President Obama delivers remarks at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s 33rd Annual Awards Gala in Washington September 15, 2010. (Photo by REUTERS/Jim Young)
–Obama splits the baby on the Elizabeth Warren appointment, naming her a special adviser sans Senate confirmation and rankling the Harvard prof’s boosters and …
Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell reacts to supporters during her primary night party, on September 14, 2010 in Dover, Delaware. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
—Karl Rove and the whole GOP establishment cede Delaware.
–O’Donnell doesn’t sound too interested in detente.
–Castle won’t endorse her.
–Halperin says …
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Tea Party activists on Tuesday punctuated a primary season with no shortage of surprises by delivering their sharpest blow yet to the Republican establishment. In the race for the party’s Senate nomination in Delaware—one of seven states (plus the nation’s capital) where voters headed to the polls in the last …
Tuesday is primary day in seven states and the District of Columbia. This will be the last major primary before the midterm elections (only one state remains after this: Hawaii on Sept. 18). Even this late in the game there are still some fascinating races to watch. Here are five:
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…also means 40 years of tape. A rather brutal Exhibit A from California’s gubernatorial race:
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In this week’s dead tree edition I have a story about Organizing for America, the remnants of the Obama campaign housed at the Democratic National Committee. I went canvassing on Long Island with OFA volunteers — a rather fruitless exercise as when they discovered I was with TIME they sent me door knocking to the homes of half the …
Sure, all those pundits on cable and inside the Beltway may be predicting a wave year where Dems lose the House and maybe even the Senate. But the tsunami hasn’t yet been reflected in three new CNN/TIME/Opinion research polls of registered voters in Kentucky, California and Florida out today. In fact, most races were tied or just within …
On this Labor Day, President Obama announced that he’s calling on Congress to pass an additional $50 billion in infrastructure investment. While I’m sure this pleased the construction, steel, plumbers and transportation unions – and, let’s face it, unions haven’t been the happiest of groups of late – I see several problems …
–President Obama will address the nation from the Oval Office tonight on the end of combat operations in Iraq. Crowley provides some good context of the challenges the speech presents. Marc Ambinder engages in some (informed) speculation on what he’ll say. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs makes it sound like it will be a pivot from Iraq …
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–With the recovery sputtering, second quarter growth numbers due out and the Fed still divided on what, if anything, to do, Ben Bernanke is preparing a speech for tomorrow. It could be a big one.
–Writing in the Wall Street Journal, economist Alan Binder argues the central bank has nothing but weak ammunition …
–Read Jay’s write-up of last night’s primaries!
–The Daily Beast’s Tunku Varadarajan unleashes on John McCain.
–Mayor Bloomberg offered a renewed defense of Islam and Cordoba House at an iftar dinner last night:
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–The administration will
Tuesday night’s primaries reminded us that nothing this election season is as we expect it. A third Senate incumbent is fighting for her political life this morning: in a surprisingly close race Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski is trailing Tea Party fave Joe Miller by 2,000 votes with 98% of precincts reporting. The results of this …
TIME’s Katy Steinmetz and Feifei Sun have this fun compilation of the best TV ads thus far this campaign season. The gallery is well worth the click through — many of them are, intentionaly or not, hysterical.
My favorite for oh, so many reasons (the gun slinging, the close up of his horse’s face when he calls his opponents dummies, …
