Friday, November 16th, 2007...5:40 am
Ole Ole Ole
I will be out for a few days as I will be travelling to Washington to see the New England Revolution decimate the Houston Dynamo’s vaunted flat back four.
But, fear not! Here are some leavings for you to chew on:
- Some of Hillary Clinton’s top staffers got into a bit of hot water this week for dumb-ass statements about younger activists made after it was reported that 3,000 of the 9,000 folks at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Iowa were young Barack Obama supporters. Here they were, quoted in an article on Politico:
At least two of Hillary Clinton’s upper-echelon advisers, Mandy Grunwald and Mark Penn, were decidedly unimpressed .
“Our people look like caucus-goers,” Grunwald said, “and his people look like they are 18. Penn said they look like Facebook.”
Penn added, “Only a few of their people look like they could vote in any state.”
Nice. Obama has been putting together a big effort to get high school seniors to the caucus, and I suppose that is the effort that Grunwald and Penn are pooh-poohing. Here is the stupid part that they are missing: Clinton is leading among younger voters in Iowa and nationwide (and one youth organizer that I talked to has actually been impressed with her youth outreach efforts). They may want to remember that before they trash their base again.
- Lori Oien complained to the Tucson Citizen about the unfairness of the at-large council election system. Funny thing, I never heard Republicans complain about (or the local media point out) the fact that none of the last three Republican council members, Kathleen Dunbar, Fred Ronstadt and Roy Laos, ever caried their own wards.
Somehow, Bob Walkup could win city wide. Three times even. By the way, under the system she demands, Oien still would have lost 52-48.
- Earlier this week, Daniel Scarpinato did a piece on women voters and women office holders. Daniel, I understand the need to find a woman that represented a view contrary to the proto-typical liberal feminist, but couldn’t you have found someone besides Karen Johnson to talk to? You know, someone from our planet?
- Nice to see that the Nevada primary is giving such a spotlight to Western issues. Aside from one question on Yucca Mountain, last night’s debate could have been held in Biloxi or Newark and no one would have known the difference.
7 Comments
November 16th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
I was rooting for Houston last year, but I’ll confess to backing the Revs this year. It just seems like they deserve to win once.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
That is a retarded statement to make. He is right if they are actually college kids because the student precincts don’t get many caucus votes but were talking about the difference between 1 student precinct getting 5 votes vs an “adult” precinct getting 18 votes. But add up the student precincts and you may be looking at 30-40 votes and that is a lot no matter how you slice it.
PLUS the fact that a lot of the kids can caucus in their “home” precinct or where their parents live if they are from Iowa and thus imbalancing the usual system. Which is what we did to Dean in Iowa using the veterans. Say a caucus had average attendence of 300 and it splits 110 Edwards, 85 Obama and 95 Hillary. Well, you add in 15 “kids” to that caucus and the totals end up 110 edwards, 100 obama and 95 hillary. That means Hillary just went from 8 or 9 votes from that precinct to 4-5. You get that across a state and Hillary places third and she is in real trouble.
Again, stupid statement to make. It will just encourage young obama supporters to caucus.
November 17th, 2007 at 7:28 am
Good luck to the Revs and it is awesome that you are going.
Congrats!
November 17th, 2007 at 10:13 am
I guess the idea of one person one vote hasn’t reached Tucson yet. The election at large system used in this City is the same that was used in the deep south at the beginning of the 20th Century and before to keep blacks from being elected to public office.
Let’s do a little research, name another City in Arizona that elects City Government in this manor? None, okay let’s try California but don’t stop there keep going….
November 19th, 2007 at 7:36 am
Karen Johnson is an aberration. I continue to hold out hope that someday, somehow, someone will work hard enough to replace her.
November 19th, 2007 at 8:12 am
Houston 2, New England 1. Sorry Ted, but I hope you enjoyed the trip and the game.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
I don’t know how New England lost, Ted. The Dynamo were so chaotic for most of that game.
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