MyDD :: Afternoon Thread

Afternoon Thread

by Chris Bowers, Tue Jun 27, 2006 at 03:00:10 PM EST

Here is what I am looking at:

Friday is the end of the second fundraising quarter. We have four new candidates up on the Dkos / MyDD / SSP netroots page, and you guys have poured in $11K since yesterday evening. Fantastic! Let's keep it coming!
Also, we are getting close to our fundraising goal for the next polling project: why did Francine Busby lose? The poll will go into the field soon, so please help us reach our $20K goal.
According to a new poll, in Rhode Island, Whitehouse and Chafee are neck in neck, 38%-37%. However, Whitehouse crushes Laffey, 55-25%. Go Laffey--win that primary for the all-powerful conservative base!
The great Bush bounce: from 33.9% to 36.6%. Is that the best the media can do for this guy? The lapdogs are really losing their potency.
Michael Nutter to run for Philly mayor. I'll be keeping my options open for a while.
Mystery Pollster compares public support for World War Two with public support for the war in Iraq. Tony Snow won't like the results.
Review of the new DeLay film: The Big Buy: Tom Delay's Stolen Congress

This is an open thread.

Tags: Open threads, fundraising, polling project, House 2006, Senate 2006, RI-Sen, public opinion, Philly mayor, culture, war, culture of corruption (all tags)

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I wonder what happened to turnerBroadcasting (none / 0)

what ever happened to TurnerBroadcasting? He used to be a pretty cool voice around here.

.. and when I win the lottery, gonna donate half my money to the city so they have to name a school or a park after me - camper van beethoven

by heyAnita on Tue Jun 27, 2006 at 03:18:16 PM EST

I think a donations thread might be a good idea. (none / 0)

I'm thinking back to the Dean campaign, when a deadline would approach and someone would open a Dkos thread for everyone to report their donations. Knowing that other people were opening their wallets helped encourage people to give or give more. Some of those threads got really giddy.

At any rate, as the end of Q2 approaches, you might think of doing this for the netroots-ActBlue candidates. I just chipped in $20 each for Burner, McNerney, and Hodes, and if saying that in a long-lasting Rec Diary over on DKos can help get more people to open their wallets, so much the better.

Of course, TNR will go nuts when they see all the rabid sheep encouraging each other on... no one was really watching back in 03 when the giddy GORE ENDORSED DEAN! threads were active. Press coverage of a thread like this could be... interesting. But that's no reason not to do it.

Anyway, I recall that being a very effective encouragement to give, and with an important Q2 deadline coming up, I think you should try it again.

by texas dem on Tue Jun 27, 2006 at 04:20:30 PM EST

Besides, (none / 0)

maybe you could set a record for longest-lasting Recommended Diary.

by texas dem on Tue Jun 27, 2006 at 04:21:09 PM EST
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Re: Afternoon Thread (none / 0)

Regarding the Senate race in Rhode Island, I find the following very troubling:

Chafee's campaign had encouraged Democrats who support the incumbent to switch party affiliations to independent or Republican so that they can vote in the Republican primary. The Providence Journal reported last week that more than 14,500 Democrats had switched their affiliation, presumably helping Chafee.

Where is the Rhode Island Democratic Party? How can they allow almost 15,000 people to change party identification? This is outrageous.

by illinois062006 on Wed Jun 28, 2006 at 12:19:16 AM EST

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