Millennials Carry Lamont Over Lieberman

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Thursday August 10, 2006 · 2:17 PM PDT

2006/08/10 · 14:17

With record total turnout of over 275,000, Ned Lamont defeated incumbent Joe Lieberman in this week's Democratic Party Primary for Senator in Connecticut. The margin of victory was 3.8%, a tight race. Exit polling reveals that voters under the age of 30 were the critical difference for Lamont:

Youth Speaks

Graphic from politicalarithmetik. The break for the 18 - 29 bracket is 63% Lamont.

Without the big break from millennial Nutmeg-staters, the power of incumbency would have kept Holy Joe in office. Read More

Deep Throat != Plame

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Wednesday July 06, 2005 · 1:21 PM PDT

2005/07/06 · 13:21

[Note: I've given up my own personal blog for the summer while I'm on the road, so I'm posting this diary here, mainly so I can remember my thinking.]

Just watching SF Chronicle publisher make a direct comparison between the Plame investigation and Judith Miller getting jail time and the recent emergence of Mark Felt as the identity of Deep Throat.

I can sort of see his point in light of the beating Felt took from the Republican Noise Machine when he emerged, but in real terms it seems like the two cases are light night and day. Read More

Saturday Night Fluff: Drugs Drugs Drugs!

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Saturday May 28, 2005 · 8:28 PM PDT

2005/05/28 · 20:28

I'm laid up this weekend with a flu, and there's only so much "serious" politicking I can handle, so here's some fluff!

I've got a question for y'all; do you use drugs? If so, what? If not, why? Any favorites? Horror stories?

I'm less up for a debate on legalization than I am for some good old fashined storytelling. I've met people who are much further into chemical living, and I've met people who have felt like "bad liberals" beause they never used marijuana. I'm curious about all this. What's your story?

My own revelations below the fold. Read More

Civil Unions and "Separate But Equal"

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Tuesday May 10, 2005 · 3:11 PM PDT

2005/05/10 · 15:11

With the recent threat(s) over Kerry and his statements on Same-Sex Marriage, I have a question for the community.

Are Civil Unions really analagous to Jim Crow?

Poll and a few thoughts below the jump. Read More

Bankruptcy Bill Is A Wedge Issue

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Wednesday March 09, 2005 · 10:11 AM PST

2005/03/09 · 10:11

Give me a W, an E, a D, G, E! What's that spell? WEDGE!

When Freepers sing Krugman's praises, and the king of righty bloggers comes down against the every Republican in the Senate there's something going on.

Oh, and the fact that Credit Card Debt (and that payday/title loan stuff) constitute nothing less than 21st-Century sharecropping make reforming consumer credit the right thing to do. It's not just an electorial winner, it's consistent with your principles to boot. This wedge has your name written all over it, Democrats. Do you want to pick up seats in 2006 or not?

Choice quotes below the jump. Read More

Eyes On The Prize -- Download Today!

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Thursday January 27, 2005 · 9:46 AM PST

2005/01/27 · 09:46

I'd never heard of Eyes on the Prize before now, but it is the definative documenary piece on the civil rights movement. Because of copyright restrictions -- expired rights for archive footage, "happy birthday" and the usual garbage -- it has been unavailable for more than ten years, with no release in sight.

Until today. Eyesonthescreen.com is a project of Downhill Battle, the copyright-reform activist group, to distribute the miniseries online and organize screenings on February 8th.

I think this is genius. If you agree, just click the link. If you need a little convincing, it's below the jump. Read More

Help Wanted: Technologist For The Cause

Outlandish Josh

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Monday December 20, 2004 · 5:38 PM PST

2004/12/20 · 17:38

That's right, we're hiring!

I'm trying to find someone who's basically got most of my skills to help out with a series of thororughly awesome ventures. I need a self-starter with strong website coding skills, a head for strategy, and good interpersonal mojo. If you've got that and you want to work for the revolution on a full-time basis, check the job description. If that sounds like your neice, kid brother, or disgruntled office comrade, pass the link along:

http://civicspacelabs.org/spwjob

My first-degree network has been exhausted on this one, so I'm going to the blogs before I do a cattle call. I'm looking to try and find someone to start asap in the new year. The sooner we can bring someone onboard, the more good we can do. Thank you for your support.

Whither Black Power? (Re: "Folks Don't Get It")

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Thursday December 16, 2004 · 11:20 AM PST

2004/12/16 · 11:20

I'm one of the honky masters of the universe, a straight white male American with a college education. I grew up in Oregon, still one of the whitest states in the union, and though I lived in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn for about 7 years, I'm probably still on some level racially ignorant. I'll still use the "we," though, because I think we're all in this together. So there's that upfront.

When it comes to Ohio, I never seriously considered the racial angle. "Folks Don't Get It" challenged my thinking. Cheers for that.

People who are pretending that the Democratic party is doing something -- or intends to do something -- meaningful in Ohio to fight for the rights of African-Americans who were disenfranchised are full of shit.

I find that I kind of agree, though I also think it's naive to expect the Democratic party as currently constituted to do anything meaningful. But this sparks new lines of thought.

How do I get from there to calling for a return of Black Power? Well, you'll have to click the extended entry to find out...

Outlandish Josh

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Wednesday November 17, 2004 · 8:31 AM PST

2004/11/17 · 08:31

There are elections every year. Political strategy for 2005 should have started a while ago but for most of us there were bigger and better things to do.

The national scene is important, but the path back to power starts closer to home. While we can -- and should -- gnash our teeth over the cabenet and lobby the living daylights out of our senators on SCOTUS vacancies, the places we're most likely to make real impacts in the next 365 days are on the city/county level, and possibly with some ballot initaitives.

There's a lot of planning going on. Local efforts are stronger when they're networked, interlinked, part of a national agenda. Where do you think we should focus and on what?

The Kids Did It -- Our Map Is True Blue

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Thursday November 04, 2004 · 4:33 PM PST

2004/11/04 · 16:33

Promoted from the diaries by DemFromCT. The younger generation is more engaged and less homophobic than their elders were at their age. In fact, knowing this is one reason why there's a 'need' to deal with gay marriage by legislation. The other, of course, is that it gets out the vote. Anyway, no reason to blame the kids. They were there for Kerry... and they are the future. Just happens they weren't the only ones to show up.

Just a note to anyone who's been buying the "kids didn't show up" spin. It's bull:

Despite long lines and registration snafus, voters under age 30 clocked the highest turnout percentage since 1972. The good news is that America's young people are more engaged in politics than at any time in two generations. Aging cynics have been quick to blame the kids for a host of political lapses, but the cynics have it wrong.

People under the age of 30 turned out at the highest rate in more than 30 years, and we voted for change. In battlegrounds -- where my organization and a host of others did the bulk of their work -- turnout was above 60%, and broke for Kerry by an average of almost 20 points.

Florida? Ours.
Ohio? Ours.
Colorado? Ours.
Virgina? Missouri? Arkansas? Ours.

Our generation did it's part and then some, and most of us will stick with it. If it were up to us, it would be Kerry by a landslide. The future belongs to us, not the moral minority.

Check below the jump for the map. It'll make you happy. Read More

Cream of the Crop Video

Outlandish Josh

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Friday October 29, 2004 · 7:19 PM PDT

2004/10/29 · 19:19

For those of us with broadband, and friends (or persuadables) with the same, the net offers a really great way to get video content... provided the server isn't bogged down with traffic.

That's what's so good about Internet Vets For Truth, a site put together by some of real players in the online world. It's a "best of" video site with direct Qicktime and Bittorrent links for everything from the new Eminem video to John Stewart's Crossfire Smackdown to clips from F9/11 and Going Upriver.

Ready for the punchline? It's hosted on more than 10 dedicated servers with 100Mbit/sec transfer each, all arranged through donation. That's a gigabit/second of High Quality video-pushing power.

Check it out: the design is nice, the content is the cream of the crop, and the download speeds will not dissapoint.
Internet Vets For Truth. Recommend this diary to help get the word out!

Ohio Poll Graph: Youth Will Be Served

Outlandish Josh

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Thursday October 21, 2004 · 11:08 AM PDT

2004/10/21 · 11:08

In case anyone doen't understand how significant the Daily Show is, or how important all the youth-focused turnout organizations (from 21st Century Democrats to the League of Pissed Off Voters) are, here's a graph of a poll Kos put on the front page.

Of course, I tacked on a logo from my own org, Music for America but this poll is from the ohio poll, which has been run since 1981 by the U. of Cincinnati.

If cellphone-using kids match this profile -- which is a big "if," but my gut tells me kids who are reachable by landline may trend more conservative -- youth will carry Ohio for Kerry. Pass the word.

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