Tag Archives: 2010 elections

How To Rally Dummies

Starring Rand Paul and Carl Paladino.

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NOM Attacks Barbara Boxer En Español

Brian Brown: “California’s Latino population is socially conservative and supports the family values of life, marriage and work. They voted strongly in favor of Proposition 8 and they are pro-life. Barbara Boxer does not share these values. She is a knee-jerk, strident partisan who ignores the values of her constituents in order to practice bitterly divisive politics.”

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Brazil Goes Where America Has Only Dreamed: Clown Elected To Congress

A Brazilian clown has been elected to the national Congress with twice as many votes as any other candidate. Tiririca, or Francisco Oliveira Silva to give him his real name, was elected as a federal deputy for Sao Paulo with more than 1.3 million votes. Tiririca, or “Grumpy”, had slogans such as: “It can’t get any worse.” Tiririca won 1,353,355 …

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Christine O’Donnell, Witchy Woman

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CALIFORNIA: Polling Favors Legal Pot

Dominic Holden assesses the bill’s supporters: That’s 48 percent yes, 41 percent no, and 11 percent undecided—which is pretty good. The crosstabs are over here. Groups with over 50 percent support for Prop 19 are men, people under 50, white, moderate to liberal, dislike the Tea Party, make over $80,000, and live in the Bay Area. In other words, rich …

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MINNESOTA: New From Tarryl Clark

The BLEEP cracked me up.

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ILLINOIS: Anti-Gay GOP State Rep. Bill Brady Leads Gov. Pat Quinn

GOP state Rep. Bill Brady has a slight polling lead over Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, who today predicted that civil unions could become legal in his state “by the end of the year.” Early this year, Equality Illinois described Bill Brady as having “supported or co-sponsored every piece of anti-gay legislation there has been in Springfield – from a constitutional …

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Today In Teabagger Videos

From teabagger loon Ben Howe.

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New From Sharron Angle

Angle is attacking Sen. Harry Reid over the DREAM Act, which actually died along with the repeal of DADT thanks to the GOP filibuster.

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GetEQUAL: Close The GayTM

GetEQUAL has launched an internet campaign calling on its followers to “withhold time and money from political entities that are not fighting as hard for our equality as they are for our checkbooks.” We’re not the first ones to voice frustration with both Democrats and Republicans for holding our equality hostage (see here, here, and here). And we’re not going …

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Christine O’Donnell Action Figure

The same company offers Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin dolls, among many others.

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Karl Rove Predicts Democrats Will Lose 39-45 Seats In The U.S. House

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Why You Should Vote Republican

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Brown Leads Whitman By 3 Points

Maid-gate doesn’t appear to be having an effect on Meg Whitman yet, as several polls completed over the weekend show Jerry Brown’s lead shrinking slightly.

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CALIFORNIA: Courage Campaign Staffer Attack By NOM Bus Tour Supporter

The Courage Campaign reports that the man pictured above attacked their cameraman during a stop on NOM’s bus tour in California. The man, who claimed to be the owner of the property, angrily told Anthony that this was private property, and quickly struck Anthony in the arm, knocking the camera to the ground. Our tour camera has been damaged, and …

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Christine O’Donnell: I’m Not A Witch

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Larry Flynt: I’ll Give $1M For Dirt On Sen. David Vitter Or Other Politicians

Larry Flynt: “We know we’ve got a gay senator. We just like to see him come out of the closet. And I think we’ll be exposing that in the next few months if he doesn’t.” Lindsey Graham? And how much more dirt could there be on Sen. David Vitter other than his serial adultery, hooker patronage, and diaper fetish?

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NOM Attacks NH Gov. John Lynch

The Boston Globe reports today that NOM and an outfit called Cornerstone Action are spending $450K to attack New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch, who is up for reelection. You may recall Lynch signing his state’s marriage equality bill after insisting upon and getting new wording that specifically exempted churches performing same-sex ceremonies if they didn’t want to. But even that …

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ALASKA: Teabagger Candidate Joe Miller Calls Minimum Wage Unconstitutional

Joe Miller, Alaska’s teabagger Senate candidate, says the minimum wage is unconstitutional. He’s a Tenther, folks. Miller said there should not be a federal minimum wage, since it’s not a power given to the federal government in the Constitution. It’s not an enumerated power,” said Miller, R-Alaska. “That is clearly up to the states. We believe — the state of …

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Rahm Emanuel’s First Campaign Ad

This plodding clip announcing a tour of Chicago’s neighborhoods feels designed to counter his rageaholic rep.

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