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DAILY GRINDER: Nutter Speaking at Shale Gas Insight Meeting This Morning [UPDATED w/Remarks]
According to his public schedule, Mayor Nutter “will give welcoming remarks at the Marcellus Shale Coalition’s second annual conference in Philadelphia” at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. (By the time you’re reading this, he’s probably done.) Yesterday, several hundred anti-fracking activists marched against the conference, because that’s...
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DAILY GRINDER: Local Voting App Featured in PW Wins Award
The web app developed by Philly Voter activist Faye Anderson, Yo! Philly Votes, recently won 1st place in the first round of Hacks For Democracy, which sought to judge applications that could improve the fall election. Yo! Philly Votes was previously featured in Philadelphia Weekly as one of the best election apps this year. The app allows users to easily report...
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New Poll Shows Support for the Green Party’s Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala
Stein and Honkala (via Facebook) CNN has a new poll out, in which they’ve included third-party candidates Gary Johnson, of the Libertarian Party, and Jill Stein, of the Green Party. And as it happens, both Johnson and Stein poll: Johnson earns 3 percent; Stein gets 2. And while it doesn’t necessarily mean either candidate is on the verge of winning the election...
Continue ReadingHere Are Mitt Romney’s 15 New Ads You Won’t See In Pennsylvania
Fresh off the Democratic National Convention, Republican candidate Mitt Romney is in all-out ad blitz mode. He released 15 new commercials today that are set to make Jeopardy! viewers in “key swing states” yearn for Nov. 7 when the pain of having to hear the two candidates “approve this message” five times a day will finally be over. As we noted...
Continue ReadingIs Voter ID the Republicans’ ‘Ground Game’ in Pennsylvania?
Former president Bill Clinton made a point last night to denounce Voter ID laws, like the one still on the books in Pennsylvania. “If you want America — if you want every American to vote and you think it is wrong to change voting procedures just to reduce the turnout of younger, poorer, minority and disabled voters, you should support Barack Obama,” he...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Philly Represented at DNC Convention
The Republican presidential ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan really, really want you to ask yourself: Are you better off now than you were four years ago? But the problem is—or might soon be—that the ship has sailed on the literal answer to that question. September 2008 is when the stock market melted down which led to headlines like, “Is It Really the...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Arlen Specter Has Cancer, Again
Arlen Specter has come clean on what’s wrong with him. “I’m battling cancer. It’s another battle I intend to win,” he said in a statement yesterday. Specter, a Democrat turned Republican turned Democrat, has fought cancer twice already—once in 2005, once in 2008. He says he looks forward to getting back to his regular life, and the...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Koch Brothers Group May Pull PA Ads After Low Romney Polling
Chuck Todd of MSNBC—or NBC News?—tweeted yesterday that Americans for Prosperity, a Koch Brothers-funded right-wing group, was pulling out of Pennsylvania after a series of bad polls for Mitt Romney’s campaign. Both an AFL-CIO and Inquirer poll showed Romney down by almost 10 points. Polls have consistently shown Pennsylvanians don’t care much for the...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Polls Show Obama Way Up
A New AFL-CIO poll shows Obama leading Romney in the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Florida—though losing by small margins in Wisconsin and Nevada. The most positive aspect of these polls: Obama gets more than 50 percent in those states where he’s winning. The AFL-CIO is a union organization which has already endorsed Obama in the election. An...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Twitter Analysis Shows Philadelphians Rudest in Country
An online project monitored places in which people say “Fuck you,” and places in which people say “Good morning” for 10 days and found—surprise!—Philadelphia is the rudest place in the country. We are always saying fuck you, apparently. You know where they don’t say “fuck you” on Twitter very much? Montana. Check out the state map here. Philadelphia’s...
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