On the Expand the Map! ActBlue page , Speaker Jeff Merkley has 14 contributions. Let’s get to twenty this weekend! (33 readers offered rankings in the most recent Cattle Call ; surely 6 of you can send $20 to Speaker Merkley this weekend via the Expand the Map! ActBlue page .)
New Mexico : Here’s something that may insert more divisiveness into the nasty NM-GOP primary: retiring Pete Domenici may have endorsed Heather Wilson . But nobody is certain.
Colorado : Talking Points Memo and Colorado Pols both offer unique insights as the walls are coming down around Backwards Bob Schaffer’s 2008 Senate candidacy due to the burgeoning NAFF fraud scandal. Schaffer’s own Boss Tweed, Dick Wadhams, is keeping Schaffer in hiding and actually begging media outlets not to report on the scandal . Not a good sign for Schaffer.
Wyoming : Wyoming’s filing deadline passed on Friday. Both Mike Enz...
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After losing control of the Senate and 30 House seats in 2006, the GOP is bracing for losses of six to nine in the Senate, and two dozen to three dozen additional seats in the House. If the party “were a dog food,” says Rep. Tom Davis, “they would take [...]... more
Democrat Gerald Connolly defeated Republican Keith Fimian to win Virginia’s 11th District race for Congress, capturing the seat being vacated by retiring Rep. Tom Davis, a Republican.... more
Moderate Virginia Republican Congressman Tom Davis was quoted yesterday on what’s happened to the Republican party: "We’ll have to see what happens, but I suspect in urban areas across the country, Democrats will continue to make gains that they’ve...... more
The AP reports in the first of many such epitaphs:
As if things aren’t looking bad enough for Bob Schaffer, now he’s getting fashion advice from his own supporters.
Down in the polls, the Republican seeking Colorado’s open seat for U.S. Senate is looking for a last-minute surge of cash and volunteers to take on Democratic Rep. Mark Udall. Today he’s in Elizabeth, a suburb south of Denver, working a small crowd of GOP volunteers.
It’ll be a tight race, he says,... more
Congressman Mark Udall has recently aired ads criticizing Bob Schaffer for voting against veterans. As a concerned veteran, I looked into the votes cited in these advertisements. It turns out that these votes were for huge spending bills for a grab bag of Federal agencies and were loaded with billions of dollars of [...]... more
Bob Schaffer needs a little lesson in American history. Or maybe just a lesson in political ideologies.
Michael Roberts of Westword has the story:
Republican senatorial candidate Bob Schaffer needs a game-changer right now, given the size of Democratic opponent Mark Udall’s lead in most polls. So why not imply that liberals wanted to mollycoddle the Third Reich? That’s the apparent strategy behind his comments in the following video clip, in which Schaffer tells a voter that h... more
Congress.org has released its Power Rankings . Where do some of the vulnerable Republican Senators up for re-election in 2008 rank in terms of power in the 100-member Senate? Susan Collins 68, Jim Inhofe 74, John Cornyn 80, Pat Roberts 81, Norm Coleman 82, John Sununu 89, and Elizabeth Dole 93. Meanwhile, another argument is made for the re-election of Senator Mary Landrieu , as the only member of the Louisiana Congressional delegation who scores as more powerful is the reti... more
Texas : In the 2008 Democratic Senate primary, State Representative and Lieutenant Colonel Rick Noriega has won the four-way race with 51% , avoiding a run-off and securing the Democratic nomination. Celebrate his victory by contributing twenty bucks to his campaign and helping him to reload his coffers for the general election!
Meanwhile, Bush-rubber-stamp John Cornyn’s primary opponent, Larry Kilgore , scored a sizable 18.5% of the Republican primary vote. &n... more
It’s March of 2008 and, in addition to a historic Presidential race, there are numerous high-profile and competitive Senate races. So, of course, it’s too early to take a look at 2010’s Senate races, right?
Wrong.
Over a year ago, I took a first glance at the 2010 races , which feature 19 Republican-held seats up compared with 15 Democratic seats. Among those up for re-election are 8 Republican Senators who will be at least 70 years old on Election Day 20... more
Texas : The Dallas Morning News highlights an interesting statistic : Democratic State Representative and Lieutenant Colonel Rick Noriega pulled in more than 111,000 more votes in his four-way primary than Bush-rubber-stamp John Cornyn received in his two-way primary against a fringe opponent. Doesn’t seem like Cornyn’s base is too fired up.
Kansas : Former Congressman Jim Slattery, who had earlier passed on a possible 2008 Senate bid against Republican Pat Robe... more
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