CPAC Day One - Part 1

The security is overwhelming.  I have never seen it like this.  They are checking each and every pass at the door for every speaker and event.  That has not happened in the past.  I guess they are taking the occupier protests seriously and doing their best to protect the speakers and the attendees.  I am sure that they have had to hire additional people. 

AFL-CIO has decided to up the game and has rented rooms here, so it will be impossible to throw them out, as they are guests.  Lovely. 

I just met Victoria Jackson from SNL fame.  I ran into Stacy from the Other McCain and The DaTech Guy earlier this morning.  They were both telling me I need to support Santorum. 

Santorum stickers are everywhere.  He seems to have a great deal of support here.  I would venture to say he could win the straw poll. 

Romney has a plan to use this conference to "woo" conservatives.  Good luck with that venture. 

The Citadel has 31 cadets here.  Nice to see people who not only willing to serve in the military, but also politically active at such a young age.

Jim DeMint gave a great opening speech.  I believe that CSPAN covers the event and will have videos. 

Herman Cain's bus is here.  I have not yet seen Mr. Cain himself, but the bus is at least here.  He is due to speak after 4 today. 

The blogger bash is tonight, that should be a good time. 

It is still early, so not much more to report. 

But, I have to say, I always love it when conservatives are in town.  They are in short supply in this neck of the woods. 

AFL-CIO Admits to Sheep Membership

There is an interesting article on The Huffington Post. The premise of the article is that the reason Martha Coakley lost was due to lack of union support, more accurately, the democrats not utilizing the unions to their benefit.


"Data points provided independently to the Huffington Post show that union voters in Massachusetts were 15 percentage points more likely to vote for Attorney General Martha Coakley if they simply had been asked"

They need to be asked? "Coakley won union voters who had heard from their union by 10 points, while losing those who said they had not heard from their union by 5 points."

This is from data collected by the AFL-CIO. I am very surprised that they want to be so open about the fact that the members of these unions are just sheep who don't have minds of their own.

One must also question how they know so much about how their members voted. Are the people volunteering this information? It seems that after every election the unions have detailed data. This raises a very red flag for me. I personally don't have a problem telling someone who I am voting for, but I know plenty of people who do.

The article goes on to say that had Coakley's campaign reached out to the unions they would have mobilized for her. Didn't they know there was an election? It certainly got a great deal of coverage the last two weeks. I can only imagine how many commercials were on television during the last few weeks.