Sure, he’s a loooooooong way from, um, winning — or even being in a position to win. But he’s had a good month and his poll numbers are finally going slightly north. On the other hand, they could’ve hardly gotten worse. A webstory today from me.
The repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell hit a speed bump today in the Senate with Lindsey Graham, a senior member on the Armed Services Committee and a Republican the Dems had been hoping Joe Lieberman could lure, coming out against the deal. Dems will need at least one Republican* — and likely a few — to overcome a Republican filibuster …
House GOP leaders today unveiled a listening tour called America Speaks Out that will start online and be expanded to a bunch of events across the country. “I saw this as an extension of our solutions group,” Minority Leader John Boehner said at the project’s unveiling at the Newseum in Washington. The same group, Boehner added, …
Back in February I wrote about how the Republicans weren’t likely to take back the Senate this cycle. In order to really come within striking distance of the Democrats’ 10-seat advantage, I wrote, they’ve have to not only hold all their own seats and take Delaware, North Dakota, Nevada, Arkansas, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Indiana …
Sure, all the talk this weekend was about the murder-suicide between Democrats Ed Case and Colleen Hanabusa in Hawaii that handed Republican State Assemblyman Charles Djou a victory in a special election for Hawaii’s First Congressional District – President Obama’s childhood home. But Dems are betting that base anger on the other …
Much of DC (and, I think, America) was riveted to the series finale of Lost last night. I loved it, even though it confused me on a plot level: did Jack’s son ever really exist? What about Locke’s fiancee? TIME’s TV critic James Poniewozik has an excellent wrap up here.
The Senate tonight passed a sweeping overhaul of the rules that govern Wall Street with the aim of better protecting Main Street if the markets were ever to meltdown again. The legislation would greatly empower the Federal Reserve Bank to monitor and oversee financial flows in order to predict and prevent a massive pooling of risk – …
On Tuesday night as Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter took the stage to give his concession speech he thanked the crowd and remarked at the large number of media in the room – which nearly doubled the size of his audience. “Look at all these reporters, I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many,” he said chuckling lightly at his …
Sure, yesterday’s primaries sent the signal that just about everyone outside the Beltway loathes just about everyone inside the Beltway. But there is one guy here who’s coming out of this a king maker. A profile of Senator Jim DeMint and his crop of candidates.
Arlen Specter has survived a lot of things: a brain tumor, two bouts with Hodgkin’s lymphoma and five squeaker elections for the U.S. Senate. But in an anti-establishment year where the far right hates the moderates and the far left hates the moderates, Specter – whose voting record over the past 30 years is almost perfectly down the …
From TIME’s Pentagon Correspondent, Mark Thompson, who also happens to hail from the Nutmeg State:
Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Democrat seeking to succeed Christopher Dodd in the U.S. Senate, did a lot more fighting over Vietnam Tuesday than he ever did inside the country. That’s because, despite his claims to the contrary, he
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Republican Congressman Mark Souder of Indiana announed his resignation today after he copped to an affair with a female aide. “I sinned against God, my wife and my family by having a mutual relationship with a part-time member of my staff,” Souder told reporters at a press conference at his congressional office in Ft. Wayne. The former …
The New York Times is reporting that Connecticut Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, never served in the Vietnam War despite his claims that he did.
At a ceremony honoring veterans and senior citizens who sent presents to soldiers overseas, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut rose and spoke of an earlier time in his
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