A: Both cities voted overwhelmingly for John Kerry in 2004. According to Randi Rhodes on her June 1, 2006, show, the vote in New York City for Kerry was over 70 percent and the Kerry vote in Washington, D.C., was over 90 percent.
Poetic Justice
Buck Banks | Oct. 9, 2026
In the diplomatic ranks, trained professionals toil,
To keep the peace and tamp down foreign turmoil.
But for Greek ambassador,
Trump picked an artful dodger —
The grifting, drunken blackmailer Kimberly Guilfoyle.
Verbatim
“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”
— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.
“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”
— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.
“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”
— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.
Numerati
3,824
A record number of women are running for state legislative seats this November, more than two-thirds of whom are Democrats, reports Florida Phoenix. Across the 46 states with legislative seats on the ballot, a total of 3,824 women are running — up from 2022’s previous record of 3,621 women candidates, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. Women make up 35.5% of all state legislative candidates this cycle. Currently, women hold about one-third of state legislative seats across the country — a record level of representation but nowhere near parity.
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$1.4 billion
“Prediction markets about the 2026 midterm elections have surpassed $1.4 billion in trading volume as Election Day fast approaches,” CNN reports. “This year has seen massive growth in the prediction industry, where people can bet on real-world events like sports, entertainment and the weather. While small-scale election markets have been around for a while, they gained traction before the 2024 presidential election and have seen huge numbers for the 2026 midterms.”
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-35 points
G. Elliot Morris: “Low-knowledge 2024 voters say they backed Trump by 8 points, according to our poll. Today they give him a net job approval of ?27, a 35-point shift. Compare that to Trump’s approval rating among voters who got both questions right: These voters backed Harris by 1 point and now give Trump a net ?24 approval, a 23-point shift. … Low-information voters have moved against Trump at a higher rate than high-information voters, by 12 points.”
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31%
President Donald ?Trump’s approval rating fell to a record low as Americans worried about high gasoline prices and appeared ready to punish his Republican Party in the November 3 congressional elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Monday. Some 31% of Americans approve of Trump’s ?performance in office, down a percentage point from two weeks earlier and the lowest level in ?either of his presidential terms, the four-day poll showed.
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63% to 38%
KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”
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Well, just because Washington D.C. has ACTUALLY been hit by terrorist attack shouldn’t stop speculation that those other places MIGHT get hit.
Actually, this bullshit is just further proof that THERE IS NO WAR ON TERROR. It’s all a construct, a sham perpetuated by Bush and his Republican Guard so Bush, as a “wartime president” can be our dictator instead of president.
CONGRESS DECLARES WAR AND THEY CONTROL THE PURSE STRINGS.
We need a grassroots movement in this country with getting as many people as possible to deluge their congresspersons with DEMANDS that THEY DECLARE THAT THE UNITED STATES IS NO LONGER AT WAR WITH ANYONE AND THAT ALL FUNDS FOR PROSECUTING BUSH’S WAR ARE WITHDRAWN, CANCELED, RETURNED TO THE TREASURY, AND THAT THE PENTAGON WILL BE FULLY DE-FUNDED UNLESS IT BOWS TO THE WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Those assholes in D.C. work for us and it’s damn well time that they learn that. If your representative will not come on board WITH THE REASONABLE REQUEST TO STOP BUSH’S “FOREVER WAR”, then refuse to vote for them and instead vote for someone who desires world peace, not global domination. And tell you rep that is what you intend to do.
But we need to start NOW before the idiot boy King George gets us embroiled in an Iranian War that could wind up destroying us all in a nuclear conflagration. They need to also pass laws clearly stating the president’s authority is COMPLETELY SPELLED OUT in the Constitution, that “signing statements” attached to legislation are COMPLETELY INVALID AND CANNOT BE CONSIDERED IN A COURT OF LAW, and that if Bush is too arrogant to just veto stuff he doesn’t like, then he will follow the law without deviation or be impeached.
So if there are any wonks out there who know how to set-up a MAJOR DRIVE by the people, of the people, and for the people so THE PEOPLE CAN REGAIN CONTROL OF AMERICA, PLEASE HELP. IT COULD BE THE LAST CHANCE FOR OUR DEMOCRACY TO SURVIVE.
And remember, THERE IS NO WAR ON TERROR. Like many countries we simply suffered a horrible terrorist event. Where other countries do good police work, capture, try, and sentence terrorist to jail, Bush has instead gutted our ability to try anyone because of the kidnappings, torture, and no way to present tainted evidence to a court. The atrocities America has committed on the watch of George W. Bush has set this country on a terrible path, and we must start derailing Bush’s future war plans now.
The Bush family has supported terrorists for three generations:
– Grandpappy Prescott Bush was one of Hitler’s financiers. Hitler was arguably the worst terrorist of all time.
-George H.W. Bush illegally sold missiles to Iran (a member of the Axis of Evil, according to his idiot son) and turned around and funded the contras, who were blood-thirsty drug-runners and terrorists.
– Dubya has refused to extradite Carlos Letelier and other narcoterrorists and played pattycake with the bin Laden family after 9-11.
Now, we just need to educate 95% of Americans about this scumbag family of traitors and incompetents!