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is that they provide a venue for dedicated highly intelligent people to network and share ideas in real time the just passed netroots nation shindig in pittsburgh was no exception one of the principle ideas that kept coming up again and again from in conversations with such luminaries and meteor blades darcy burner jim dean and many others was the notion of using not just sticks but also carrots this idea of rewarding our friends and allies is something the wingnuts do well and remains to be adequately learned and incorporated by the online left this is entirely understandable our movement grew and matured as a distinctly opposition movement at a time when no other serious resistance to republican policies was being offered by democrats in congress or by the supposed watchdogs in the fourth estate we screamed into the ether made angry calls and did all we could to be a fly in the ointment of our foes we raised money for favored candidates like jerry mcnerney and jim webb to beat selected republicans or bad democrats and proceeded to revile them at turns when they failed by some accounts to live up to their promise rarely however have we rewarded our representatives and senators for doing the right thing rarely have we engaged them in conversation given them pedestals on which to stand and showered them with the respect and encouragement they deserve here in california senator dianne feinstein has received 100 times more attention for being consistently wrong on the issues than our usually excellent senator boxer has received for being so consistently right human beings are psychologically predictable creatures much like pavlov s famous canine we do respond well to negative reinforcement but we respond just as well if not better to positive reinforcement do nothing but beat a dog with a stick and the dog is likelier to be aggressive than lovingly loyal do nothing but scream at a child and the child will eventually fail to respond to the screaming senators and representatives no matter how elevated are still just people the rules of psychological conditioning still apply if all we can do is scream at people who don t do what we want eventually no one will listen to us at all on the issue of healthcare the time has come to reward those democrats who have committed to standing up for the public option by refusing to vote for a bill that does not include it fortunately the always excellent folks at democracy for america have made it easier for us to thank our healthcare heroes for doing the right thing by giving them words of positive encouragement for continuing to stand up for the public option piggybacking and expanding on that idea is an actblue page created by howie klein called take the pledge to financially reward those 64 representatives who are doing the right thing this is part of an effort being put together by jane hamsher howie klein darcy burner my brother dante atkins myself and others that i am dubbing the carrots not sticks initiative to help generate fundraising blogosphere attention and broader media attention for members of the progressive caucus and for likeminded senators if the insurance industry and other big gop donors are going to help reward those who dance to their tune the least we can do is to help reward those who do what we want in whatever way we can through the power of small dollar fundraising from the actblue page these are the progressive members of congress with the guts to stand up to big insurance big pharma and to the pressure from their own party bosses they stood with the american people and ordinary working families when push came to shove and both political parties decided propping up a disastrous health care system and a corrupt insurance industry was more important than keeping the promise made over and over to working families these were the men and women who promised to vote against any health care reform bill that didn t include at the minimum a robust public option 57 signed a letter to speaker pelosi and 18 took the fdl pledge democratic members of congress need to understand that a healthcare reform bill with a public option is simply not an option it s a requirement the congressmembers on this list have said in no uncertain terms that they will not vote for a bill without a public option all the way through conference that takes courage and we need to show them how much we appreciate them for doing so please make a contribution and thanks for everything else you re doing from the public option if anthony weiner is right that there are at least 100 potential hosue members to join this effort their names will be included on the actblue recipient list and of course if any senators decide to sign on to the effort they will be rewarded as well the time has come to provide a real progressive incentivizing counterweight on the organizational side to the series of positive reinforcements available to republicans and conservative democrats on the right as funds accumulate for this effort those democrats in very safe seats can be encouraged to donate funds to their more endangered counterparts in an effort to make maximally productive use of the money they took the pledge also allows you to donate to specific candidates on the list rather than to the list as a whole so that individuals can determine how best to allot their financial carrots please do what you can today to help reward our democrats donate at they took the pledge send a good word for progressive caucus members through dfa s thank our healthcare heroes and join the carrots not sticks group on facebook to learn more about other initiatives to help reward our best progressive democrats for getting our backs posted by thereisnospoon at 7 00 pm 4 comments saturday august 02 2008 title with unemployment on friday jumping by 51 000 to take this year s job losses to almost half a million mr obama is mining a potentially rich seam but a number of democrats including advisers to the obama campaign are worried that the democratic party s overall electoral advantage this year has not yet translated into comfortable leads for mr obama on friday gallup showed mr obama just one point ahead of john mccain a significant tightening in the past two weeks bullshit alert 1 using gallup s national polling gallup has already forfeited its claim to credibility on the presidential race this election cycle by fudging the numbers just to see under a scenario where mccain supporters are energized while pretending the poll represented a normal result and by showing consistently closer margins than almost any other pollster in the field if you re intending to write a hit piece against obama cherry picking the closest poll you can find and one that still shows him ahead is a good place to start but that s only the beginning mentioned only briefly and misleadingly in the article is the state by state polling tally where obama holds a huge edge and is playing heavily on red state turf given obama s huge polling deficits in appalachia and certain southern states the fact is that obama could easily be almost tied with mccain in the popular vote yet win by a landslide in the electoral college one of the most infuriating aspects of any traditional media on the campaign horse race is the seemingly intentional refusal to get into the details of electoral vote projections and how those results are going to impact targeted advertising campaigns in short just as in the primary campaign against clinton if obama wanted to shore up his national popularity all he would need to do is reinforce his popularity in blue states but that s not where elections are won or lost one would think that the 4th estate charged with informed the general public would take greater care with such a seemingly simple fact of campaign politics but it gets worse next come a few grafs praising the supposed efficacy of mccain s recent ad campaigns painting obama as a celebrity messianic elitist the signs are that mr mccain s continuing attacks most recently in a commercial that portrayed mr obama as a vapid celebrity against images of paris hilton and britney spears may be striking a chord with the white working class voters who shunned mr obama so emphatically in many of his primary contests with hillary clinton with just one month to go before labour day the traditional beginning of the general election and only three weeks before the democratic convention many democrats fear that time is running out for mr obama to overcome the suspicions of this key swing vote these many democrats who are so concerned are mostly anonymous in the article of course it is extraordinarily tiresome to hear pundits and journalists consistently refer euphemistically to the white working class voters the sort of people susceptible to dog whistle racism suspicious of a candidate who might be too fit and skinny and deeply distrustful of a candidate who can produce adoring throngs overseas mostly because they ve never been overseas themselves there used to be a simpler way to refer to this kind of voter a conservative these are not moderates real moderates are turned off by mccain s recent approach or with more nuance this kind of voter might be called a reagan democrat the sort of democrat that makes up the majority of puma s and no quarter s consistuency the democratic party of the dlc and bob shrum has spent countless hours and untold dollars attempting to woo back these conservative reagan democrats largely to no avail bill clinton won some of them back with a great deal of help from ross perot but the larger democratic party never did the traditional media needs to understand something very clearly the democrats do not need to cater to the conservative social values of reagan democrats those that are swayed by democratic economic messaging will come our way those that don t will be overwhelmed by the youth vote the hispanic vote and the midwestern and western obamacans that are making up part of this year s realignment election after more piddling the article continues the numbers back up the concern although mr obama has a good shot at winning traditional republican states such as colorado virginia and even north carolina he cannot capture the white house if he loses more than one of pennsylvania ohio or michigan the more traditional blue collar swing states which mrs clinton won by huge margins in the primary contests polls suggest these states are too close to call too close to call um ok let s look at this states were obama has a good shot include colorado obama currently ahead by 1 5 according to pollster com average virginia obama currently ahead by an averaged 2 6 and north carolina mccain ahead by under 3 averaged states that are too close to call meanwhile are michigan where obama has a 6 point lead with excellent trendlines ohio where obama has a 3 6 lead again with excellent trendlines and pennsylvania where obama holds a commanding 9 point lead with damning trendlines for mccain in other words the states listed as too close to call in the article are by and large much more uneven in obama s favor than the states in which obama has a good shot two of which are already in obama s favor meanwhile the article makes no mention of former red states florida obama ahead by over 2 new mexico obama ahead by almost ten points colorado obama slightly ahead montana obama ahead or iowa obama ahead by about 7 points to say nothing of all the other red states about as close as north carolina including nevada indiana north dakota missouri mccain s own home state of arizona and even if the latest polls are to be believed alaska and none of this makes any mention of the massive voter registration efforts by the dnc and the obama campaign that will boost democratic numbers beyond those shown in the polls but then none of these inconvenient facts would fit the why isn t obama further ahead narrative would they at this stage in the 1988 presidential race michael dukakis the democratic candidate had a 17 percentage point lead over george h w bush who went on to win the election john kerry emerged from the 2004 democratic convention with a strong lead over george w bush only to lose the election as well in 2008 conventional wisdom says mr mccain is running a much less effective campaign than either of the bushes hmmm let me think for a second do you think that could possibly be because of the hyperpolarization of american politics since 1988 show me any modern presidential candidate in the america of the bush gore and bush kerry races with a 17 point lead in the polls and i ll show you a squadron of flying pigs still sporting the icicles they carried out of hell but surely the financial times will find some idiot to shamelessly reinforce this meme that reinforces disquiet about mr obama s inability so far to take a decisive lead even on his worst day bill clinton was able to signal that he understood voters concerns and that he felt their pain said douglas schoen a democratic consultant obama has no trouble with the campaign stagecraft but this isn t harvard it s the beer hall he has to talk in language that people understand ah yes when you need an idiot to back up republican ideas with the cover of a democratic consultant look no further than world s biggest moron doug schoen who also happens to be partner of fellow idiot mark penn do you get the feeling somehow that this entire article is the bitter backlash of a few diehard dlc and neoliberal clinton backers attempting to subterfuge the obama campaign i do the article closes by once again taking obama unapologetically out of context over his quote about being a symbol of restoring america s traditions followed by mccain operatives quoted as saying that obama thinks highly of himself in the interest of fair use and of preventing symptoms reminiscent of ipecac in my readers i ll omit the last few sections so i guess the question is this is the financial times a merely stupid tool of republicans and dlc democrats or is it actively attempting to subterfuge the obama campaign because an article this lack in journalistic ethics and this devoid of basic respect for the truth much less balance brooks no other alternatives labels obama posted by thereisnospoon at 5 09 pm 2 comments thursday may 22 2008 kcrw test this is a test of the kcrw embed test posted by thereisnospoon at 2 41 pm 0 comments thursday march 27 2008 blogtalkradio want to start your own radio show well you re going to need an agent a lawyer and a big contract just kidding with new online radio platforms all you need to get started are a few basics oh and co hosts aren t a bad idea scroll down for an on topic radio show discussing this diary first of all some of you are probably wondering why you would want a radio show at all there are several compelling reasons to add audio and particularly radio shows to your content some topics are better suited to the radio format got a great 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