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Yes. (Yes!)
Now, that’s a find!
Cool picture.
Here in California, we are not leading as we like to do and have, at least not in this election – but are left behind. But there are cracks in the hold of the progressive stalwarts. The soda tax didn’t pass in SF. But mostly people are pretty down, I think they are in shock. Faces on the bus looked nearly solemn on my way to work.
As for me… I am – in absolutely happy jubilation! That’s one adjective too many, but this is marvelous, amazing! I am so relieved and glad for our country. Maybe, the people with a little sense are beginning to take it back! Yes!
I’ve been fasting and praying every Tuesday for our country since January 2008 when I realized George Soros was going to see to it that Obama would be elected President. This is the first election in a long time that I have felt some satisfaction. But living in Los Angeles, keeps me from being able to enjoy the fullness of hope…at least in our midst. Every day I see and experience the fallout of Democratic policies.
VERY happy that Cory Gardner won along with Mike Coffman and Ken Buck. Alas, Hickenlooper managed to find enough votes to beat Beauprez in the wee hours last night.
delightful pic, I love it !!!
BTW, brown lost in NH but……..
our state legislature candidates kicked butt, knocked out many dems, looks like we have a repub state house & this is seen as a repudiation of gun grabbers & those who would want a state income tax (as u no NH has no
income tax, it looks safe that one will never be inacted
despite pushes by the Left )
here’s an additional *laugh* for you, many of Bloombergs anti gun rallies he had with his *bus tour* had speakers, well NH *open carry* people showed up with their weapons (lol) to take it all in.
One little lefty lady read her canned speech shaking like a leaf….. it was like a Western, lol
And how were those polls so wrong?
Next meeting of the Democratic Governors Association will be at the Harrisburg Appleby’s, PA Turnpike Exit 247, third booth from the back.
@Cornhead
Even the vaunted 538 was caught with their pants down. Regarding the gubernatorial races:
“we gave the GOP incumbent, Sam Brownback, only a 20 percent chance.
“And Republicans have even taken Maryland, where they had only a 6 percent chance of winning according to our last pre-election forecast.”
I’m happy about the victory, but I do remember the “shellacking” Obama got in the 2010 midterms, and how even so the GOP could do nothing to stop him after that. They didn’t win the Senate then, of course, but still it seemed things would get a bit better. Instead…
Cornhead: Oddly enough, this question was actually addressed by Nate Silver of 538 earlier today.
The only proper conclusion to be drawn is the one you already know: Polls are crap, and the only one that actually counts is the one taken in the first week of November.
I am glad Mia won her place, as she is no where as idiotic and densely stupid like maxine walters, and so on…
In Iowa we now have 2 gop US senators, 4 out of 5 US representatives, both bodies in the state legislature, gop governor, and perhaps most importantly for 2016, a gop secretary of state. I am hoping we are on our way to turn from purple to magenta if not red.
Well, here is Oregon, using marijuana will be legal come next July, so the feasting and jubilation is a tad dampened, but I did feel a certain amount of satisfaction last night as other parts of the country came to their senses.
That’ll teach me to preview my comment. IN Oregon.
I have been relishing the taste of lib tears – I even went into Open Salon, where I haven’t been for months … and the denizens there seem to be rather subdued. Only the more conservative OSers seemed to be able to bring themselves to post today.
I just hope that the Stupid Party – the establishment GOPers don’t f*ck it up, one way or another. They have the advantage at this moment, they should recover their backbone and their balls (if they ever had them, which is a somewhat debatable question) and work to reverse the disasters that the Obama administration has brought upon us. Never mind about being called racist (raaaaacist!) or misogynist … shouldn’t the election of Mia Hamm count for something? Please, GOP – throw every ugly accusation of being woman- and minority-haters back in their teeth.
I can dream. Fall has at last arrived in South Texas, it’s rainy and cool, and my Tiny Publishing Bidness is doing OK, having signed a contract with a potentially major client, and have the promise of doing so with another, later in the month.
After taking a month-long sabbatical from the blogosphere, I’m thrilled to be able to celebrate the election results. Maybe I should take more sabbaticals. 🙂
Celebrate today. Tomorrow – it’s back to work. Progressives never quit. Neither should we.
I believe that lovely picture at the top of the post is from the Disneyland Jungle Ride. Am I correct, Neo?
Sgt. Mom: “I can dream.”
You (and all people of the Right, generally) need to do more than that. Elected office is only one piece. Now is the time to press forward and grow out with a full-spectrum Right activist social cultural/political movement.
Placing the whole burden on elected officials to change our society won’t work. The people, activated, must carry the burden with the elected officials, push them where you want them to go, enable and empower them for the contest, and create the incentives and disincentives to hold them accountable. While also competing in the activist game in your own right.
Dodger I am glad Mia won her place, as she is no where as idiotic and densely stupid like maxine walters, and so on…
Seems to me that there is an IQ ceiling for Demo pols. It ain’t just Maxine Walters. Slow Joe and John Kerry don’t exactly dazzle anyone with brilliance.
Cornhead And how were those polls so wrong?
I have read some conjectures that Pubs are less willing to give out their political opinions to a stranger on the phone, whereas Demos like to shout their opinions out.
I for one have gotten calls asking my political opinions. My answering machine screens all calls. I have never picked up the phone to answer the pollster. Given what the IRS has done in the last 4 years, I see no need to tell a stranger my opinions.
Facebook is kind of habit-forming–I kept wanting to click the “like” button on a number of these comments.
I’m too cynical and pessimistic to expect a whole lot from this, but at least it should slow down the decline.
Gringo, Cornhead:
If you trust Nate Silver on the topic of polls, he says the Democratic turnout was overestimated.
Turnout is actually one of the most difficult things to estimate.
Silver:
This evidence suggests that polling bias has been largely unpredictable from election to election. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, the polling was biased against Democrats in 1998, 2006 and 2012. However, just as certainly, it was biased against Republicans in 1994, 2002 and now 2014. It can be dangerous to apply the “lessons” from one election cycle to the next one.
CharlieSays:
I don’t remember where I got the photo.
But it does remind me of this Disney oeuvre:
Smarmy Charlie Crist: Buuuu-Byeeeeeeeeee…!!
The cringe inducing schyster must return to his position under John Morgan’s desk. Let’s see Loathsome One… Republican…then Independent….Recently Obama loving Democrat…. What’s the NEXT Party, Charlie??
As RL stated today, this is a refudiation of the liberalism that denigrates America and expands government.
Hooyah.
Focus. Press in. Kill.
Today was very peaceful and satisfying. A typically rainy, gloomy fall day here in western Washington, where the GOP wave barely penetrated (oh, my liberal Congressman won by a smaller margin than expected…wow!). And yet, I was at peace and very happy. I am more hopeful and more content than I have been in years, at least since Obama won and arguably longer than that. 2010 was exciting and uplifting but tempered by the fact that the Senate was still Democratic and Obama still had a re-election campaign to potentially turn it all around. But today I felt a great catharsis. There is a light at the end of this tunnel. Whatever Obama tries to do in the next two years (and I believe he is far more likely to become even more indifferent and withdrawn than to “go rogue”) he is checked and caged in. And…he will be gone soon enough. I refuse to believe the 45th President will be as reckless, narcissistic and petulant, regardless of party. I realize a more sobering reality will set in soon enough. But for now, I’m floating..
Turnout is actually one of the most difficult things to estimate.
by saying that they cover their arses as to lying as to turn out which other studies show, reporting can change behavior… ie. if they report a huge turnout, the opposition has fewer show up… but, when accused, they need cover, and so they claim turnout is hard to predict.
want to know whats hard to predict? higgs boson
what to know what else is hard to predict? pandemics
Turn out is not that hard to predict IF you want accuracy and they gave up on accuracy a long long time ago.
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Yes. (Yes!)
Now, that’s a find!
Cool picture.
Here in California, we are not leading as we like to do and have, at least not in this election – but are left behind. But there are cracks in the hold of the progressive stalwarts. The soda tax didn’t pass in SF. But mostly people are pretty down, I think they are in shock. Faces on the bus looked nearly solemn on my way to work.
As for me… I am – in absolutely happy jubilation! That’s one adjective too many, but this is marvelous, amazing! I am so relieved and glad for our country. Maybe, the people with a little sense are beginning to take it back! Yes!
I’ve been fasting and praying every Tuesday for our country since January 2008 when I realized George Soros was going to see to it that Obama would be elected President. This is the first election in a long time that I have felt some satisfaction. But living in Los Angeles, keeps me from being able to enjoy the fullness of hope…at least in our midst. Every day I see and experience the fallout of Democratic policies.
VERY happy that Cory Gardner won along with Mike Coffman and Ken Buck. Alas, Hickenlooper managed to find enough votes to beat Beauprez in the wee hours last night.
delightful pic, I love it !!!
BTW, brown lost in NH but……..
our state legislature candidates kicked butt, knocked out many dems, looks like we have a repub state house & this is seen as a repudiation of gun grabbers & those who would want a state income tax (as u no NH has no
income tax, it looks safe that one will never be inacted
despite pushes by the Left )
here’s an additional *laugh* for you, many of Bloombergs anti gun rallies he had with his *bus tour* had speakers, well NH *open carry* people showed up with their weapons (lol) to take it all in.
One little lefty lady read her canned speech shaking like a leaf….. it was like a Western, lol
And how were those polls so wrong?
Next meeting of the Democratic Governors Association will be at the Harrisburg Appleby’s, PA Turnpike Exit 247, third booth from the back.
@Cornhead
Even the vaunted 538 was caught with their pants down. Regarding the gubernatorial races:
“we gave the GOP incumbent, Sam Brownback, only a 20 percent chance.
“And Republicans have even taken Maryland, where they had only a 6 percent chance of winning according to our last pre-election forecast.”
http://fivethirtyeight.com/liveblog/special-coverage-the-2014-midterms/
I’m happy about the victory, but I do remember the “shellacking” Obama got in the 2010 midterms, and how even so the GOP could do nothing to stop him after that. They didn’t win the Senate then, of course, but still it seemed things would get a bit better. Instead…
Cornhead: Oddly enough, this question was actually addressed by Nate Silver of 538 earlier today.
The only proper conclusion to be drawn is the one you already know: Polls are crap, and the only one that actually counts is the one taken in the first week of November.
I am glad Mia won her place, as she is no where as idiotic and densely stupid like maxine walters, and so on…
100% of Newly Elected GOP Senators Campaigned on Repealing Obamacare
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/100-newly-elected-gop-senators-campaigned-repealing-obamacare
Republicans now have every congressional seat for Arkansas for the first time in 141 years
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/11/05/republicans-now-have-every-congressional-seat-for-arkansas-for-the-first-time-in-141-years/
The Worst Predictions of 2014
Prepare yourself a healthy serving of crow and wipe the egg off your face. You didn’t just get last night wrong–you got it really wrong.
(delusionally wrong in some cases)
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/the-worst-predictions-of-2014-112582.html
Second Amendment Crushes Gun Control Candidates in Midterm Elections
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/04/Second-Amendment-Crushes-Gun-Control-Candidates-In-Midterm-Elections
In Iowa we now have 2 gop US senators, 4 out of 5 US representatives, both bodies in the state legislature, gop governor, and perhaps most importantly for 2016, a gop secretary of state. I am hoping we are on our way to turn from purple to magenta if not red.
Well, here is Oregon, using marijuana will be legal come next July, so the feasting and jubilation is a tad dampened, but I did feel a certain amount of satisfaction last night as other parts of the country came to their senses.
That’ll teach me to preview my comment. IN Oregon.
I have been relishing the taste of lib tears – I even went into Open Salon, where I haven’t been for months … and the denizens there seem to be rather subdued. Only the more conservative OSers seemed to be able to bring themselves to post today.
I just hope that the Stupid Party – the establishment GOPers don’t f*ck it up, one way or another. They have the advantage at this moment, they should recover their backbone and their balls (if they ever had them, which is a somewhat debatable question) and work to reverse the disasters that the Obama administration has brought upon us. Never mind about being called racist (raaaaacist!) or misogynist … shouldn’t the election of Mia Hamm count for something? Please, GOP – throw every ugly accusation of being woman- and minority-haters back in their teeth.
I can dream. Fall has at last arrived in South Texas, it’s rainy and cool, and my Tiny Publishing Bidness is doing OK, having signed a contract with a potentially major client, and have the promise of doing so with another, later in the month.
After taking a month-long sabbatical from the blogosphere, I’m thrilled to be able to celebrate the election results. Maybe I should take more sabbaticals. 🙂
Celebrate today. Tomorrow – it’s back to work. Progressives never quit. Neither should we.
I believe that lovely picture at the top of the post is from the Disneyland Jungle Ride. Am I correct, Neo?
Sgt. Mom: “I can dream.”
You (and all people of the Right, generally) need to do more than that. Elected office is only one piece. Now is the time to press forward and grow out with a full-spectrum Right activist social cultural/political movement.
Placing the whole burden on elected officials to change our society won’t work. The people, activated, must carry the burden with the elected officials, push them where you want them to go, enable and empower them for the contest, and create the incentives and disincentives to hold them accountable. While also competing in the activist game in your own right.
Dodger
I am glad Mia won her place, as she is no where as idiotic and densely stupid like maxine walters, and so on…
Seems to me that there is an IQ ceiling for Demo pols. It ain’t just Maxine Walters. Slow Joe and John Kerry don’t exactly dazzle anyone with brilliance.
Cornhead
And how were those polls so wrong?
I have read some conjectures that Pubs are less willing to give out their political opinions to a stranger on the phone, whereas Demos like to shout their opinions out.
I for one have gotten calls asking my political opinions. My answering machine screens all calls. I have never picked up the phone to answer the pollster. Given what the IRS has done in the last 4 years, I see no need to tell a stranger my opinions.
Facebook is kind of habit-forming–I kept wanting to click the “like” button on a number of these comments.
I’m too cynical and pessimistic to expect a whole lot from this, but at least it should slow down the decline.
Gringo, Cornhead:
If you trust Nate Silver on the topic of polls, he says the Democratic turnout was overestimated.
Turnout is actually one of the most difficult things to estimate.
Silver:
CharlieSays:
I don’t remember where I got the photo.
But it does remind me of this Disney oeuvre:
Smarmy Charlie Crist: Buuuu-Byeeeeeeeeee…!!
The cringe inducing schyster must return to his position under John Morgan’s desk. Let’s see Loathsome One… Republican…then Independent….Recently Obama loving Democrat…. What’s the NEXT Party, Charlie??
As RL stated today, this is a refudiation of the liberalism that denigrates America and expands government.
Hooyah.
Focus. Press in. Kill.
Today was very peaceful and satisfying. A typically rainy, gloomy fall day here in western Washington, where the GOP wave barely penetrated (oh, my liberal Congressman won by a smaller margin than expected…wow!). And yet, I was at peace and very happy. I am more hopeful and more content than I have been in years, at least since Obama won and arguably longer than that. 2010 was exciting and uplifting but tempered by the fact that the Senate was still Democratic and Obama still had a re-election campaign to potentially turn it all around. But today I felt a great catharsis. There is a light at the end of this tunnel. Whatever Obama tries to do in the next two years (and I believe he is far more likely to become even more indifferent and withdrawn than to “go rogue”) he is checked and caged in. And…he will be gone soon enough. I refuse to believe the 45th President will be as reckless, narcissistic and petulant, regardless of party. I realize a more sobering reality will set in soon enough. But for now, I’m floating..
Turnout is actually one of the most difficult things to estimate.
by saying that they cover their arses as to lying as to turn out which other studies show, reporting can change behavior… ie. if they report a huge turnout, the opposition has fewer show up… but, when accused, they need cover, and so they claim turnout is hard to predict.
want to know whats hard to predict? higgs boson
what to know what else is hard to predict? pandemics
Turn out is not that hard to predict IF you want accuracy and they gave up on accuracy a long long time ago.