Georgia gains a seat in the House due to population growth. In presidential politics, I personally have my worries in Georgia. With state approval ratings above the national average, Obama’s chances of picking up an unanticipated 16 electoral votes is a real possibility. While it is true that Georgia has been a fairly reliable GOP state since 2000, the margins have not been exactly stellar | Read More »
Politics in South Carolina is not for the faint of heart. In 1978, a stooge third party candidate was created to hurl anti-Semitic remarks against a Democratic House candidate. There was the 1980 campaign of Strom Thurmond orchestrated by noted operative and South Carolina native, Lee Atwater, that added the phrase “push polling” to the political lexicon. Everyone is familiar with the strategy employed by | Read More »
It is “great” that the Obama Administration worked out a “deal” with the five largest mortgage lenders that amounts to $25 billion spread among 49 states. However, once again we fail to hear about the reform or, even better, dissolution of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Nor did we hear anything about the Community Reinvestment Act and its role in laying the seeds of the | Read More »
If Barack Obama had little room to maneuver in neighboring Virginia, there is an even smaller margin of error in North Carolina in 2012. Barely winning the state’s 15 electoral votes in 2008 will translate into an even tougher job this time around. Mainly reliant on heavy voter turnout in the state’s more urban centers, he will be hard-pressed to replicate his performance. Still, he | Read More »
Virginia may very well prove to be an early predictor of results on Election Day 2012. Obama desperately needs to hang onto Virginia’s 13 electoral votes in order to be reelected. Although he would still have a path to victory, especially if he manages to retain a Pennsylvania or Ohio (although I am putting them in the GOP column at this point), it would create | Read More »
One would be remiss to ignore the Obama Administration’s latest example of hypocrisy, stupidity, and attack on religion. To recount, as part of Obamacare, it now appears that religious organizations must cover contraception in their offered health care insurance packages with employees. Obviously, this has raised the ire of the Catholic Church in particular. First, as a Catholic, I can safely say that many Catholics | Read More »
There is another Senatorial race in 2012 in Delaware. Democratic incumbent Tom Carper, to read the liberal press in the First State, is not particularly popular. However, this seems to be the mantra every year in Delaware when it comes to a Senate race. The problem for the GOP is that there are few viable candidates to take on these “substandard” Democratic opponents. Thus far, | Read More »
New Jersey is my home state and I consider it the California of the east coast, but things are looking up. In 2012, the political news will be a mixed bag of news and results. On the presidential front, Obama won this state in 2008 with 57% of the vote. In fact, the state has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1988. Hell, | Read More »
Deeply blue Rhode Island saw just enough population growth to justify its two House seats. And in a state so small, there was some controversy in redistricting as David Cicillene’s 1st District was redrawn to his benefit. It shed some rural, marginally Republican areas for other areas south of Providence. The rationale was that Providence had to be split between two districts to receive adequate | Read More »
In 2010, Massachusetts sort of broke the mold as far as the midterm GOP wave went. The special election to fill the seat held by the deceased Ted Kennedy was filled by Scott Brown, a relatively unknown state senator who seemingly came from nowhere to defeat his Democratic rival, Martha Coakley. at the time, it was described as an “earthquake” in politics. However, the Democrats | Read More »
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