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Lora Jones

Minneapolis, MN
Commenter for
4 years 2 weeks

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Posted on 10/27/10 at 10:26 am in response to Michele Bachmann, Tarryl Clark both have their moments -- and low points -- in race's first real debate

#7. You're showing your ignorance. Card check does not mandate a "public" vote. That's just more of the right's demagoguery

Posted on 10/25/10 at 01:12 pm in response to Presidential visits: Will they help Dayton and Clark?

#12 - But, Ginny, if they took time to think, much less examine their motivations (be afraid, be very afraid and/or mine Mine MINE) they'd be too embarrassed to remain repubs!

Posted on 10/25/10 at 10:41 am in response to Presidential visits: Will they help Dayton and Clark?

BD. Can you add? Last time I checked 7,000 + 4,000 = 11,000.

Posted on 10/25/10 at 09:31 am in response to Pioneer Press, St. Cloud Times endorse Horner, but Range paper says Dayton

Oh, Swifty -- I suppose it's only to be expected that someone facing backwards can't see what's in front of everyone else's face.

The DNT is not "deep blue." Neither is the Strib (they've given T-Paw glowing reviews and a free ride for 8 years). Any semblence of progressive Minnesota news has long ago been sold across the river and/or state lines.

Actually, the Mesabi endorsement is suprising. They have been very pro-lifey, anti-changy, for many years. I can only take them...

Posted on 09/29/10 at 09:24 am in response to Obama's Rolling Stone interview

You nailed it, Mr. Schoh, with the exception of your last paragraph.

If Reagan had been prosecuted and jailed for his treasonous dealings with Iran prior to the 1980 election as he should have been, instead of being elected and ripping the solar panels off the White House roof and undoing the energy initiatives Carter had put in place, our economy and our environment would be in a much better place. We almost certainly would not have had the BP oil spill. Is Jimmy Carter...

Posted on 09/27/10 at 01:18 pm in response to Latest Strib, Rasmussen polls throw a couple of curves into governor's race

I just took a quick look at Rasmussen's questions and breakouts. These folks are incredible in every sense of the word! The cell phone exclusion and the framing of the questions are obviously skewing the self-selected sample towards the right. I can't credit a poll that finds twice as many Minnesotans want the health care reform bill repealed as Americans as a whole do (Rasmussen's 54% to Kaiser's 26%). I will say, though, that they left the strongest of the push poll questions until...

Posted on 09/27/10 at 11:16 am in response to Latest Strib, Rasmussen polls throw a couple of curves into governor's race

Eric, Dems don't say Rasmussen favors Republicans -- Nate Silver is the one who found a 3.5-4 point pro-Republican "house effect" in Rasmussen polls.http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/search/label/pollster%20ratings

Posted on 09/22/10 at 09:00 am in response to Meffert files ethics complaint against Paulsen

J.J. and Henk have it dead to rights. Lies and misconstructions are all the Repubs have because the facts have a liberal bias.

Posted on 09/21/10 at 12:22 pm in response to KSTP pollster explains excluding cell-phone-only voters

In another string, the large percentage of the yougest voters (18-34 if I remember correctly) choosing Emmer was noted (48%). I did wonder at the time whether the exclusion of cell phones might have contributed, although I suspect that the small sample size had an even larger effect.

Posted on 09/21/10 at 12:49 pm in response to Bachmann's tale of Pelosi's bar tab rates 'Pants on Fire', says PolitiFact

I should have known that if anyone could read Bachmann's mind it would be Mr. Swift. So far as the alcohol goes, it's a (very minor) point well taken, although I shudder to think of Tom DeLay's booze expenses . . .

The major point, underlined by FactCheck is that our dear representative is a serial, habitual, chronic liar.