Tag: Low-Information Voters
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Voter Suppression
In perhaps the most bald-faced violation of Berg’s Seventh Law in history, the DFL – which is constantly whinging about phantom claims of “voter suppression” – is actively trying to disenfranchise half of this state’s electorate in the Presidential election. DFL Chair Ken “Dwight Schrute” Martin is sueing to keep Donald Trump off the Minnesota ballot in…
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The DFL/Media/Anti-Gun Hot Tub Party
When you’re a conservative, distrust of the media – like most large institutions – is part and parcel of the job. You probably accept that, for whatever reason – from systemic bias to cultural confirmation bias to being paid off by George Soros – that the media has a comprehensive bias toward the left. And…
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Not So Happy To Pay For A Better Minnesota
Minnesota newspapers, largely, supported Governor Messinger Dayton and the DFL. They largely not only bought the “Alliance For A Better Minnesota’s” bill of goods hook line and sinker, but most of them worked tirelessly to propagate it, and to squelch dissent from it. They studiously avoided, almost completely, any reporting that would have impeded the…
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Standing Pat
I heard this last week on “Poligraph”, MPR’s self-styled “Politifact” homage. “Poligraph” reporter Catherine Richert was “fact-checking” statements from the GOP and DFL about the state budget. She quoted Governor Messinger Dayton: You know,[the wealthiest] were paying the higher rates during the 1990s when President Clinton was in office, and we enjoyed boom years in…
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Chanting Points Memo: Slouching From Fargo
How do you measure success in a politician? If you’re a liberal, it’s likely in terms of sheer volume of legislation created and money moved about. Because to a liberal, government is about creating reams of paper, rules, laws, stuff for government to do. If you’re a conservative, it’s probably more a matter of princple;…
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The Great Poll Scam: A Blast From The Past
As we look at the abusive travesty that is the Minnesota Poll – in this case, the ludicrously skewed, 3:2 pro-DFL partisan breakdown in this weekend’s polling on the two Constitutional Amendments – let’s take a trip back through history. Frank Newport, the president of the broadly-respected Gallup Polls, savaged the Minnesota Poll in the…
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In More News From The “Campaign For The Dumb And Uninformed Vote” Front…
Mitt Romney didn’t actually say “I Can Relate To Black People, My Ancestors Once Owned Slaves”, didn’t get his slogan from the KKK, and isn’t promising to abolish MLK day. Hard to tell exactly who these meme’s be aimed at: the lower-information end of the Afro-American voter spectrum, or the more-bigoted college-educated white liberals.
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Lying About Lying
What Obama Said: “Sometimes they just make things up. But they’ve got a bunch of folks who can write $10 million checks, and they’ll just keep on running them,” he said. “I mean, somebody was challenging one of their ads — they made it up — about work and welfare. And every outlet said this…
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No, Dems…
,,.there are not “4.5 million new jobs”. Or rather, while there may have been 4.5 million jobs created in the past four years, it’s been a piker compared to the jobs lost, downgraded, and sent overseas. We are not better off than we were four years ago. But keep on chanting, Dems. There are only so many dumb voters.
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Berg’s Seventh Law: There Are, It Seems, No Exceptions
The chair of the California Democrat Party compares Republican “tactics” to those of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels: “They lie and they don’t care if people think they lie,” Chairman of the California Democratic Party John Burton told KCBS Monday in Charlotte. “As long as you lie, Joseph Goebbels, the big lie, you keep repeating…
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Chanting Points Memo: Barnes Bobbles Facts
Legal language is a funny thing. And by “funny”, we mean “funny weird”, not “funny haha”. One of the left’s latest chanting points – abetted by Todd Akin’s groaner last week – is that a group of GOP legislators co-sponsored a bill, HR3, better known as the “No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion” bill. The title…
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The Democrat Low-Information Voter Monopoly
It started almost as a joke. Two years ago, as I watched the Alliance for a Better Minnesota run Governor Dayton’s campaign (let’s be honest) behind a set of memes that a modestly intelligent junior high kid could have shredded, I observed that the Dems seemed to be basing their campaign on winning over “Low-Information…
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Reid: The Leftyblogger Senator
Flashback to high school: (Harp arpeggios has hazy scene dissolves to homeroom at a high school): GIRL: Who’s your boyfriend? LEFTYBLOGGER: Oh – he goes to another school! (Harps return for more arpeggions as scene dissolves, then re-establishes at college) PROFESSOR: So what evidence did we have that Reagan was a crook that should have…
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So Simple A DFLer Could Figure It Out
Joe Doakes from Como Park writes in re Al Sharpton’s Strib op-ed: Civil Rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton writes in the Star Tribune to oppose Voter ID because 1 in 4 Blacks, 1 in 5 elderly and 1 in 6 Hispanics don’t have the proper credentials and apparently can’t get them. Oddly, others can. The…
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They All Look The Same To The DFL
It’s the second stupid, bigoted attack by the DFL in as many weeks – and it involves my good friend and longtime Northern Alliance colleague King Banaian. Can you imagine the uproar if a Republican campaign would be stupid enough to drop a campaign piece saying…: “Keith Ellison: Too involved in Saudi Arabian politics to…