The Glade 4.0

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/09/14/ ... index.html

3-1 majority of the voters and they still lost the seat big time. The comments on CNN do entertain, almost as fun as Daily Kos

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

The phrases 'lose a big one' vs 'loose a big one' bring to mind completely different things for me.

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And that would be "bring to mind".

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will apologize, worked last night, and had to stay awake for the roofer. 24+ without sleep is making my usually poor grammar worse.

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

So just fix the title :p

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Holy shitsnacks!

Ok this was funny...

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/14/r ... um=twitter





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%2 ... l_district

Last time someone other than a Democrat won that district? 1922

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

I feel bad for the Republican. He even spits on the sidewalk and the DNC will have a protest.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

I wouldn't say it's a big election, but it's a notable one.

Party switches on disgraced candidates are rather common I think. Not knowing anything about the guy I don't know how great this is. The last blue state republican elected via special election didn't turn out to be that great

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

I think his public stances on national issues should be noted. Like Scott Brown he opposes obamacare- publicly. He remarked he would cut the department of education down. He also suggested- in public- to UT the federal government (or budget) by 35%.

I think its notable that he got elected where he did stating what he stated.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

I agree, but it's still tough to say whether people were voting FOR him and his policies, AGAINST Weiner, or hell, even AGAINST Obama.

Exactly. A lot of people voted for Obama because he's not bush. It's possible a lot of people voted for this guy because he's not Weiner and the other guy wasn't not Weiner enough. While he sounds like a good guy it might be disingenuous to play this up as a good political barometer.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Would it be safe to say that two conservatives winning by large margins in deep blue strongholds is? Consider the commonalities between the two platforms. Did Brown win by not being Ted Kennedy? Or did he win on his stated ideas?

Really I think it speaks more to running on clear principals rather than the wishy washyness of regular pols.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

I think it's tough to make the argument that Brown was elected for anything other than his stated policies. But when you're replacing a guy that resigned from scandal, it does make that less clear. I'd need to see some exit polls or something.