Money Where Your Mouth Is Time: Ned Lamont's Fundraising is Online

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Friday February 17, 2006 · 4:54 AM PST

2006/02/17 · 04:54

Ned Lamont has emailed those who signed up to volunteer at NedLamont.com and informed us that a campaign staffer would be contacting each of the volunteers individually to discuss next steps (text of the email below.

He also wrote that he expects the primary campaign to cost $500,000 in addition to the personal money that he will contribute.

Now is the chance for those of use who have decried the actions of Joe Lieberman to put up or shut up. Read More

Fake War on Christmas POLL on Aol.com

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Sunday December 18, 2005 · 5:12 AM PST

2005/12/18 · 05:12

Attached to an article about the AFA protesting Wal-Mart's use of "Happy Holidays" is a poll asking what we think... Read More

It's not so much fun when the shoe is on the other foot...

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Thursday November 03, 2005 · 9:10 AM PST

2005/11/03 · 09:10

From an AP article about the voters voting to suspend the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (which, if you haven't heard about it, is an interesting article): Read More

Fitzmas Predictions... Lets Hear Yours! {POLL}

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Wednesday October 26, 2005 · 3:58 AM PDT

2005/10/26 · 03:58

Did you ever wake up early on Christmas morning, run down stairs and stare at the Christmas presents and wonder what was in them? Maybe even shake one or two to see if held any clues?

Thats where I am right now, only the tree is CNN and the internet... Read More

On Lieberman - A Response/Tangent to/from Kos' Lieberman Posts

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Thursday January 27, 2005 · 7:47 PM PST

2005/01/27 · 19:47

Before I start let me just say that Lieberman is my Senator and (with exception of Al D'mato) my least favorite Senator of all time. That being said, I am not sure which way I break on the below, but I feel that it is a discussion worth having.

This post was inspired by Kos' posts here and here and the dicussions (mostly focused on the merits (or lack thereof) of Lieberman).

I think we can all agree that most (if not all) of us in the net-roots are limited by either time or money or both (George Soros - ignore this post). Read More

UPDATE: What country did they say? The Ukrainian States of America...

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Tuesday November 23, 2004 · 7:31 PM PST

2004/11/23 · 19:31

Today's New York Times has an interesting story regarding the disputed election ... in the Ukraine!

With more than 99 percent of ballots counted, the government tally gave Mr. Yanukovich 49.42 percent of the vote to 46.7 percent for Viktor A. Yushchenko, whose supporters turned out in the tens of thousands in Independence Square here, vowing not to move until results were reversed.

It gets better on the flip...
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The GOP Congress in all it's "Glory"

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Sunday November 21, 2004 · 8:09 AM PST

2004/11/21 · 08:09

The Lame Duck Congress passed and didn't pass a flurry of legislation this week in an effort to get home for the Holidays. The AP called the $338,000,000,000 spending bill, "a monument to the GOP's raw power controlling the White House and Congress." Here is a brief look at the GOP's monument: Read More

Connecticut Politics (But Appropriate for All)

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Sunday November 07, 2004 · 8:17 AM PST

2004/11/07 · 08:17

I suspect that much of what I am going to write is at the same time alien and familiar to anyone living outside of CT. I know it will feel familiar to those living in NY-25 (AKA Terry Mac's home district)...

CT's Democratic advantage in registration is 221,930 or 11.29% and the advantage exists in each of CT's 5 congressional districts (as of October, 2003). Below is a list of the congressional districts in CT and how they voted at the top of the ticket in in 2000 and 2004:

2000 2004
Gore/Bush Kerry/Bush

CT-1 62.31/32.41 59.55/38.60
CT-2 55.45/37.55 53.92/44.22
CT-3 60.10/33.77 56.37/41.70
CT-4 54.80/40.97 52.38/46.29
CT-5 50.61/44.10 49.32/48.97
CT-6 52.44/41.76 CT-6 Largely Combined with CT-5 as per 2000 census
Total 55.91/38.45 54.31/43.95

Now - How many Democrats does CT send to the House? 5? 4? No. The answer, which is both pathetic and personally sickening, is 2.

So, what do we do?
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Three Reasons Tuesday Sucked, But Not As Bad As It Looked

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Friday November 05, 2004 · 10:51 PM PST

2004/11/05 · 22:51

I've had a little time to get over my post-debacle misery. Here are three reasons why the result wasn't as bad as it looked at first (or three things you wont hear the media talk about because they are relentlessly beating their "The Democratic Party is Dead" drums):

1. Kerry came within 150,000 votes of winning the election. Actually, the provisional ballots haven't been counted yet, so he probably came even closer. A swing of 150,000 votes in Ohio and we would be listening to how the Republicans want to do away with the Electoral College even though they didn't want to in 2000.

2. The seats we lost in the Senate were seats we couldn't count on anyway.
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