Category Archives: Get Out The Vote

Today In Horse-Racing News

Posted on October 25, 2022 by tengrain

More great news from Georgeduh: Georgia early voting numbers continue shattering records ATLANTA – With just over two weeks until election day, early voting is still breaking records in Georgia. As of Monday morning, over 837,000 people have voted across … Continue reading →

Posted in 2022 Pie Fight, Georgeduh, Get Out The Vote, voting | 3 Comments

2022 Pie Fight: We Got Numbers

Posted on October 21, 2022 by tengrain

Let’s say right off the top that paying attention to polling means you are paying attention to horse-race journalism. Polling is —at best— a snapshot in time of opinion, and opinions change as time passes.  Our Failed Political Press ™ … Continue reading →

Posted in 2022 Pie Fight, Get Out The Vote, voting | 4 Comments

It’s the Republican Party, Stupid

Posted on October 10, 2022 by tengrain

Tiger Beat on the Potomac (thanks Charlie!) email thingie quantifies something we long suspected: a lot of this year’s Pie Fight candidates got to the general election without a clear majority of the vote: TOP LINE FIRST IN SCORE — … Continue reading →

Posted in 2022 Pie Fight, 2024 Goat Rodeo, Get Out The Vote, voting | 2 Comments

The November Threat

Posted on October 4, 2022 by tengrain

Joseph Stalin apocryphally said that who votes doesn’t matter, it’s who counts the votes. Tiger Beat on the Potomac (thanks Charlie!) morning email thingie sums up the treachery we are likely to experience tying to vote in the 2022 Pie Fight: … Continue reading →

Posted in 2022 Pie Fight, Get Out The Vote, Vote Suppression, voter fraud, voting | 9 Comments

Report: Polling Numbers Should Be Apples-to-Apples, NYTimes!

Posted on September 13, 2022 by tengrain

Democrats are polling strong ahead of the 2022 Pie Fight, er, midterms. But… Nate Cohn at the NYTimes tells us that some areas where Dems are polling well are the exact same spots that polls got wrong in the 2016/2020 … Continue reading →

Posted in 2022 Pie Fight, Get Out The Vote, The NYTimes, voting | 2 Comments

Report: Democrats Pass Assault Weapon Ban, Republican Senate Will Kill It

Posted on July 29, 2022 by tengrain

Democrats in the house passed an assault weapon ban: House Democrats passed an assault weapons ban for the first time in roughly 30 years Friday, a legislative feat on a politically fraught issue that tested the unity of the caucus. … Continue reading →

Posted in Get Out The Vote, Guns! Guns! Guns!, voting | 2 Comments

Great Signs, Cont.

Posted on July 27, 2022 by tengrain
Posted in Get Out The Vote, Great Signs, voting | 5 Comments

Voting Day Today!

Posted on June 14, 2022 by tengrain

Today, Maine, Nevada, North Dakota and South Carolina will hold their primaries, while Texas will hold yet another special election. Nevada is probably the most interesting to watch as they will have Governor, US Senator, and US Representatives. The Republicans … Continue reading →

Posted in Get Out The Vote, voting | 3 Comments

2022: ‘It’s About Democracy, Stupid!’

Posted on February 14, 2022 by tengrain

Over the weekend I was having a text chat with some of my unindicted co-conspirators and I made the observation that the unified message of the Democrats for 2022 needs to be, “It’s About Democracy, Stupid!” — and then this … Continue reading →

Posted in 2022 Pie Fight, Get Out The Vote, Vote Suppression, voting | 6 Comments

Yay Us! Oh, wait.

Posted on November 22, 2021 by tengrain

Scissorhead Jimmy-T alerts us: The US became a ‘backsliding democracy’ in 2020 and ‘fell victim to authoritarian tendencies’: report The US was dubbed a “backsliding democracy” for the first time in an annual report. The International IDEA’s report, which looked … Continue reading →

Posted in Democracy, Get Out The Vote, Hair Führer Donald Trump, Vote Suppression, voting | 6 Comments