The Polo Grounds was the ballpark where the New York Giants played until they moved to San Francisco. The Mets played there in their first two seasons,1962 and 1963. I went to a game in both years. I remember things about the game but not about the ballpark
CNN still puts election deniers on TV
They are wrong to do this.
I haven’t watched CNN for weeks. Don’t put liars on TV. https://t.co/vKOzbNlw4W
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 26, 2022
Tweets on early voting
Updated TargetEarly data remains encouraging for Dems. Overall vote running 15-16% higher than 18. Here's how the vote is coming back D/R:
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) October 25, 2022
2020 2022 (now)
US 52-37 54-36
GA 47-46 51-41
MI 41-38 53-27
OH 41-44 44-41
PA 68-25 73-23
TX 41-48 48-43 1/x
More than 9.2 million pre-election ballots have been cast across 40 states as pre-election voting remains on pace with 2018, the highest midterm voter turnout in recent history. https://t.co/xgYMoxisAX
— CNN (@CNN) October 25, 2022
People, I have some thoughts on early voting + using it to predict election results
— David Byler (@databyler) October 25, 2022
They are not positive https://t.co/qt37xQ07ar pic.twitter.com/dBqEdWi1Bo
School test score declines were not from school shutdowns
No – if it were the result of shutdowns, then places that shut down and stayed closed longer would have had far worse outcomes than those that didn't. They didn't. California, for instance, did better than avg, and LA was the only place to have reading scores actually go up. https://t.co/zKa3IP9Z6R
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) October 24, 2022
Plummeting U.S. test scores aren’t a red state vs. blue state thing https://t.co/6YuaWlfAMx
— Eugene Robinson (@Eugene_Robinson) October 24, 2022
Chris Cillizza gives PA Democrats no credit
You give no credit to Shapiro and Democrats. How about an article on how PA Democrats have won the last two elections for governor and are favored to win this year?
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 25, 2022
Republican attacks on elections – Arizona
🧵ELECTIONS IN ARIZONA: In Arizona, election officials have faced death threats.
— Nicole Grigg (@NicoleSGrigg) October 23, 2022
Poll workers have been harassed.
For days I have covered voter intimidation complaints.
A thread of just a portion of the comments I have received:
Trump’s legacy & Garland’s test: “Days after Maricopa County officials warned people to stop taking photos of voters and election staffers at ballot drop boxes, the Arizona Secretary of State's Office continues to refer complaints to the DoJ” https://t.co/fbOD6SOiux
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 22, 2022
Tucker said last night of the Arizona governor's race: "We’ve an absolute right to have it proven to us that the election was fair. If it is fair, Kari Lake’s going to win.” In other words, the proof that it's fair will be Kari Lake winning. https://t.co/pXioDlutoq
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) October 21, 2022
BREAKING: this is the voter intimidation complaint filed by an Arizona voter this week outside a drop box.
— Nicole Grigg (@NicoleSGrigg) October 20, 2022
The complaint describes how a voter claims they were filmed, followed and accused of 'being a mule.' pic.twitter.com/u0bepYlmJz
The red state drive to roll back voter access rises into a whole new gear here w/GOP now trying to end mail voting in AZ. Pretty striking that @SenatorSinema made the decisive move to block new federal standards guaranteeing all voters access to mail voting. https://t.co/adKVFLL3pp
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) March 11, 2022
Republican attacks on elections – Nevada
The GOP nominee for Nevada elections chief is now pushing a preposterous claim that Pelosi, Schiff, Schumer and Nadler, who all represent staunchly Democratic communities and won their last races by 43 points or more, were not legitimately elected: https://t.co/bF4Q9KpGYl
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 23, 2022
It's not merely election denial. It's election subversion. The Big Lie about the past is, and has always been, in the service of seizing power in the future. https://t.co/IkQsVWLfMV
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 22, 2022
Now we’re getting convictions of the Trump mob – part 2
“Loved every minute of it dude."
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 21, 2022
Florida Man just arrested for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 vomited on the floor of the rotunda, per FBI.
Richard Escalera faces four misdemeanor charges. pic.twitter.com/VL62oBHMpa
2022: A Sept. 11 conspiracy theorist who tried to disarm a cop on Jan. 6 was arrested by the FBI after he was nabbed by facial recognition.
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 20, 2022
New: Feds seek 18 months in federal prison for former Cleveland school therapist Christine Priola, who got all the way onto the Senate floor on Jan. 6. pic.twitter.com/uIsKTdOZlc
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 21, 2022
BREAKING: "Loudmouth" Capitol rioter who scaled a wall and claimed to jurors that he didn't know the electoral college certification process was taking place sentenced to four years in federal prison: https://t.co/xtAnkm3GeI
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 21, 2022
Happening now: Mark Mazza tells Judge James E. Boasberg he got "caught up in a mob mentality that I never anticipated" and he's "not quite the monster that the prosecution has described me as."
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 21, 2022
He brought two loaded weapons to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. pic.twitter.com/BBIP40CTk0
Now we’re getting convictions of the Trump mob – part 1
Logan Barnhart of Michigan has pleaded guilty in Capitol riot case.
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) September 28, 2022
In his signed plea agreement, Barnhart acknowledges approaching line of police officers and striking at them with the base of a flagpole. He pleads guilty to assaulting/resisting police
Justice Dept wins again…
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) September 27, 2022
Here's the jury verdict form in Jan 6 case of John Strand of California, who was accused of boasting after Jan 6:
“I am incredibly proud to be a patriot today,
to stand up tall in defense of liberty & the Constitution, to support Trump #MAGAforever " pic.twitter.com/lQU9rUt6Sa
New: Judge finds Jan. 6 defendant Kyle Fitzsimons GUILTY of felony civil disorder, GUILTY of obstruction of an official proceeding. Judge still going through the rest of the charges. pic.twitter.com/XRveQL6OjW
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 27, 2022
Robert Sanford's guilty plea makes him the 38th Pennsylvania resident convicted in connection with the Capitol riot.
— The Philadelphia Inquirer (@PhillyInquirer) September 26, 2022
He could face more than three years in prison. https://t.co/avmly6mTAX
Retired firefighter Robert Sanford pleaded guilty today, admitting he used a fire extinguisher at officers, striking three of them in a head.
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 23, 2022
He also threw a traffic cone at officers and screamed that they were "traitors." pic.twitter.com/L2ZDVYW04e
SCOOP: Oath Keeper charged in connection with Jan. 6 had previously texted with White House aide Andrew Giuliani about election issues.
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 26, 2022
Story with @oneunderscore__: https://t.co/XWFQmDhmjh
In new motion, Capitol riot defendant Bigo Barnett argues he couldn't "turn against the crowd" on Jan 6:
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) September 24, 2022
"It was impossible to go against the tidal wave of
people, all moving all in the same direction" pic.twitter.com/12hmNvhEJO
Jury convicts QAnon believer who thought he was storming the White House during the Capitol riot https://t.co/eymKCfaiYu
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 23, 2022
NOW: Judge Tanya Chutkan is issuing sentence in Jan 6 case of correctional officer Cory Brannan of Texas. She asks why were you carrying scissors, goggles, wearing camo? … “You went to rumble.. to mix it up” https://t.co/seUxbNppih
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) September 23, 2022
"A Jan. 6 rioter who has dressed up as Adolf Hitler and held a security clearance was sentenced to four years in federal prison during a hearing on Thursday." https://t.co/RksHyvAZ4O
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) September 22, 2022
"A New Mexico judge ruled Tuesday that Couy Griffin, a county commissioner and co-founder of Cowboys for Trump, is disqualified to continue serving in office because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington." https://t.co/SOQQzI9VDj
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) September 9, 2022
More on red state murder and crime rates
Finally, a Democrat calls out a Republican on the truth about crime rates — violent crime rates are higher in Oklahoma than New York and Californa. This will be fact checked. #okgovdebate pic.twitter.com/lm0KTpgViT
— danny (@dabbs346) October 19, 2022
Threading due to popular request!
— Jim Kessler (@ThirdWayKessler) October 19, 2022
Thank u for writing on our report @marcthiessen. A few facts you glossed over. Fact 1) in 2020, Trump-voting states had murder rates 40% > than Biden-voting states (11,521 murders/140,533,769 pop vs 10,946/189,418,128) https://t.co/a18fDzo8Tv 1/
Oklahoma has a higher murder rate than New York, presumably because of all the leftist governance the state has been subject to by Kevin Sitt and the state legislature. pic.twitter.com/KX3r3DgAh2
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 19, 2022
In 2020, per capita murder rates were 40% higher in states won by Donald Trump than those won by Joe Biden.
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) October 16, 2022
8 of the 10 states with the highest murder rates in 2020 voted for the Republican presidential nominee in every election this century. https://t.co/L5UoyywXwJ
You can exclude every murder committed in St. Louis and Kansas City, and Missouri would still have a higher murder rate than states like NY, NJ, and CT. https://t.co/1nS3eBUtVk
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) October 21, 2022
I keep seeing arguments about claims that with all the GOP complaints abt crime it's really the red states that are driving the crime numbers. Well, this is actually a topic I've been studying for many years. And in fact most of what we now call "red states" have had …
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 22, 2022
Sad! 