The Tea Party Is Over: Democratic "Patriot Majority" PAC Going After Tea Party Candidates

[Turborama]

http://www.patriotmajoritypac.us/">Patriot Majority PAC, a group created last year by Democratic Party strategist Craig Varoga, has a new mission -- make sure the U.S. House and Senate stay Tea Party free.

"Americans need to confront the dangerous ideas of the tea party movement head on, without any fear, before they gain any additional traction in the legislative process or the 2010 elections," Varoga http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/morning-fix/20100329-democratic-group-targets-tea-party.html">told the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza.

Varoga's PAC hopes to combat the influence of the Tea Party by targeting 12 to 15 races involving candidates from the conservative movement and launching an independent counter-attack of television, radio and online ads, according to Cillizza.

As the electoral battles go forward, Varoga also hopes to establish Patriot Majority PAC as an http://www.patriotmajoritypac.us/get_involved/the_tea_party_is_over">archive of negative information on the Tea Party movement. In a tweet on Monday, the PAC asked "http://twitter.com/PatriotMajority">Citizens Across US to Help Monitor Violence."

More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/29/patriot-majority-pac-goin_n_516954.html

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Unfortunately they missed one last Jan - Mr. Scott Brown

You know, the nude cover moron from MA.

Hopefully his ass is history in 2012.

Hawkeye-X

[RandomThoughts]

3. What kind of voting machines do they have in that state?

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

According to preliminary media results by municipality, Democrat Martha Coakley won Massachusetts overall in its hand counted locations,* with 51.12% of the vote (32,247 hand counted votes) to Brown's 30,136, which garnered him 47.77% of hand counted votes. Margin: 3.35% lead for Coakley.

Massachusetts has 71 hand count locations, 91 ES&S locations, and 187 Diebold locations, with two I call the mystery municipalities (Northbridge and Milton) apparently using optical scanners, not sure what kind.

ES&S RESULTS

The greatest margin between the candidates was with ES&S machines -- 53.64% for Brown, 45.31% for Coakley, a margin for Brown of 8.33%. It looks like ES&S counted a total of 620,388 votes, with 332,812 going to Brown and 281,118 going to Coakley. Taken overall, the difference -- 8.33% Brown (ES&S) added to 3.35% Coakley (Hand Count) shows an 11.68% difference between the ES&S and the Hand Counts. Of course, as Mark Twain used to say, there are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics. These statistics don't prove anything, and probably shouldn't be discussed without a grain of salt handy before examining more detailed demographics.

As a point of reference, however, in the Maine gay marriage issue recently there was no significant overall difference between machine count and hand count locations.

DIEBOLD RESULTS

Diebold's results are 51.42% for Brown, with 791,272 Republican votes counted by Diebold, vs. 47.61% for Coakley, with 732,633 Democratic votes counted by Diebold, for a spread of 3.81% favoring Brown.

It's always interesting to watch hand counts beat machine count results to the newspaper.

In the Massachusetts special senate election, results from six of 71 hand count locations were reported about 2 1/2 hours after the polls closed, with the remaining 65 hand count locations in right away. The slower hand count results represent 8.45% of all hand count locations.

These latecoming hand-counted results favored Coakley very heavily (she got 55.68% of these, earning 4,610 votes to Brown's 42.9%, representing 3,552, a 12.78% margin) Whether the reports came to the media late or the media posted them late is unclear.



However I been thinking, if someone tries to steal an election, what would be those rules applied to them. Trying to think what that would be.



On a side note, I don't think Coakley seemed to want to win the election that much.

[Liberal In Texas]

11. The voting machine problem has NOT gone away just because the reupkes got

their asses landslided last time. They are a party that believes that the ends do justify the means and we should still be working to get these machines controlled by government with open source software or just completely dumping them and going back to paper ballots that can be recounted with confidence.

[opihimoimoi]

2. At Last, A Positive Retort/Response to the TeaBooger Madness

[Turborama]

4. WTF?

I just noticed that they have links to Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin and the Drudge Report's homepages on their site: http://www.patriotmajoritypac.us/issues

Please join me in emailing them to ask why at: [e-mail]

[MagickMuffin]

5. YIKES! This appears to be a SCAM

I only noticed a few left leaning sources.


I wouldn't send them a dime.

[Turborama]

7. There are several negative articles about Teahadists

Here: http://www.patriotmajoritypac.us/get_involved/the_tea_party_is_over

And they do have Five Thirty Eight listed alongside Caulter et al and Nate Silver is a progressive, isn't he? They also have links to Gawker, Talking Points Memo and Huffington Post. That's why I became confused when I saw links to those extreme right wing sites.

[anigbrowl]

8. Dude...you don't know what extreme is

I do think you've been suckered...this is just another operation designed to play on your good intentions in order to solicit campaign cash. I'm sorry to tell you that while sites from people like Malkin and Coulter are the intellectual equivalent of a dirty public restroom, they're paragons of civility in comparison to some of the septic tanks out there.

I humbly suggest you stick to direct candidate contributions if you feel so inclined and steer clear of the issue PACs, a good many of which are designed primarily to part your from your hard earned money.

[Turborama]

9. I have to admit, I make a point of not venturing very deep into that particular rabbit hole

and purposefully avoid places like freeperville unless someone posts something from such sites here.

[anigbrowl]

12. Yup...not advisable without a hazmat suit. nt

[chollybocker]

6. Sounds like another "Party" created to legitimize the Teabag "party,"

Like the "Coffee Party."

They're all astro-turfing for teabaggers.

[mmonk]

10. Pointing out their calls for violence is good. If however, they

separate the kooks from the Republicans who lately are kooks themselves, is this good? I want the albatross of extremism to be hung around the Republican party banner.