Via Facebook, naturally: … The race for New York’s 23rd District is not over, just postponed until 2010. The issues of this election have always centered on the economy – on the need for fiscal restraint, smaller government, and policies that encourage jobs. In 2010, these issues will be even more crucial to the electorate. I [...] [...more]
Everybody is an independent. Obama’s non-ideological penchant has spread. It’s the antidote to tea partyism. Dan Baltz has the traditional view: The most significant change came among independent voters, who solidly backed Democrats in 2006 and 2008 but moved decisively to the Republicans on Tuesday, according to exit polls. In Virginia, independents strongly supported Republican Robert F. [...] [...more]
multiple updates below (Post originally logged @ 8:38 pm) Earthquake in New Jersey, according to Fox News and CNN. On top of the independent voter news, this is huge. But in NY-23, the tea party activist candidate Hoffman is on his way to a loss, with the Dem possibly winning in a district we haven’t won [...] [...more]
updated Christie to Sean Hannity earlier today: “I’ve got 300 lawyers” ready and waiting, so Gov. Corzine better beware. TPMMuckaker’s Zachary Roth sets it up perfectly: Another election, another boatload of evidence-free Republican claims of voter fraud… Hannity was doing his best to stir the post on this one, with Christie joining in. The proof? Non-existent. It’s [...] [...more]
DNC update below The whole country is watching Maine. Except Obama for America, at least not in the way that matters. From John Aravosis: Joe wrote last night about how the DNC’s “Organizing for America” organization (formerly known as “Obama for America”) emailed Maine voters yesterday about today’s election, but failed to mention the anti-gay ballot measure that is [...] [...more]
updated Tom Davis, a former National Republican Congressional Committee chairman, said he still believes the race is a tossup but also expected Scozzafava supporters to swing toward Owens. “This is not a Sarah Palin district, and they tried to make it that way. In a three-way race, you could have gotten 35 to 40 percent to [...] [...more]
bumped That was the question asked by the National Journal in its weekly new media poll, getting answers from the left and right. Both lefties and righties agreed that it would be the economy: left by 93.8%; right by 82.4%. From there partisan opinion diverged. I was the only one who weighed in by adding another choice [...] [...more]
Interesting development in Coleman v. Franken: The former finance chief of a Texas company controlled by Nasser Kazeminy, a close friend of former Sen. Norm Coleman, said in a deposition last week that Kazeminy ordered $100,000 in fees be paid to a Minneapolis insurance agency where Coleman’s wife was employed. B.J. Thomas, who was chief financial officer [...] [...more]
–updated– CNN broke the news not long ago. Commerce is becoming the black hole. Gregg was a horrible choice, in my opinion, which was telegraphed when the Obama team pulled the census from his purview. From Cilizza: “It has become apparent during this process that this will not work for me as I have found that on issues [...] [...more]
Okay, so I just got near a computer after traveling today and this is the latest so far on early Israeli election results. With 61 votes needed to form a government, it looks like Tzipi Livni (Kadima), and Bibi Netanyahu (Likud) will have to learn to work together. Haaretz on early results: The Central Elections Committee said Wednesday [...] [...more]
Barack Obama is the first president-elect since Ike to take a train to Washington. He picked up Joe Biden in Delaware. In the background is Obama’s “Organizing for America,” which builds on Barack Obama’s campaign colossus. He announced it today. So in case you didn’t get the message, the election for 2012 has begun and the future [...] [...more]
It’s almost official. After soaring in yesterday’s hearing, there is a party for HRC tonight. Tomorrow the vote. Then it will be time for her to resign her Senate seat, right about the time New Yorkers seem to have cooled on Kennedy. New York State voters have [...] [...more]
Have Israel’s politicians lost their collective mind? Banning Arab parties in the upcoming election? Stunning. …and incredibly stupid. The good news is that it actually makes Olmert’s move on Bush against Condoleezza Rice almost recede from view. Almost. But it sure reminds you of the serial failures Rice has suffered under a [...] [...more]
The headline at Politico should come with a laugh track: Reid vows to lead till at least 2015. It depends on what your definition of “lead” is. After drawing a line in the sand on Burris. Harry Reid then not only rubbed it out, but walked across it. On top of that, after a speech advising [...] [...more]
Well, Burris has been turned away. Legally, except for Lawrence Tribe, most experts believe Burris will win this in the end. Who knows, but Senate Democrats look like idiots. On another plain, in another state, Caroline Kennedy has fallen from grace, at least in popularity among New Yorkers. From PPP: When it comes to whether they would [...] [...more]
