If it’s a Tuesday it’s a primary day and today voters are heading to the polls in Washington and Wyoming.
Voting has been going on in Washington for two weeks already and it looks likely that former State Senator Dino Rossi will easily win his primary. But the race hasn’t left him totally unscathed. Rossi, who lost two very …
–The Washington Post profiles Elizabeth Warren. The timing may be good.
–Our colleague Michael Grunwald explores why Fed Chair Bernanke doesn’t have his foot on the monetary policy gas pedal.
–Worth re-posting: Scherer makes very good points about the Rangel case and Congress’s modus operandi.
–Carl Hulse writes porking …
Anyone hoping for a sign that the anti-establishment fever has peaked got mixed messages from Colorado’s Senate primaries Tuesday night.
On the Democratic side, establishment favorite Michael Bennet won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, beating out former Colorado House speaker Andrew Romanoff with 54% of the vote with 77% of …
–There are primaries in Michigan, Kansas and Missouri today. Among the marquee contests are Republican Reps. Todd Tihart and Jerry Moran clawing it out for a good shot at Sam Brownback’s Kansas Senate seat, GOP congressman Roy Blunt trying to fend off Tea Party-fueled challenger Chuck Purgason for Kit Bond’s open Senate seat, and of …
–The emerging consensus on the Wikileaks documents seems to be that while they include few shocking revelations, they paint a picture of a faltering mission in Afghanistan that will likely feed growing unease about the sustainability of the American effort there. John Kerry released the following statement as chairman of the Senate …
House Minority Leader John Boehner sat down with political reporters today at a lunch sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. He was asked right off the bat about what his agenda would be if Republicans win the House in November and he’s chosen as Speaker. Boehner was quick to note that his conference had just started a listening …
On the heels of the Justice Department’s controversial dropping a case of voter intimidation against the New Black Panthers and, as Marc Ambinder notes, the Skip Gates beer summit, the Administration – indeed, the entire Executive Branch – seems sensitive to any accusations that the first black president might in an way favor black …
Michele Bachmann is making her GOP colleagues uncomfortable these days. Last week she started the Congressional Tea Party Caucus – the latest litmus test on how devoted members really are to the fledgling movement. Indiana’s Mike Pence, chairman of the Republican Conference, was quickly to sign up. Not so quick were House Minority …
Washington is expressing collective shock – shock, I tell you – this morning over Sarah Palin’s second quarter 2010 FEC report. Might she be running for president in 2012??
I’ve always through Palin would run – though it flies in the face of the MSM group think inside the Beltway. How could she run without the staff? The …
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I believe Alex will have more to say about this later but here’s Sarah Palin’s newest web video. Her words are mostly excerpted from a speech she gave to the pro-life group, the Susan B. Anthony List. She talks about her “Mama Grizzlies” and “Pink Elephants” stampeding into …
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
–The National Governors Association’s annual meeting kicks off today in Boston.
–Tim Pawlenty will attend before heading to New Hampshire. MPR examines at his Granite State game.
–Nate Silver looks at West Virginia’s special election and how Gov. Manchin might tip the …
It’s hard to believe that a year ago I was watching a photographer shoot Sarah Palin on her dock in front of her Wasilla home for our cover story on her. And given the weather today — it’s 100+ degrees in Washington — a pleasant Alaska summer is looking pretty nice right now. TIME’s Feifei Sun has a look at Palin’s eventful year. An …
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
–The economy shed 125,000 jobs in June, more or less in line with projections. The decreased payrolls were in large part due to 225,000 laid off temporary census workers. The private sector added 83,000 jobs and the unemployment rate decreased to 9.5% due to a quickly contracting labor …
