I’m going to interrupt House fundraising today because fuck Mitch McConnell.
On Thursday, in a conference call with a group of lobbyists, Mr. McConnell vented that the party’s Senate candidates are being financially overwhelmed because of small-dollar contributions to ActBlue, the online liberal fund-raising hub
I like these Senate races bang for buck.
Barbara Bollier, Kansas Senate
Mike Espy, Mississippi Senate
Alan Gross, Alaska Senate
By the way, remember when everyone shit their pants because Beto cleared $50 million in 2018 3Q. Theresa Greenfield just cleared $25 million in 2020 3Q in a state that is one eighth the population of Texas. Holy shit.
AxelFoley
Got back an hour ago from early voting. Went with my folks. We had absentee ballots, but they wanted to vote in person, so we did. Took about an hour and a half at the Courthouse/Municipal building here in Virginia Beach. Of course, we voted for Democrats up and down the ballot.
DougJ
@AxelFoley:
Disgraceful it takes so long.
Albatrossity
Bollier has a small but significant lead in the latest poll. We can flip this one, and she will be a good senator in a time when we need stronger voices for science and medicine.
Ruckus
ActBlue just went past $7,088,250,000.
dmsilev
“Area Turtle Horrified To Learn Actions Have Consequences”
mali muso
I’m in for a little more on each of these races. Let’s run up the score.
Marcopolo
Since Kansas is included above, I will just re-up this from a couple threads ago:
The Republican President of the KS Senate was caught on tape talking about how she plans to gerrymander Sharice Davids (KS-3) out of her seat when Kansas does redistricting for 2022. That is if she can keep supermajorities in the KS House & Senate so they can override Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto.
Here’s the clip:
Kansas Ds need to flip one state house district in order to destroy the R house supermajority & foil this plot. Here are 4 candidates who are trying to flip KS HDs from Red to Blue if you would like to foil her plan. These candidates were included in a Data For Progress Fuck Gerrymandering ActBlue list that I gave to on September 30. That fund list has been switched to all TX candidates now so here are their individual ActBlue pages.
Cheryl Arthur KS HD-67
Katie Dixon KS HD-49
Cole Fine KS HD-15
Todd Maddox KS HD-60
I had thought I was done with campaign donations as of September 30, but I gave to all of these guys today. And, of course, giving to these candidates is kind of a bank shot donation for Barb Bollier cause these folks will be GoTVing D voters.
Ocotillo
I hope all this money being raised isn’t just going into TV ads. With the pandemic and voter suppression there needs to be focus on “get out the vote” and fighting the last minute suppression efforts of the authoritarian party.
laura
Just back from dropping our ballots at the County Board of Elections office. The workers indicated that traffic has been steady and heavy since jump. We voted so hard against that fucker.
Ride or Die No Malarkey Jitney Back to the Future 2020!
Mike in Oly
It’s payday – will be sending $$ after work tonight. I wanna see a blue tsunami make that worry on McConells stupid face a permanent feature.
satby
@DougJ: Two hours wait time in South Bend Indiana for early voting so far this week, the first week for it. I’m going next week.
Villago Delenda Est
What this means is people are pissed at Donald and his enablers. Treason isn’t a good platform to run on.
Marcopolo
Btw, as of this afternoon over 8 million people have voted. That is 6% of the total 2016 vote–more than 3 weeks before the election. Five states have hit 20% of their 2016 vote total: VA, WI, SD, VT, MN. Another five are at or around 15%: MI, ND, WY, NJ, and FL. A large percentage (~15) of these voters are folks who did not vote in 2016. That is also roughly the same percentage of AA voters who have now voted who did not vote in 2016. Where I live (St Louis County), both St. Louis County & St. Louis City have seen record breaking voter registration this year & as a result there are a record number of eligible voters on the roll for this election.
Thanks to everyone here who has already voted/is voting early.
Jeffro
Has anyone figured out where Barr, Christie, Jared, and Ivanka are yet and how they’re doing with the infection they got from the orange moron?
HinTN
I wrote postcards for Greenfield through Flip the West. They said they had sent some insane number for her. It’s happening in ways we couldn’t foresee!
Calouste
@Marcopolo: And that should be a slight undercount, as there are states where you can’t vote early, either because they are full vote-by-mail or because of GOP fuckery.
HinTN
@Albatrossity: God, I hope that holds. I wrote postcards to independents for her through Flip the West.
Haroldo
It will give me great satisfaction to see Ol’ Moscow Mitch out of a job as Majority Leader. Well worth the $$.
H.E.Wolf
You are absolutely correct, and I hope you are among the many of us here who are taking concrete action in that regard! It’s going to be a badge of honor to have helped GOTV in 2020.
[Consider the Saint Crispin’s Day speech from “Henry V” included here. :) ]
catclub
Will he be dressed as Evita, or Franco? Or the Pope?
Ken
@Jeffro: Have we seen Giuliani since he coughed his way through a Fox News interview and said he was waiting for his test results?
Cheryl from Maryland
Donated to Bollier. I give monthly to Espy and Jones — even if neither wins, I feel it is important for Democrats to make a good showing in the traditional South. Excellent idea to support the Kansas House and Senate Democrats – I will need to look at my political budget but plan to move them to the top.
piratedan
@Ken: at the point where if these sanctimonious fucks die quietly and desperately at home to prevent any kind of bad PR, that’s just fine with me.
really, fuck these people… I mean Lindsey Graham won’t get tested so he can claim he’s negative for COVID so they can place their appointed handmaiden onto the SCOTUS?
If they fucking die on C-SPAN during the vote, it won’t matter to Mitch because he HAS to have this victory. As soon as he gets it, he thinks that its fait accompli and that they’ll control the legislative process for decades to bring about whatever white people nirvana they envision.
He doesn’t believe that by fucking over the process to get what he wants that what he’s done will have any negative repercussions and that somehow it will remain static in his favor.
JPL
@Ken: Nope. Maybe he’s with Chris Christi taking a holiday with the Weekends at Bernie crew.
thoughts and prayers though
Marcopolo
@catclub: I think he’s going the full Il Duce. But I doubt that he’ll speak Italian.
Martin
Feeling a bit better. Just dropped off 4 votes for Biden, which won’t matter here, but 4 votes for Katie Porter should help. Plus 4 votes to end cash bail, 4 votes to oppose the Uber amendment, 4 votes for partial repeals of Prop 13. And a flu shot, and some goodies for under-the weather Ms. Marvel. All by e-bike, no emissions, powered by solar and my lunch.
Aleta
Post:
different-church-lady
@catclub: Perhaps Statler or Waldorf.
Martin
Looks like the SC senator debate is about to be cancelled because Graham refuses to get a Covid test on the chance it’s positive and it scuttles the Barrett hearings.
Seriously, we should have hid RBGs body until after the election. Pretty clear that they would have.
bucachon
Trump is going to speak from the balcony?? The Mussolini memes write themselves
Uncle Cosmo
Il Douche. Pig Latin. Iglybay onway eroidsstay.
Baud
@Martin:
Early and often. Good man.
Uncle Cosmo
Hybrid then, electric and methane-burning? :^p
different-church-lady
@bucachon: Never go full Mussolini.
bucachon
@catclub: let a thousands meme bloom
zhena gogolia
@different-church-lady:
I hate myself for looking at that picture and thinking, “I understand why this was done.” So, so horrible.
Martin
@bucachon: Velveeta Covita: The Musical.
Princess
@Marcopolo: I thought I was done with donations too, but I just gave them all $25 each. Anyone want to match me? With one of them?
AWOL
@Jeffro: Hopefully Raising Cain.
rikyrah
What I like about ActBlue is that it helps us get the kinds of candidates we want.
I am sending to the Senate candidate in Louisiana, not because I think that he will win, but because he is a solid candidate who deserves support.
I am supporting Espy cause I actually DO think that he can win.
Marcopolo
@Martin: Well aren’t you the shits? I only got one vote last week.
/s
Marcopolo
@rikyrah: Adrian Perkins is an awesome candidate. So accomplished. I, too, have given to him. His kickoff trailer was amazing.
Martin
@Marcopolo: Would like to note that 50% of the ballots cast were voters under 25. I had 5 locations within easy biking distance to drop off the ballots.
Martin
It’s wild that Louisiana is getting hit by a major hurricane and nobody outside of Louisiana has the bandwidth to process it.
Gvg
@Calouste: in Florida, they start counting the mail in votes Monday. I dropped mine last weekend. On line it shows as received and I was worried when it didn’t change to counted, then I found my notes. They start opening to count on the 12th. On the 19th most counties open for early in person votes.
Wolvesvalley
@Marcopolo: Thanks for the heads-up. I’m far away from Kansas, but I just kicked in a bit for each of them.
Villago Delenda Est
@catclub: Mussolini or Hitler. Or Stalin atop Lenin’s tomb.
Lapassionara
@Marcopolo: oh my. Just a few days ago, the number of people who had voted was 5 million. In light of the total votes in 2016, 5 million is just blip, but now the number is growing daily by a lot.
Thanks for the cheerful news,
Jeffro
@Ken: forgot about him! Him too – come on, Grim Reaper!
PsiFighter37
Lindsey Graham skipped out on his debate with Harrison tonight solely because he did not want to take a COVID test. What a fucking chickenshit. I have to imagine that plays poorly with people he needs to vote for him in SC (namely, white people with a college degree and/or brain).
Jeffro
@Martin: “Velveeta Covita” SO stealing that
@AWOL: seconded, bigly
Jeffro
@PsiFighter37: guaranteeing that this will be the coverage from start to finish. Hey Lindsey, whatever – you guys are going to (literally) die on this hill, and then we’re just going to take it from you with the stroke of a pen.
Bouie had this right: losing the WH is the price trumpov must pay for his corruption; expanding the federal courts*, to include SCOTUS, is the price that the GOP must pay for enabling that corruption. Just losing the WH is not enough.
*It also happens to be the right thing to do for other reasons
debbie
@Ruckus:
I chuckle to think of McConnell’s facial expression when he sees that.
piratedan
@Martin: could be that in normal times watching the slow attempted strangling of Democracy ends up being a news buffet. During a Dem administration, there wouldn’t be all this drama.
PJ
@Jeffro: Christie’s in the hospital. He’s not on a ventilator, but he’s not in good shape.
VeniceRiley
@Martin: I put my ballot in the mail yesterday. Much the same. Really hoping Katie keeps her seat. I like her chances.
Another thing seniors hate? Watching cruise ships dismantled in a scrapyard. This year is HellTV for seniors.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Second debate between Trump and Biden has been cancelled.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Wait five minutes.
randy khan
@Marcopolo:
I don’t know about other counties in Virginia, but in Fairfax County (pop. 1.1 million, call it 1/8 of the state population) they haven’t opened up the satellite locations yet, so if you’re near the Potomac you have to trek all the way to the government center if you want to vote early. (The satellite locations open on the 14th.) The same is true in Arlington County, home to 200,000 people, and probably a lot of other places in the state. So that 20% is going to go up a lot in the next week.
debbie
@Baud:
I can’t wait to see how the big guy is after two big rallies (in FL and PA, I believe) this weekend.
WaterGirl
@Martin: I think someone – Schumer? – should point out that COVID can affect your thinking and decision-making abilities, so before any votes are taken re: a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, every senator must either be tested and confirmed COVID negative or abstain from voting. Or the vote is delayed.
different-church-lady
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Well, that fits the title of this post.
dmsilev
@Baud: It was the Debate Commission that announced the cancellation, so I’m inclined to believe it will stick. The debate scheduled for the 22nd is still on, for now anyway. I hope they make that one a town hall.
HumboldtBlue
@laura:
I dropped mine off earlier this afternoon as well.
More good news, a federal judge has ruled that Trump’s poll watchers are illegal under state law.
WaterGirl
@PJ: How do we know this? I know he checked himself in as a precaution, but I haven’t seen any details since. What did I miss?
Baud
@dmsilev:
I see that now. Trump won’t agree to a town hall.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Marcopolo: Thanks for the posting. I kicked in to all 4 campaigns.
WaterGirl
I am confused again. I thought Katie Porter was polling really well with great donations. Is there some reason to expect that she will not win?
steppy
So when does Yertle announce an “investigation” of ActBlue? You know, give ’em the old ACORN treatment…
HumboldtBlue
@PsiFighter37:
Nate Silver pointed his reticence is most likely due to the fact that if he’s positive he has to quarantine and that means the nomination for the handmaiden is off.
@Martin:
I see Martin was ahead of me.
More on poll watchers and state law from Judd Legum.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: True, taking questions from regular folk is beneath King Donald the First.
misterpuff
@catclub: I want to see a photoshop of Drumpf wearing Mussolini’s Water Buffalo Hat except its made out of Trump’s Wig.
Internet, Make It So!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: OT: If a person were to submit a set of photos for “On The Road” and wanted to submit an additional set for “On The Road-After Dark, National Parks Edition”, how would one differentiate the two?
Steeplejack
@Jeffro:
Christie is in day 6 of his “precautionary” hospital stay. Jared and Ivanka last seen jogging (with masks) last Sunday. No word on Barr or Giuliani.
oatler.
@PJ:
But what will MSNBC do without him??
NotMax
@WaterGirl
OT and FYI.
Blog sprouted a 522 error last night during the wee hours in blog time. screenshot (slightly altered, only to mask my IP address).
?BillinGlendaleCA
@misterpuff: I might be able to do that, but I’d have to look at Trump for an extended period of time. How much are y’all paying for this?
trnc
Speaking of racists not getting a lot of satisfaction today:
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/482827-judge-voids-uncs-silent-sam-monument-agreement
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Half a front pager’s salary.
VeniceRiley
@WaterGirl: We just have RPTSD. The district was R for so long. But yes, katie will keep it. She’s running commercials on TV a lot and her opponent is nowhere to be found. I didn’t even recognize his name. But there’s a lot of rich white ahole money around here, and it’s best to keep an eye out until we are blue for 3 or so cycles.
craigie
@Princess:
I did the same – and that was before I saw your post!
Wyatt Salamanca
@dmsilev:
I’m not counting on any more debates because Trump is a nail biting, bed wetting, gutless bastard. We need to run up the score on Election Day and give him the biggest humiliation of his life.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Heh, fuck it then.
craigie
@Steeplejack:
I thought they would pay someone to jog for them. That seems more their style.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@different-church-lady: A well timed post title.
WhatsMyNym
@steppy:
Short answer – Money. Yertie doesn’t have enough to touch them and the banks that processed those billions.
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Marcopolo:
It’ll probably go something like this
HumboldtBlue
@VeniceRiley:
I flashed back to the young Democratic campaigner fighting a losing battle in an Orange County seat and catching the eye of the big boys.
Was that West Wing?
Chris Johnson
@Ocotillo: Yeah, hire lawyers. We need to not just burn the money but apply it usefully. That’s over MY pay grade but it’s still an important point.
Another Scott
Only the best people!!!1
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
Via Reddit, there’s always a tweet keeps going strong.
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/702953023736250369?s=20
Steeplejack
@craigie:
Well, with the masks, it could have been stand-ins, I guess.
HumboldtBlue
@craigie:
That’s why the stand-ins were wearing masks.
NotMax
Bollier’s self-inflicted wound last week enough to tip the scales against her in what might have been a razor-thin upset? She was talking to a farm group and got the (so-called [ed.]) PATRIOT Act and a trade bill she had been asked about totally confused.
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Good question.
They would trust that if WaterGirl saw anything resembling a park in the title, she would know what to do. :-)
There go two miscreants
@Marcopolo: I chipped in for each of them following your previous post.
Ken
For example, they’re clearly overworked and not thinking clearly, as evidenced by some of their rulings.
I would love it if some prominent Democrat said that while speaking for the expansion bill. Pity we’re the grown-up party.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: Interesting. Did not know that. How long before you were able to get back in?
Marcopolo
@There go two miscreants: Thank you.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: I might submit something with a park(not Joshua Tree) in the title.
WaterGirl
@VeniceRiley: That makes sense. So not worries, but not taking anything for granted.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
Went off to other diversions; error had corrected after I returned a short time later.
Another Scott
@NotMax: Sounds like a nothing-burger to me, but YMMV.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article246265375.html
1) it sounds like a setup, and b) she quickly had a decent answer afterwards.
I doubt many votes will be changed by it, and she’ll know better next time.
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
Marcopolo
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan): Thank you.
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: That would be great. Also if there’s any question, I will send you an email.
Another Scott
It’s just SCIENCE.
(via LOLGOP)
Cheers,
Scott.
Haroldo
@HumboldtBlue:
Thanks to you and Martin for posting the Georgetown Law pollwatcher fact sheets.
WaterGirl
At some point, I added Texas debate to my calendar for tonight, but I haven’t heard a peep about it all day. I am wondering whether I might have lost my mind or been on drugs when I added it.
James E Powell
@WaterGirl:
I haven’t heard one way or the other on recent polling for Katie Porter. I do really hate her TV ads, which I see constantly on sports broadcasts, sometimes two in a row.
Marcopolo
Link for anyone who wants to watch the TX Sen debate between Hegar & Cornyn in 4 mins.
Martin
@WaterGirl: Just that it’s a historically red district. Worry that 2018 was a one-off, but I think she has this solidly.
HumboldtBlue
Jordan Klepper is a very funny man and his visit to a Trump rally is gold.
And Mar-a-Lago’s hometown paper endorses Biden.
HumboldtBlue
@Haroldo:
YW
Martin
@HumboldtBlue: Yes. And it was this district in an earlier incarnation.
HumboldtBlue
@Martin:
That’s what I thought. I remember the rain.
Falling Diphthong
Jonathan Chait, on the scene with Graham: “That scene is like Act Blue porn. I mean, they might hire some actors and re-enact it.”
HumboldtBlue
Rather impactful ad from The Lincoln Project
Martin
@HumboldtBlue: Yeah, it was a long time ago, when it used to rain.
Haroldo
When is Trump to be anally probed, err, examined, on live tv?
HumboldtBlue
@Martin:
No shit.
Here’s some Californians being awesome as Cal Fire crews rescue a young mountain lion.
dmsilev
@Haroldo: Apparently it will be during Tucker Carlson’s White Power Hour, so any old time now.
Yutsano
@Marcopolo:
A) I like the bell.
B) Hegar needs to calm down. Cornyn sounds bumbling
Ken
If they’re lucky, Trump will be busy annoying Rush Limbaugh and getting a remote diagnosis on Fox, and won’t have time to order them to withhold assistance until after the election. Or just delay it until they put his picture and signature on every aid package.
Ken
Covid-bumbling, or dex-bumbling?
HumboldtBlue
Tucker Carlson doesn’t know how to properly pronounce the capital of Canada.
arrieve
@Another Scott: I got a mailer from Lindsay Graham yesterday — I live in Manhattan and I’ve never voted for a Republican in my life, so whatever limited funds he has are not being spent well.
Then today I got one from Melania Trump. I’m starting to think someone is just fucking with me.
Haroldo
@dmsilev:
Thank you.
tom
I trust the Lincoln Project folks half as far as I can throw them, but this one got an actual LOL out of me. https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1314689152164610048
rikyrah
@PJ:
We are supposed to believe them about him not being on a ventilator ??
Yutsano
@Ken: Like old man bumbling. He’s doing the Pence thing where he says nothing for about 30 seconds while he tries to think on his feet. MJ is better but she needs to get more specific with things. But the moderators are actually not giving them any time.
Stream just died. Gonna go feed the dogs.
rikyrah
@Steeplejack:
Where is John Roberts
HumboldtBlue
My uncle Lindsey doesn’t have the Covid, show me the car fax
Baud
@tom:
Not accurate, but I hope it’s effective.
MisterForkbeard
@Marcopolo: I don’t have the fortitude to watch another Republican gaslight and lie for an hour or two. Let us know how much ass-kicking MJ Hegar does if you can! :)
rikyrah
@tom:
You are not supposed to trust them
This is WWII
We are FDR
They are Stalin
We are Fighting the Orange Nazi, but after he is defeated, the Cold War begins again ?
HumboldtBlue
@tom:
That’s good.
cliosfanboy
@randy khan: filled out my Fairfax County ballot today and will drop it off this weekend
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@arrieve: a hundred years ago I sent John McCain an email about the MCA. For years I got regular emails from the AZ Republican Party. They finally petered out, but last week I got a hand-addressed mailer from Martha McSally, with a donation envelope. I wrote a note about how much I hate her and said I was gonna fast for a day and send the grocery money I saved to Mark Kelly.
prostratedragon
@different-church-lady: “… and, reach for the — oh, shit!”
Another Scott
@different-church-lady:
Obligatory Mussolini Headkick.
Cheers,
Scott.
Burnspbesq
@WaterGirl:
It happened. Dallas Morning News has a pretty good summary.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/10/09/watch-live-john-cornyn-mj-hegar-debate-texas-senate-debate/
Burnspbesq
@Ken:
‘Neither. That’s Cornyn’s natural state.
No One You Know
@Marcopolo: Yeah, I thought I was finished, but this makes me angry. So I skipped breakfast out and donated.
Toast and tea time!