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 …
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 …
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. …
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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 …
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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–Democrats are still looking for GOP votes on the defense authorization (plus DADT repeal and DREAM Act). Olympia Snowe sounds like a no.
–Max Boot argues the military isn’t a bad place for motivated immigrants to end up.
–The major Democratic committees out-raised their Republican counterparts in August. But, as Crowley’s …
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 …
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–The White House prepares to go big for the midterms, denies weighing anti-Tea line. Dave Weigel points out that the line already exists.
–Ben Smith sees mixed signals in Palin’s foray into Iowa. Halperin says she’s playing chess. Walter Schapiro tries to suss out the primary math. Jennifer Rubin …
