[FDRfollower]

Whew!! Connecticut Democrats just made a wise choice! :thumbup: Now I wish he would take his scumbag DLC friends with him. Let's see where they go.

Let's all thank William Buckley for originally running BuckPAC that helped put Lieberman in office in the first place. :p

Of course, Fox "news" is saying Democrats are just a bunch of meanies for wanting a sane Senator. :D Have a sip of champagne for me Magi!! Hugs!

[MAGI]

:sunny:

Here's hoping this one step takes US toward reviving the American Dream for ALL!

I tribute Lamont's win to the Grassroots....Netroots.......... people all over OUR GRAND COUNTRY who contributed and literally worked HARD to carve a pathway back toward LIBERTY and JUSTICE for ALL

and to those of us in CT. who ARE listening and watching and understanding what is truly happening in our country and world today!

So cheers and a toast to All who supported Ned Lamont, a humane being, who stands for ALL my countrymen!

:toast:

Two CT Newspapers:
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2006/08/lamont_crushes_1.php


http://www.courant.com/

[Jane of Arc]

Some question for you MAGI ... does Conn. have electronic machines with a paper trail? I assumed you voted. If you did ... what was the machine like? Did you get a receipt? Were there people monitoring the voting? Did you notice any video cameras on the walls or ceilings recording events? THANKS!!!:sunny:

[MAGI]

Hi Jane of Arc,
We have, in my town anyway, the old lever machines still.
In the primary there were names above the little, umm what shall I call them, single mini levers........?.............which a person pulled down singularily.

No party lever except in regular elections. The vote registered when a person drew the lever which opens the curtain of the booth in which the person voted.

We are slated to get new ones. ..........with a paper trail soon.

[MAGI]

I was about to leave the house when I checked the PC, Jane and neglected to answer your other questions.

Two workers stood aside of the voting booth (there are two, only one was in use as it wasn't busy enough for 2 at that time anyway) & I didn't notice any cameras.

It was shortly after I voted on the 8th & was watching news on TV when I learned we were getting new machines. I'll contact our Town Clerk & find out the particulars.

I have been voting by absentee ballots for many years because we're generally away in November and questioned my daughter about the party levers since there were none. She said the machines are as I described ....no party levers, each mini is pulled down separately.

My guess:
people were confused when it came to splitting their tickets..............?

[FDRfollower]

In the latest insanity from the bunker. Dick Cheney says that every Democrat who voted for Ned Lamont is in bed with Al-Quaida. ;)

[MAGI]

In the latest insanity from the bunker. Dick Cheney says that every Democrat who voted for Ned Lamont is in bed with Al-Quaida. ;)

:D

Methinks He feels the heat of resentment of the people!

We all know THOSE in power NOW have taken our country to our lowest point in history! It is THE WHITE HOUSE CABAL that took their eyes off AL-Quaida (Osama bin Laden's band) the instant they took office! It is the WHcabal that seized the chance to take up the neo-con PNAC plan! It is Dick Cheney and his band that fired up INTENSE HATRED toward us (U.S.) all over this globe!

We see positive results in our gov't from the shockwave of Ned Lamont's victory already! :thumbup:

May it spread and may we once again have a government that is not afraid to stand up for our constitution;
respect for life, liberty, and justice for ALL, with WISDOM and SANITY to guide us once again!

It is now FIVE loooong years that bush and his cabal IGNORED that famous memo that warned of 9/11/01 ...........................and he STAYED in Crawford TEXAS on VACATION!

HECK-of-a-JOB, boys and girl!

[MAGI]

:D

Methinks He feels the heat of resentment of the people!

We all know THOSE in power NOW have taken our country to our lowest point in history! It is THE WHITE HOUSE CABAL that took their eyes off AL-Quaida (Osama bin Laden's band) the instant they took office! It is the WHcabal that seized the chance to take up the neo-con PNAC plan! It is Dick Cheney and his band that fired up INTENSE HATRED toward us (U.S.) all over this globe!

We see positive results in our gov't from the shockwave of Ned Lamont's victory already! :thumbup:

May it spread and may we once again have a government that is not afraid to stand up for our constitution;
respect for life, liberty, and justice for ALL, with WISDOM and SANITY to guide us once again!

It is now FIVE loooong years that bush and his cabal IGNORED that famous memo that warned of 9/11/01 ...........................and he STAYED in Crawford TEXAS on VACATION!

HECK-of-a-JOB, boys and girl!
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Read this too late to edit so..................

These words from Nixon said long ago are more meaningfull today as they were then:


http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/70

What Dems Can Learn From Richard Nixon About Campaigning During a Stupid War

"Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively," Nixon said, "and if after all of this time, and all of this sacrifice, and all of this support, there is still no end in sight, then I say the time has come for the American people to turn to new leadership not tied to the mistakes and policies of the past."

May this statement make its way to every means of media TODAY!

A toast to the finder!
:toast:

[Lionhearted]

Bye bye Joe! Good Riddance!!

Seems sadly premature now doesn't it?

[MAGI]

Sadly, yes, this country has lost a true CT. Democrat in our Senate.
A man who truly shows he cares for We The People; Ned Lamont. I am so sorry for Ned, but so much more for my countrymen.

I have no doubt he and the people who love and worked so earnestly for him, have helped to take back the House & Senate (hopefully), for We the People.

I know Ned Lamont will continue his work for society and live forever in our hearts as a true statesman and more than likely wishes one and ALL, Love and PEACE.


Most Sincerely,
MAGI
:sunny: :thumbup:

[gbrook80]

Scumbag DLC friends? Who was the last liberal Democrat to win a presidential election? The fact is, DLC can win elections.

[MAGI]

Scumbag DLC friends? Who was the last liberal Democrat to win a presidential election? The fact is, DLC can win elections.

and that's why the Dems won in 1994, 2000 & 2004?
:rolleyes:

Times have changed.

The Alliance of the Ignored: Power Perceived Versus Power Achieved
by , Mon Nov 20, 2006 at 05:13:54 PM EST

The attempts to oust Dean have been crushed. The anti-Deaniacs in the party are fresh out of friends:
James Carville's attempt to topple Howard Dean as chairman of the Democratic National Committee failed after state party officials and even a vocal critic of Dean crushed the coup, officials said.

Insiders from the Clinton camp winced at Carville's untimely remarks last week calling for Dean's ouster in favor of unsuccessful Senate candidate Harold Ford of Tennessee.

"It was not coming from [Sen. Hillary Clinton] and they made a real effort to distance themselves from James' comments," said a source close to the Clintons.

The Clintonistas don't want an undeserved backlash from the activist wing of the party that overwhelmingly supports Dean, especially because some anti-Clinton Democrats have blamed Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) for the attack by Carville, a longtime Clinton insider. Those forces claimed Carville's motive was to topple Dean in favor of a chairman more favorable to Sen. Clinton's bid for President.
The remarks form Clinton's camp come after Charles Schumer and Donnie Fowler backed Howard Dean and the fifty-state strategy, the Association of State Democratic Chairs did the same, and after Dean scored a 96% approval rating on the latest Dailykos leadership poll. The latter two are particularly key, because over the past two years, Howard Dean's base of support in the party has come primarily from two sources: state parties and the progressive movement. Although lacking in nuance, it would not be inaccurate to characterize the current modus operandi of the DNC as follows: small donations from progressive movement activists flow to the DNC in record amounts, and most of those donations end up being spent on direct grants to state parties and in the form of state-level field organizers. This is a novel path for Democratic money to take, especially since it generally bypasses both Washington, D.C. based consultants and wealthy donors. It is also exactly why Carville's base of supporters hate Dean so much.

Although this is obviously lost on most pundits and journalists, it is interesting how this seemingly odd alliance between state parties and the progressive movement is based not upon ideology. Rather, it is based upon both a shared strategic principle, the fifty-state strategy, and a shared chip on the shoulder: the sense that both have been long ignored by the party leadership. It is a sort of Alliance of the Ignored. When this alliance runs afoul of the Carville's and Begala's of the world, once gain it does so primarily because of strategic differences, not because of ideology. Carville and Begala generally represent an older tactical vision for the Democratic Party. This was a vision that was dominant from 1988-2004, when Democrats heavily employed triangulation, focused almost entirely on the narrow targeting of a few "swing" districts and demographics, and when television advertisements and repetitious talking points aimed mushy-middle, low information voters where the primary tools utilized in all national Democratic campaigns. Wealthy donors and high-level consultants liked that strategy because it kept money flowing to the latter in the form of hefty commissions, and because it kept Democratic policy where the former would like it to be. Most state parties and progressive activists hated that strategy because it basically dictacted that their electoral concerns were either not important, or something that the Democratic Party needed to actively distance itself from. Whatever ideological differences there may or may not be between the two feuding camps, ultimately their dispute is grounded in a difference in tactical vision: narrow targeting versus the fifty-state strategy.

Right now, the fifty-state strategy is ascendant, and so are state parties and the progressive movement. Fifty-state strategy candidates appear to have the votes to win the DNC Chair for the foreseeable future. Long-ignored state parties will probably keep voting for it, and the long-ignored activists in the progressive movement will probably keep funding it. It is in this way that state parties and the Democratic activist working class have bandied together to form an Alliance of the Ignored to which even the Clinton camp must now pay respect. Best of all, even when Dean's tenure is up in two years, the progressive movement can maintain our power and the Alliance of the Ignored with the state parties through another DNC chair who would be willing to continue the fifty-state strategy. In all likelihood, every once and a while some wealthy donors and high-level consultants will back another pundit like Carville in an attempt to replace a fifty-state strategy chair with a narrow targeting, triangulation, low-information voters chair. However, as long as we make certain the fifty-state strategy is healthy and functioning, these donors and consultants will continue to fail. The old Washington, D.C. based CW clearly does not have the votes to overcome the new fifty-state strategy coalition in the Democratic Party.

more...... http://mydd.com/story/2006/11/20/171354/93

Also check out the Nation:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?pid=142144

[FDRfollower]

DLC, the worst gang of unprincipled degenerates you can find in a political party.

Winning with these guys is the equivalent of selling your soul to the devil.

Lionhearted
Quote:
Bye bye Joe! Good Riddance!!

Seems sadly premature now doesn't it?

Well, it was a pretty exciting Democratic primary race and the voters did speak their mind then. It seems, that theres more Republicans in CN than Democrats. I remember most of the state was pretty right wing except for places like Hartford and New Haven. I'm just wondering what made Alan Schlesinger "fall on his sword". %6 is an unbelievable low voter percentage for a major party candidate.

I think I warned, that the Senate Democratic Campaign committee was going to destroy candidates that followed their "leadership" a few months back.