Chris Bowers's Profile
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Executive Campaign Director, Daily Kos, managing activism and the email list. Formerly of Open Left and MyDD. I live in Rochester, NY, with my wife Natasha Chart and our son Linus Chart.
Location: Rochester, NY
Occupation: Online organizer, blogger
Groups: Daily Kos, Daily Kos Labor
Hobbies: Raising a toddler, so none
Home Page: http://www.dailykos.com
Twitter: @ThisBowers
Diaries published: 877 (55 days since last diary on Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 08:34 PM PST)
Comments posted: 3259 (0 days since last comment on Mon Jan 30, 2017 at 04:53 AM PST)
Diary frequency: frequent
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 43486
Total Comment Ratings: 10411
Most Recommended Diary: ACTION: Searching for John McCain, 417 comments, 838 recommends
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Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report and Fivethiryeight reports that Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote has reached 2.0%:
Clinton is also closing in on Obama's raw vote total from 2012:
Campaign Action
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by Chris Bowers
 361 comments
on Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 08:34 PM PST
with 172 Recommends
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As Executive Campaign Director here at Daily Kos, one of the most frequent criticisms I hear of our work is some variation on why petitions are useless:
Petitions are pointless. They don't ...
by Chris Bowers
 105 comments
on Sat Dec 03, 2016 at 09:00 AM PST
with 57 Recommends
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Remember hearing about how Hillary Clinton lost because of low turnout? How people were not excited to come out and vote for her? About how she was millions of votes below where Obama's total?
Well, that was all a lot of BS. Here's the truth,...
by Chris Bowers
765 comments
on Tue Nov 22, 2016 at 07:45 AM PST
with 441 Recommends
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By now, you have probably heard people claim that Hillary Clinton mainly lost due to low turnout. It's been kind of hard to miss that line of thinking, since graphs such as this are getting shared several thousand times on Twitter:
This...
by Chris Bowers
356 comments
on Tue Nov 15, 2016 at 08:43 PM PST
with 139 Recommends
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Campaign Action
On Nov. 8, the American people spoke clearly, and chose Hillary Clinton for President.
As of this writing, Clinton leads the popular vote by over 2,600,000 votes, However, because her support was geographically concentrated,...
by Chris Bowers
493 comments
on Wed Nov 09, 2016 at 11:19 AM PST
with 333 Recommends
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Before you make any criticism of Hillary Clinton, her campaign, or Democrats, I am just going to ask you to remember this one thing.
Hillary Clinton got more votes than Donald Trump.
You thought she wasn't populist enough? Well, she got...
by Chris Bowers
36 comments
on Wed Nov 09, 2016 at 05:10 AM PST
with 17 Recommends
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