Circular Firing Squad: McCain campaign in freefall (Politico)
Pure, unadulterated schadenfreude is coursing through my veins right now, having just finished reading this astonishing piece at Politico.com about the complete meltdown of John McCain's...
View ArticleObama Can't Win: Worst Predictions of 2008
On Tuesday, November 4th, 2008, we the people proved the naysayers and doomsayers wrong.Predicting the future will always be a booming business. Veteran pollsters and pundits and consultants and...
View ArticleBest and Worst Pollsters of 2008 [chart]
So, after all that fuss, which pollster (or meta-poll analyst) was the most accurate on the eve of the November 4th election?I made the following chart to compare the election eve predictions of...
View ArticleHeritage Foundation cooks auto worker $$$ #s
As pointed out by Inky99 here and here, the popular right-wing meme that UAW workers make $70-plus per hour is nonsense. It's a carefully-constructed lie based on the kind of "fuzzy math" that George...
View ArticleBREAKING -- Thanksgiving is a Socialist plot
Thanksgiving is a Socialist plot. And I have conclusive proof to back that claim up... right after the jump.
View ArticleLieberman in Pearls: About that newly-minted N.Y. Senator
The following fact(oids) were collected from Time Magazine, Talking Points Memo, The New York Daily News, Albany Times-Union, Americablog, et al. If you believe any of them are in error, please provide...
View ArticleBlue Dog Gillibrand: Use $$$ to scare off opponents
Ever since I made an early $250 contribution to her first Congressional I have received constant fundraising pitches from Kirsten Gillibrand -- the New York State Blue Dog who accepted an appointment...
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Big Tobacco & The Blue Dog (NYT slams Gillibrand)
The quest of Blue Dog Kirsten Gillibrand (D-Amato) to survive a primary from the left and hold onto her Senate seat in 2010 just got a lot harder, as The New York Times blows the lid off her history...
View Article» Open Twitter Directory for Kossacks «
There have been a number of front-page articles and diaries about the use of Twitter by Kossacks. While some find Twitter annoying, I find it an efficient tool for keeping up-to-date with friends and...
View ArticleNY-Sen: Poll finds McCarthy ahead of Gillibrand
A poll released just yesterday (April 6th, 2009) by Quinnipiac finds that Paterson's appointee to replace Hillary Clinton as the junior Senator from New York, is slipping behind the only potential...
View Article{{ UPDATED x4 }} NY-20: Urgent distress call from Columbia County
MEDIA UPDATE: After initially shrugging off this story tip, the largest paper in our region, The Albany Times-Union, has come around with a decent report on the...
View ArticleNY-20: All purpose update thread
This just in:B R E A K I N GAllegations have surfaced that Tedisco is targeting Jewish absentee voters who received their ballots in New York City and Florida:Politico:Most of the action was taking...
View ArticleNY-20: Beware the "Pizza Stain" Judge
Many of us feel relatively confident of Scott Murphy's chances of winning the Congressional seat in NY-20. The numbers seem to stack up pretty well for the Democrat when one examines where the votes...
View ArticleNY-20: Nate Silver predicts solid Murphy win
UPDATE #2: Murphy's lead went from 168 down to 86 this afternoon, but that is actually very good news for the Democrat -- as these results now include the much-feared results from Tedisco stronghold...
View ArticleNY-20 !!!??! Down by 178 votes, Tedisco sues to be declared winner
(From the diaries. I don't think I've ever seen anything this insane -- kos)Just when you thought the Tedisco campaign's tactics couldn't get any more absurd here in the 20th Congressional District,...
View ArticlePurists vs. Apologists (w/HCR poll)
The health care reform bill (whose final form we have yet to see) puts all Good Demcrats in a bind.On the one hand, the bill would cure a whole host of major ills and abuses. On the other, it makes...
View ArticleTedisco Redux: Vote Suppression in New York [pics/poll]
Q: What do the following have in common?► A housebound 88-year-old woman ► The head writer for The Cosby Show ► A college student ► A man afflicted with Parkinson's disease ► The mother of a local...
View ArticleDean v. Obama [poll]
Here's the wild question I just spontaneously asked myself, without any premeditation, after reading a bunch of diaries here on Kos:"If Howard Dean ran against Barack Obama in a Democratic primary in...
View ArticleHelp me find the right word, Kossacks.
A friend from gradeschool (someone I knew as a physics and music prodigy) posted to his Facebook profile a few days ago:I think this country has lost its way.His lament struck a chord, and got me...
View ArticleWhenever I hear the word "pragmatic" ...
... my radar goes off and my guard goes up.As someone who has led several successful against-the-odds grassroots campaigns, I've often heard the admonishments that "Now, we have to be pragmatic..."...
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