Another reason for "enthusiasm gap"

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Monday October 25, 2010 · 6:07 AM PDT

2010/10/25 · 06:07

Took a road trip down to my wife's alma mater, where my niece is currently a senior.

As we headed out to dinner, my niece pointed out the courthouse, where, with pride, she told us she had voted for the first time, for Obama.

I asked her if she was going to vote next month. She said "no". She wasn't interested in local politics.

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Sunday September 19, 2010 · 8:52 AM PDT

2010/09/19 · 08:52

It's time for the principals of Daily Kos to either get behind the 10.2.10 march or explain why not.

To me, the biggest reason to get behind this is to promote links between the Netroots and other parts of the coalition that elected Obama, principally labor and the black community. These links are weak and they need to become stronger.

This rally will add to, not subtract from the electoral fight. It's about base energy. The base is not only the Netroots.

By frontpaging 10.2.10, Daily Kos would be signing on to this. Time to get off the fence.

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Do you support the 10.2.10 One Nation Working Together march

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Do you support the 10.2.10 One Nation Working Together march

Yes, I will be there

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Yes, but I can't be there

32 votes

Yes, but I don't know if I can be there

5 votes

No, I think this effort is misdirecting our resources

9 votes

A million Brits call the Republicans liars

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Thursday August 13, 2009 · 1:57 PM PDT

2009/08/13 · 13:57

Over a million Britons are so fed up by Republican lies about their National Health Service that they're joining a movement to Twitter in its defense.

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Sunday May 07, 2006 · 2:59 PM PDT

2006/05/07 · 14:59

(edited to give crowd size). Just had the opportunity to hear Cong. Jack Murtha at a town meeting called by Rep. Jan Schakowsky at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Apparently he's giving these speeches around the country where Congresspersons invite him. I estimate at least 500 people were in attendance. The hall was filled with sound/video piped into an overflow location.

Murtha was great, laying out the arguments against the Bush policies in Iraq. Little of it was unfamiliar although I was surprised to learn that over 100 congressmen had signed onto his resolution.

He warned audience not to forget 2006 while focusing on 2008. He plainly said more than once that a Democratic congress would hold hearings on the many debacles of the Bush Administration, using the phrase "subpoena power". Read More

Kos, why have you delinked MaxSpeak?

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Monday February 06, 2006 · 5:39 AM PST

2006/02/06 · 05:39

Max Sawicky's MaxSpeak blog is one of the must-read daily stops on my blog-reading rounds. His analysis of the Bush Social Security debacle was one of the key resources that enabled the Democrats to defeat this Bush atrocity.

Now we find that you have delinked him because he doesn't have a front-page blogroll? Max has always had an all-inclusive blogroll that slowed down his site enormously when he did have it on the front page.

I know this is your blog and you can pick up your ball and go home anytime you want, but this makes no sense to me and I think you owe your community of readers an explanation.

If you stand up for yourself good things happen

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Wednesday January 11, 2006 · 5:03 AM PST

2006/01/11 · 05:03

Howard Dean got major hugs from this site and the usual left-blogosphere suspects for his defense of the Democrats against bogus charges that they too were implicated in the Jack Abramoff scandal - and deservedly so. Now comes the evidence that those who stand up for themselves will be rewarded: The mainstream media (sorry Kos, forgot your replacement term) have picked it up. Here's Clarence Page: Read More

It's the ideology, stupid

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Tuesday May 03, 2005 · 3:14 AM PDT

2005/05/03 · 03:14

Well, the so-called liberal media are at it again, urging Democratic capitulation on the "nuclear option" and Social Security. I won't talk much here about the former, but I mean to discuss the latter from the perspective of ideology, and to that end, I want to hold up the mirror of Enron, as told in the great new documentary "Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room." All Daily Kos-sacks should see this movie. It's very relevant to this discussion. Read More

THINKING about Immigration and the Jobs Issue

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Saturday November 20, 2004 · 9:44 AM PST

2004/11/20 · 09:44

And I do mean THINKING.

Last week I posted a diary on Daily Kos asking why leading Democrats such as Ted Kennedy were reversing themselves and now supporting eliminating caps on H1B visas while unemployment in the affected industries was rising.

The diary didn't last long. I was quickly flamed by a fair number of posters as a jingoist, a xenophobe, and a racist, a whiner who should get off his ass and find a job. In fact, I am none of those things, but that isn't my point here.

My point here is that many Democrats aren't thinking at all about the immigration issue but instead substituting a snap moralistic judgment for real analysis. The true situation IS more complicated than that and progressive Democrats ignore it at their peril. Read More

Why is Ted Kennedy supporting this garbage?

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Thursday November 18, 2004 · 4:28 AM PST

2004/11/18 · 04:28

The lame-duck Senate is considering lifting caps on the notorious H1B visa program as part of its omnibus spending bill. The H1B visa program has brought in millions of foreign workers in high-tech and other fields, depressing the job market for American high-tech workers. These are the "good jobs" that were supposed to compensate America for the "bad jobs" that moved overseas.

Offshoring also costs jobs, but these visa programs probably have a more direct impact on the unemployment rate.

You want to talk about Dems standing up and fighting? What the hell is Teddy Kennedy doing switching now and joining with Chambliss and Grassley in supporting this sort of thing? Speculation is that Congress will decide this issue this week. Kossacks: fax or call your Senators and Congressmen NOW! Details below the fold. Read More

Time to lose the "tude"

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Sunday November 14, 2004 · 8:21 PM PST

2004/11/14 · 20:21

My sister sent me this. She thought I'd like it. I guess it's going all around the internet. One of these "Screw the Red States messages." She was wrong. It's time for this sort of sour-grapes whininess to end. It does nobody any good, it's false bravado fools no one and distracts us from the real tasks at hand. Read More

Go see "Ray"

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Saturday November 13, 2004 · 6:18 AM PST

2004/11/13 · 06:18

Kossacks - tired of feeling down? Tired of the endless discussions of what to do now and whether or not we were cheated of victory? Tired of worrying about what Bush atrocity comes next and whether we can stop it? Tired of all the planning for 2008?