These Twitterers’ Titters Trigger Tweets (David Walker for President Edition)

Jim Cook 2/22/2012
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Apart from the propriety of Americans Elect communicating in glowing terms about one of its draft presidential candidates, I have a broader curiosity about who’s talking about this heretofore obscure individual as a contender for the most powerful position on …

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Did Americans Elect’s Elliot Ackerman and Mark McKinnon play Chuck Todd for a Chump on Natl TV?

Jim Cook 2/22/2012
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Did Elliot Ackerman and Mark McKinnon just play TV personality Chuck Todd for a chump? Or was Chuck Todd trying to chump the American people too? On MSNBC yesterday, Chuck Todd invited Elliot Ackerman, COO of the privatized presidential nomination …

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Neutrality? Americans Elect Leader Mark McKinnon Expresses Support for Presidential bid of fellow Americans Elect Leader David Walker

Jim Cook 2/21/2012
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Talk about inside games. Despite bylaws and handbooks written by Americans Elect forbidding the Americans Elect organization, its leadership and its staffers from speaking or acting to promote a presidential candidate, it was confirmed earlier today that a day after …

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Violating Charter and Bylaws, No Labels and Americans Elect Promote Presidential Bid of Pete Peterson-Funded David Walker

Jim Cook 2/21/2012
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Americans Elect and No Labels, mysterious political corporations that don’t disclose their funders, say they’re not promoting any Presidential candidate… but the behavior of Americans Elect and No Labels seems to be at odds with what they say. Read here for documentation of this mismatch as it applies to David Walker.

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The Myths in Robert Samuelson’s Campaign Finance Myths

Jim Cook 2/20/2012
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Robert Samuelson’s syndicated column defending the deregulation of campaign finance has appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country this week. Samuelson has written down what he believes to be three “myths” regarding campaign finance law. Let’s look at each …

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Map It: Hurricanes and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States

Jim Cook 2/19/2012
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Eat your heart out, John Hagee.

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Frank VanderSloot, Billionaire Finance Co-Chair of Mitt Romney Campaign, is an Anti-Free Speech Censorship Bully

Jim Cook 2/18/2012
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If you write anywhere on the web, you need to write out the words in the title. You need to write them because they are the truth. You need to write them because somebody is trying to squash that truth …

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Even after a Retally, Maine Republican Caucus Results Still Don’t Add Up

Jim Cook 2/18/2012
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The comedy of errors in the Maine Republican presidential caucus of 2012 drags on into its third act. Act I: After its one-week period for running caucuses in towns across the state is complete, the Maine GOP releases its official …

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Fictional Character Leaps Past Buddy Roemer in Low-Turnout Americans Elect Candidate Qualification Vote

Jim Cook 2/17/2012
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“Let it be recorded that at 3:05 p.m. ET on February 16, mock conservative commentator Stephen Colbert passed Buddy Roemer, the former congressman, governor of Louisiana and bona fide presidential candidate, as the sixth most popular ‘draft candidate’ of Americans …

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Updated Map of Maine Republican Caucus Results after Vote Undercount Scandal (2/17/2012)

Jim Cook 2/17/2012
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Eric Russell of the Bangor Daily News breaks the news this morning that what were supposed to be the final Maine Republican presidential caucus results for 2012 are now not actually final. It turns out that no more than two …

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Reverse Dunne: Is This an Appropriate Asshole Test?

Jim Cook 2/16/2012
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In a popular book, Stanford Professor Robert Sutton helpfully boils down his 227 pages of text to a two-prong test: Test One: After talking to the alleged asshole, does the ‘target’ feel oppressed, humiliated, de-energized, or belittled by the person? …

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NASA: January 2012 may have been quite warm in the U.S., but globally it was coolish

Jim Cook 2/15/2012
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One of the standards of citizenship in the reality-based community is that we must follow and note actual observations of empirical reality, even when they don’t accord with our favorite hypotheses or local observations. And so I’ll note that while …

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With 2 Weeks in and 13 Weeks Left, No Americans Elect Candidate is on Target to Make the Ballot.

Jim Cook 2/14/2012
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In a press release last week, Americans Elect decried the “low turnout” in the Republican party nomination process to date, citing it as the evidence of democracy in failure. You see, “only” 3,028,354 Americans in 9 states have voted so …

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I had no idea unauthorized funneling of weapons and money to terrorists to fund an insurgency of drug lords was so decent

Jim Cook 2/14/2012
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Looks like I’ll have to revise my dictionary.

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Ask Senator Patrick Leahy why he’s Sitting on Privacy and Civil Liberties Board Nominations

Jim Cook 2/13/2012
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It took President Obama three long years, but finally in December of 2011 he obeyed the law and finished putting all five nominees into consideration for appointment to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. This is an important task …

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Complete List of Questions Submitted to #3wayrace before 2/12 Americans Elect Forum. Will AE Reply?

Jim Cook 2/12/2012
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Update, 6:53 pm: At the end of the event, the succinct answer to the title of this post is “unfortunately not.” Stick a fork in Americans Elect: with its failure to change, it seems pretty much done.

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A Map of 2012 Maine Republican Caucus Results by County (Or Is It?)

Jim Cook 2/12/2012
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2/17 Update: the Maine GOP has retracted its official results for Washington and Waldo Counties, promising after considerable pressure to count caucus votes that had gone uncounted. A new count will be made at the March 10 meeting of the …

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Occupy DC in Freedom Plaza: Persistent and Specific

Jim Cook 2/12/2012
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Two of the knocks given to the Occupy movement: 1. It’ll never last. 2. It has no demands. The first objection is really an empirical prediction. Is it bearing out? Partially — people are leaving and camps are disappearing across …

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