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goaty Commented on First Disappointment by goaty

2008-11-12T21:53:52Z

All good comments... I guess I was overreacting... so is the conservative media, who are loving this stuff. I am having a chuckle at myself for even posting it. Thanks for the reality check. :D

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goaty Commented on Lieberman Would Wield His Gavel... Against Obama? Or Just To Avoid Retribution? by ryoma

2008-11-08T17:12:22Z

NO GAVEL for LIEberman! He can stay in the caucus, I don't care about that... but if he keeps his chairmanship, that will be inexcusable.

Chris Murphy (D-CT05) for US Senate in 2012.

goaty Commented on Rahm Emanuel: Nobody Puts That Baby In a Corner by M.J. Rosenberg

2008-11-08T17:10:02Z

I second that... not going to play armchair president... certainly not for Chief of Staff... I won't promise not to gripe about cabinet appointments or Supreme Court nominations.

Just think of that... Barack Hussein Obama making SCOTUS nominations.... :D

goaty Commented on Warning: there is a lot of "No, we won't" out there by Craig Gurian

2008-11-07T22:13:31Z

First you say it's the trial lawyers who are "pimarily responsible for fewer public events (who can afford the insurance bond?) and a more antagonistic world" ... But then you say "We need to be less litigious..."

Is it the trial lawyers or their clients who are responsible? Or the insurance companies, maybe? Perhaps we do need to be less litigious, but I don't think the trial lawyers are forcing us to sue each other. I tend to think insurance may be the root of all evil.

goaty Commented on Sometimes A Burden Goes Undetected...Until It's Removed by Bussta Brown

2008-11-07T20:57:34Z

The revolution will not be televised.

I guess it might be online. Thanks for this post.

goaty Commented on Nader's nadir. by Scientific

2008-11-06T22:17:56Z

Stupid Nader, trying to make a valid point and blowing it by choosing to phrase it as if Trent Lott had said it. I am sure he thought the uncle this/uncle that was a slick verbal gimmick, too insensitive or just too clueless to realize the racial implications. And he couldn't have expected to be called out on that one by Fox, of all networks.

That was just a bizarre clip. Strange to watch. I can't stand Nader, but that clip was just sad. He's really become a cartoon character.

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goaty Commented on Tell Us Your Voting Stories by Greg Sargent

2008-11-04T17:07:57Z

Danbury CT... no parking spaces and long lines shortly after 8am... came back around 9:30am and found things had improved... voted and was outta there within about 10 minutes.

Optical scan machines... It's hard to keep your vote confidential as you carry your ballot from the voting "booth" to the scanner. And you get no clue what the scanner actually recorded. At least you know the actual paper ballot is there inside the machine in case of a hand recount. The lack of feedback is always disappointing, but especially so today.

goaty Commented on Tell Us Your Voting Stories by Greg Sargent

2008-11-04T17:00:08Z

Danbury CT... no parking spaces and long lines shortly after 8am... came back around 9:30am and found things had improved... voted and was outta there within about 10 minutes.

goaty Commented on Open Thread: Predictions by Claire Wilcox

2008-11-03T14:44:21Z

My prediction: Obama wins popular vote by 4.7%; gets 311 Electoral votes.

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goaty Commented on Carter Collapse - can polls be wrong? by goaty

2008-11-01T02:22:37Z

I'm afraid I never much faith in the youth vote turning out much more than usual. But I didn't know about the paper verification in Ohio, that's good news to me.

And I do look at fivethirtyeight a lot. Nate sure seems to know what he's talking about, but he also does have a bias. Still, the numbers are impressive and reassuring.

goaty Commented on Speechless by The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve

2008-11-01T01:26:52Z

"Freedom of the press is going to destroy freedom of speech, if we don't watch out."

Her ability to spew that kind of Orwellian nonsense is exactly what endeared her to the right in the first place. The scariest thing I've seen this Halloween is a Republican telling me how she's looking forward to Palin running in 2012.

goaty Commented on Carter Collapse - can polls be wrong? by goaty

2008-11-01T01:21:02Z

Yep. I'm not so sure how optimistic we should be about FL, but if both FL and VA go to Obama, I'd already call McCain toast at that point. And we will owe a debt of thanks to Dean, for sure.

goaty Commented on Carter Collapse - can polls be wrong? by goaty

2008-11-01T01:09:36Z

Ah, but I do read huffpo, and I am usually quite the pessimist. My unaccustomed optimism fits me awkwardly, which is why I went looking for reasons to expect a collapse, and how I came upon the Reagan-Carter thing.

But I also read this from Time:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1855049,00.html
("How Early Voting Could Cost McCain Florida")
and that stoked my optimism.

I know about the disenfranchisement, but --Palast's sensationalism notwithstanding-- it doesn't sound like it is working as well for the GOP as it has in the past. I know about the vote-switching machines, but will a modest cheat of 3-5% in precincts where it would not set off serious alarm bells be enough this time?

So I guess I CAN think of some reasons not to enjoy the ride -- they just haven't been enough to bring me down.

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goaty Commented on Early Voting by FlyOnTneWall

2008-10-27T12:28:19Z

I'm thinking that "highly committed young person" is an oxymoron. I hope we're not really depending on them.

goaty Commented on SCAAMD Trick or Treat: October Surprise by Ripper McCord

2008-10-27T12:05:15Z

Unfortunately this is NOT all they have. They also have some significant vote-suppression schemes, slanderous and racist whisper campaigns, probably the usual manipulations like too few voting machines in Dem precincts, and of course outright cheating by rigged voting machines. They're "Helping America Vote", you betcha.