{"id":3407,"date":"2010-11-11T11:41:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T17:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=3407"},"modified":"2010-11-11T11:41:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T17:41:13","slug":"linkswarm-for-thursday-november-11-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=3407","title":{"rendered":"LinkSwarm for Thursday, November 11, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another LinkSwarm of sundry sundries: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/eddriscoll\/2010\/11\/11\/the-shootist\/\">More reasons to be thankful Paul Kanjorksi is gone.<\/a>\n<li><A href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703805004575606750168419176.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop\">&#8220;Much of what this Democratic Congress did, or tried to do, was like throwing Molotov cocktails at business.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/lists\/top_10_upsets_2010\/\">Top Ten Upsets of the 2010 Election<\/a>. (Warning: slide show.) Some of the surprises were the Democrats that <i>didn&#8217;t<\/i> lose (such as Harry Reid), but several (Ortiz, Oberstar, Wilson, Gene Taylor) were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=3017\">upsets I predicted<\/a>.\n<li>The RNCC has put up a page (with donations links) for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrcc.org\/action\/Still-Counting\/\">the eight house races still up in the air<\/a>.\n<li>The question isn&#8217;t whether Blake Farenthold beat Solomon Ortiz, the question is whether the win is &#8220;<a htrg=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/why_democrats_always_win_the_c.html\">outside the margin of ACORN.<\/a>&#8221;\n<li>Need an example of the above? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/campaign-spot\/253015\/unresolved-house-races-part-three\">Try this<\/a>: &#8220;The Bean campaign approached the Cook County Clerk\u2019s Office, requested and received a list of all outstanding absentee ballots with name, address, and phone numbers. As alarming as that was, they also asked for and were provided an exact image of a blank absentee ballot.\u201d\n<li>Study after study have shown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2008\/03\/conservatives_more_liberal_giv.html\">Republicans are more generous than Democrats.<\/a> This year&#8217;s election just proved that the same applies to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/metropolitan\/7288980.html\">the Texas congressional delegation.<\/a> &#8220;The 20 Texas Republican incumbents, none of whom faced serious opposition, gave an average of $100,000 each to Republicans. Texas Democrats, meanwhile, provided relatively meager support for endangered Democratic incumbents. They averaged $26,000 in donations to other candidates in their party.&#8221;\n<li>The Democrats have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2010\/11\/10\/the-democrats-2012-rust-belt-problem.html\">Rust Belt problem<\/a>: &#8220;The drop-off in Democratic support among older voters and white voters from the last midterm election is remarkable. In 2006 Democrats lost white voters by 4 points in House races, which are a fairly good indicator of party preference, and they tied among voters 65 and over. This year they lost whites by 23 points and lost older voters by 21 points.&#8221;\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/11\/10\/dem-staffers-capitol-hill-face-tough-job-market\/\">&#8220;Many Dem Staffers on Capitol Hill Face Tough Job Market.&#8221;<\/a> Perhaps they should check with IBM. I hear they&#8217;re working on a nanoscale violin construction program that might be appropriate for them&#8230;\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another LinkSwarm of sundry sundries: More reasons to be thankful Paul Kanjorksi is gone. &#8220;Much of what this Democratic Congress did, or tried to do, was like throwing Molotov cocktails at business.&#8221; Top Ten Upsets of the 2010 Election. (Warning: slide show.) Some of the surprises were the Democrats that didn&#8217;t lose (such as Harry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":21,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,13,18],"tags":[154,735,584,88,2864,2862,702,574,760,761,453,2865,452,771],"class_list":["post-3407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-economics","category-elections","category-republicans","tag-acorn","tag-blake-farenthold","tag-charles-wilson-ohio","tag-chicago","tag-democrats","tag-elections","tag-gene-taylor","tag-james-oberstar","tag-joe-walsh","tag-melissa-bean","tag-paul-kanjorski","tag-republicans","tag-solomon-ortiz","tag-voting-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3428,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}