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Tuesday November 02, 2010 · 7:31 PM PDT

2010/11/02 · 19:31

I think now that what will ultimately happen on election night is winding down, there are a few questions that are going to be asked and answered over the coming weeks and months:

Who will be the minority leader in the House.

There were reports that Pelosi didn't want to be minority leader if the Dems lost the house and, frankly, it's often custom I think for the party who loses the majority to elect new leadership anyway. So who might be the new players in the House on the Dem side? Does Hoyer stay majority leader, or do the Dems completely clean the leadership house?

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Rocked

16 votes

Sucked

17 votes

Majorly sucked

26 votes

Sucked more than anything that has ever sucked before

6 votes

Black Hole Sucked

9 votes

Michelle Bachman brain cavity sucked

31 votes

Money leaving the middle class sucked

37 votes

Other sucked

5 votes

OKCupid: Gay Sex vs. Straight Sex

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Wednesday October 13, 2010 · 2:03 PM PDT

2010/10/13 · 14:03

Just for the record, I'm straight, but I still found these numbers to be interesting, and knocking down a lot of sterotypes about gays.

The OKTrends blog is a website that OKCupid uses to post statistical data that they accumulate using their user's profile information, and a lot of it is quite fascinating (obviously not scientific, but still interesting). However, I found their most recent entry to be be quite relevant to today:

Gay Sex vs. Straight Sex

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Thursday April 01, 2010 · 3:40 PM PDT

2010/04/01 · 15:40

In a stunning ruling by the US Supreme Court in the case of Taitz vs. Obama, the court, divided on a 5-4 decision, has ruled that President Obama is actually an "Imaginary-American" and thus is ineligible to hold the office of President.

Additionally, enough other people have been found to be Imaginary that the 2008 Presidential Election results have been reversed, giving Senator John McCain of Arizona a stunning, if not delayed, victory in that race.

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Thursday March 25, 2010 · 7:08 AM PDT

2010/03/25 · 07:08

Please REC this diary and not the Shuttlepod diaries.

Please go to these diaries to comment:
#1: sgary
#2: sheba
#3: quixoto

For past Liveblog Motherships, See:
House Debate Mothership by Adam Blomeke
Mothership I for Day 2 by Cedwyn
Mothership II for Day 2 by NDakotaDem

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Wednesday March 24, 2010 · 2:42 PM PDT

2010/03/24 · 14:42

Debate is now finished, the Senate is starting a projected 9 straight hours of voting on GOP Amendments into the night. I'll try to chronicle the votes in the diary as long as this is the current shuttle pod.

Previous diaries:

Mothership II by NDakotaDem - REC the mothership, not my diary

Shuttlepod #1 by kirbybruno
Shuttlepod #2 by papicek

Also, please don't post pictures and videos directly in your comments. They eat bandwidth.

You can watch online at CSPAN 2: http://www.cspan.org/...

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Sunday March 21, 2010 · 4:32 PM PDT

2010/03/21 · 16:32

Here is the next shuttlepod for the liveblog of the HCR debate. Please do NOT rec this diary; please rec the Mothership by Adam Blomeke.

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Tuesday March 16, 2010 · 4:34 PM PDT

2010/03/16 · 16:34

I think most people who know me here see me of a kind of moderate on here (my political compass is
- 3.62 economic, - 4.05 social), and I'm one who usually errs on the side of not regulating unless convinced that is necessary. However, this is one of the cases where I think it is, and it could potentially save Americans billions of dollars while we're at it: the issue of pharmaceutical advertising.

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Friday March 12, 2010 · 10:16 AM PST

2010/03/12 · 10:16

As people have seen in the front page, there are two apparently conflicting reports coming out of the two chambers today.

First, Pelosi has announced that the Public Option is dead:

"We had it; we wanted it," she told reporters. "It's not in reconciliation ... We're talking about something that's not going to be part of the legislation."

"I'm quite sad that a public option isn't in there." Pelosi added. "But it isn't a case of it's not in there because the Senate is whipping against it. It's not in there because they don't have the votes to have it in there."

But wait! Durbin says that he'll whip for it if it's included:

Sen. Durbin and the rest of the Senate Leadership will be aggressively whipping FOR the public option if it is included in the reconciliation bill the House sends over.

So what is going on here?

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Monday February 15, 2010 · 9:38 AM PST

2010/02/15 · 09:38

One of the major complaints about Bayh made in the comments - and even on the front page - is that Bayh was somehow misusing the filibuster or voting against cloture to thwart the progress of Democrats in the Senate.

But is it true that Bayh used the filibuster "at every opportunity to slow down or scuttle Democratic initiatives"? Well, the voting record on cloture votes during the 111th Congress would appear to suggest - no.

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Wednesday November 04, 2009 · 7:13 AM PST

2009/11/04 · 07:13

I think Kos makes a few good points on the lessons for the results last night in his front page post in the wee hours of the morning (at least on the east coast), and his thoughts certainly shouldn't be discounted. But I think there is more to it than just what kos said.

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Tuesday November 03, 2009 · 3:33 PM PST

2009/11/03 · 15:33

It's time for the Virginia governor's race misery thread, where you can talk about why McDonnell won (or why Deeds lost), crunch on any exit poll numbers we get, and tremble in fear as we discuss what nice things McDonnell will do to the state.

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Vote for Deeds

47 votes

Vote, but not for Governor

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Not Vote at All

15 votes

Vote for McDonnell

9 votes

Obama Town Hall Live Blog

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Tuesday August 11, 2009 · 9:57 AM PDT

2009/08/11 · 09:57

It's almost time for the Obama Town Hall in New Hampshire. The setup has several dozen people standing behind the podium.

You can watch the town hall here at 1:00 PM:

MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
C-SPAN: http://www.cspan.org/...
CNN: http://www.cnn.com/...

I'm going to continue posting here, but to go to a fresh diary to comment, you can go here: http://www.dailykos.com/...

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