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I spent the last few days in West Virginia looking at the special election for Robert Byrd’s Senate seat. Two-term Governor Joe Manchin, a Democrat who until recently was leading by double digits, has seized on a TV ad put up by the independent expenditure arm of the National Republican Senatorial Committee that features some guys at a …
As the potential next chairman of the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee, Darrell Issa has pondered what former chairman he might emulate. Certainly, as Democrats face possibly losing the House, it’s a question that has crossed more than a few minds. Will he be like Republican Dan Burton, who issued more than 1,000 …
One of Sarah Palin’s grizzlies is coming back to bite her. Joe Miller, Palin’s chosen candidate in the Alaska Senate race, was asked on Sept. 19 on Fox News if Palin is qualified to be president. His response? “That’s not my role to comment on those candidates.” His non-endorsement earned him an angry e-mail from Palin’s husband, Todd, …
Yesterday, Sarah Palin said that abortion is an “essential issue” in the midterm elections, representing the choice for voters between a “culture of life” and “a culture of death.” “It’s essential that we use the 2010 midterms to elect a Congress that will make undoing the damage of Obamacare its first priority,” she said at …
Remember way back in October of 2009 — it feels like a million years ago to me — when Sarah Palin shocked the establishment by endorsing, on her facebook page, conservative Doug Hoffman over the GOP-chosen candidate Dede Scozzafava in the race to replace Rep. John McHugh? President Obama had picked McHugh, a Republican, to serve as …
In this week’s dead tree edition I have a story about Senator Lisa Murkowski and why not to count her out despite the fact that no one since Strum Thurmond in 1954 has won a write in election. As the most highly subsidized state, Alaskans are feeling the loss of Ted Stevens acutely; during his 49 years in the Senate he brought billions …
CNN/TIME/ORC has a new poll of four states out today. Here’s a link to my story. Short version:
Alaska:
Senate: Lisa Murkowski’s becoming a real threat to Joe Miller in polls — but that doesn’t mean these people know how to spell M-U-R-K-O-W-S-K-I come Nov. 2. Governor: GOP incumbent Sean Parnell is winning.
California:
Senate & …
House Republicans on the Committee on Standards and Official Conduct are demanding the panel move forward with open hearings on ethics charges against two Democratic lawmakers, Charlie Rangel of New York and California’s Maxine Waters. The panel’s five Republicans sent a letter to the committee’s chair, Rep. Zoe Lofgren of …
I interviewed Lisa Murkowski yesterday about her write in bid to keep her Senate seat. Honestly, before the interview I thought she had little chance of winning. But she’s pretty persuasive. I still think it’s a huge long shot but I wouldn’t totally write her off. Today, I went to watch Joe Miller campaign with Governor Sean Parnell in …
A year ago she was well on her way to being a flash-in-the-pan also-ran. Today, she’s the Republican Party’s Queen Bee. A look at Sarah Palin’s comeback.
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Wasilla, Alaska
There will be two names on the ballot in the Alaska race for U.S. Senate this November: Joe Miller and Scott McAdams. But in events today for both those candidates the 800-pound gorilla in the room was incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski, who announced Friday she will seek a write in bid to keep her seat after losing the …
