Something tells me that his base (you all) wouldn’t let that happen.

Hmmm. Interesting comment. You make it sound as if Nov 4 is the end game. That if you win the election you’ve won the game. I see Nov 4 as the very beginning. If Democrats win in large numbers as they are supposed to, we will then see what they can do. Nothing will be proven until there are results.

You imply that by winning the election, my philosophies will be proven “bankrupt”. That kind of short term thinking and focus on winning an election rather than winning with working policies is what is wrong with this country.

If, in 4, 6, or 8 years, the Democrat policies are resoundingly effective, I’ll be the first to say it was a good thing. But as of November 4, nothing will be proven except that voters want to give someone new a chance to do something.

This is coming from a guy who says that Clinton’s presidency was largely successful, so I know how to give credit when it is due.

You also have to consider the indicators on the ground, the buzz in the district. Madia seems to be having trouble getting volunteers, he has been outgunned at all the parades. He also seems to be losing the sign war. All of these things are signs of trouble for team Madia. We will see in November.

So, let’s look at these points:

1) buzz on the ground. Where? Within the GOP? Otherwise, who has ever heard or seen of Paulsen outside SD42B?

2) Madia having trouble getting volunteers? What on earth is this about? Seems to be tied to the lie in the next statement. “Outgunned at all the parades”. Let’s see…every parade except the last one the Madia contingent has been double - if not more - than that of the Paulsen contingent. This last parade took place at the same time as a lit drop and other events. It’s called splitting resources when you have multiple events to cover. Additionally, the GOP had 2 entries in this parade whereas the Dems had lots. Add up all of the Dem supporters in this last parade and Paulsen is, again, woefully outnumbered.

3) Loosing the sign war? Where? Only in SD42B (Paulsen’s home district) do you see more than a hand full of signs. In 42B there are a handful of Madia signs yet outside 42B there are lots.

Assessment: commenter is woefully out of touch with the race in the whole of the district, has no clue that there aren’t enough members of the GOP party in the 3rd to elect their candidate without speaking to anyone else (choir practice anyone?), commenter probably lives in Paulsen’s district which indicates that he actually has seen or heard of Paulsen prior to this run and assumes wrongly that everyone else knows him, too. Commenter obviously hasn’t noticed that when driving up to debates that the crowds in blue t-shirts waving Madia signs are not there to support Paulsen…..Nov 5 will be eye-opening for the vicious posters on MDE.

They are on Madia’s side of the table. And he could run the table.

Therefore Paulsen has these stupid issues & sends out that lame state senator who tells us that you have to have tons of kids. That you have to own a house.

Applying their mental SKIP:
Next they’ll tell us you have to LOSE that house, to understand the bailout crisis!!!

One mile in the shoes isn’t enough. Now you have to walk 2 MILES.

If experience is a requisite - then maybe we need to talk about who’s clearly got the requisite experience
to discuss this war - Madia, the guy who WENT. Who put his life on hold to do the service.

Do we measure the depth of the candidate not by having kids - but by the NUMBER of kids? The gender?
Are 5 better than 4?
Are 13 cars better than 1 or 2?
Are boys, worth more points than girls????

That’s right, Paulsen has girls. So this week, the girls are worth more points.

DtM is comedic relief. You laugh AT him, not WITH him!
It does get old though. They are so shallow. They really DON’T want to think.

http://www.house.gov/emanuel/veterans.shtml

I’d think that he and Ash would support the troops hand in hand.