Philadelphia Freedom
Voting is allegedly a mess in Philadelphia, even as it just begins. Clearly, it's Andy Reid's fault.
Labels: 2012 election, Iggles, the dead will vote
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Voting is allegedly a mess in Philadelphia, even as it just begins. Clearly, it's Andy Reid's fault.
Labels: 2012 election, Iggles, the dead will vote
Stephen Green posted 7 different potential scenarios. Is it a bad thing that I didn't pick a single one of them?
Labels: 2008 election, 2012 election, barack obama, mitt romney
Wojr sends this along, and I feel duty-bound to post it.
Labels: 2012 election, Charles Montgomery Burns for Mayor, Simpsons quote
Because everyone's really dying to see who I'm voting for -- I'm sure I can pull at least as many votes as the vagina video.
Labels: 2012 election, barack obama, mitt romney
If I need to suffer with a song stuck in my head, why shouldn't you have to do the same? Sometimes they're good, most times they're bad... but no matter what, they make you suffer. So I like to share the suffering whenever it happens.
Labels: annoying song, big and rich
Labels: 2012 election, barack obama, reasons to re-elect BO
The War on Women officially jumps the shark.
Labels: 2012 election, bad ideas, war on women
One more indicator comes up smiles for Romney -- the Redskins lost their last home game before the election. when that happens, the incumbent party has lost the White House in 16 of the last 17 elections.
Labels: 2012 election, dan snyder, redskins indicator
If this is true -- and I emphasize the word "if" -- Bloomberg shouldn't just be asked to resign, They need to find their impeachment provisions.
Labels: bloomberg, gun control, hurricane sandy
If I need to suffer with a song stuck in my head, why shouldn't you have to do the same? Sometimes they're good, most times they're bad... but no matter what, they make you suffer. So I like to share the suffering whenever it happens.
Labels: annoying song, the wanted
Jay Cost has a great piece about why it's been so difficult for Republicans to flip my erstwhile home state of Pennsylvania back from blue to red. The answer is simple: Philly has come up big for the Democrats time and time again.
The non-Philly portion of the state has slowly been trending red since 1988. Democrats hype their gains in the Philadelphia suburban counties, but often fail to mention how Republicans have more than made up ground in the exurban counties of York and Lancaster, as well as taken advantage of the collapse of the Democratic coalition in Western Pennsylvania, at least on the presidential level. In 1988 Michael Dukakis won five of the six counties that comprise metropolitan Pittsburgh; in 2008 Barack Obama won only one of them.
The population of the living in Philadelphia County is pretty flat, but I'll bet the dead have had insane levels of turnout in the last three election cycles. In any case, Cost notes that the opportunity for an upset in PA is real for Romney and the GOP, no matter what the spin from the Obama side. ISo why hasn’t the rest of the state tipped toward the GOP, especially given how hard George W. Bush worked to flip the Keystone State in 2000 and 2004?
The answer: The Democrats have done a monumental job of mobilizing the vote in Philadelphia County. In 1988 Pennsylvania minus Philly was 0.5 percent more Republican than the country writ large. Twenty years later, in 2008, it was roughly 2.5 percent more Republican. But Philadelphia County went from being 23 percent more Democratic in 1988 to 30 percent more Democratic in 2008.
Not only have Democrats moved Philadelphia leftward, they have done an expert job of keeping turnout growing cycle after cycle. This is extremely impressive because, as a share of the state’s population, Philadelphia County has been in a slow but steady decline (from upwards of 18 percent in the 1970s to about 12 percent today). What’s more, the county is now just 45 percent white, and non-whites are less likely to vote than whites.
I cannot overstate this: The prowess of the Democratic operation in Philadelphia over the last decade alone is simply incredible. Even though the population has been flat since 2000, Barack Obama managed to net 130,000 more votes out of the county than Al Gore!
Labels: 2012 election, mitt romney, pennsylvania, swing states
The latest in the on-going series of reasons to re-elect the President. Or as Jimmy Carter refers to him, "The guy who makes me look competent."
Labels: 2012 election, barack obama, reasons to re-elect BO