Democrats are hitting the panic button in Washington State as the race between Democratic Senator Patty Murray and Republican challenger Dino Rossi narrows down to the nail-biter many of us knew it would be. How much is Murray’s eleventh-hour 911 call to Pres. Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice Pres. Joe Biden costing taxpayers? After already receiving two visits from the executive branch’s | Read More »
If 2010 does not wind up being the Year of the Republican in Washington State, it will almost certainly be the Year of the Befuddled Pollster. The challenge Washington State has presented to opinion takers and campaigners was significant enough to warrant a lengthy post on The New York Times Five Thirty-Eight blog earlier this week. The inconvenient thing about Washington State, however, is that | Read More »
The sordid details are crystallizing from this weekend’s apparent attempt by a group of male Central Washington University students to pull off a drug-assisted mass “date rape” at a home in Roslyn, Wash, a small town on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains only a two-hour drive from Bellevue, Wash. Although CWU has indicated it will take decisive action against those involved, for many | Read More »
The newest Fox News poll of the U.S. Senate race in Washington State finds Republican challenger Dino Rossi leading incumbent Sen. Patty Murray (D) by one point, 47-46. The weekly tracking poll – taken October 9th by Pulse Opinion from 1,000 likely voters and having a margin of error of three points – offers more reasons to believe that momentum is shifting to Rossi as | Read More »
Imagine for a moment the following pitch being made to a room of television programming executives. They were the pin-up girls of the 1980’s, now they’re wives of Hollywood’s entertainment industry elite. Now, they’re headed to Washington, D.C. to use their assets and save the world. Their target: Politicians and officials who control the policies and dollars of the federal government. Their mission: To win | Read More »
New poll shows Rossi leading Murray by 6 in Washington Senate race Despite the opinion of a left-leaning newspaper on the other side of the continent that Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) has a 74 percent chance of being re-elected, slightly more scientific numbers continue to favor Republican challenger Dino Rossi. A new poll reported by The Washington Post this morning gives Rossi a six point | Read More »
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee may be throwing in the towel in Washington State’s Eighth District race between incumbent Rep. Dave Reichert (R) and former Microsoft executive Suzan Delbene. The Delbene campaign has been running silent for at least 48 hours, and sources indicate that the DCCC has cancelled a third of their broadcast television buys in the Seattle market for October 19th through the | Read More »
The congressional race in Washington State’s First District is a dead zone in terms of media coverage. Democratic incumbent Rep. Jay Inslee, despite a miserable record of killing jobs in a blue collar district, has been awarded safe seat status due to a 56 percent showing in the primary. No polling data can be found, very little reporting from the race exists, and yet Republican | Read More »
You can parse that headline however you like. Will newly invocated Associate Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan will be working less-than-full-time hours in upcoming months? Or, can Kagan be expected to only intermittently apply traditional values of American jurisprudence? To both questions, the answer is unequivocal: Yes. As Jonathan H. Adler pointed out yesterday at NationalReview.com, because Pres. Obama used Kagan liberally when she was | Read More »
Adding to a nagging “what if” scenario that Washington voters can mull over when they mark their ballots in the U.S. Senate race between Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and two-time gubernatorial vote-winner Dino Rossi, Gov. Chris Gregoire (D-Wash.) finally got something she deserves. On the Cato Institute’s biennial report card to all U.S. governors on their handling of fiscal matters, Gregoire ranks in the bottom | Read More »
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