I thought it would be amusing to take a look at some of the simplest form of political messaging in the CD 8 race: street and yard signs. I believe political signs mostly reassure supporters that your campaign is heathly and viable. Yet doing them badly may be worse than not doing them at all. … Read more

Congressional District 8 is a majority Republican district. We Democrats tend to forget this essential fact. It is a fairly narrow majority, less than 20K voters, amid a sea of independentents and unregistered voters who can swamp any party advantage. Really, CD 8 is the only Arizona District that is truly competitive, there only being … Read more

Jeff Latas has set a new bar for political communication with his DVD mailer. Other campaigns have used mass produced DVDs before, but not on such a tight over-all budget, or on such a scale. Generally, campaign DVDs have been distributed to supporters as part of a house party strategy, or for use at public … Read more

Here’s your irresponsible speculation of the week in the form of a feature length movie. The thesis of TerrorStorm is that there is plenty of well-documented historical instances of ‘false flag’ terrorist operations by democratic governments intended to manipulate both foriegn and domestic constituencies, and that there is proof that many recent terrorist attack could … Read more

I heard an interesting rumor that deserves some competent mongering. If Jeff Latas doesn’t win the Democratic primary for Congress, there are lots of folks who would be very supportive of him becoming the new Arizona Democratic Party Chairman. It certainly seems a perfect fit. Many see Jeff as Arizona’s Howard Dean; right on target … Read more

An amusing little video from MoveOn activists who protested a JD Hayworth fundraiser, and tried to get him to sign an ‘Oil Free’ Congress pledge. Needless to say, all they got was to stand in 100+ degree heat and be harrassed by security and the Snottsdale police. The protest is party of MoveOn’s Red-Handed campaign … Read more