Mydd UserID 2851, Edgewater, Chicago. 60's hippie radical. Would like to see electoral reforms sufficient to begin to reign in our current plutocracy. Blogging since 2003. With others founded SoapBlox/Chicago, now PraireStateBlue.
I was going to rant about how MyDD needs approval (multi-vote) polling when lo and behold I see that it exists. Here's why I'm excited about discovering this fact. Look at these results:
January Presidential Straw Poll (MyDD Candidates) Pick all you approve of:
- Edwards - 21 votes (23.6%)
- Obama - 20 votes (22.47%)
- Kucinich - 12 votes (13.48%)
- Richardson - 11 votes (12.36%)
- Clark - 9 votes (10.11%)
- Clinton - 6 votes (6.74%)
- Vilsack - 3 votes (3.37%)
- Gravel - 2 votes (2.25%)
- Not Sure - 2 votes (2.25%)
- None of These - 2 votes (2.25%)
- Biden - 1 votes (1.12%)
- Dodd - 0 votes (0%)
Total votes: 89
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donors and volunteers are valuable, and shouldn't have their time wasted:
three times in the past eight days i've been asked about how a potential volunteer and contributor should budget their time in campaigns within shouting distance of chicago. this isn't really an easy request. how you should spend *your* time and money should reflect your priorities, your ideological leanings, and your "vision" for the country. if you are really concerned about local things, even in so-called red districts, you should spend your time helping to build up your local party organization, regardless of your candidate's chances in the fall. think strategically, act locally.
meaning, how you spend your time and money doesn't have to be objective. an exercise like this one does.
Announcing:
A number of us from the Chicago region have launched a "Progressive group blog on the Politics of Chicago & the Midwest". SoapBlox/Chicago is the latest scoop-style blog dedicated to moving local politics in the progressive direction.
The Stock Market needs an infusion of trillions of dollars to prevent a (another) failure. The current administration plan to borrow trillions of dollars from our grandchildren, so our kids can invest in the market to save it, would only be a temporary solution and cause worse problems for the stock market later.
There is no "Social Security Crisis". That's a modern myth. We need to switch the frame to "Stock Market Crisis" whenever we hear or read it.
For more details on the Stock Market Crisis and its impact on Social Security read Stirling Newberry's dKos diary.
In the meantime we need to begin to switch the frame to the correct one.
· IA-04: Latham and Greenwald hold second radio debate (desmoinesdem)
· One Really Bad Typo: 'Barack Osama' on Ballot in NY County (lipris)
· NC Sen: Kay Hagan Fights back against False Freedom's Watch Ads (The Southern Dem)
· Gordon Smith: Sarah Palin is "a great governor of CALIFORNIA" (karichisholm)
· Rossi subpoenaed in Buildergate Case (John Rohrbach)
· SD: Tim Johnson Leads 60%-35% (lowkell)
· NRCC Pulling 2/3 of ads in swing district (fbihop)
· McCain still making a play for Iowa? (desmoinesdem)
· WVa Pres: M42 O50 - 12 point swing (WVaBlue)
· MN-03: Madia raises $997k in Q3 (MN Campaign Report)
· CO-04: Musgrave-Markey pre-debate throw down (em dash)
· NC-Sen: Dole still banging deregulation drum (John Rohrbach)
