Web Development And Other Causes Of Torture
I apologize for my lack of posts in recent days….once again, I’m giving birth to a new Web site, www.tektruth.com, which launches formally next week.
The good news is that TT will be the last new site I develop in this cycle…which means more writing time, both for this site, which has become surprisingly popular, as well as my other sites, ihateitall.com and nybaseballcentral.com.
A couple of interesting things:
You probably saw Lois Murphy’s announcement that her polling has her up three points. While she treated it as good news, I don’t think it is. First of all, it’s within the margin of error. Second, it’s her poll. I’d like to see some of the raw data, but my hunch is that the three points in "likely voters" won’t be enough to counterbalance the GOP GOTV effort, which is worth about five points. Again, I can’t make an educated guess without seeing the raw numbers, but it looks like Murphy is going to lose another close one…by about the same 5,000-6,000 vote margin.
Unfortunately, the Chester County numbers will likely be to blame — and while there will be enough individual blame to go around — two glaring issues come to mind for me: Murphy’s failure for the second cycle to bring in local field operations people and poor county party leadership. For three cycles, the GOP has practically begged the Democrats to win PA-6 and looks like it won’t happen — again.
You can put all the rosy comments you want on it, but the only reasonable metric is performance. If Murphy loses in two weeks, two things should happen: Murphy should sit out the next cycle and find some other office to run for and the county party leadership should resign.
The price of failure is too high to accept any more wasted cycles. The loss of this seat could be the difference between controlling the house and not controlling the house. Should that scenario play out, how many people will die in Iraq and maybe Iran and the Koreas because the Chester County Democratic Committee can’t get it’s act together?
Amazingly, no one has taken me up on my offer to shave my head, die it blue and visit the polling places of the 160th District if someone donates $1,000 to Shawn Diggory.
God knows, there’s enough people in both parties that truly despise me that this should have been a slam dunk. I am startled at the apathy here.