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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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Democratic margins in base precincts

By Dave Anderson:


I live and vote in a Democratic base precinct.  And my precinct is the story of the election.  Here is the data from 2006 and last night. 






























































200620102010-2006
Total RV709705-4
Total Voters360314-46
% Voting50.844.6-6.2
Straight Dem12092-28
Straight GOP28368
Dem Senate253209-44
GOP Senate96982
Dem Senate Vote Margin157111-46



Sestak needed to be able to flush base precincts like the one that I live in and win 70:30 or better instead of 65:35.  The margin in the base precincts were not reduced compared to 2006 because Republicans came out in much larger numbers, but Democratic voters stayed home. Pat Toomey picked up 2 votes in my precinct over Rick Santorum. That is statistical noise.  Joe Sestak won my preinct by a 2:1 margin, a decisive win, but not decisive enough.  Basically every voter from 2006 who did not show up at the senior center yesterday to vote and buy some very yummy brownies was a highly probable Sestak voter. 



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  1. geoffNovember 3, 2010 at 5:01 AM

    I wonder would there be a larger turn-out if, like Nevada, the ballot had an option: None of These Candidates. Then again maybe more useful to simply view any modern day election as a binary cycle as Roger Hodges writes in The Mendacity of Hope:

    "We cast our empty ballots for one party; then, disgusted with the inevitable betrayals, pray for a redeemer from the opposing party to rescue us from politics and history, only to repeat the cycle once again."

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