Blanche Lincoln Beats the Left
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | June 8th at 11:32 PM |
As Moe noted, Blanche Lincoln is the Democrats’ nominee in Arkansas. She is the incumbent the leftroots and SEIU tried desperately to defeat. A White House official told the Politico, “Organized labor just flushed $10 million of their members’ money down the toiled on a pointless exercise,” the official said. “If even half that total had been well-targeted and applied in key House races across | Read More »
In Summation
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 18th at 11:43 PM |
Arlen Specter is no more. Hahahahahahaha. This makes the fourth person in a statewide race to lose after Barack Obama campaigned for him. Trey Grayson went down in flames to Rand Paul, who openly embraced the tea party label. Tim Burns lost the special election in PA-12, but will now run in the general election for November against the Democrat. It is important to note | Read More »
Election Results Open Thread
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 18th at 06:23 PM |
Today is a big primary day. I just got off the phone with Tim Burns. He says he feels confident, things look good on the ground, and the Critz campaign has a small election day presence. I’ll be on John King USA starting at 7pm ET on CNN tonight to talk about the election results as they come in. Feel free to tune in. Otherwise, | Read More »
1,033 pardons and commutations, including for 12 convicted murderers
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 1st at 10:02 AM |
As the dust is still settling on the Washington State police killings and the connection to Mike Huckabee, I’m reminded of this article by Ron Fournier written shortly before the Iowa Caucus. It got a lot of play in national media circles, but not in Iowa itself. Back in 2008, a lot of people tried to paint Mike Huckabee as soft on crime. But, the | Read More »
Marion Berry (D-AR) Goes Into Hiding
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 4th at 12:27 PM |
I guess Marion Berry (D-AR) does not like being ambushed with easy questions. He has decided to disappear for the month of August and only talk to select groups. Here is an email from a RedState Gathering attendee: Marion Berry is hiding from his constituents. I called his office to see when his town hall meetings were going to be, and Emily, the scheduler, said | Read More »
Mike Huckabee for Senate
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | February 26th at 02:43 PM |
See this line? Those are people waiting in a line that runs the length of the convention floor, turns, and wraps around of people waiting and waiting and waiting to meet Mike Huckabee and get his autograph on his book. That’d be one hell of an army of activists ready and willing to help in run for Senator from Arkansas next year. Maybe he’ll do | Read More »