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by: James L.

Fri Jul 23, 2010 at 7:15 PM EDT


The editors of Daily Kos and Swing State Project are teaming up for a Q&A on the 2010 elections here in Las Vegas. This show is set to go off at 4:30 Pacific time, and you can watch the live feed below. More information on the panel (and the panelists) is available here.

UPDATE: A big thank you to everyone who came to our panel or watched us online. If you missed it, you can view a recording here or just watch the video embedded above.
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Y'know, I could be at a BBQ/Swim Party right now
Instead I'm watching this video and cutting block walk lists for Bill White in my town house.

I got an addiction problem.

26, Male, Democrat, TX-26

David, Cristunity and James L.
You guys were great. I especially liked how you said this is different from 1994. The Republicans are definitely more crazier, less organized and instead of Contract with America, they have a "Contract with the teabaggers in America."

for more election analysis, visit  http://frogandturtle.blogspot....




17, CA-06,  

Not 1994
It is not like anything we have seen before.  That is what makes it so unpredictable.

23, male, center-right cynical Republican, PA-7
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Yeah, 1930 would be the most apt description
Simply because of the economic aspect, the GOP were fully in charge while everything collapsed and unemployment shot-up, so they got blamed for it fully.  Bush ruined it all, Obama oversaw the job loss aspect and we have been in full control of Congress since 2007.  
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I really think 1982 is most apt comparison
The Democratic Party was expecting huge gains, but were only kicked out two years earlier from being relatively unpopular under the stagflation and post-Vietnam malaise. The GOP under Reagan however had a (self-induced but somewhat needed) recession where unemployment was 11%+. At the end of the day, much to the relative disappointments of the dems, they only picked up 27 house seats and one indy-to-Dem in the Senate.

I think now, the GOP is whittling away their Senate shot thanks to a lot of sub-par candidates, and their House gains may be limited to mostly low-hanging fruit like it was for Dems in 1982 (who had two bad elections two cycles in a row previously).

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That's What These Guys Look Like?
How do they find time to do all this and practice/study law? And James L. lives in Canada? Does he realize Canadian Conservatives are basically Blue Dog Democrats of the North?
I thought
 All three of them lived in New York City because of the name DavidNYC. I did have a feeling that one of the editors though was from the Pacific Northwest though.

David, James and Cristunity, it would be nice if you could tell us how you guys decided to start this blog.  

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17, CA-06,  

[ Parent ]
Maybe A Better Question
would be why conservative bloggers have not started a similar SSP of the right, having such a obvious example to draw from?
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Conservatives aren't very good bloggers, period......
A lot of the top conservative bloggers are just batshit crazy insane.  That doesn't make for much of a draw in print like it does on the radio or on TV.

More importantly, conservative bloggers are control freaks who don't design blogs that foster any sense of community.  SSP is a community, DailyKos is a community, all the most successful liberal blogs are communities.  You don't see that on the right.

Finally, whoever are smart campaign observers on the right just don't do this particular type of blog.  They just do their own thing on their general political blog and on twitter.

43, male, Indian-American, Democrat, VA-10

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Exactly right
This blog is actually pretty unique.  I really do not even like using blog to describe it.

23, male, center-right cynical Republican, PA-7
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Yeah
I have been to a lot of blogs as I have a lot of time to kill at work and I can honestly say that this is the best one I have ever been to. I just wish I would have found it sooner, I can only imagine how much fun the 2008 elections would have been here. Especially live logging on election night. They do not just cover big races either and that is how I found SSP. There was a special state senate election in Kentucky, King Beshaer tried to appoint Republicans to things until he got a majority in the senate and I was looking for coverage and SSP was live blogging about it. We lost very badly but thanks to that race and SSP coverage of it I was able to find SSP and I have loved it ever since.  

Proud member of the Indiana Democratic Party from IN-9.  
[ Parent ]
The 2008 elections were totally fun here!
I started following this site and eventually registered because of that coverage, which I came to some ways into the campaign.

"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"
--  Will Rogers  
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I wish I was here for 2008 elections too
 I have googled a few old posts in the archives of the 2008 elections but it is definitely not the same as actually experiencing it. I found SSP in March of 2009 on Real Clear politics. I think I was looking for Obama's district numbers and I remember clicking a link and coming to swing state project. There was a post I think asking for Nassau County's district by district numbers. I looked around the blog and a few months later, I started my first comments and postings here and I have been here ever since.  

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17, CA-06,  

[ Parent ]
Good point
 As someone else said, this is definitely more of a community here. Besides looking at the Daily Digest and the political news updates from the editors, many of us post diaries and give alot of feedback on them. Also like a community, some people come, go and some stay here for awhile.  

for more election analysis, visit  http://frogandturtle.blogspot....




17, CA-06,  

[ Parent ]
It's why I like this place so much
Totally feels like a second home with a whole second set of people to know and josh with.
[ Parent ]
I have a positive impression of Josh Trevino
before he was led out of RedState (for reasons still unknown, AFAIK).

I remember reading somewhere that he and someone named Bob who used to be a part of the SSP leadership? worked together on something.

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I dont
After his work with the DeVore campaign. Totally destroyed him in my book. He's a major asshole.  
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I first came here in 2005
To get more in-depth coverage on the OH-02 special election, and it all went downhill from there. That was a bit before James L. was a contributor, when at the time Tim Tagaris and Bob Brigham were both contributors here!

Further, I think the lack of a rational and informative election analysis community on the right is why you've been seeing quite a bit of Republican commentators here - despite its self-purported Democratic goal. It's also why I think this site has been read by the DCCC and by Schumer, and have been a target of sock-puppets on both the right and the left.

[ Parent ]
I came here in 2007.


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28, New Democrat, Female, TX-03 (hometown CA-26)
[ Parent ]
Crisitunity is from Washington state.


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David started the blog to track 2004 swing states
Not sure how James came along, but Crisitunity was just a regular poster and did sweet Index stuff and joined the cast and crew.

Whatever happened to Caped Composer?  It was like one day for me, wait, where has she been?

[ Parent ]
For the record
I did live in NYC briefly and continue to visit pretty regularly.

I was promoted straight from the comments back in spring 2006. David was studying for the bar back then, and wanted to find a way to keep the site going. We had a pretty good rapport both here and at DailyKos, so he rolled the dice on me. I'd like to think it worked out!

[ Parent ]
Bravo! Steve, David, Crisitunity, & James
And all done without any notes or info files to refer to. Just wow.

And MissLaura is a good dkos FP'er, but was just out of her league with you four on this topic.

My favorite moment: one of our candidates in one of the races was being praised by a panelist, and who should be sitting in the audience at that moment but that very person! (So jealous of people being able to attend NN10.)
Does anyone recall which candidate that was?

I liked that part too.
I believe it was Dan Seals.
[ Parent ]
You Are Correct. It Was Seals. NT :)


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[ Parent ]
Chris Dudley
Why did James L. bring up the notion that Dudley couldn't make a point shot, or whatever shot, as a basketball player? Is that somehow a reason that he would be bad governor? I didn't understand that personal shot at the man, when the whole ducking debates thing would have sufficed.
Seriously?

[ Parent ]
point shot? free throw
it was funny and true. he's about as bad a free throw shooter as shaq
[ Parent ]
And that disqualifies him for the governor's office how?

[ Parent ]
Claim to Fame
I think he was just saying Dudley's ineptness at the foul line was how people had heard of him before he decided to run for governor.  Even though he's a fresh face on the political scene, he seems to be giving Kitzhaber a run for his money.  I think it is a combination of Dudley being an outsider to politics and the GOP favoring political climate.
[ Parent ]
Reminds Me Of Lynn Swann
I didn't know he was a football player before he ran for governor against Rendell in PA.
[ Parent ]
Better question
What the hell qualifies this dude to be Governor?  Other than being a basketball player and having lots of money, this guy would be a Some Dude.  So if he has little else, then his basketball career is fair game.
[ Parent ]
Wasn't me!
That was Crisitunity. I'm not even sure what a "point shot" is!
[ Parent ]
Granted, I was pretty young,
but I remember going to Knicks games as a kid. My dad and I used to constantly make fun of Chris Dudley's totally inept free throw shooting. His form was just awful; I remember actually trying to emulate it, but there is just no way to do it.

It's not indicative of his potential as governor, it's just funny that his historic free throw shooting is his claim to fame. In the 89-90 season, he shot 32% (!) from the line. Shaq--long known as a terrible free throw shooter--shot 42% as a career low in an injury-shortened season.

NY-14, DC-AL (college) Distraught Mets fan

[ Parent ]
I grew up
in Oregon, and there's nothing to root for but the Trail Blazers there. So every mental image I have of Chris Dudley is of him lining up behind the free throw stripe, invariably moving all his elbows and knees in the completely wrong order, and clanking the ball off the back of the rim. I haven't even gotten around to the idea of him in a suit yet.
[ Parent ]
Where can I
watch it?  
The Big Picture
It's number 1 in the list above where the live feed was.
[ Parent ]
I finally know how to
pronounce Crisitunity, even if i cant spell it!
James
I cant stop staring at your shoes.  They are flawless.
Hahaha
Thank you!
[ Parent ]
two weeks...
until I can watch this! (Chinese govt, your power over my internetz is weakening...)

21, dude, RI-01 (registered) IL-01 (college)
please help Japan. click "donate funds" in upper right and then "Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami." http://www.redcross.org/
im not sure what would be more annoying
being in a country like South Africa where you can access whatever but it's going to be Windows 97 and take forever, or China where you simpyl cant go to somethings you but it'd be quite fast.
[ Parent ]
The internet
is kind of shoddy here. It's pretty good in my room (although sometimes slow) but I can't use my VPN to get around the internet block. I can use the VPN in the classroom but I don't have much time to go on the internet there plus the internet there is really bad.

21, dude, RI-01 (registered) IL-01 (college)
please help Japan. click "donate funds" in upper right and then "Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami." http://www.redcross.org/
[ Parent ]
I was just in Shanghai...
No facebook, flickr, blogspot, youtube or even 538.com (??) really gets to you after awhile. SSP, thankfully, wasn't blocked!

I used my VPN to get around the Great Firewall pretty easily, but I guess that depends on how restrictive your VPN service is?  

[ Parent ]
yeah, when I found out 538 was blocked
I was like WTF...

the problem is not with my VPN, it's the fact that in my room I use a VPN to get online in the first place, and so I can't use another VPN. But in the classroom, I get online with wifi, so I can use my VPN. and if SSP were blocked I would die, this site is like crack to me!

21, dude, RI-01 (registered) IL-01 (college)
please help Japan. click "donate funds" in upper right and then "Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami." http://www.redcross.org/

[ Parent ]
So
if you do not mind me asking why are you in China? I am sure you have said a hundred times but I just can't  remember.  

Proud member of the Indiana Democratic Party from IN-9.  
[ Parent ]
Summer study abroad
Chinese language program.

21, dude, RI-01 (registered) IL-01 (college)
please help Japan. click "donate funds" in upper right and then "Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami." http://www.redcross.org/
[ Parent ]
Fascinating
I will not pretend that I am not a bit envious as I have always wanted to learn a foreign language myself but have never found the time to do it. Good for you.  

Proud member of the Indiana Democratic Party from IN-9.  
[ Parent ]
Thanks.
After I return from China, I'm home in RI for a few weeks and then I go off to Japan at the end of August. Since RI's primary is Sep 14, I'm slightly nervous about my absentee ballot arriving from Japan in time, but I think it'll be ok. Then if RI-Gov is really close, maybe it'll come down to military/overseas ballots, and I'll cast the deciding vote. ;)

21, dude, RI-01 (registered) IL-01 (college)
please help Japan. click "donate funds" in upper right and then "Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami." http://www.redcross.org/
[ Parent ]
I was an absentee voter for Franken
That felt great!  
[ Parent ]
I had already started learning Spanish
growing up in Southern California, and then took classes from 6th grade all the way to 12th! And thanks to my fiance, who is from Brazil, I can speak a little Portuguese!

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[ Parent ]
Anyone else catch FOX News last night?
They were broadcasting NN for the whole evening.

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NN?

[ Parent ]
oh duh, Netroots Nation
Wonder why
[ Parent ]
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