Discussion for article #224429
It’s not an “improvement” when your opponent moves from 43% to 47% whatever happens to your number. It’s the sound of imminent defeat. When you have to move 100% of the third party voters and more than half the undecideds into your bag to win, you’re toast.
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Obviously Brownback needs to hire John Mclaughlin immediately…or maybe Dean Chambers if he’s on a budget.
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What’s the matter with Brownbackistan? I think Chris McDaniel is free to consult.
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Rasmussen should be caned everytime he/they trot out their narrative-building horsesh^t polls.
jw1
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Yeah, some improvement going from 4 points behind (43-39) to 6 points behind (47-41).
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I don’t understand your point. Isn’t 41 higher than 39? Isn’t that what’s really important here? And don’t go giving me any of that “movement inside the margin of error cannot be deemed significant by definition” malarky either, buster.
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Brownback has a problem. He has to balance his budget. He promised his funders, the Koch brothers, big tax cuts. Kansans love their schools. Well, as soon as he was elected, Brownback and his tea bagger friends slashed taxes to make the Koch brothers happy. Brownback promised that slashing taxes would mean more revenue because “?”. It didn’t work. To balance the budget he had to slash everywhere, but mostly he slashed school funding. That means schools are closing state wide, but especially in the rural portions of the state. Class sizes are growing and lots of kids are sitting on busses hours each day. Did I mention that Kansans love their schools. Guess what they are pissed. Even the local television stations are on Brownback’s back. Brownback is quickly becoming the poster child for the Republican (Koch) revolution gone wrong.
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And the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the state’s school-funding plan—created by Brownback’s office—is unconstitutional.
Kansans are conservative, but they’re not stupid enough to keep Brownback’s dreadful plans for the future, so they’ll get rid of Brownback.
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Historically, SUSA polls tend to lean right so I’d call this very good news.
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RCP has Davis ahead in three polls. only Rasmussen has Brownback ahead
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Simply decrying the now-obvious Rasmussen M.O.-- of convincing, as opposed to informing-- the public with their polls.
jw1
Don’t be hyperventilating now, you guys. It’s KANSAS. - Karl Rove
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He’s also talked the Legislature into divesting itself (selling) nearly all of the State Office Buildings (SOBs) in the downtown, all within one block of the Capitol Building, and even demolishing an iconic Modern Movement architecture building to gain millions in one-time revenues to make up for his tax cuts. If i recall, this experiment was also tried in Arizona with disastrous results. The State down there had to spend even more money to buy the buildings back after they sold them in the first place. My greatest hope is that Davis will have some very long coat tails to increase Dem votes, and get rid of Jenkins, too.
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Judging from this article and the one about the statue to the assassin of Archduke Ferdinand, it was quite a party at TPM headquarters last night.
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Davis has been running a really good campaign, hitting Brownback on school funding – which is the third rail of Kansas politics – as well as punching him on the insider favor trading scandal, and of course the economic downturn Brownback’s tax policies have caused. And it doesn’t hurt that all the major papers in the state, including the Kansas City Star, have been steadily beating the drum of Brownback’s failures.
Brownback’s problem is not that he is Republican, or that he is conservative; it is that he is both stupid and crooked. These traits don’t show up as clearly in a Senator, but they are hard to hide in a Governor.
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Republican and conservative = stupid and crooked.
They go together like ham and eggs, hammer and nail, Boris and Natasha.
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Before we get all happy-clappy-liberal about this, remember it could be just anti-incumbent feeling. We should not relax yet.
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Republicans have bragged about all the governor’s offices they hold throughout the country. Their disastrous policies will see many of them get booted from office. Hopefully some of the legislatures will changes hands as well so they can start undoing some of the damage done by the TeaTalibanites.
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Pho and sriracha, Beavis and Butthead, religion and theft…
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