Nashville for the 21st Century

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  I'm not sure the overall reasons for her departure, but Paula Flowers' exit from the congressional race in the 3rd district is a good thing. She never had a shot at winning that district, and continuing the race would've wasted a lot of her time, as well as money.' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:00am EST
  by Sean Braisted

• God's Second Begotten Son...

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  Fox News did a profile of Sen. Doug Henry...allow me to summarize:
  
  Doug Henry, a man amongst men, without whom countless numbers of kids would have been beaten to death by drunken parents or killed by drunk drivers, is a man of unparalleled principle, integrity, whit, wisdom, kindness, [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:19pm EST
  by Sean Braisted

• 0.4% of Gun Deaths Linked to Concealed-Carry

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  Chilling statistics that show that nearly 4 tenths of a percent of people killed by firearms are killed by someone who also has a concealed carry permit.
  
  A new project seeking to track murders by concealed carry permit holders shows that between March 2007 through the present [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:09pm EST
  by Sean Braisted

• A Matter of Degrees

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  Clearly, Obama is a fascist narcissistic dictator who forgets that we are his boss, while simultaneously he needs to remember that AMERICAN PRESIDENTS BOW BEFORE NO ONE! [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:20pm EST
  by Sean Braisted

• McWherter Poll Shows Inherent Kyle Strength

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  An internal campaign poll by the McWherter camp shows their candidate maintains a lead among the initial Democratic primary electorate when positive information (being that their candidate is Son of Ned and a small business owner) is given about all the candidates.
  
  The surprising aspect of this poll [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:41am EST
  by Sean Braisted

• Proof Again

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  Every Vote Counts! [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:25am EST
  by Sean Braisted

• Obama Lapdog Perhaps...But Pelosi?

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  Greg Johnson, the lapdog for right-wing hillbillies at the Knox News Sentinel, has a post excoriating Rep. Jim Cooper as a "lapdog" for Nancy Pelosi because he voted to move a bill out of the House that he wasn't a huge fan of:
  
  Cooper voted "aye" for PelosiCare' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:09am EST
  by Sean Braisted

• The Malaise

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  An interesting analysis by Tom Suozzi, the Nassau County Executive who appears to be losing his bid for re-election despite what seemed to be a guaranteed win:
  
  Suozzi is the strongest of three Democrats in the New York suburbs -- Corzine and Spano are the others -- who [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:57pm EST
  by Sean Braisted

• Banks Leaves Office of Neighborhoods to Join Herron Campaign

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  In the department of "If ACK Doesn't Post It, I Don't Know It," Brady Banks left the Office of Neighborhoods at the end of October to pursue his dream of begging lots of people to give money to the Roy Herron campaign. After a brief vacation, Banks is excited to [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 5:20pm EST
  by Sean Braisted

• Paul Against Career Politicians

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  According to Rand Paul's website, he is joining Sen. DeMint's call for the return of the guaranteed-to-fail constitutional amendment to limit Congressional terms:
  
  Rand Paul supports term limits as a means of reining in career politicians and pork barrel spending. He supports the legislation introduced by U.S. Senate [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 4:10pm EST
  by Sean Braisted

• Twas All A BIIIGGGG Misunderstanding

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  Remember that bruhaha over whether or not gubernatorial candidate Mike McWherter would support a ban on gay adoption? All just a big misunderstanding.
  
  Today at a Kitchen Cabinet meeting (a breakfast meetup for progressives), I asked McWherter about why he supported a ban on gay adoption, and to [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:43am EST
  by Sean Braisted

• Wamp Touts Rednecks and Right-wingers

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  Somehow I've managed to get on all the major Republican e-mail lists, and so it goes that today Zach Wamps sends out email touting an upcoming fundraiser hosted by Nashville's biggest douche-bag John Rich and the self-described "Redneck Woman" Gretchen Wilson. In addition, he is touting the pseudo-support of national [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 2:14pm EST
  by Sean Braisted

• Getting To Know Your Next Governor

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  Although he hasn't done an interview yet, but the rest of the Gubernatorial candidates have sat down with Inside Politics for half-hour interviews. For your viewing pleasure[?]:
  
  Roy Herron: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
  
  Ward Cammack: Part 1, Part 2, Part' [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:03am EST
  by Sean Braisted

• Street Fight in District Five

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  Joey Garrison over at the City Paper has a detailed look at the recall race in District 5 between incumbent Pam Murray and challenger Jamie Hollin. The article reads somewhat like the documentary "Street Fight" about the race between Newark, NJ Mayor Sharpe James and challenger Cory Booker where [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:07am EST
  by Sean Braisted

• SEIU On Bart Gordon

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  So, a mealy-mouthed conservative Dem goes down in Virginia while bashing the President's agenda, and the lesson Blue Dogs take from that loss is to be even more mealy-mouthed than they already were...Mark Naccarato points out the error his ways:
  
  “This isn’t just politics for Bart – it’s bad' [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:11pm EST
  by Sean Braisted

• Lessons From Tuesday

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  Rep. Jim Cooper is more than happy to lend a hand to Republicans who want to ignore Democratic successes in Congressional special elections in favor of using the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Florida as barometers for the mood of the country. Via Woods:
  
  In this morning's' [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:15am EST
  by Sean Braisted

• Blast From The Past

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  ''If you win them, they're very important,'' said Gov. Don Sundquist of Tennessee, a Republican. ''If you don't, you say they're not.''
  That was from an article written shortly before Democrats won the Governorships of Virginia and New Jersey back in 2001...at a time when Bush's approval ratings were [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:01pm EST
  by Sean Braisted

• A Date Of Infamy In The Conservative Revolution

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  There will be much exclaiming of joy and merriment today as a handful of races across the country seem to be looking good for the Republicans. Undoubtedly, if Republicans manage to sweep elections in NJ, VA, and NY-23, there will be tons of concern trolling by conservatives and a lot [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 4:17pm EST
  by Sean Braisted

• On Sacred Documents

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  ACK has some video of Rep. Lincoln Davis having to deal with an irate teabagger who is upset that he is not bending to their every whim and desire.
  
  
  
  She prattles on about how the Constitution is some sort of "sacred" document. Its not. Its [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 3:10pm EST
  by Sean Braisted

• Inside the MTSU Poll

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  While I didn't notice a full table of MTSU poll results last week (or a couple of weeks ago), running across the numbers it seems that 6.7% of Tennesseans think that Obama is the anti-Christ, and 7% think he's a terrorist. About 17% think he's a fascist.[...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:00pm EST
  by Sean Braisted

• Campaign Contribution Limits are Meaningless

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  Tom Humphrey has a thorough examination of the PAC process among Tennessee's legislators and finds a donation scheme which helps those in power maintain power by transferring money from PACs to accounts with the effect of limiting the usefulness of individual campaign donation limits.' [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 9:34am EST
  by Sean Braisted

• What About The Bob Clement's Of The World?

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  Larry Woods Woody*, formerly the head of Bob Clement's campaign for Mayor, looks at the Mayor's call for scrapping the fairgrounds in favor of (fill in the blank), and sees some pretty blatant elitism in the process.
  
  *Updated: In my defense, it seemed like something that would come [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 9:22am EST
  by Sean Braisted