GOP now at 25-year low in self-ID'd Republicans; independents peak
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jeninflorida
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I'll laugh if the GOP takes over the Senate over the fuck up obamacare
Sean Renaud
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Being fair to everybody a lot of those independents that are fleeing the Republicans and the Democrats are fairweather fans not worth a damn to begin with.
But it won't and you won't admit that you were wrong or that this was a long prayer to begin with.
But it won't and you won't admit that you were wrong or that this was a long prayer to begin with.
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jeninflorida
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don't upset the ass juice smokers ... the love the obama and all things welfare
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He lost them after the election so it really doesn't matter if he lost the independent support one bit.
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this is what happens when you don't monitor those in government
funding, is NOT the issue:
43.4% graduation rate. Student proficiency rates below 10%. Yet more employees than ever making $100,000+. Sick and wrong!
http://eagnews.org/rochester-district-spent-37-million-on-six-figure-salaries-in-2012-13-while-laying-off-teachers-and-cutting-programs/
funding, is NOT the issue:
43.4% graduation rate. Student proficiency rates below 10%. Yet more employees than ever making $100,000+. Sick and wrong!
http://eagnews.org/rochester-district-spent-37-million-on-six-figure-salaries-in-2012-13-while-laying-off-teachers-and-cutting-programs/
No, beginning of story.
Sean Renaud
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Scary part about Jen's link is it shows just how underpaid teachers are. I didn't see any teacher north of 100k.
It matters to the 2014 midterms.
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History has shown that mid terms suck for the party in power. That said I was wrong, it does kinda matter for the midterms but I don't think OBama could save those if he tried. It's just a matter of how bad things get.
Well, good thing he has the Pubs helping him. They campaign for the Dems better than any Dem does, nowadays.
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I bet they really regret double-downing on the Teabagger/Birther Crazy wave that was supposed to re-water the trees of liberty and Take Back America. That's where they started fucking up.
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It is true that Republicans do a good job of campaigning for the left. I'm still not concerned this will be a net gain for Dems though.
Well yeah, Obama leaves office in three more years. Obamacare will probably outlive us all. We're never going back to the bad old days for a good reason.
Well yeah, Obama leaves office in three more years. Obamacare will probably outlive us all. We're never going back to the bad old days for a good reason.
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You'll never live to see the ACA repealed, you know.
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Your source is awful:
"Portland Schools spend $500K to deem PB&J sandwiches racist."
Education Action Group on Sunday, September 16th, 2012 in an online post
Is Portland Schools spending half a million dollars to declare the peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich racist?
Pants on Fire!
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This is something PolitiFact Oregon never thought we’d have to do: Search online for the terms racist sandwich. And what pops up? A Portland Tribune news story about a Portland Public Schools equity program that focuses on diversity as a way to boost student learning.
We repeat the first four paragraphs of the story as is:
Verenice Gutierrez picks up on the subtle language of racism every day.
Take the peanut butter sandwich, a seemingly innocent example a teacher used in a lesson last school year.
"What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?" says Gutierrez, principal at Harvey Scott K-8 School, a diverse school of 500 students in Northeast Portland’s Cully neighborhood.
"Another way would be to say: ‘Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that?’ Let them tell you. Maybe they eat torta. Or pita."
The online response has been tremendous.
From Huffington Post: "Peanut Butter And Jelly Racist? Portland School Principal Ties Sandwich To White Privilege." And from WTBX/FM in Hibbing, Minn: "PBJ- the racist sandwich?" (Summary: Yup. Your childhood staple is guilty of hate crimes against humanity.) Even the liberal Daily Kos weighed in with "Oregon school principal: Peanut Butter sandwiches RACIST?" and complained of political correctness gone amok.
And here, posted on conservative breitbart.com: "Portland Schools spend $500K to deem PB & J sandwiches racist."
We acknowledge some level of hyperbole. But we still wanted to know: Did the principal in question declare the sandwich racist? And did Portland Schools spend half a million dollars to do so?
The article posted on breitbart was written by the Education Action Group, a Michigan-based organization that dislikes public unions. We called and got Ben Velderman, a communications specialist who wrote the story.
Velderman said he doesn’t know if the principal actually called the sandwiches racist -- which the headline claims. But he points to The Portland Tribune news article, which clearly talks about race and the privilege of the white mainstream.
"So if a peanut butter sandwich is the ‘subtle language of racism,’ I don’t think it’s a stretch that she thinks a peanut butter sandwich is racist," he said. "I try not to be inflammatory. I try to keep it as reasonable as possible, by not making outlandish claims. She went out on a limb herself."
Gutierrez declined to speak with PolitiFact Oregon, but Portland Public Schools spokesman Matt Shelby answered questions on her behalf. He said she did not use the word "racist" in a meeting with staff cited in the news article. He said that the "subtle language of racism" phrase included in the story was the reporter’s wording, and not hers. The point of the example, Shelby said, was to encourage teachers to widen their range of food samples to include more students.
"It’s not that the PB&J sandwich is racist. That’s silly," he said. The reporter "asked her about the goal of this work and what her desire was, and she told her that it was to have culturally relevant instruction in every classroom, and what that might look like.
"The work is not to point fingers and figure out what is racist."
In other words, accusing the sandwich of oppression is quite different from saying that it would be useful to include other foods when talking to students who don’t eat sandwiches for lunch.
Let’s turn briefly to the money involved. Portland Public Schools has an ongoing contract with Pacific Educational Group, whose founder is author of the book, "Courageous Conversations About Race: A Strategy for Achieving Equity in Schools." The district has spent more than $1 million since 2007 for diversity and equity training in the classroom. In other words, it’s for more than just the rebranding of a sandwich. (Tigard-Tualatin and other districts use the program as well.)
How fair is it for pundits to take a news story that includes the word racism in the first paragraph and boil that down into a headline about a racist sandwich?
The Education Action Group says it’s fair game, given the story and the fact that an educator singled out the sandwich in a lesson about cultural competency. But come on. Read the original story. Gutierrez is quoted as suggesting to staff: "Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that?" That’s not an indictment of the sandwich.
Portland Public Schools did not spend half a million dollars to label the sandwich "racist." The principal never called the sandwich racist. The Portland Tribune never said the principal called the sandwich racist. And yes, we don’t usually weigh in on lunch, but who could resist? The statement is inaccurate and silly.
We rate the statement Pants on Fire.
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The whole thing was a Republican idea in the first place.
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Democrats are trending downward too...
You're just now discovering this old story? It was three weeks ago.
Democrats are trending downward too...
You're just now discovering this old story? It was three weeks ago.
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Thanks to losing the House, a few governorships, and the state lege during a redusitrcting year, Citizens United, and the loss of the VRA, I really wouldn't be so confident about this. There are a lot of seats to defend and voter suppression is going to be much harder to check.
On top of that, it's a midterm. OFA has proven it sucks at running any kind of election in which Barack Obama is not facing a comically weak candidate.
And there is the other thing that the ACA actually is unpopular, the Dems don't have much else to run on, and the economy is actually getting worse for most working people.
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Have you seen the people that associate themselves with the GOP?
Fuck, I wouldn't want to identify myself with those losers either.
Fuck, I wouldn't want to identify myself with those losers either.
