Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Specter is in trouble... (again)

By Fester:



My great fear of not having Senator Specter's career circling the toilet to write about when I have nothing else to write will not be realized.



Rasmussen reports a race where the fundamental dynamics are working against Senator Specter in the Democratic Primary:



1* Suppose the Democratic Primary for the 2010 United States Senate were held today. Would you vote for Arlen Specter or Joe Sestak?


51% Specter


32% Sestak


4% Some other candidate


13% Not sure





Sure Senator Specter is up by 19 in this poll, which is a significant improvement from being down by half a dozen in the last polling on the Republican Primary before he flipped caucuses, but this is a weak position compared to Joe Lieberman in 2006. The Pennsylvania Democratic Primary is about ten months out. Two months out, Ned Lamont was trailing Senator Lieberman by fifteen points in the Democratic Primary that Mr. Lamont went on to win. Several weeks out, Rep. Toomey was trailing by fifteen points in the 2004 Republican Primary. He closed the gap by thirteen points by primary day. A well funded and well run campaign by a competent candidate who only has to make up two points per month against an incumbent with 100% name ID and little passionate support is in very good shape.



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