Arlen Specter has survived a lot of things: a brain tumor, two bouts with Hodgkin’s lymphoma and five squeaker elections for the U.S. Senate. But in an anti-establishment year where the far right hates the moderates and the far left hates the moderates, Specter – whose voting record over the past 30 years is almost [...]
AP has called the Pennsylvania Senate primary election for Joe Sestak over Arlen Specter. Earlier, in Kentucky, Rand Paul won as a libertarian tea partier running for U.S. Senate against Mitch McConnell’s favored candidate. What’s the big message? A no-brainer: not good for incumbents. I suspect that Joe Sestak will have a better chance against [...]
The state’s new immigration law is now so pervasive in the political landscape, it’s being used as a campaign platform in faraway, borderless South Carolina. Republican Rep. Gresham Barrett, who’s running for governor, is up with this ad stating, “Gresham Barrett’s immigration plan: pass a common-sense Arizona law,” complete with images of desert fencing and [...]
From TIME’s Pentagon Correspondent, Mark Thompson, who also happens to hail from the Nutmeg State: Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Democrat seeking to succeed Christopher Dodd in the U.S. Senate, did a lot more fighting over Vietnam Tuesday than he ever did inside the country. That’s because, despite his claims to the contrary, he never actually [...]
We here at Swampland basically avoided the whole discussion of the sexual orientation of Elena Kagan. But I cannot let pass Michael Kinsley’s exploration, today, of the sex life of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, because it is just too funny. Now that the sex lives of Supreme Court justices have become grist for commentators, [...]
As you probably know, Trey Grayson is running for Senate in Kentucky. What you might not know is that “Trey” isn’t actually his name. It’s just a handle given to the third in a line of Charles Merwin Graysons. Far from frowning on pseudonymous politicians, the Bluegrass State allows candidates to designate a nickname to [...]
You read it here first. Many of the purchases people make from the gold brokers that increasingly clutter the cable news and talk radio streams are horrifically lousy investments. Now comes a report from Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., expanding on what is already disclosed in the fine print on the websites of firms like Goldline. [...]
Republican Congressman Mark Souder of Indiana announed his resignation today after he copped to an affair with a female aide. “I sinned against God, my wife and my family by having a mutual relationship with a part-time member of my staff,” Souder told reporters at a press conference at his congressional office in Ft. Wayne. [...]
