The In Box: When The Right Revolts (Notes From NY23rd) »
Posted By happydaze 2 weeks, 6 days ago in Political NewsA companion piece to this might be a play on words entitled, When moderate Republicans revolt? I was struck by the SLC Republican Committeeman who posted on the INBOX this week who said that he would go to the Board of Elections and change his registration from Republican to Independent. Just this morning I worked with a aging male on a volunteer project who, while circumspect indicated he had gone down Wednesday morning and changed his registration. He will now be voting for the best person. While anecdotal one has to wonder how much smaller Republican registration will be throughout the NY-23 district as a result of the recent campaign. People are voting again, this time with their feet.
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happydaze2 weeks, 6 days ago
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Well I live in NY State and spent the whole day yesterday driving truck through the 23rd making deliveries. I listened to the local radio to find out what was on the minds of the people. I learned a few things:
The people in the 23rd resented the outsiders coming into their district and picking their candidate for them.
Most thought that Dee Dee Scozzafava was the perfect candidate. They are fiscally conservative people but socially moderate.
Due to the problems above voter turnout was estimated to be around 30% which is very low. They said the lowest up there in quite some time.
These people are not just some uneducated hillbillies who will gobble up the extreme right pablum. SUNY Potsdam is in the 23rd! This is a huge Liberal Arts College. Tonight Saturday 11/07/2009 Sweet Honey in The Rock is performing there. Canada is just a few miles north so there is an international flavor.
If the right wants to win elections they need to do their homework instead of just putting right wing ideologues in. The NeoCon Roadshow did not play well here at all. -
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"Meanwhile, prominent conservative propagandist Jerome Corsi posted to WorldNet Daily (another prominent conservative website) arguing that the shooter at Fort Hood "advised Obama transition."
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter in yesterday's massacre at Fort Hood, played a homeland security advisory role in President Barack Obama's transition into the White House, according to a key university policy institute document.
As you can probably guess, the most cursory journalistic rigor demonstrates that both of these suggestions are utterly, categorically, demonstrably false.
For starters, the video shows clearly that Mr. Obama speaks substantively and sensitively to the tragedy, calling it "a horrific outburst of violence."
"My immediate thoughts and prayers are with the wounded and with the families of the fallen," said Mr. Obama.
Meanwhile, Mr. Corsi's claims about the shooter's involvement with the Obama transition are frankly ludicrous.
It turns out Hasan once attended a non-governmental event involving homeland security discussions -- as an audience member.
This from NPR's Tom Gjelten:
Frank Cilluffo, the HSPI director, says the participants' list, published as an appendix to the Task Force report, was no more than a tally of those people who RSVP'd to a notice of the roundtable meetings, which took place between June 2008 and February 2009. "Hasan joined as a member of the audience," Cilluffo says.
These incidents speak volumes about the wretched, stomach-turning calculus of the far Right." -
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