The Party of Jefferson and Jackson without Mr. Jackson

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  October 5th at 01:00 PM  | 

“I am a Democrat but largely because I was born a Democrat. It was passed down by my father.” – East Liverpool, OH Mayor James Swoger. (HT: Selena Zito) The Democratic Party has been in business for nearly as long as The United States has been in business independently, rather than as a subsidiary of Great Britain, Inc. It has succeeded to continue on, despite | Read More »

Out with the old, in with the New Year.

By: TobyToons (Diary)  |  December 30th at 07:00 AM  | 

The quintessential example of media bias for the 2010 election cycle

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  December 29th at 05:00 AM  | 

Over the next few days, various news networks, newspapers, magazines, and others will present a retrospective on 2010: what the media got right, what the media got wrong, best moments, worst moments, etc. Let me present what has to be the quintessential example of media bias in coverage of the 2010 elections. The candidate was the upstart upset. With the state’s political players all lined | Read More »

Lame Demagogue Session

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  December 2nd at 09:00 AM  | 

Republicans’ votes against Obamacare were actually votes in favor of retaining employer-based health care coverage…Rather, it is the Democrats who are tainted with the hypocrisy with which they accuse their opponents. Democrats have not reacted well to the “shellacking” voters administered to the party at the polls earlier this month. Far from doing any soul searching or introspection of any kind, Democrats embarked on a | Read More »

Obama sets the modern record for Midterm losses

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  November 8th at 06:00 PM  | 

Here are the the last 60 years’ worth of midterm losses, going back to the second Truman midterm, according to Wikipedia for election-on-election losses, which is the standard I use all around. For 2010 I’m using the current CNN projection of a 65 seat Republican gain and a 243 R – 192 D House. Click for full size goodness. Congratulations, Mister President.

Senate Scorecard: RedState vs NRSC

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  November 8th at 11:30 AM  | 

The time has come for the Senate Republicans to begin thinking about what to do with the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which this last cycle was run by Senator John Cornyn along with bureaucrat Rob Jesmer. Before any Republican endorses that team to go ahead and run the committee for another cycle, I urge them to consider alternatives. The NRSC has the name and the | Read More »

The Democrats did not have to lose this year

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  November 2nd at 01:30 PM  | 

Some will try to minimize the importance of any Republican gains tonight by saying the Democrats were bound to lose. Some will even say Democrats had a baked-in loss of 45 or more seats, which implies they had no hope of keeping the House at all, no matter what policy aims they worked to implement. The problem is, that’s nonsense. Cutting to the chase: while | Read More »

For your amusement: an updated 2008 Obama ad.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 2nd at 11:00 AM  | 

It did not age well.  Oh, my, did it not age well. (Via Battle ’10) Although I suspect that the participants in said video would bitterly argue my observation, assuming that any of them are sober at this moment.  No, wait, it’s 8 AM on the Left Coast; they won’t start the anticipatory heavy drinking until about 1 PM my time. Moe Lane (crosspost) PS: | Read More »

Good Morning. It Is Election Day.

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 2nd at 05:00 AM  | 

“I won.” — Barack Obama January 23, 2009 “Let me just say it this way, the Democrats will retain the majority in the House of Representatives. We have a huge — we have, what, 54-, 55-vote majority. We had a swing in the last two elections of 110 seats. We will — I am not yielding one grain of sand. We are fighting for every | Read More »

Final notes on the California Senate race

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  November 1st at 02:30 PM  | 

I’ve obtained a few documents and one link which really tell us where we are in California right now. Per the polling, which has remarkably projected in California little or no TEA party/Republican/Independent/conservative backlash at all, I still see Carly having a one third shot to win this, and if we saw polling which actually demonstrated a partisan enthusiasm gap, that number would have been | Read More »

An Open Letter to the Freshman Republican Victors

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 31st at 10:00 AM  | 

“Remember, as much as McConnell, Alexander, Boehner, Cantor, etc. did for you, you are more important to them than they are to you. But for you, they would still be in the minority.” I am putting this up the Sunday before the election because in the noise and hubbub after the election it will be drowned out and it is very, very important. If you | Read More »

Boxer getting the benefit of press bias in her favor

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  October 29th at 01:30 PM  | 

Imagine if Sarah Palin promised reporters she’d take questions, then ran out from the event through the side door to avoid the questioning? Now imagine if Sharron Angle or Christine O’Donnell did it. The same shunned press would call them out for it and say they were fake or even avoiding accountability. Palin, of course, was accused of being entirely unqualified in part to avoiding | Read More »

Uneasy Dems: Bring back Clinton! Or Bush!

By: James Richardson (Diary)  |  October 28th at 04:43 PM  | 

When a deeply polarizing egotist leads an already-unpopular party, the only place to go is down, as endangered Democrats will soon realize. Some, having already learned the lessons of the Pennsylvania and Colorado Senate primary contests, are politely rebuffing–while others still downright rejecting–Barack Obama’s offers to join them on the campaign trail. Instead, they’ve got another president in mind: Bill Clinton, whose presence on the | Read More »

Babs Boxer: Desperate enough to encourage lawbreaking

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  October 28th at 01:30 PM  | 

That’s where we are now in the California Senate race. Babs Boxer’s campaign made an organized, coordinated effort to reach out to schools, supplying teachers with information to disseminate out to students telling them how to volunteer for the Boxer campaign. That is not in dispute. Boxer’s campaign has admitted to it and apologized for it. Of course, what they’re really sorry about is getting | Read More »

Joe Miller in third? Not so fast.

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  October 28th at 01:00 PM  | 

Continuing Politico’s apparent strategy of linking to obscure polls that say bad things about Republicans for shock and traffic value in this wave year, the site now reports Joe Miller to be in last place. For several reasons, one has to discount this poll’s predictiveness of the coming election.