From Newsweek: Kentucky Democrat Amy McGrath has set a new campaign record for fundraising in August, adding to her impressive war chest heading into the final weeks of her Senate campaign against Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The McGrath campaign told Newsweek that the team raised $8.7 million in August—the most money she has raised in any single…
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Joe Biden Launches National Volunteer Call Day On Sunday, August 9th
Received this e-mail today from former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign: This election year is different. Our country is different. We’ve seen a wave of grassroots supporters from across the country coming together — online — to find community and do something good during these tough times. It has been incredible. Every day, we’re building a…
Monthly Poll From Now to the Election: August
Please rec this diary so I can collect enough data. I’m conducting an experiment here, and I need your help. Below is a poll of possible presidential election outcomes. Please select the one that you think, today, is most likely to be what happens on Nov 3rd, after all the votes are counted. On the…
Beto O'Rourke Launches Early Voting GOTV Virtual Phone Bank On August 6th To Flip Texas Blue
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX) and his organization, Powered by People: Last Monday, Governor Greg Abbott announced an extension on early voting in the state of Texas citing continued challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic. The good news is that voters will now have more time to cast…
where dat “full and complete” health care plan that Trump has promised he'd sign by August 2nd
August Surprise possible tomorrow, x Looking forward to seeing that “full and complete” health care plan that @realDonaldTrump has promised he will sign by Aug 2. pic.twitter.com/m2OEBoAGps— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) July 20, 2020 x Trump’s searching for his health plan, which he said he’d sign today, out on the golf course. pic.twitter.com/AxMACs2cI8 — Jason Sparks…
Repeating 2016: will just enough whites pick (-rick) Trump this time, because Jacksonville 27 August
Trump’s doing the best he can to try to make his election about whiteness, and ax handles do have a meaning in the 1960s. Dixiecrat Lester Maddox was Georgia governor in 1968, and Trump is still crudely trying to use Nixon’s Southern Strategy with all its referents. Future Gov. Maddox (right) brandishing a firearm outside his restaurant. July…
GOP expecting 50,000 bipedal disease vectors at August convention
Seeding 50,000 enthusiastic Republican voters with coronavirus and then sending them home to their Republican friends and loved ones sounds like a diabolical Democratic plan, but no. It’s the current roadmap for a Donald Trump 2020 reelection victory. These folks have already abandonded their dignity and their country to worship at the cloven hooves of…
130,000 dead by August as Trump proclaims “progress” in COVID-19 numbers
80,000 deaths today as Trump begins the morning with happy talk. More of the same at 4pm EDT today in a presser that should have some of the same memes. What is the over/under on a reporter asking Trump about his tweets/retweets, especially the “teeny tiny quantum dye dot”. CNN: Key coronavirus model doubles projected US…
Trump's planning a Venezuela invasion like the one he wanted in August 2017, because Manuel Noriega
Today Trump tried bait and switch, doing a briefing on the indictments and increased military operations against Venezuela. He used the pretext of a COVID-19 Taskforce to lead with the outlines of a pretext for arresting Maduro as enforcing drug-trafficking indictments. Apparently Trump still believes he can game the MSM. Wag-the-dog has never been so…
So this is my first post since August 25
which is the longest I have ever gone silent here since joining this site during the 2004 cycle in December, 2003. Given how visible I have been here, I thought I owed the community some explanation for my silence. Let me start by noting that I have not lost interest in politics nor in what…