that precinct had voted early, but interest in Buncombe County has been high. The ever excellent MattTx has the statewide early vote total at around 57%, so we may be over 80%. HIGH TURNOUT BENEFITS OUT TEAM! So far, so good, just six hours til the polls close.

Unexpectedly tight primaries for DINOs in NC

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Tuesday May 04, 2010 · 8:18 PM PDT

2010/05/04 · 20:18

Democrates Heath Shuler (NC-11) and Larry Kissel (NC-08) both survived primary challenges by much narrower than expected margins. In NC-11, sophmore Shuler (who, from the pillar of my own perpsective, did not bother to run), is winning 61-38 against unknown challenger Aixa Wilson. In NC-08,freshman Kissell is winning 62-37 against another unknown, poet and high school teacher Nancy Shakir.

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 7:27 PM PST

2008/11/05 · 19:27

Most of my friends have been blissed out today. The primary was pretty hard fought here in the little blue island of Asheville, tucked away in the southern highlands. Asheville is a liberal town of 70,000 tucked in a much more conservative county of about 250,000. Not a big place, but it is the population anchor in the western part of the state. Buncombe contains about 1/3 of the population in NC District 11. In 2006 we booted one of the most corrupt Republicans in Congress, Chainsaw Charlie Taylor. More below...

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Wednesday August 15, 2007 · 12:46 PM PDT

2007/08/15 · 12:46

Taegan Goddard announced via Stu Rothenberg that Deborah Price (OH-15) will not seek re-election. Winning in 2006 was a very near thing for her, she won by 1055 votes in a hard fought race against Mary Jo Kilroy, who has already announced she's running again.

Pryce is the second Republican House leadership resignation this week. Anything about rats, ships come to mind? Due to the lack of cash flowing into the NRCC, Republican incumbents can't expect much except what they can raise on their own. And Ohio was toxic to the R's in 2006. With much of the state now in D hands, Kilroy can expect a LOT more help this time.

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Next Republican to resign in (near) disgrace?

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Next Republican to resign in (near) disgrace?

John "Ethics" Doolittle

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Don "Biter" Young

8 votes

Ted "Fish is Pork" Stevens

25 votes

Rick "Real Estate" Renzi

9 votes

Someone else...

4 votes

A Republican Alphabet

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Thursday September 28, 2006 · 5:14 AM PDT

2006/09/28 · 05:14

So, in the left column is a generic Republican alphabet, and in the right is a column tailored (Taylored?) for our own dear Chainsaw Charlie. Letters to the editor, anyone?

For the generic Republican Alphabet, we still need sins for the letters L, M, S, and U. Any suggestions for sins for these letters or better suggestions for the other letter sins are appreciated. Otherwise, without further ado, please find enjoy, A Republican Alphabet... Update: Good candidates for H and R, I'll take'em! Read More

Parallel Republican And Charles Taylor Alphabet

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Monday September 25, 2006 · 6:22 PM PDT

2006/09/25 · 18:22

This started as an oppo project for NC-11, about the infamous Chainsaw Charlie, Charles Taylor, one of the most obviously corrupt members of Congress. The idea was to put together an alphabet of issues he is on the wrong side of. But <strike>on mature reflection</strike&gt (actually, I've never had a mature reflection) after thinking about it, I realized a lot of the same issues would apply to all the Republicans. So I decided to re-package as a generic Republican alphabet in one column, with tasty localized NC-11 scandals in their own column.

There's so much to dislike about this Congress and Administration. But a lot of folks Don't Get It. So here's an alphabetized list of issues they're on the wrong side of, that might be useful in a variety of contexts (radio? The alphabet is a very sticky meme...). Obviously, we've got Abramoff, Bank Fraud, and CAFTA.

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Saturday September 23, 2006 · 5:37 PM PDT

2006/09/23 · 17:37

There's so much to dislike about Charles Taylor. But a lot of folks in NC-11 Don't Get It. So I'm putting together an alphabetized list of issues with him, that might be useful in a variety of contexts. Obviously, we've got Abramoff, Bank Fraud, and CAFTA.

But I need some help. Do I use Deals with the KGB for D, or should I save that for K? See below the fold for the Draft Version of the Charles Taylor Alphabet...

Now, some of these are NC-11 specific, but lots of them can apply to any Republican district. NINE letters to go... Read More

Who Lost Iraq?

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Monday August 15, 2005 · 7:12 AM PDT

2005/08/15 · 07:12

The grim reality of the major geopolitical disaster we foresaw is finally being acknowledged by the Bushies. It's a strong likelihood that there will be a major force reduction of US troops before the 2006 midterm elections. "Declare victory and go home" or "Cut and run", call it what you will. The security situation is not likely to get any better there in the short term. Which leaves 1) permanently higher oil prices 2) intense short- and medium-term poltical destabilization in a volatile region

There should be a price to pay for such a colossal blunder. At some point, it will become obvious to the general public (maybe already) and even to the media (not nearly yet) that Iraq has been a disaster for this country.

I think the phrase "Who Lost Iraq?" sums it up nicely. It ain't the Democrats. And it ain't the military. You can spin it around in circles, but it's going to be very tough to pin this this on anyone but the top officials of the Bush administration. So I think it's a good question for us to ask. And ask again.

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