I have a story in this week’s dead tree edition out today looking at the seeming plethora of GOP women candidates this year. Yes, there are a lot of high profile races: Niki Haley, Sharron Angle, Linda McMahon, Sarah Palin’s “Mama Grizzlies.” And there have been a record number of Republican women who’ve run for federal office …
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Today’s Primaries
If it’s a Tuesday it’s a primary day and today voters are heading to the polls in Washington and Wyoming.
Voting has been going on in Washington for two weeks already and it looks likely that former State Senator Dino Rossi will easily win his primary. But the race hasn’t left him totally unscathed. Rossi, who lost two very …
Morning Must Reads: Million Dollar Touch
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–The Obama administration is hosting a conference today on “the future of housing finance” The main issue: Figuring out what on earth to do with budget-busting mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Republicans want to shut them down, Democrats point out that for now, there is basically no mortgage …
Morning Must Reads: Liabilities
–The Washington Post profiles Elizabeth Warren. The timing may be good.
–Our colleague Michael Grunwald explores why Fed Chair Bernanke doesn’t have his foot on the monetary policy gas pedal.
–Worth re-posting: Scherer makes very good points about the Rangel case and Congress’s modus operandi.
–Carl Hulse writes porking …
Morning Must Reads: Crunching the Numbers
–The Obama administration sends $3 billion to jobless homeowners.
–There may be more of them this week than last; new unemployment filings hit a near six-month high.
–GM posts its best quarterly profit since 2004 as the automaker prepares to take its stock public. The federal government — and by extension you, dear taxpayer …
Morning Must Reads: Obama Claims a Win
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–As Jay notes, Obama political arm Organizing for America is trying to take some credit for Bennet’s solid victory last night in Colorado. The message: Just because we couldn’t save Specter or clear the field for Lincoln and Bennet, the White House political operation is not ineffectual.
–Establishment …
And the Winner Is…
Anyone hoping for a sign that the anti-establishment fever has peaked got mixed messages from Colorado’s Senate primaries Tuesday night.
On the Democratic side, establishment favorite Michael Bennet won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, beating out former Colorado House speaker Andrew Romanoff with 54% of the vote with 77% of …
Flying to Dillingham
Last year, I flew to the fishing village of Dillingham, Alaska for a story on Sarah Palin. This week, Senator Ted Stevens died in a plane wreck at near the same remote town. Some thoughts on flying in Alaska and, particularly, to the fishing village of Dillingham.
Why God Invented C-SPAN
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From the C-SPAN archives, here is a video clip of Senator Ted Stevens recommending his friend, Sean O’Keefe, to be confirmed NASA …
Morning Must Reads: Unloading
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–There are a bunch of good races today in Colorado, Connecticut and Georgia. Jay and Katy walk them up.
–The House is poised to approve $26 billion in aid to the states today. Obama will give a gentle nudge.
–Six months ago, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed onto a letter asking for more FMAP funds. He opposes …
Today’s Races
Today’s Tuesday and that means voting. Colorado, Connecticut and Minnesota are holding primaries and Georgia’s GOP gubernatorial races holds a run off. By tonight we’ll know if another incumbent scalp, that of Colorado’s Michael Bennet, has been claimed or if the throw-the-bums-out mentality this cycle is abating somewhat. Here’s a …
Bill Clinton Re-Emerges in Colorado
After a much ballyhooed endorsement e-mail for Andrew Romanoff in June, Former President Clinton went dark in Colorado’s contested Democratic Senate primary: no more e-mails, no campaign events, no fundraisers, nada. The initial gesture was assumed to be simple reciprocity for Romanoff’s support of Hillary Clinton in ’08 and Clinton’s …
Morning Must Reads: Pickup Games
–President Obama is headed to Texas today for some fundraisers. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White will make himself scarce.
–Pauls Krugman and Ryan get their feud on. This is why we can’t have nice things.
–Rep. Boehner squirms over a question about the Bush tax cuts paying for themselves. Republican economists …