Tuesday is election night, with primaries in Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. There is bound to be some surprises and, with the Idaho gubernatorial GOP primary alone, much entertainment. So please join us tonight for an evening of electoral politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.
We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner and the early election returns.
Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state chapter of Drinking Liberally over the next week. The Tri-Cities and Shelton chapters also meet this Tuesday. The Lakewood and South Seattle chapters meet this Wednesday. And on Thursday, the Woodinville and Spokane chapters meet.
With 209 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, four in Oregon, and three more in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.
Here are tonight’s races to watch:
1. Kentucky — Mitch McConnell is expected to easily defeat a Tea Party challenger.
2. Idaho — Rep. Mike Simpson faces a serious challenge from a Tea Party candidate, but is expected to win.
3. Georgia — This primary will pick the top two GOP candidates out of a free-for-all for a July 22 runoff.
4. Oregon — Alleged stalker Monica Wehby leads her more conservative rival for the GOP senatorial nomination.
5. Pennyslvania — Businessman Tom Wolf leads Rep. Allyson Schwartz in polls for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
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McConnell’s up 14 (RCP). What’s to watch?
Last week in the thread in which Goldy suggested that the US government take over effective control of Comcast, I pointed out that there might be the alternative of just waiting for a greater competitor to Comcast to emerge, and that the AT&T deal for Direct TV might be how that could happen.
Goldy was unimpressed, because Direct TV isn’t a broadband company. My reply is that the benefit was the bundling and what that might offer for AT&T. Goldy remained unimpressed.
Here’s a breakdown of the subscriber numbers:
Here’s a tally of their subscriptions: AT&T has around 11.3 million broadband connections: 5.7 million for U-verse pay-TV service and the rest for high-speed Internet access; DirecTV has more than 20 million pay-TV customers in the U.S. (and over 18 million customers in Latin America); DirecTV doesn’t offer an Internet service. Time Warner Cable TWC -0.32% has approximately 11 million video subscribers and Comcast CMCSA -0.41% has 22.6 million video customers. Because many consumers purchase cable “bundles,” most of the Time Warner and Comcast video subscribers also are Internet subscribers.
http://www.marketwatch.com/sto.....atest_news
Now, I’m totally willing to be wrong on this – wouldn’t be my first sloppy inaccuracy.
But if most video customers also are internet subscribers because of the bundling, and if AT&T is gaining 20 million video customers by buying Direct TV, and if AT&T can successfully ‘bundle’ to them…..
Doesn’t that make AT&T a stronger broadband competitor to Comcast, which was the point I was trying to make?
(Note, also, the Verizon/DISH angle, which could, I suppose, create a third large player).
If not, where am I off-base?
For your consideration:
Apparently Meritocracy is just for little people. The richer you are the less you care about merit.
Ample evidence exists to show a correlation between wealth and unethical behavior, and between wealth and a lack of empathy for others, and between wealth and unproductiveness.
http://www.nationofchange.org/.....1400511508
For your consideration:
In Landmark Class Action, Farmers Insurance Sues Local Governments For Ignoring Climate Change
http://thinkprogress.org/clima.....ion-flood/
“In what could foreshadow a legal reckoning of who is liable for the costs of climate change, the class actions against nearly 200 Chicago-area communities look to place responsibility on municipalities,”
Oh look, a corporation wants to socialize it’s losses onto the public to pay, but keep it’s profits.
@2 The commercials.
@4 I don’t consider myself wealthy, but I’m developing their capitalist habits, namely I sleep late, don’t go to work, and I’m totally unproductive.
Lazy old rabbit. Not impressed.
Less than 5,000 people showed up for the “massive” rw fools convention to “take back” ‘Merica. How sad and delusional are those folks? They overestimate the legitimacy of their own far-right views and they underestimate their support. What a sad bunch of know-nothings….