The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
Jim Poniewozik’s take on yesterday’s Stewart/Colbert rally on the National Mall.
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Ambassador Pelosi?
When Speakers retire — and this is pure speculation, Nate Silver this morning still gave Dems a 20% chance of keeping the House — but, historically speaking, when speakers retire they tend to drop off the map (Denny Hastert, Jim Wright), hover in political circles (Newt Gingrich), write a book (Tip O’Neill), or lark off an am …
Dems’ Efforts to Get Meek to Drop Out: Too Little, Too Late?
A guest post from TIME’s Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett
So how desperate are the Democrats to keep control of the U.S. Senate? The answer is fairly clear in a story that appeared Thursday evening on Politico.com that quotes spokesmen for former President Bill Clinton claiming he tried to convince Democratic Florida Congressman …
Ouch
As President Obama campaigns in Rhode Island today, the Democratic candidate for governor in the Ocean State, Frank Caprio, told a local radio station that Obama “can take his endorsement and really shove it.” That’s not a warm welcome!
Obama has refused to endorse Caprio, who is leading — but barely — Republican John Robitaille and …
Conservatives Heart Juan Williams
Who knew that conservatives loved Juan Williams so much? Williams, who was fired from National Public Radio this week for what the non-profit, quasi-government funded organization called bigoted statements against Muslims, was probably best known to conservatives as one of two liberal foils on Fox News Sunday’s weekly roundtable. That …
Palin’s FEC Disclosures
Diving through the 600+ pages of Sarah Palins two most recent Federal Election Commission disclosures – the October Quarterly report filed Oct. 12 and the Pre-General report filed Oct. 17 – has been fascinating. While most of the media attention has been paid to what she brought in, $1.2 million, I focused on her disbursements. For …
Puppies! Vote for me! Puppies!
Democratic Pennsylvania Senate hopeful Rep. Joe Sestak last week came out with this commercial. Puppies! Cute!
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It reminds me a bit of this ad from Michael Steele’s campaign for Maryland Senate. Steele was widely praised for his innovative ads, though he …
Buck’s Gay Gaffe
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Yesterday in a Meet the Press debate with Michael Bennet, Ken Buck misspoke. Badly. When asked by moderator David Gregory if he thought homosexuality is a choice Buck said he believed it is and went on to compare homosexuality to alcoholism.
GREGORY: Do you believe that being gay
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Leo Wise Resigns
The head of the controversial Office of Congressional Ethics, Leo Wise, announced today he’ll be leaving the office he helped to create to join the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi created the office two years ago in a bid to “drain the swamp” and tighten ethics standards. For decades …
Can the Black Vote Pull It Out For Obama This Time?
This was the subject of a report released this morning from David Bositis, one of the nation’s foremost experts on black voter trends, at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington.
Bositis presented a convincing case on how African American voters could make the difference for Democrats, comparing this year …
The Marxist, The Witch and The Miners
Tonight, CNN broadcast nationally the first debate between Republican Christine O’Donnell and Democrat Chris Coons, the candidates for Joe Biden’s old Senate seat in Delaware – at least most of it. The network broke away 53 minutes into the 90-minute debate to air live the rescue of the last two Chilean miners that have been …
October Surprises
What would an election season be without a few October surprises – or a lot? Illegal maids, audio tapes of staff slurring the opponent, old rape cases with questions about prosecution, photos of a young candidate cavorting with a dildo-nosed Rudolph – welcome to the final sprint of the 2010 midterm elections. And it’s only going to …
The Latest From West Virginia
Here’s my story about the West Virginia Senate race. Though, interestingly PPP has a poll out today showing Governor Joe Manchin retaking the lead. PPP’s been pretty spot on this cycle, but there’s still three weeks left before voting, several lifetimes in terms of newscycles. And yesterday Sarah Palin endorsed Republican John Raese. …