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The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend:
"a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."

He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior." (CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)


Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).

"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008



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A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist."
(Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)

"A nutty lesbian blogger."
(MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)


Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush


who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
--"Joe"

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NC: Jim Neal's polling strong against Dole -- and Hagan

by: Pam Spaulding

Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 17:15:00 PM EST


Jim Neal, who's running out and proud for the Democratic nom for the U.S. Senate from North Carolina, is ready to unseat Liddy "Do Nothing" Dole and he's polling well. I'm tired of hearing all the Dem (and gay) naysayers bleat that it's impossible for Neal to pull off a win in the primary, let alone the general in the Tar Heel State.

To me that sounds like a recipe for a self-fulfilling defeat if you're not willing to think outside of the Beltway, people. Look at how weak Dole is in our state as well as how close the margin is between challenger Kay Hagan and Neal. DKos:

Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 12/16-18. Likely voters. MoE 4% (No trend lines)

If 2008 election for U.S. Senate were held today, for whom would you vote for if the choices were between Kay Hagan, the Democrat, and Elizabeth Dole, the Republican?

Dole (R) 46
Hagan (D) 39

If 2008 election for U.S. Senate were held today, for whom would you vote for if the choices were between Jim Neal, the Democrat, and Elizabeth Dole, the Republican?

Dole (R) 47
Neal (D) 37

Just a seven-point deficit by Hagan, and a 10-point one for Neal, both of them keeping Dole under 50? With the low name ID of the two Democrats, what these results say is that North Carolina voters aren't sold on a second term for Dole, and are willing to give the Democrat a good look. No matter who emerges from the Democratic primary, this is going to be a real race.

Here's more of a breakdown of where Neal's support lies in North Carolina. Folks, he's already making history by running as an out gay man from the South, and where's the party support? Oh yes, I covered that.

The Research 2000 North Carolina Poll was conducted from December 16 through December 18, 2007. A total of 600 likely voters who vote regularly in state elections were interviewed statewide by telephone.  

Another Jim Neal video has been released, about his views on Iraq -- he says it's time to bring the troops home. View it after the jump.

Pam Spaulding :: NC: Jim Neal's polling strong against Dole -- and Hagan
He has this to say about Iraq and getting our men and women home. Rough transcript:

We need to get out of Iraq. We've got to get out and we need to get out, and we've got to do it in a responsible way. We can be out of Iraq in late 2008, mid-2009. In North Carolina, the entirety of the [82nd] Airborne is deployed in Iraq. Some of these young men and women are going on their third or fourth tour. Fathers...mothers...children are being torn apart by periods of sustained service that we've never seen in this country's history. When I'm elected to the Senate - the United States Senate - I'm going to support their children by making sure their parents get home as soon as possible...alive. We're going to bring them home as soon as possible.
Related:
* Recap of the Pam's House Blend live blog with U.S. Senate candidate Jim Neal
* Jim Neal on the economy's alarming vital signs

Jim Neal's official campaign web site is here. His ActBlue page is here.

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A poll I'd like to see............
I'm tired of hearing all the Dem (and gay) naysayers bleat that it's impossible for Neal to pull off a win in the primary, let alone the general in the Tar Heel State.
I can understand your frustration.  Still, for a more accurate reading of likely voters's views, I would like to see these statements added to one of those polls, to follow the first set of standard questions:

Now I'd like you to consider the upcoming election in a slightly different way.  The candidates have publicly acknowledged their sexual orientations as follows:
  • The Republican candidate Dole is heterosexual, popularly known as straight.
  • The Democratic candidate Hagen is heterosexual, popularly known as straight.
  • The Democratic candidate Neal is homosexual, popularly known as gay.

Taking into account this information, how would you rate [poll questioner then repeats the previously asked questions]

This could help Neal tactically in deciding how much emphasis he needs to place in addressing the gay issue.



82nd Airborne
Glad he brought Fort Bragg into the political campaign. This outfit has suffered losses like no other.  Scandal and crime surrounding paratroopers coming back from the war.  For a gay candidate he is very authentic.  As a matter of fact, coming out is authentic, the truth at all angles..

You might want to check out...

this poll I posted about last month: NC poll asks whether sexual orientation of a candidate matters. 53% of North Carolina voters actually don't care about a candidate's orientation.

 



Thanks for the data Pam
I know that North Carolina voters will not go for Huckabee as will South Carolina.  There has always existed a division, bigoted South Carolina and progressive North Carolina. A gay candidate appeals to educated North Carolina voters.  Hope there are many in numbers as opposed to the Southern Baptist voters that keep gays out of their churches.  I love ONeal for doing this.  Very intense.  Very courageous.

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The polls show him 2% behind..

...the candidate the Democratic Party practically had to arm twist to run because they couldn't bring themselves tp support a gay candidate. This campaign will boil down to the primary and THAT will all be about money!

 

Follow the link:

 

http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/18500

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What polls?

I went to the site you gave, but didn't see any polls. 



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Thanks, Pam

I had missed that entry.

I disagree with your conclusion that 53% "don't care", based solely on that graph.  Even lumping the 7% who do care in a positive sense with the 37% who claim that it makes no difference only gets us up to 44%.  

Anyway, a couple of things struck me as odd with the demographic questions on that Civitas Institute poll.  On the income Q, there was no choice shown for "refuse to answer", but 4% shown as answering "not sure."  Don't know what was up with that because I wouldn't think a refusal to answer on that often touchy question would have been a disqualification of the respondent.

Also, I know that older people tend to vote more frequently than those in younger age groups, but to have a full 37% of respondents in the 65+ age quota in addition to 24% in the 55-64 quota would certainly seem to skew the results on the gay question towards a socially conservative/negative outcome.

Let's hope come May, that plenty of people in the younger age groups come out to vote for Mr. Neal.



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I am rather glad to see this
since I am considering a job in N. Carolina (Greensboro, unfortunately, not Triangle). NC seems less knuckledragging than most Southern states.

NC is Purple

NC is the "new South" and is quite purple--though we tend to go Red for President, our Governor and statehouse are almost always solidly Democratic (fairly conservative Democrats, but still...). We are one of the few states where no anti-same-sex -marriage amendment has cone to the floor for a vote.

Even Greensboro is part of a big metro, the "Triad", not exactly the backwoods. The Triad is more blue-collar than the Triangle, but there is a lot of progressiveness there...I just wish people would not paint NC with the "redneck" brush just because of our geography (not that you are, but most folks do, especially gayfolks). There are bigots in all 50 states, and plenty--PLENTY--of educated, open-minded people in every state of the South.

 

 



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