NH-02: Anti-Consumer Bass (R-NH) Caves to Hollywood
How Bass slipped under NH's radar this long is baffling. You probably already know that Bass is against net neutrality. But it's worse. Turns out "Liberty Charlie"is one of the B-Flag 20.
View ArticleNH-02: Charlie Bass (R-NH) supports National ID System, against will of NH
Real ID, the Federal Government's plan to create a de facto national ID and ID database for all citizens has become so profoundly unpopular in NH that all current candidates for NH governor have...
View ArticleNH-02: Real ID Refugee limbo "unanticipated"
Just a short note on Real ID, the bill that Charlie Bass (R-NH) cosponsored that provides for a National ID system. Remember the Real ID bill? The one that all of NH opposes, but that Jeb and Charlie...
View ArticleNH-02: Bass (R-NH) on stem cells -- It polls great!
Cross-posted at NH-02 Progressive Charlie Bass (R-NH) is a profile in courage. I mean, really. He voted for stem cell research, right? How brave. Or maybe how funny. If you want to see the poll-colored...
View ArticleNH-PRIMARY: NYT gets it wrong, ridiculously wrong
Cross-posted at NH-02 ProgressiveUpdate: I originally thought this reporter was slacking off just on the NH story, because, hell, it's NH. However, my New York Times reading friends have told me that...
View ArticleThe Joomla connection to the Joe2006 hack
Really just trying to get this information out there before disinformation hits the news. We know the site probably crashed today due to traffic (Update 08/09: I agree with this guy that it may have...
View ArticleJoe2006.com Joomla Connection update [TheHacker found]
Smugness doesn't suit me, but screw it. Here's a quick update on the Joomla connection to the Joe2006 defacement. On primary night, I noted that the two previous July defacements that Dan Geary...
View ArticleNH-02: Go ask Charlie Bass (R-NH) Some Questions in Bow, NH
I never know whather to cross-post stuff like this from the local action blog. So I usually don't. But I figure I'll try throwing a couple of these up on dKos and see how the response is. So here it is...
View ArticleNH-02: Charlie Bass (R-NH) Ad Campaign Rewrite Contest
Charlie Bass (R, NH-02) is still sitting on his money apparently. His website is still "Coming Soon", and he is busy trying to stay out of sight while this Anti-Republican storm picks up speed. It's...
View ArticleOpen NH Intelligence Thread
The simplest diary in the world. I see you other NH people around dKos, Elwood Dowd, nhcollegedem, MissLaura, Republic, etc. We bump into each other. But last night kid oakland was asking who our top...
View Article$4400 to buy a House seat?!?
OK, thingsjust got interesting here. NH-02 Poll: Hodes (D): 42 Bass (R-inc.): 43 NH-02's House seat, which wasn't even on the Hotline list a month ago, is suddenly very much in play. Or rather, it was...
View ArticleNH Dem Party outraises Repub Party by 500%!
I told you things were getting interesting around here. But this is just plain, well, shocking. I have a tally of the recently posted filings for the state senate races and here's the result...
View ArticleNH: Recent filings indicate a grassroots rebellion in progress
The NH Republicans really have to change some of the selections in their jukebox. When the figures came out for state filings the other day showing the State Democratic Party raised $453,330 since the...
View ArticleNH-02: Bass (R-NH) gets MoveOn ads pulled from WMUR
Isn't it great we live in a country where a group of covertly funded wingnuts can take a John Kerry's war record and drag it through the mud, but NH's WMUR isn't allowed to run ads accusing Charile...
View ArticleNH-02: We have a Hodes (D-NH) video clip!
We got Paul Hodes (D-NH) video. I've been trying to tell you what Hodes is like, and why he's a great candidate to kick faux moderate Charlie Bass (R-NH) out. I been telling ya. So has MissLaura, and...
View ArticleNH-02: Look ma, no red hands! MoveOn forced to water down ads
Recently WMUR (Manchester, NH) was threatened by Charlie Bass with legal action if they ran new MoveOn ads. The problem? Charlie had his feelings hurt over language in the ads that said he had been...
View ArticleNH-02: Bass racks up another corruption connection
Bass certainly has a way of picking friends. First there was Tom DeLay. Bass took money from him and paid for some of his legal defense. When DeLay was past public rehabilitation, he distanced himself,...
View ArticleGas Price = Poll Results? Convince me.
Am I wrong, or does every summer the price of gas seem to rise, and every fall it drops? Is that not the normal demand driven cycle? Seriously, am I wrong? And as the incumbent comes out of primaries...
View ArticleNH-02: To Charlie Bass -- Apology Accepted
Rep. Charlie Bass apologized to me today in his statement, as well as to MissLaura and the Swing State Project, for any disruption this may have caused on our sites. And he took quick action on the...
View ArticleNH-02: Was Furtado (IndyNH) smart after all?
OK, the soundbite has stuck. Tad was an idiot. He was messing with blogs, looking at them on semi-regular basis and trying to spin them. And he's an idiot because the blogs are not all that popular....
View ArticleNH-02: New Hodes Commercial. Perfect pitch for Northeast moderates?
The new Hodes commercial is out. Watch it (30 secs) then read on:http://www.hodesforcongress.com/... Now, I'm sure some will point out it is not the most original political ad ever produced. But here's...
View ArticleNH-02: Charlie Bass (R-NH). YouTubed on Foley. Wow.
Charles Foster Bass on YouTube. Guess he's giving up on that whole "moderate" thing, and going for the Zell Miller vote. Some choice nuggets: Calls Bernie Sanders "Hugo Chavez", and says his supporters...
View ArticleNH-02: Cracking Charlie's Secret Code
As most of you know, Charlie Bass (R-NH) stepped in a little macaca last week. Here's his response to the uproar. From The Hill:"I guess it's just a reflection on the fact that you can't really have...
View ArticleBass-o-matic: Attack of the Rove Clone (NH-02)
If you haven't been following the YouTube adventures of Charlie Bass (R-NH), I've thrown together a little rehash of some of the greatest hits of my Congressman's Columbus Day Rove rant, thrown it to a...
View ArticleNH-02 Roundup, Lumber and Helium Edition
So much going on, need a roundup, if only for my own benefit. More from Blue Granite, Yankee Doodler and the like after the flip.
View ArticleNH-02: Bass claims Pork, Ribbons, and Inheritance key to win
Alternate title: Bonnie Prince Charlie Confusing article yesterday from the AP where Bass says what he's running on is not Iraq, or stem cells, or the deficit, but constituent services. You know,...
View ArticleNH-02 roundup, Demoralizing Pumpkin Defeat edition
Hanging out with Team Hodes this Saturday during the Keene Pumpkin Festival. I have to say...some of the nicest people you'll meet. The bad news: Keene is no longer the record holder of the most...
View ArticleNext time I'll count to 10
Next time I'll count to 10. But for the moment, screw it. I feel I have to address all the senseless internal Dem criticism that some campaigns are getting from the local defeatocrats, just two weeks...
View ArticleLIVE-BLOGGING: Hodes/Bass Debate, WMUR 6:45-8pm (NH-02)
OK, this is the big one. WMUR 7-9.STREAMING IS AVAILABLE AT WMUR.COM Bass has been cracking under the pressure lately. You want to watch this LIVE to see if he blows a gasket. As we wait for it to...
View ArticleNH-02: Charlie Bass ... oh, screw it, help us GOTV
Charlie was in a tough spot in the debate Wednesday. The best attack he could mount against Paul Hodes was that Paul Hodes "flip-flopped" between rolling back tax cuts on only the top 1% and rolling...
View ArticleNH-02: DCCC makes surprise $1.1 million buy in NH-02
I'm absolutely stunned with how fast things have moved here. Within 24 hours we've seen a new Majority Watch poll indicating Paul Hodes has pulled into the lead. We've seen Charlie Cook moving us from...
View ArticleVoter Suppression in NH-02 (via robocalls)
The call begins with a recorded voice in a positivve upbeat tone: "Hello I'm calling with information about Paul Hodes..." Robocall, you think, and hang up promptly. You're already going to vote for...
View ArticleNH-EC: Who the heck is John Shea?
If you want to know how much of a tidal wave struck NH last Tuesday, consider this. The man who will be tipping the balance of the powerful Executive Council doesn't know he won yet. John Shea, who has...
View ArticleHey Republicans! Here's how you can win.
There's been a lot of discussion about Dems "running as conservatives" lately, mainly because it was on the Republican talking points fax. Frankly, I think if they want to call the new Democrats more...
View ArticleNH-SEN: Senator Gregg Attempts To Intimidate Local Paper
[Note: The letter referenced below is paywalled, no link is available. Oh, and for the humor impaired, it's called irony.] See what Carol Shea-Porter started?You may remember that Shea-Porter had the...
View ArticleWaiting for Goredot (or why Al Gore should announce pursuit of the VICE...
That Gore will announce his candidacy at the Academy Awards tonight is legend, not fact: a bizarre wish fulfillment fantasy. But its presence out there speaks volumes. Gore directed is the subject of...
View ArticleWhy McCain's "Cross in the Dirt" Rewrite Should Scare You
In the NH McCain event I went to in Londonderry, the cross in the dirt story was a major part of his opening piece. He told the story much as he did here:
View ArticleSarah Palin scrubs Governor's site of Stevens references AFTER the...
Dean Barker over at Blue Hampshire has discovered, via the wayback machine, that a press release regarding Ted Stevens has been removed from the Governor's official site.And through the magic of Google...
View ArticleGlen Beck's Vampire Dog Whistle
Sorry if this is a reblog, but I haven't seen this mentioned around yet. Maybe I missed it -- I haven't been able to tolerate much web surfing due to a corneal issue. But I couldn't help notice that...
View ArticleWhat does it mean to 'clinch the nomination' when superdelegates are involved?
After reading a number of impassioned defenses of why the Democratic presidential nomination should not be called next week on June 7th, I got curious. What’s the history here, since the superdelegates...
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The State Senate Race That Could Give Washington Automatic Voter Registration
Tim Probst’s State Senate race against Lynda Wilson in Washington State has flown under most people’s radar. Yet this race, in Washington’s 17th District, will actually determine the future of...
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Free Speech Monomania In Support of White Supremacy Has a Long History
Here’s a lovely piece from the King Feature Syndicate from 1929 that I discovered while roaming some newspaper archives. It’s an opinion piece on free speech — and lynching.Lynchings in 1928 were fewer...
View ArticleWA-03: Dem Challenger Long Pulls Into Dead Heat With Incumbent Beutler In...
Not a surprise to those who know the candidate, or those who have been following the district closely, but Democratic challenger Carolyn Long has pulled even in a WA-03 race that was not even on the...
View ArticleDon't Boo, Vote: Halloween Edition
So it’s a corny joke. But I actually think the cartoon my daughter drew of it is pretty adorable, so I leave it here for you to use as an invite to Halloween parties or an HOA-approvable political...
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