Less than a week before Election Day, Republican Senate candidates hold leads in four key battleground states, according to a new CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corp. poll. You can read more here.
When you think of an ideal Republican candidate to run in rural North Carolina against a seven-term Blue Dog incumbent Democrat, a few qualities don’t spring to mind. Among them are: –A Manhattan-born former Goldman Sachs trader –Someone who has only lived in the district for six years –Once accused of premeditated murder And yet [...]
As Harry Reid and Sharron Angle’s closing ads tell it, Silver Staters are in for a nightmarish November 3. So it goes in a race where majorities have an unfavorable view of both incumbent and challenger, who’ve been deadlocked in the polls, bloodying each other for months. (Reid ad via Greg Sargent, read Scherer on [...]
According to a new poll, 53% of Americans are worried about making their next mortgage or rent payment. Wow. Let’s concede that some of these people are exaggerating. Let’s concede that some–no more than a relative handful–received mortgages during the housing bubble that they couldn’t hope to pay. But this would be a shocking result [...]
One of the interwebbing’s great treasures, Rogert Ebert, points out that today is Dylan Thomas’s birthday. And since there are many people in the political world–including more than 48 House Democrats, according to Charlie Cook–who may now need to rage, rage against the dying of the light, here is the late, inestimable Rodney Dangerfield, from [...]
An apparent first from Republican challenger Van Tran in a nasty California House race: Tran is sending out a scratch-and-sniff direct mail piece attacking [Democrat Loretta] Sanchez that features a hideous odor emanating from it. Much like magazine perfume advertisements, the mailer says, “Open for a fragrance sample of “Loretta, The Scent Of Washington.” On [...]
To follow up on Mark’s Afghan update, we are in a strange phase of the war right now where news accounts–sometimes within the same outlet in the same week–paint contradictory pictures of whether we’re winning or losing. A few days ago we were hearing that peace talks with the Taliban were growing more serious, in [...]
