The short answer to the question in my title is…Ron Wyden is a hard-core liberal senator the hard-core liberals of Oregon first put into office in November, 1980. There’s nothing else to see here so move on. Well I’m just a persistent cuss who does want to look at Oregon a little longer. I want to see a few more details than just the conventional | Read More »
In the House elections there are a lot more GOP House candidates who have never been elected to an office before than the 11 GOP Senate candidates. They need some help to be able to win their very first election, especially in a district that has recently had a D representing them. They need even more help when they are fighting to win against an | Read More »
Football season is here, and Mike gamecock DeVine can verify my wisdom about college…NFL not so much. What I do know is the team has got to go on offense, put their opponent on defense, and score points to be a winner. I believe this same strategy applies to political contests as well. I recently wrote this diary about 11 GOP candidates for US Senate | Read More »
Alaska Joe Miller California Carly Fiorina Connecticut Linda McMahon Delaware Christine O’Donnell Kentucky Rand Paul New York Jay Townsend Oregon Jim Huffman Utah Mike Lee Vermont Len Britton West Virginia John Raese Wisconsin Ron Johnson Do these folks have a common ideology? No, not really. This diary is not about the navel gazing aspects of just who are the true conservatives. No matter whose navel | Read More »
I hope this tune by Jamie Teachenor and Banjo Ben Clark goes viral. The ones in power are not able to campaign on their record, and some like Janeane Garofalo, Howard Dean, Tim Keane, and Ed Rendell are telling them to campaign against the wacky fringe rednecks. This is not a new idea. For as long as I can remember any conservative candidate has been | Read More »
Labor Day is traditionally when the regular folks start to become interested in the upcoming elections. The larger than usual turnout in the GOP primaries makes me think this interest about the upcoming elections started earlier this year. We can’t get complacent and let the enthusiasm wane before November 2. There are no foregone conclusions, and nothing is really won or lost until after the | Read More »
I love the Liberty Central website as an excellent place for me to use for political research. I especially like the legislative scorecards they did for the 111th Congress. All 535 members of the US House and US Senate received a grade from A to F. They based the grades on 12 House votes and 14 Senate votes that they decided had the most effect | Read More »
After the financial panic of 1893, in Grover Cleveland’s 1894 midterm, Democrats went from 218 to just 93 of 357 House seats. Between 1892 and 1894, Democrats lost 125 House seats, about 35 percent of the total. Can Obama’s 2010 midterm be comparable? RCP has 111 D seats being contested and 16 R seats being contested in 2010. This means the GOP needs to be | Read More »
The left lies so often that sometimes it is hard to know where to begin. One of their big lies has been that Republicans are racist, sexist, islamophobic homophobes who only want to make the rich folks happy. They say women and minorities are hardest hit, and so they can not be or vote for any Republicans. Why that would make them a traitor to | Read More »
There are three GOP candidates for DE-AL, Rose Izzo, Michele Rollins, and Glen Urquhart. Any of them will be more conservative than Mike Castle. Rose has the smallest amound of money for the campaign, but I like her spunky Brooklyn accent. The so-called experts think this is a seat that is likely to flip from R to D, but none of them are projecting this | Read More »
Buddhist Meditation Temple St. John Cathedral Staten Island Hindu Temple Temple Emanue-El Masjid Malcolm Shabazz Mosque New York City Mayor Bloomberg and President Obama have really messed up and created turmoil where it is not needed when they talk about a constitutional freedom of religion right. Why start their statements with something that is not questioned? What statists like Bloomberg and Obama are completely clueless | Read More »
I smell fear in Rep. Bean. This US House District 8 is the northwest suburbs of Chicago, and Charlie Cook is still calling this a likely D outcome, but she certainly does not act like it. The contest is a 3-way race between her, Republican Joe Walsh, and Green Bill Scheurer. Here is a recent article, 8th Congressional hopefuls spar over health care. An | Read More »
On August 23, 1939, four days after the economic agreement was signed and a little over a week before the beginning of World War II, Ribbentrop and Molotov signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. In 1989, Estonian and other Baltic deputies battled with Gorbachev to have the Soviet Union reveal the true story of the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the | Read More »
Currently the GOP has 24 Governor seats, and the Ds have 26 seats. In a real big wave election, after the November 2010 election the GOP could have 37 seats and the Ds could have 13. This is a huger wave than anything possible in US House and US Senate outcomes. Now admittedly part of the reason for this is that we are so low | Read More »
The title of this diary is a paraphrasing of the phrase, women and minorities hardest hit. In this diary I am applauding women and minorities who have the courage and convictions to be on the November 2010 ballots as candidates for the US House in some of the most difficult districts for Republicans to run in. I hope all of them win, but in truth | Read More »
UPDATE The winners in the Primaries for Governor, TN-04, TN-06, and TN-08 Bill Haslam for Governor Scott DesJarlais for Congress Diane Black for Congress Stephen Fincher for Congress END OF UPDATE Tomorrow night I am going to be watching the results of the GOP Primary contests for Governor, US House 04, 06, and 08. These are the contests that Real Clear Politics considers battleground races. | Read More »
[Update] Now that my headache has faded I see another report from Traverse City Record Eagle. Allen announced victory in a statement released at 1:34 a.m. today, but now withdraws his claim of victory. Allen said he’ll wait for votes to be certified over the next three days to see if it changes the result. He can’t request a recount until the state Board of | Read More »
Republicans are terrified of being labeled partisan and mean-spirited, and most Republicans got to where they are politically by being nice guys or girls. That “hail fellow well met” that served you so well in the Legislature, Chamber, or the Rotary will just get you screwed in the executive branch. – Art Chance This diary focusses on five House races on Tuesday, August 3rd with | Read More »
There are less than 100 days before the election, and the Ds are getting nervous. They are pumping out their message and will be getting louder with every passing day. When I look at the graphic I posted I ask Gee, do I believe them or my lying eyes? To me the Ds' message sounds like Tarzan-Speak. It goes something like this: Bill Clinton GOOD | Read More »
Hey Tom Davis! May I call you Tom? Stop lying about New England. I saw an article yesterday from the Boston Globe, GOP may miss chances in N.E., and the narrative they are pushing is that the GOP is only contesting 3 out of 22 of the US House seats in New England. They suggest the reason this is the case is because there are | Read More »
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