Rasmussen just released 2 polls for both of the Governor Race in NY and CA and both show some movement for GOP.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/

CA

Brown 41%

Whitman (R) 41%

Brown held a 44-35 lead in September

( Brown leads Poizner by 43-32 and leads Campbell 42 to 33)

NY

Cuomo 49

Rudy Guiliani 46%

( 2 months ago Cuomo led Rudy by 19 pts)

If Patterson survives primary Rudy and even Rick Lazio would beat him

If the Republican party is able to regain mansion in NY and hold it in CA it would be grand due to redistricting and it may help gain some energy for the half dead NY GOP.  I still wonder if Rudy is going to run although

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/11/its_not_over_recanvassing_shows_ny23_race.html

A recanvassing in the 11-county district shows that Owens’ lead has narrowed to 3,026 votes over Hoffman, 66,698 to 63,672, according to the latest unofficial results from the state Board of Elections.

The new vote totals mean the race will be decided by absentee ballots, of which about 10,200 were distributed, said John Conklin, communications director for the state Board of Elections.

Under a new law in New York that extended deadlines, military and overseas ballots received by this coming Monday (and postmarked by Nov. 2) will be counted. Standard absentee ballots had to be returned by this past Monday.

Did Hoffman concede too early?  He is still down 3,026 but with 10,020 votes out there or more ( and most of this done when the race was 3 person race) one has to wonder what final vote tally will be here?

( sorry for the link perhaps someone can fix it)

2 new Quinnipiac Polls out this morning

CT Dodd (D)

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1284.xml?ReleaseID=1395&What=&strArea=;&strTime=0

Connecticut voters disapprove, 54% to 40%, of the job Dodd is doing, compared to a 49% to 43% disapproval in September.

In general election match ups, Dodd loses to both Rob Simmons (R), 49% to 38%, and to Linda McMahon (R), 43% to 41%.

Dodd continues to  struggle with independent voters as 60 percent disapprove of the way he is handling his job

OH Open Seat (R)

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1284.xml?ReleaseID=1396&What=&strArea=;&strTime=0

Portman leads Jennifer Brunner (D), 38% to 34%, and tops Lee Fisher (D), 39% to 36%.  In the battle for the Democratic Senate nomination, Fisher gets 24 percent to Brunner’s 22 percent, with 51 percent undecided. Portman leads car dealer Tom Ganley 26 - 7 percent in a GOP primary with 64 percent undecided.

Also for the first time, Ohio voters disapprove, by a 50% to 45% margin, of the job President Obama is doing

Also to note Strickland (D) and Kasich (R) are each tied at 40% for Governor’s race.

Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton shocked the political establishment in Wisconsin with her decision to drop out of the race for governor Monday, but was she pushed by the Obama Administration?

Lawton announced she was running in August, on the same day Doyle bowed out of seeking a third term.  However, this morning in an email sent out to supporters it left even more unanswered questions.

Lawton said “”My deep commitment to our state is second only to my commitment to my family. For very personal reasons, I will not pursue the Democratic nomination for governor in 2010.”  Lawton has yet to say what these personal reasons are and even her supporters don’t seem to know.

The Journal Sentinel this weekend ( http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/65957092.html) had an article indicating Obama preferred Milwaukee Mayor Barrett.

Did Obama make another entry into dictating who is allowed to run and who cannot?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28641.html

Sarah Palin is about to endorse Doug Hoffman in NY-23. “Political parties must stand for something,” she says.

“I am very pleased to announce my support for Doug Hoffman in his fight to be the next Representative from New York’s 23rd Congressional district. It’s my honor to endorse Doug and to do what I can to help him win, including having my political action committee, SarahPAC, donate to his campaign the maximum contribution allowed by law,” Palin continued. “Our nation is at a crossroads, and this is once again a ‘time for choosing.’”

The NRCC has had a lot success in recruiting top tier candidates for some key races but some are still lacking.  If anyone has any candidates to mention for the below list please do so; in some cases there have some candidates who have expressed interest but have not declared.

Grayon FL       Chandler KY       Altmire PA

Kosmas FL      Yarmuth KY       Murphy NY

Barrow GA      Kagen WI           McMahon NY

Marshall GA    Carney PA         Arcuri NY

Kissell NC       Dahlkemper PA  Maffei NY

Boucher VA     Space OH           Hill IN

Davis TN         Stupak MI           Peters MI

Walz MN         Peterson MN       Boswell IA

Braley IA         Pomeroy ND       Boren OK

Edwards TX    Rodriquez TX      Mitchell AZ

Matheson UT  Salazar CO         McNerney CA

Adler NJ          Open Deleware

Back in November, for the first time in 140 years, both houses of the Tennessee legislature were captured by Republicans: The Republicans control the state senate by a 19-14 margin, and hold 50 seats in the state house to the Democrats’ 49.  Yet, Democrats in the lower house offered a deal to a renegade Republican by the name of Kent Williams, who wanted the Speakership for himself — when all the Democrats cast their votes for him for Speaker, and he cast his own vote for himself, he had the 50 votes needed to take the gavel, even without a single vote from his own side of the aisle.

Today, there was a special election in an open Democrat State House seat and Pat Marsh ( R)  just won (56-42%) this seat back giving them 51 seats to 48 plus renegade Republican.

This win also bolsters Republican with controlling redistricting in TN something that has never happened.

Multiple GOP sources are saying that Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) will be running for U.S. Senate in Delaware and will make his announcement this afternoon.

In addition, Attorney General Beau Biden is expected to soon announce he’ll seek the Democratic nomination for his father’s old seat.

Politico: “His decision is poised to set up a marquee matchup between two of the biggest names in Delaware politics. The moderate congressman and former Delaware governor has never lost a political race since elected to the Delaware state House in 1966.”

The announcement leaves his House seat open and already Fmr Lt Gov Carney is running.  The Republicans will now have to find a candidate for this race and it will be difficult to hold.

A good recruitment day for NRSC; no doubt Castle was the only one who had shot of winning this race and a recent Rassmussen poll indicated he is leading Biden 47% to 42%.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125409393986744897.html?mod=sphere_ts&mod=sphere_wd

The Wall Street Journal Today Reports That Recorded Conversations Between Countrywide And VIP Loan Recipients Have Been Destroyed. “The discovery that Countrywide Financial Corp. recorded phone conversations with borrowers in a controversial mortgage program that included public officials — and that those recordings have been destroyed — has prompted new congressional calls for more information about the program.”  (John R. Emshwiller, “Phone Calls Add To Din Over Loans,” The Wall Street Journal, 9/28/09)

Congress must demand answers on this.  Who destroyed these tapes and why?  Who are they protecting?

Perriello — who seems to be far less afraid of being unseated than other Dems in red districts — told Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he overheard racist remarks during a series of highly contentious town halls over the summer — and sometimes those comments went uncontested.

“What do you think of Nancy Pelosi’s recent comments about the concern that this could bring us back to another time where things were very violent and that this could go in a bad direction, the discourse?” Brzezinski asked.

Replied Perriello: “I conducted over a hundred hours of town hall meetings in my district in central and Southern Virginia, and the vast majority of them were civil; people disagreed passionately on ideological grounds. And there were the rare cases where very racist remarks were made. Sometimes they were called out by neighbors in the audience; sometimes they weren’t. Clearly, race remains a factor in America, but there’s also a lot of disagreement here that is genuine and not based on race, so I think we have to have both conversations.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27417.html#ixzz0RsmhASiP

Congressman Perriello is just a liberal clone who used his wealth to defeat Goode but 2010 can’t come soon enough to throw this rats behind out.