Author - JumpyPants

Election 2008

Calling Today

Posted by JumpyPants Me and a bunch of moms got together during school hours today and made several hundred calls to voters in Ohio, Viriginia and North Carolina. Probably 70% answering machines...

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My Son and I Voted

Posted by JumpyPants Before school this morning, at 7:30, my 9-year old son and I went down to VFW Hall, our polling place, to vote. He came into the booth with me, I showed him how the machine...

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Senator Barack Obama

It’s You

Posted by JumpyPants Of the many, many reasons Barack Obama is a great human being, I would have to say the one that I believe makes him greatest, makes him not just a scuttling creature gnashing and...

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John McCain

Bile in the Spittle

Posted by JumpyPants Watching Senator Kit Bond of Missouri lay down the exhausted "socialism" fear-blather-nonsense point just a few minutes ago on Hardball was almost as painful as watching Senator...

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Elections

Dean

Posted by JumpyPants The 50-State Strategy Works. Period. On Monday, November 3rd DNC Chairman Howard Dean will spend the last full day of the 2008 presidential election helping to get out the vote...

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Elections

Election Theft

Posted by JumpyPants The last two presidential elections in this country were stolen, the first one a theft in broad daylight, via the fiat of five judges, two of whom were appointed by the father of...

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Elections

Five States to GOTV

Posted by JumpyPants Nate Silver knows polls. And he says five states matter right now: Those states are Virginia, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Nevada. Essentially all relevant electoral...

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Elections

Here’s When We’ve Won:

Posted by JumpyPants We've won when John McCain gives a speech to his hotel ballroom full of constituents on national television. And not a moment before. National polls are not a win. State polls...

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Congress

Senate Pick-Ups

Posted by JumpyPants Right now we have 51 Senate seats (including Sanders and (gag, cough, hairball) Lieberman). For the filibuster-proof majority, we need ideally need 10 more (hairball, Lieberman)...

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Elections

20.1 vs. 6.1

Posted by JumpyPants Building on Bob's glee, below, over McCain having to campaign in his home state, I think it's worthwhile to look for a second at the respective leads the candidates have in their...

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Elections

Be Real

Posted by JumpyPants When you're phone-banking or canvassing or just talking to somebody in the next six days, if they bring up any, and I mean ANY, of the absolute crap that McExplodinghead and his...

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Elections

Charles Alexander

Posted by JumpyPants "He's the same in person as he is on TV." Charles Alexander said that about Barack Obama in the video that Squire Dingeldein posted below. But this man is more than just an...

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Elections

90%

Posted by JumpyPants According to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, 90% of Americans say they're comfortable with Obama's race. Keep that foremost in your mind when you read about the neo-Nazis...

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Congress

Looking ahead four years

Posted by JumpyPants "When I go out, I say, 'I have a lot of respect for Sen. Obama. He's bright. He's eloquent.'" That's Joe Lieberman, back-pedaling as fast as he can in the most craven and...

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