Thanks Jon!

What are the turnout demographics for MA? As a total percentage, it was just as high as 2006.

it’s a shame that my comments regarding the Green Party in Rep Grayson’s thread have been scrubbed and I can no longer post there. I was polite and used no blue language and he hardly seems like a shrinking violet. Strange though, coming from Jane Hamsher who was against the HCR Senate bill, then kinda for it….then again Natural Born Killers was a mess too.

Thats the right wing for ya! challenge empirical data and industry standard methods with distortion and emotional, relativist, un-scientific ad homenim attacks.

I have never been for the Senate bill. If you’re habitually spreading disinformation in the comments you should expect to moderated, the mods frown on that.

Citizen Jane Hamsher:

I had an “experience” with one of your “hall monitors” in the Grayson post that was pretty illuminating…I don’t wanna associate myself with Citizen YngwieMalmsteen but I had a question addressed respectfully to the good Congressman about his early clerkships and his take on the SCOTUS decision released today and it was scrubbed untill an hour later I repeated the question, which went unanswered, after about a bazillion folks had asked the same question withOUT the reference to his clerkin’ for lunatic libertarian judges. What’s goin’ on Sister Jane, I have been very concerned about your thin skinned responses to lomg time FDLers who, if they don’t always adhere to your party line, at least take you seriously enough to try and keep you honest. Whats’ goin on Dear Heart, I’m wonderin’ about whether there are others objectives for FDL than providing a community-like forum for people to communicate with each other?

Citizen Jon Walker:

The corporate hounds have been sicced on FDL because this forum more than KOS presents a direct threat to any credibility that these suede shoe salespeople have with the general public. Now that SurveyUSA has responded, maybe an even wider survey with the same methodology and specific target might not just nail the coffin shut on the bastards.

Hell bro, I got a nasty attack from a front pager today as well. It’ll take more than that to run me off.

Take your meds and settle down.

I think they are turning anti-veteran myself.

If the “pretty weird” comment was silver’s ( it was tweeted by 538) then i have 0 respect left for him. I felt sorry for him, watching him trying to rebut Jane Hamshire on rattigans show. even with the expensive suits and the manhattan quaff i guess its still hard for him to talk to girls.

some of the front pagers go all completely kiss ass when theres a “grown up” on line here at FDL. i have to attribute it to age and inexperience because no one could possibly hope to gain anything else from it here.

Yea, and some people here just don’t like each other.

there’s nothing wrong with being liked, or not liked, until it gets in the way of more important shit.

I’m flattered you think I have such control over space and time, but I don’t do the moderation Norske.

And the idea that we don’t let people express a variety of opinions here is probably the funniest thing I’ve heard all day. But since the moderation staff spend the past few days exhausting themselves trying to protect the right of people to say what they want during a very heated period by interacting with them rather than banning anyone, they might not find it so funny.

I am proof of freedom of expression here. I do appreciate the opportunity to vent. I don’t post here to be liked so i don’t complain when i find im not liked. No other blog allows the amount of expression tolerated at FDL,I was banned for a month from the CPUSA blog for being to confrontational. This is not an “establishment” blog and I hope it never is. I find that all the more remarkable from the editors point of, considering how much scrutiny this blog gets. Im sure cilizsa and silver and yglesias dont spend time reading the comments, but maybe they do. their heads are fat enough. Without delvolving into ass kissing, thanks Jane Hamsher, and Marcy Wheeler, and Jon Walker and everyone else. EVERYONE(progressive) who posts here. If FDL blogger, Glen Greenwald and a few other are the standard going into the future, and The blogs will be the Newspapers of the 21st century, but much more useful because of the interactive capablity.

Indeed. I say things here I could never say over at Daily Kos, mainly because a certain group of people has worked the refs very successfully so that any terms referring to certain forms of behavior on their part (such as “Stalinist” or “cult of personality”) are excuses for troll-rating or even outright banning.

Anyway, back to the topic of this post:

Swing State Project criticized the SurveyUSA poll of NY-01 that was sponsored by Firedoglake with regard to the weighting of 18-34 voters in the 2010 election, which was subsequently promoted by Nate Silver. Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post simultaneously had the exact same criticism of the same data point.  For the record, no one at Firedoglake had anything to do with the actual manner in which the poll was conducted. We had zero say in the methodology, determining the sample make up, or the weighting. Firedoglake only requested it be a poll of likely voters with a sample size of 600 in specific Congressional districts with regard to the individual mandate.

This is telling. SSP, 538 and the WaPo’s Cillizza all singing in unison from the same hymnal. In harmony, too.