The bloggers at Daily Kos posted this scan of a flyer being passed around in Milwaukee’s black neighborhoods:
Fucking bastards. They can’t win without suppressing the vote.
Posted on October 28th, 2004 § 0 comments
Dirty Tricks
Polls, polls, polls
Daily Kos reports on Kevin Drum’s report on a Republican pollster’s latest battleground state polls (PDF):
Bush-Cheney: 47%
Kerry-Edwards: 47%
Nader-Camejo: 1.6%
Undecided: 4%
On the face of it, this is good news, especially coming from a Republican poll. Undecideds traditionally break more toward the challenger, so Kerry’s got the edge.
But even better news ahead: if the poll is weighted to use exit poll data from 2000 and changes in demographics in the past four years, the results are far more clear cut:
Bush-Cheney: 45%
Kerry-Edwards: 50%
Nader-Camejo: 1.6%
Undecided: 3.7%
These are the battleground states: CO, FL, IA, ME, MI, MN, NH, NM, NV, OH, PA, WI. These are the places where anti-minority, anti-voter dirty tricks will have the greatest effect. Be on your guard, and get out the vote!
Posted on October 28th, 2004 § 0 comments
Weekly game results: October 27
CR and ER took last week off, and JB vetoed the idea of playing short-handed, so we skipped a week. This week the regular group was back:
This week Cumulative Average
CR +$6.05 +$6.05 +$0.47
EM -$1.40 -$11.85 -$0.79
ER -$2.95 +$6.35 +$0.49
JB -$5.00 -$11.15 -$0.80
JC -$1.55 +$15.55 +$1.11
Me +$4.85 +$5.80 +$0.39
My suggestion of doubling the buy-in this week was nixed; but as JB snidely pointed out, I had to do a double buy-in anyway less than two hours into the night. I was getting out-kicked, out-pocketed, and possibly out-played, especially by CR. It was brutal. My two best hands during this time were probably KK and AQs. I won with the first and chopped with the second, but that only prolonged my descent.
After the second buy-in, I started to do a little better. In the last 2-3 orbits, I hit a monster rush: 79s beat JJ with a runner-runner flush against a river straight, A8 beat 9T with a river boat against a turn straight, 89s won with a flopped straight against what I assume was a draw that never materialized. The 79s was a true suckout. I called a minimum raise in the BB pre-flop and flopped top pair. I called the bet and turned the straight and flush draws. I called the bet and riverred the flush. Felt bad about that one.
In those first two hours where I lost hand after hand to CR, other people were losing some decent pots to him as well. He took pot after pot and built up his stack to nearly 3 times his buy-in. Over the next hour and half he eventually lost a few bucks, but still made it out of here the big winner. He’s still third in cumulative winnings, but he’s definitely on a good trajectory.
EM put JC on the spot a couple times when a flush appeared on the board. It was clearly painful for him to fold, but fold he did. Overall, EM’s running bad. Her theory is that she needs to be pissed off to win. Possibly. Maybe if I had done that 79s runner-runner against her jacks early on it would have changed the game. Still, she’s not down to the depths that I hit after the first ten weeks of keeping records: -$13.
ER was pretty mad about my boat beating her straight. I don’t feel as bad about that one as I do the 79s. I had the best hand on the flop and when I raised her turn bet, she just called. A re-raise would have been grounds for thought. I may have called anyway, not believing that she’d made her straight. Another down week for ER, but her cumulative’s still good for second place.
Tonight was a lot like some of my NL forays. Down, down, down, then a rush to set things right, and I’m done. Which does wonders for my confidence in my abilities. That’s meant to be sarcastic. I’d rather be lucky than good, but I’d still like to be good.
Posted on October 27th, 2004 § 0 comments
Celebrities getting out the vote
The Iowa city Press-Citizen reports on Ashton Kutcher’s efforts to get out the vote in Iowa for Kerry:
Ashton Kutcher says he won’t get punk’d again.
“I got punked,” Kutcher said of his vote for President Bush in 2000 and a reference to his MTV show “Punk’d.” “I thought he was like me, a good old boy … I know how to admit when I’m wrong, and man, am I wrong.”
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Kutcher discussed most issues, including Bush not admitting to mistakes, the Iraqi war, health care and jobs. He used his Eastern Iowa roots to discuss middle class frustrations, including his grandmother who can’t afford her house and high pharmaceutical costs, his uncle who was sent to Iraq, his sister who lost her job because of cuts to education and himself, a former UI student who once donated plasma to help pay for college.
A lot of people I know made the wrong vote in 2000. We’ve seen what that has cost us in the past four years. Let’s get it right this time.
Posted on October 27th, 2004 § 0 comments
Smackdown!
Just who does that kid think she is? Good thing the President was there to put her in her place.
Posted on October 27th, 2004 § 0 comments