Archive for October 26th, 2010
Three Possibilities for Obama's BIG SCANDAL: Bribery, Gay Sex, and MURDER
We have never gotten more emails about any one single topic than we have today about Ulsterman’s latest “Democrat Insider” column: this is a series of articles he’s been writing in NewsFlavor that he presents as a dialogue with a supposed former White House employee, high-ranking, that’s spilling the dirt on the Obama Administration.
Today’s installment was called “President Obama is Lost. Absolutely Lost”. In this installment, Ulstermann refers to a mysterious “Big Scandal” that’s rooted in Chicago, which will bring Obama and the Democrats down and destroy just about anyone who touches it.
This is a political McGuffin, in our opinion, and these “dialogues” are indeed interesting reading, but they’re narrative devices on the part of Ulstermann. We don’t believe these conversations are taking place, but we do think Ulstermann is a sharp guy who can see the forest for the trees and is just speculating on what’s happening in the White House based on his knowledge of all the personalities involved there.
When George W. Bush went to Washington in 2000, he brought with him MBAs, people who worked in business, staff with executive branch experience from his Texas governor’s office, and people who worked for his father’s White House.
When the Clintons were president in the 90s, they brought similar people with them from the Arkansas Governor’s mansion, though no one with real business sense and a lot more partisan political animals.
Obama brought crazy people from Chicago with him to the capital. The disaster that’s become his presidency is a direct result of this, because many of the people advising the current president are mentally ill at best, and pure-blood Marxists at worst.
Knowing this, we think Ulstermann has boiled conversations with people who know the mental patients currently working in West Wing down to this “White House insider” character, who is not a real person.
That’s just our opinion on it, but here’s why we think this person isn’t real: we have a lot of sources too, and in the past when we’ve written things up as an “We had lunch with so and so and he said” piece, that source got skittish about being identified somehow and either never gave us dirt again or really watched what they said. You have to remember, the sort of people who would be talking to Ulstermann are probably men in their fifties with two or even three mortgages, car payments, kids in Ivy League schools, alimony payments, credit card bills, and all the other things that make middle-aged men sweat, lose their hair, and go blind from stress. Outside of professional boxing and a season on Project Runway, working in politics is the most rough and tumble, one day you’re in and the next day you are out, you are only as good as your last fight/piece/success occupation there is.
Knowing these people, and how skittish they are on both sides of the aisle, how terrified the all are of getting burned by talking about things that shouldn’t be talked about, we just can’t imagine some source like Ulstermann describes really existing. Hell, we know people who worked in the Carter White House who STILL won’t talk about the experience, not until Jimmy Carter is actually dead. In the Democrat Party especially, once you are on an enemy’s list, you are never removed. Someone will get you back.
All that said, if we assume for a minute that every word in the Ulstermann articles is true, people have been writing in all day to ask what we think is the “Big Scandal” that could destroy Obama and the Democrats. In our opinion, it’s either the pay-to-play bribe Obama took as a state senator from Yesse Yehudah, Obama’s gay relationships with men including his visits to Man’s Country bathhouse as a state senator, or the Trinity United Church of Christ murders in the leadup to Obama’s run for the presidency.
Both of the Obamas have been involved in pay-to-play bribes throughout his political career. Michelle, by way of her position at the University of Chicago, took all sorts of money that was funneled through various criminal enterprises, as consulting fees for this and that. This is how things are done in Chicago. The media largely ignored all of this because they not only wanted to help Obama but also because the average reader/viewer finds these deals very hard to follow. The minutia of this stuff is boring.
Dan Morain at the LA Times tried writing stories on the Yesse Yehudah bribe Obama took, to the tune of $10,000, but there was never any national interest in this story. During the 2008 campaign, we were pushed very aggressively by someone connected in Chicago politics to dig into the Yesse Yehudah story, particularly when people here noticed that HB started getting a lot of traffic and that people like Rush Limbaugh, Dennis Miller, and those in the McCain campaign were reading us and often commenting on things we talked about.
“Keep digging on Yehudah, Yehudah is key to everything,” we were told again and again, though these people kept being very vague about what this was all about. This kind of stuff is maddening to us. We’re not reporters. Where are we supposed to dig? In Grant Park? What are we supposed to dig with? Why aren’t actual reporters from real magazines or newspapers doing this? Even better, why don’t these sources just come out and TELL US what the Hell we are digging for instead of making everything a John Grisham-esque riddle to solve.
Going back to what we said above, these sources always want to have plausible deniability in case this stuff hits the fan. They give us a few breadcrumbs and jelly beans, but nothing that we could ever burn them with if suddenly national attention fell on HB and we were confronted by the White House or FOX News or some other entity and asked who told us what and when. So, they make us figure things out on our own, with all this cloak and dagger baloney along the way.
Story of our lives the last two and a half years.
Here’s some of what Dan Morain said about Yesse Yehudah in 2008:
As a presidential candidate, Obama has been critical of the congressional system of doling out money for pet projects. But he is no stranger to pork-barrel politics and the practice of spreading government money around his district. In Springfield he once directed state funds to a nonprofit group headed by a Republican and former ballot foe, Yesse B. Yehudah.
Yehudah barely registered a ripple of meaningful opposition, drawing only 10% of the vote in his 1998 challenge of Obama.
The following year, a nonprofit run by Yehudah, a social services organization called Fulfilling Our Responsibility Unto Mankind, began seeking state support. At the same time, Obama was considering mounting an ambitious challenge to U.S. Rep. Bobby L. Rush, a fellow Democrat.
Former foe Yehudah stepped up early to help. In November 1999, five people who worked for the Republican’s nonprofit organization each gave $1,000 checks to Obama’s congressional campaign committee. Yehudah makes no secret of his goal.
“We want [politicians] to know that when we sit down, we’re serious,” Yehudah said. “They know it when a $1,000 check comes in.”
Obama lost his congressional bid. President Clinton backed incumbent Rush, who received twice as many primary votes as Obama. Obama was left with a $40,000 debt.
Later that year, Yehudah associates pitched in an additional $5,000 to help retire Obama’s debt. The contributions were recorded on Oct. 7, 2000, three days after the Illinois Senate, at Obama’s behest, approved a $75,000 state grant to Yehudah’s nonprofit, state records show.
In an interview, Yehudah said the commitment for the grant was secured months earlier, in July. He called timing of the donations a coincidence.
The donations were modest by political standards, as was Obama’s relatively small assist to the nonprofit group of his ex-rival and new benefactor. But in Illinois, “government actions often occur around the time of campaign donations,” said Stewart of the Better Government Assn. “The answer is always the same: It’s always a coincidence.”
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said there was no connection between the campaign donations and the grant to Yehudah’s organization. “Of course not,” he said.
By 2002, Obama was preparing for his next challenge, a run for the U.S. Senate. Also that year, the Illinois attorney general sued Yehudah over allegations of kickbacks unrelated to the state grant. It was settled out of court.
Three days after the suit was filed, Obama returned one batch of donations totaling $5,000.
This Yehudah business is tied into Tony Rezko, because Tony Rezko had his hand in almost every crooked deal like this back then…and many of you probably know Rezko as being the man who helped Obama buy his house (by buying the land next door, that the Obamas could not afford, so that they could meet the purchase stipulation for the propety, which required both the house and the adjacent land to be bought on the same day).
Rezko is connected to the Giannoulias Mob Banking family through Broadway Bank, which many of Rezko’s crooked deals laundered money through. Rezko made deposits, then the Giannoulias family would loan large sums to all sorts of criminals, with Alexi himself claiming he never knew “the extent of their criminal operations”.
All of this ties into Rod Blagojevich, Rahm Emanuel, Jan Schakowsky, Mayor Daley, Valerie Jarrett, and all sorts of other crooks you know who are in various positions of power and prominence, because they all took money from the same corrupt troughs, got rich off various Chicago area land deals and other schemes, and made sure thieir relatives and personal friends all received Michelle Obama-style “consulting fees” whenever possible. This is how Chicago works.
So, if there is a “Big Scandal” it is most likely related to someone out there being ingenious enough to connect all the various scams and schemes this cast of characters was engaged in…and present it in a way that the public understands…with all the crimes, graft, bribes, and pay-to-play corruption pointing right to Obama himself.
This is a Herculean task. There are riddles and clues and enigmas wrapped in mysteries. All of this garbage goes back at least 20 years, back to Obama’s first days in Chicago…and most of it ties into things that were going on at Trinity United Church of Chirst as well…in particular the “Down Low Club”, DLC (not to be confused with the Democrat Leadership Conference).
The “DLC” is real (on both counts, but in relation to Trinity United for our purposes). Both Democrats and Republicans have something like this — where closeted gay men of public prominence can meet guys for sex and fun without blowing their covers. Republican Congressman Aaron Schock, for example, used the Chicago Young Republicans organization extensively through the summer of 2009 to meet hot young guys here in Chicago. We know of several guys who “dated” Schock through the CYRs…and these guys were chosen because they are ambitious, bisexual/questioning, and closeted themselves…so they could be trusted to keep Schock’s secret. We imagine people like Mark Kirk, Lindsey Graham, Larry Craig, Eric Massa, Mark Foley, Charlie Crist, and others had similar arrangements with Cocktail Party Republican establishment organizations that introduced these closeted gay men with young, attractive guys who could be trusted not to talk about doing whatever they were doing with politicians. These are NOT male prostitutes…but rather young men who want to get ahead in the GOP, so they’re willing to give a little…head…fill in the blank if you know what we mean. Not every guy is as attractive as Schock, but if you knew anything about the CYRs you’d see just how many guys in a groupd like that would love to do just about anything to have a Congressman write him letters of recommendation…especially in this economy.
In Chicago’s black community, the same thing was going on at Trinity United Church of Christ under Jeremiah Wright…where gay doctors, lawyers, football players, and politicians were all introduced to other closeted gay men…all of whom were usually married John Travolta/Tom Cruise/Rock Hudson style. The “DLC” set these guys up as “buddies”, so they could have their wives and public images while getting up to all their mano-y-mano shenanigans too. The black community is extremely bigoted and homophobic in general — much more so than the rest of American society. Gays are actively hated in churches like Trinity United, but efforts like the DLC are seen as endeavors to “cure” these men…or at the very least keep their activities within the club so that they are not putting themselves or their wives at risk by doing things in bathhouses, back alleys, or in sex clubs like “The Hole”.
Maybe the “Big Scandal” Ulstermann is referring to is the fact that Globe magazine and other publications have put together concrete evidence of Obama’s membership in the “DLC” at Trinity United. Maybe they were able to infiltrate the church and get people to talk on record. That would be impressive, because church members are terrified about talking on the record with this subject.
That’s because of Option Three for what this scandal could be, and that’s the suspicious and still-unsolved murders of several black gay men in Trinity United, all of whom had ties to Obama, and all of whom were killed as Obama was preparing to make his run for the presidency…almost as if they were taken out so that they could not impede his rise. Their deaths would eliminate whatever they were feared to have on Obama, as well as scaring other blacks in Chicago from outing him as well.
Now, all of this sounds crazy. MURDER? The current President of the United States being involved in murders? That sure would be a big scandal alright, bigger than Watergate…but if no one has touched any of this with a ten foot pole before, because they were scared of what Obama’s supporters would do to them, we don’t know what would have changed now. Obama will be revered as a small-g god in the black community for years to come…until we have another black president, most likely someone like Allen West in the future, who eclipses him.
But for the foreseeable future, blacks in America won’t want to hear anything negative about Obama, or believe he could be capable of anything horrible, anymore than they allowed OJ Simpson or Michael Jackson to be accurately appraised for their behavior either.
We can’t imagine a news organization in this country, even the Globe, dedicating resources to flesh out anything on the Donald Young murders at Trinity United, the Down Low Club, Obama’s Man’s Country escapades, Obama’s bizarre relationship with Hollywood actor Kal Penn, or Obama’s ongoing strange interactions with former Duke basketball player Reggie Love (whom Obama calls his iReggie).
After thinking about all of the above, it actually occurs to us that there is in reality a FOURTH option for what the “Big Scandal” could be…and that could be Obama’s birth certificate…and either the names or the race that’s listed on that original, Hawaiian document that Obama refuses to reveal.
It was weird SNL did a birth certificate joke against Obama this last weekend on the show…where Harry Reid, on the show, asked Obama why he won’t just show his birth certificate.
David Axelrod is a gross pig of a man, but we will give him credit where it is due: by astroturfing the “Birther” conspiracy theory crowd, Axelrod successfully removed conversation about Obama’s missing birth certificate from socially acceptable talk. Even now, writing this, we dread seeing people in comments indulging their Birther delusions of Obama not being born in Hawaii, Obama really being born in Kenya, Obama being born in Atlantis, etc. David Axelrod DELIBERATELY put those ideas in your heads, knowing that on Pavlovian cue he’d be able to rev you up and make you look crazy…and in turn make anyone talking about the birth certificate look crazy…because those fantasies are so out there.
MEANWHILE, the REAL REASON THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS BEING HIDDEN remains undiscussed. After going over the facts on this for the last two years, we’ve nailed it down to a few options. Obama won’t reveal his birth certificate because:
* His father was not actually Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. but was in fact Frank Marshall, a radical communist and admitted pedophile who had a strange relationship with Obama’s mother Stanley Duhahm in Hawaii. Since BHO Sr. lived in Kenya, some speculate Stanley told people he was the baby’s father since Frank Marshall was married at the time, and being impregnated by a man on another continent was easier for Stanley to deal with at the time.
* Obama’s real name is “Barry Soetoro” because his birth certificate was legally changed in the 1970s when Lolo Soetoro, Obama’s Indonesian stepfather, adopted him. His school records in Indonesia list him legally as Barry Soetoro. We presume he needed to show a birth certificate to attend school, and the school recorded his legal name as Barry Soetoro at the time of his enrollment. Knowing school administrators, they would have taken the name exactly as it appeared on a document they were given. If the certificate had said “Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.” on it, the school would have enrolled him with that name, and possibly put “Barry Soetoro” in parentheses somewhere if that was the name he preferred to go by. Just as “Virginia Smith” might go by “Ginny”, but her school record would read “Virginia ‘Ginny’ Smith” in terms of her enrollment.This is not the case for Obama. While living in Indonesia, he was “Barry Soetoro” for all those years, with the name “Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.” only resurfacing back on Hawaii when Obama realized his Kenyan father’s name got him further with white-guilt liberals than an Indonesian name did. Obama is, was, and always will be an opportunist of the highest order. He is EXCELLENT at playing white guilt like a harp. But, it does not appear he ever legally changed his name back to Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. after his adoption by Lolo Soetoro. Maybe he did this so that he would inherit money from Soetoro in the future, and he knew with all of his real father’s children spread all over the world he’d never get a dime from them…so opportunist Obama kept his claim to Soetoro for that reason, but to the white world started using his Kenyan father’s name again to get the maximum financial aid, benefits, and promotions white guilt would give him.
(3) The last oddity the birth certificate might reveal is that ethnographically in 1961 Obama was recorded as a “Caucasian Arab” child. His mother was a white Caucasian, 100%. His father, assuming it was Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., was only 1/4 black. According to how the British classified him in Kenya back in 1961, he would have actually been listed on official documents as “African Arab”. That left the bureaucrat filling out Obama’s birth certificate with a dilemma in terms of what to record the new baby’s race as in the year 1961. “Caucasian” was his dominant race, since his mother was 100% Caucasian. Since the father was only 1/4 black, but mostly Arab, the birth certificate could reveal Obama to be a “Caucasian Arab”, since that seems to be the most natural mix of those two identities.
That last one is by far the most damaging thing that could ever be revealed about Obama. His entire “phenomenon” is based on him being the “historic and unprecedented first black president”. But, if his birth certificate recorded him as “Caucasian Arab” it would not only rev up everyone who suspects him of being an agent of Islam in the White House, but also undermine his stratospheric 90%+ support in the black community.
Remember, blacks protect Obama out of race-pride just the same as they protected OJ Simpson and Michael Jackson. Their loyalty to Obama is unflappable…as long as he’s really genetically black. MJ proved he could transform into a white woman, essentially, and not lose that support because his genes were still black, no matter what color was under his sequined jackets.
But, what would happen to Obama if it was proved he lied to the black community about being one of them?
So much of his life was spent perfecting that “black preacher” patois he learned from listening to tapes of Jeremiah Wright’s sermons while at Columbia and Harvard. He came to Chicago to gain black legitimacy in the Southside. He married a crass, stereotypical, big-bottomed black woman name Michelle LaVaughn Robinson whose family was not only part of the Daley Machine, but was close with Jesse Jackson. At every step of the way, Obama cultivated as many ties as possible to black leaders so that he would not be seen as an outsider. Michelle’s crassness was the most important aspect of all this — her abrasiveness and scowling, grievance-driven demeanor, when carried on his arm, made Obama seem “Southside black” in her company.
Without Michelle, Obama was too exotic…too alien. She made him real. Jeremiah Wright made him real. Those “G** Damn America!” sermons the two of them enjoyed for twenty years made them real. Without any of this, the “Caucasian Arab” born in Hawaii in 1961 would not have been pushed by the DNC at lightning speed to become “the historic and unprecedented first black president”.
Since everyone in the media is so deathly afraid of an all-out race war and the Obamas pointing the finger and screeching RAAACIST! at anyone questioning them, we’d be stunned if THIS was the “Big Scandal” Ulstermann talks about in those articles.
Could be.
But, we have such a low opinion of the cowards both in the media and the Cocktail Party Republican party that we can’t imagine anyone in the opposition camp pursuing any of the stories above.
Democrats, of course, want to keep all of this from ever being talked about because Ulstermann is right: if Americans on a large scale started talking about ANY of this, they’d wonder why the Democrats lied about it all. They’d demand to know why none of this stuff came out in 2008.
True, palpable, anger would broil in the public.
Who knows what would happen.
But, once that genie left the bottle, the media sure as Hell would not be able to stop it.
It really could be bigger than Watergate, because there’s just so many bizarre elements to this…and it’s certainly a more sexy, soap-operatic tale than anything about “plumbers’ in some office building in DC.
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How did Bristol Palin do on Week Six of Dancing with the Stars? Live Results Watch Thread
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Use this thread to live-post during the Dancing with the Stars Results Show tonight. We’re in the field today campaigning against Jan Schakowsky here in Chicago, so we won’t be back in time to watch this program…but would love it if those of you watching could post your thoughts as the judges speak and the results are revealed.
We’d also like you to do a little sleuthing for us — we’re trying to solve a mystery involving Bristol’s DialIdol score from last week.
DialIdol has ranked Bristol second most weeks, in terms of the calls that come in from her during the show each Monday. She was ranked second in terms of phone calls last night.
However, last week Bristol was ranked dead last.
Why?
This is a mystery to us because we don’t believe Bristol’s scores are tied to her actual dancing on the show, but rather to the love Americans have for Bristol herself, and the support Americans have for Bristol’s mother, Governor Palin.
Therefore, her DialIdol performance should be consistent week-to-week because she has a support and fan base independent from her dances on the show.
Did someone drop the ball on Palin sites last week and not remind people to watch the show and vote? Because TV is no longer a part of our lives, it’s hard for us here at Buzzquarters to remember when this program is on…and we watch it via Livestream on the net instead of on a TV. But, we set a little reminder for us on the computer to remind all of you to watch and call in for Bristol every Monday.
Without us reminding you, would you remember to do this on your own?
It would be interesting to see if last week something broke down in Bristol’s support network which caused her to have fewer DialIdol votes…or maybe it was that the weird monkey suit performance Mark Ballas created just turned a lot of people off and cost the team votes.
With a judges’ score of 28 and a second place finish with DialIdol, Bristol should be safe tonight…but we can’t take anything for granted with this show.
We want to see Bristol make it to the finals, and come in at least third place. The show clearly has selected Jennifer Gray to win this year, with Brandy more likely than not to come in second. It would be an impressive finish for young Bristol to come in third behind a woman most famous for a dance movie and another performer who was a singing and dancing sensation in the 90s.
Not too bad for Alaska’s most famous daughter.
Go, Team Bristol, Go!
CALIFORNIA GROUND REPORT
Dear HillBuzz,
I am a closeted conservative in Los Angeles and don’t talk politics with anyone but my wife and parents. I am certain that if our political beliefs were revealed to our friends and colleagues that we would suffer what Tammy Bruce recently called “social death” (not to mention “career death”).
My job as a recruiter puts me in touch with a wide variety of local businesses as well as people seeking work. Sometimes during candidate interviews I am asked when I think the economy will recover. I take this opportunity to explain a bit about how businesses can barely keep their doors open in California because it’s such a hostile environment for small business and manufacturing. Two recent examples of such conversations that I found interesting:
1. Over the summer I interviewed a young black man and we got to talking about the economy and unemployment. I explained that I felt that jobs are sparse due to the anti-business climate of California combined with the uncertainty about the future caused by creeping government expansion including the health insurance takeover. He said something to the effect of “Well, it took 8 years for things to get this bad so we’ll need at least 8 more for things to get better…”
2. Last week I interviewed a middle-aged black woman who was an Executive Assistant but has been out of work for some time. After we talked for a bit about the economy, she thanked me for sharing some insights about the relationship between businesses, regulations, and taxation, adding that she hadn’t thought about it that way before. She then asked which candidate for governor I thought would be best to get CA out of this mess. I told her that to me the choice was simple: you can vote for the career politician whose daddy was governor and already had 2 terms as governor OR you can vote for the self-made businesswoman who successfully ran a beloved multi-million dollar company. She agreed and enthusiastically said, “I’m voting for Meg!”
Also, my wife frequently drives through the city of South Pasadena, an affluent area that is predominantly liberal, and she has seen plenty of signs for John Colbert, the Republican candidate for Congress. There are some signs for his Democrat opponent but not nearly as many. I still see plenty of Obama stickers on cars.
I voted (by mail) for Meg and Carly and am hopeful that many other Californians will come to their senses and do the same. It’s time to hit the brakes before we drive over the cliff.
Thanks for all you do.
-Surviving in CA
Democrats at DEFCON 1: Is Christine O'Donnell now leading in internals?
Yesterday, a poll went around showing Christine O’Donnell just five points behind Commie Coons in Delaware’s Senate race. This SORT OF explains the weird amount of time the White House has been spending in a slam dunk blue state.
But, Democrats are ferociously attacking CoD as hard as they attacked Scott Brown in Massachusetts. If she is so far behind, what is the point in beating up on this woman?
This is anecdotal, but I think I know why they are doing this…just like with Hottie McAwesome there are internals showing O’Donnell ahead.
Today I talked to a friend from Team Hillary who is a big Dem fundraiser. He told me that for the last week or so the DNC has been at DEFCON 1 leaning HARD on the rainmakers because they are terrified of a CoD win in Delaware.
The problem is some internal poll that apparently shows that a high percentage of Democrats early voting are voting straight ticket Republican instead…they are Democrats voting against Democrats.
I am still registered Democrat here in Chicago and I voted straight ticket Republican except for Tom Dart for Sheriff because I know and like him. Other than that, it was all Republican. But, in terms of early voting stats, I was a Democrat early vote on paper.
The media is not factoring people like me into the equation.
On the other side of the aisle, I can’t imagine many, if any, Republicans voting Democrat.
So someone at the DNC came up with a formula that takes all of this into account…and when THAT formula is applied to the Delaware race, CoD is ahead.
And that terrified the DNC enough to send the SOS to the big money guys like my friend for a Hail Mary pass.
“They are terrified of her winning”, my friend said. “Scott Brown terrified”.
And I add: these people have all been at this so long they don’t get this freaked out over nothing.
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UPDATE & CLARIFICATION: This post got picked up at RedState and FreeRepublic and I noticed in the comments there that people seem to be confused when I talk about Democrats looking at early voting…because there is no early voting in Delaware. I’m not talking about early voting in Delaware, I’m talking about DNC internals that are looking at early voting NATIONALLY.
The DNC is picking up the trend that people registered as Democrats are indeed early voting — NATIONALLY — but they are not voting Democrat. They are voting Republican, the way that I did here in Chicago today. Straight ticket GOP, except for someone I know on a personal level. If I didn’t know him, I would have voted Republican in that race too.
I don’t know what Democrats are doing to determine what’s going on, but if I had to guess they are using focus groups and then extrapolating those nationally to see a trend that horrifies them. They see people in Democrat strongholds like Chicago saying “F-U” to the party and voting Republican. Maybe they are doing exit polling at early vote centers and finding they are being screamed at by lifelong Democrats.
However they are getting their data, they have used that information to create some sort of formula…this formula breaks down the trend they are watching and creates some sort o plug-and-chug algorithm that would be something like this:
Expected Democrat Early Voting Numbers – Democrats Who Actually Vote Against Party Instead = Number of Democrats That Can Actually Be Counted On
Across the board nationally, whatever number comes out of the above is FAR BELOW what the Democrats need it to be. My friend the fundraiser says they’ve worked out some kind of plug-and-chug mathematical box with what they are seeing in early voting states…when the current Delaware polling and focus group work is considered IN LIGHT OF THIS DOCUMENTED TREND, the DNC is horrified to see that Delaware is trending like the rest of the country…where registered Democrats who are going to vote intend to vote AGAINST the party…straight ticket, top to bottom, AGAINST Democrats.
THIS is what has them scared because from what I understand the Democrats hit DEFCON 1 because they know it is too late to stop the mass exodus of Democrats crossing the aisle to slap the party silly for letting Obama pull it too far Left.
Delaware might not be early voting…but from whatever the Democrats are seeing internally, if Delaware WAS early voting then Delaware’s numbers would be lining up with every other state.
That means Democrats aren’t safe ANYWHERE and there is nothing anyone can do to change that.
Jan Schakowsky/Joel Pollak Ground Report
Dear HillBuzz,
Last Saturday I travelled from Lincoln Park/Lakefront to Park Ridge for a local high school football game. Shakowski’s district winds its way from Lake Michigan on the east and goes north/west to Park Ridge/ Niles, both Chicago suburbs, just East/North of O’Hare airport. As we pull off the expressway into the suburb my first surprise is that there were hardly any signs at all. This may be that it was early, but there were hardly any.
However, Of the probably 24 signs I saw driving around Park Ridge/Niles, they were almost ALL Pollak! Yeah! To be fair, I saw 2 Shakowski signs. They were slightly weird in that political signs are usually bright colored, often Red/White or Blue/White, even Green White for the enviros. Shakowski’s sign is a funny shade of light teal(?). You would not ID it a repub or dem. The writing is pretty small, so I did not catch what it said and whether it ID’d her as a demonrat.
After the game we went to Pollak’s headquarters on Dempster/Greenwood, next to Home Depot. We picked up signs, stickers and pins. While there I noted that there is a debate between Pollak and Shakowski coming up this Wednesday(tomorrow). Shakowski is trying to NOT SHOW UP. She will not tell Pollak whether she will be there or not. I think that is SO LAME.
It would be worthwhile to start a campaign of calling Shakowski’s office and asking why she will not debate. Why will Tribune not put an article in paper about this. What about Op-ED letters demanding that she shows up for this. WLS and WIND should cover this. If they don’t see the light, make them feel the heat. I also think we should get a crowd to the debate if we could. We need to do the same Pledge of Allegiance that the other Illinoisians did at the Mellissa Bean event.
After returning home that evening, walking in my Lincoln Park/East Lakeview neighborhood, at the corner of Commonwealth and Surf, there was a Pollak sign! Since I took several signs from the Pollak HQ, I am plotting where to plant them in the neighborhood! Mine are up in my windows!
M in Chicago
OKLAHOMA GROUND REPORT
Dear HillBuzz,
Oklahoma is OK, with the exception of 2nd district Dem Dan Boren.
Boren is a blue dog, but he has supported Pelosi for speaker… so,, Dan Boren has to go!
No compromise. WE HAVE DRAWN THE LINE IN THE SAND!
His opponent is a good man, Charles Thompson, who, we hear, has not received one $ from the GOP congressional group. WHY?
Because Paul Ryan is married to Janna Little, 1st cousin to Dan Boren?
Shall we make some calls? Go!
Good for Oklahoma: Jim Inhoffe, Tom Coburn, Frank Lucas, Mary Fallin.
Alta in Okla
PENNSYLVANIA GROUND REPORT
