As Harry Reid and Sharron Angle’s closing ads tell it, Silver Staters are in for a nightmarish November 3.
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So it goes in a race where majorities have an unfavorable view of both incumbent and challenger, who’ve been …
Meg Whitman, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown appear at the Women’s Conference 2010 in Long Beach, California on October 26. (REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni)
–At the nifty new National Journal, Jeremy Jacobs reports the DCCC is making its last stand for the House, dumping $21.6 million on airtime in 66 districts. That includes a …
How many campaign events has Obama done exclusively for House candidates this year? In conservative-leaning districts that he lost in 2008? In states with no Senate seats or governorships up for grabs? By my count, just this one coming up on the valuable Friday before Election Day:
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–Last night’s Senate debate in Kentucky was a much more staid affair than the last go-around, but things got nasty between supporters outside:
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–The final Florida gubernatorial debate got overshadowed by foul play.
–Sharron Angle’s closing ad features unambiguous references …
President Obama speaks at a rally at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles October 22, 2010. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
—The early vote is showing that highly touted Republican enthusiasm. Democrats are happy with what they’re seeing in Iowa, Ohio and Indiana; incidentally, those are all places Democrats are poised …
–Via Ben Smith, Here’s one of the most incredible ads of the cycle from Citizens Against Government Waste:
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China has been a popular target of political posturing this year, most commonly in Democratic ads using Republican votes on trade deals or corporate taxes to accuse them of …
Bipartisan consensus may seem particularly evanescent these days, but here’s something the 112th Congress, split or not, can address: Government Sponsored Entity reform. The news today from the Federal Housing Finance Agency that mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could end up needing as much as $363 billion in government help by …
Kevin Lamarque of Reuters snapped this photo of President Obama at a Seattle doughnut shop today. What went down (courtesy of the pool):
—Another poll suggests Pat Toomey’s lead over Joe Sestak has evaporated in Pennsylvania. They slugged it out in last night’s debate.
–Nate Silver debunks the big mo.
–The ads are flying fast and furious through the home stretch in Nevada: The SEIU calls Angle dangerous, Angle continues her late push to play up Reid’s wealth, …
Social issues have not dominated this cycle’s political discourse in the way they did in years past. Just six years after George W. Bush wielded gay marriage as an effective tool in his re-election bid, you have a potential Republican presidential contender suggesting a “truce” to make more room for detente on fiscal issues. The …
Rep. Mark Kirk and Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias share a laugh as they prepare for a televised debate in Chicago on October 19, 2010. (REUTERS/Frank Polich)
–Alexi Giannoulias and Mark Kirk made sure each others’ flaws were on full display in last night’s Illinois Senate debate.
The central political question raised by Michael Cooper’s piece is why people aren’t convinced they got a tax break with the Recovery Act. One possible answer that has popped up again and again with not just the stimulus, but health care and other Obama initiatives is that there is something fundamentally wrong with how the president and …
–It looks like Gov. Ted Strickland’s fate is more or less sealed in Ohio, according to the latest Quinnipiac numbers.
–The RGA backs out of Maryland as Democratic incumbent Martin O’Malley looks like he’s locking down the governorship.
–Esteemed Swamp alum Karen Tumulty pulls out this amazing factoid on Meg Whitman’s …
