Rule #1: Never cite a Trafalgar poll to bolster your argument. (12/24)
Saturday, October 19, 2024
GET ME REWRITE: How accurate or off-the-mark is the New York Times slavish reporting of the polls
Rule #1: Never cite a Trafalgar poll to bolster your argument. (12/24)
GET ME REWRITE: Liberal data analyst snookered by Trafalgar lead pollster Robert Cahaly's GOP wet dream fantasy polls
So, how likely is that to happen? Polling guru Robert Cahaly, with the Trafalgar Group, predicted Trump's win in 2016, and sees a lot of similarities. The polls were close, which is a good sign for Trump.
"And it really comes down to, are they doing a better job of measuring Trump voters or not? And I would argue they are not" Cahaly told KTRH. He says the "hidden" Trump vote, especially in the key swing states, is significant. [emphasis added]
Rule #1: Never cite a Trafalgar poll to bolster your argument. (12/24)
GET ME REWRITE: Racist GOP U.S. Senate candidate from Montana Tim Sheehy parrots Project 2025 on eliminating Department of Education
“We have a Department of Education, which I don’t think we need any more,” said Sheehy, on audio clips obtained by the Montanan. “It should go away. That’ll save us $30 billion right there.”
“We formed that department so little Black girls could go to school down South and we could have integrated schooling. We don’t need that anymore,” he continued.
The plan comes from Project 2025, which calls for the elimination of the DoE as well as other moves that would overhaul the federal government.
A National Education Association analysis said Project 2025 would “gut” education funding and hurt vulnerable students, HuffPo cited.
GET ME REWRITE: Use of phrase 'border crisis' should be permanently embargoed by news media
In a 2023 analysis by The Wall Street Journal, the counties that participated most actively in Operation Lone Star during its first two years saw the greatest increase in the number of border crossers over that period.
This could have been predicted. For more than a century the threat of arrest—whether by Border Patrol agents in green uniforms or Texas state cops in white Stetsons—has not stopped undocumented workers from moving north. Recently Latin American migrants have kept coming, for the same reason millions of Scots, Irish, Germans, Eastern Europeans, Italians, and Russians first arrived at Ellis Island. The U.S. economy—the most powerful engine of wealth in human history—has been built on successive waves of foreign-born workers and entrepreneurs. The current border crisis is a symptom of a much deeper transformation in the U.S. and across much of the Western Hemisphere. It won’t be solved by tough-talking politicians posing next to coils of razor wire. There are greater forces at play. [emphasis added]
One of those forces is the worsening economic and political calamity across much of Latin America and the Caribbean.
GET ME REWRITE: Trump goes bonkers in campaign's final stretch
The former president made his comments about Jan. 6 and its aftermath at a time when, just weeks before Election Day, uncommitted voters in battleground states tell pollsters that among their top concerns is that they view him as a threat to democracy.
- chugalug
- Dear John
- firestorm
- go-no-go
- Medal of Freedom
- nonfluency
- sheeple
- squawk box
Sea of white faces gather at Trump rally in majority-minority county where Joe Biden received more than 72% of the vote in 2020
Orange County California banker and Wisconsin GOP U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde parrots Project 2025 on eliminating Department of Education
Hovde, a businessman running against Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin in the Nov. 5 election, casts the agency as a symbol of bureaucratic overreach and a source of youth indoctrination. His position mirrors what's become a national talking point and part of the Republican party platform. Donald Trump said he would shut down the agency. The conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 also called for its closure.
Around Town Middleton: In memoriam
Rebecca died on October 2, 2013.
According to a recent Next Door post, this apartment building allegedly has roaches. (10/15)
What a concept! Dual-purpose dumpster. (11/4)
Jim's BP reboots as Jim;s Auto Service. (10/18)
August 2020
Sugars Court. (8/31)
December 2019
Roman Candle survives the cut, even without the availability of convenient parking. (12/12)
The Monona side of town. (12/6)
November 2019
Bike rack at Sauk Trail Elementary School. (11/8)
Not everybody's on board in the Meadows neighborhood. (11/4)
October 2019
Matching car and garage door. (10/11)
September 2019
Around Town Middleton: Bees love ornamental onion plants. (9/4)
August 2019
60-year-old resident arrested for armed robbery. (8/21)
Staff and visitors may now park in the MCPASD Services Center lot . (8/2)
June 2019
"ROAD WORK AHEAD" trumps "DRIVE LIKE YOUR KIDS LIVE HERE" on Park Street. (6/27)
Free lunch Friday. (6/24/2019)
CBD, just like everywhere else in Wisconsin. (6/24)
February 2019
According to chapter 8.07 of the city ordinances.... (2/4)
January 2019
More than a snow fort, but not a standing-room igloo. (1/2)
December 2018
This section of sidewalk was replaced in 1980. (12/18)
The post office's new and improved self-service kiosk. (12/18)
November 2018
Spell checker. (11/19)
August 2018
Must be on a tight schedule. (8/6/)
July 2018
What type of seeds? (7/6)
June 2018
If it's not one thing, it's another. (6/23)
Bloom Bake Shop to reopen as Bloom Bindery, a bakery/bookstore. (6/15)
May 2018
The Tiedeman Pond frog chorus. (5/15)
March 2018
Tiedeman Pond winter fish kill. (3/30)
Hear that lonesome whistle blow. (3/22)
Explosion on Elmwood Avenue. (3/20)
Googling 'Henry Hubbard'. (3/18)
A not-so-faded Flo strikes a new pose. (3/12)
This corner house is now a rental. (1/16)
This 1955, 1296-square-foot ranch on Cooper Avenue was listed at $219,500. (1/13)
It's always the season of the witch at this Anderson Street address in Middleton. (1/11)
December 2017
A sure sign that this request went unheeded, if not unseen. (12/24)
Turnstile Christmas Eve services at St. Luke's. (12/13)
Day 1450 of GOP election denier hysteria (Trump Big Lie Clown Show Circus Pennsylvania Looney Tunes edition)
Both before and after the 2020 election, Repre- sentative Dan Meuser sowed doubts about the legitimacy of the outcome, appearing on Fox News and using his official platform as a congressman to issue statements about “election integrity.” On December 1, 2020, he signed a letter urging Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate purported election fraud, and on December 10 he signed an amicus brief in a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the results of the presidential election in Pennsylvania and three other battleground states. On January 6, Meuser voted against certifying Pennsylvania’s Electoral College votes for Joe Biden and the following month he voted against impeaching Trump for his role in instigating the attack on Congress and the Capitol.