Although it is hard to believe, votes are still being counted for the 2008 presidential election. Obama’s lead has reached 7.01% according to wikipedia , 52.81% --45.80 7;. However, both fivethirtyeight.com and the United States Election Project indicate that wikipedia is currently behind on their count by several hundred thousand votes. In fact, the United States Election Proj...... [Show More]
"The truth is . . . we will be fine on most major issues. We will almost always have some moderate Republican support."
Senator Amy Klobuchar
Better Democrat Jim Martin is up against Saxby Chambliss in Georgia today, and it’s pretty clear, sitting in DC, that there just is not that much enthusiasm for this race on the Democrati side. The last nine polls are showing Cha...... [Show More]
Wow. James L at Swing State Project is taking notice . Our own 44th Congressional District shocked not just the OC politicos, but the entire national punditry. Bill Hedrick nearly unseated 16 year entrenched GOP incumbent Ken Calvert.
So what do we do now? We are so tantalizingly close to winning here. What can we do to turn this red seat blue?
Should the national Democrats (like the De...... [Show More]
FiveThirty Eight.com& rsquo;s Nate Silver follows up his 2010 Senate Rankings, Part I with his 2010 Senate Rankings, Part II , in which he ranks the 20th through the 11th most vulnerable Senate seats. His list: 20, Dodd, D-CT; 19, Vitter, R-LA; 18, Murkowski, R-AK; 17, Grassley, R-IA; 16, Kaufman/?, D-DE; 15, ?, D-IL; 14, Boxer, D-CA; 13, Isakson, R-GA; 12, Salazar, D-CO; and, 11, Bond, R-M...... [Show More]
After two remarkably successful cycles in which Democrats picked up at least 13 Senate seats, DSCC Chair Chuck Schumer is apparently ready to call it a day , and hand the keys to the DSCC to Robert Menendez of New Jersey.
There had been rumors that Schumer - the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate - would stick around for an unprecedented third term, but the senior New York Senator has apparen...... [Show More]
Our Senior Senator is calling it a day as head of the DSCC.
NY’s Schumer leaving Senate election role
Sen. Charles Schumer said Monday he is giving up his job running the Senate Democrats’ national campaign efforts after two successful elections.
"We’ve had a great run," said Schumer, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee since the 2006 campaig...... [Show More]
goode riddance Post Source: feeds.dailykos.com Posted: Nov 24 2008 18:30:03
Super-Jerk Virgil Goode (R-VA) has had his backward, racist ass handed to him at last. Roll Call (subsc ription 1; reports that Tom Periello’s victory in VA-05 over the repugnant Virgil Goode has been certified: Virginia’s State Board of Elections on Monday morning certified attorney Tom Perriello (D) as the winner by 745 votes in the highly competitive 5t...... [Show More]
With every upside, there’s always a downside. For Democrats, the downside of the Obama election is that his administration will suck up a lot of top talent. Case in point: Janet Napolitano of Arizona. Here are a few excerpts from other bloggers who’ve been following Napolitano’s prospects for 2010:
Napolitano was everyone’s favorite to run for Senate in 2010…
Swi...... [Show More]
Martin Chavez is having a fundraiser for... something. Not sure what.
Another mayoral run? A gubernatorial run? Those seem to be the two options, and as Swing State Project notes , with Gov. Bill Richardson leaving to be Commerce Secretary , the Governor’s race could be a big one in 2010.
So will Marty make another run for governor? He has to raise a lot of money to compete with Diane ...... [Show More]
The great thing about polls is that sometimes they’re all over the map. Check out the latest trifecta in the LA-04 race, which pits Democrat Paul Carmouche against Republican John Fleming. First, the independent poll, from SurveyUSA: SurveyUSA for Roll Call. 11/17-18. Likely voters. MoE 3.9% Fleming (R) 47 Carmouche (D) 45 Close race, this one. I...... [Show More]
There’s some debate among Dems about the level of support the Oklahoma party got from the Obama campaign.
On Daily Kos, Oklahoma’s election results get yet another round of analysis/c ondemnatio n
Oklahoma Republican Congressman Tom Cole resigns as chair of NRCC , where he was in charge of getting more R’s elected to the House. Yes, an epic fail, but not completely his fau...... [Show More]
Bringing to its conclusion one of the leading Epic Fails of modern politics: Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole has withdrawn from the race to remain chairman of the Republicans’ campaign arm in the House, according to numerous GOP aides, allowing Texas Rep. Pete Sessions to fill the post. Under Cole’s watch, the GOP lost three special elections in solidly Republican districts in 2008,...... [Show More]
to run a runoff Post Source: soup.naveedlalani.com Posted: Nov 20 2008 14:50:13
The December 2nd runoff election in Georgia for a U.S. Senate seat gives us a textbook look at grass roots politics. If you aren’t excited by this race then perhaps you don’t realize how rare and historic these campaigns can be. They are a great microcosm of campaigning with each party brining in money, staffers, volunteers, and celebrities to turn out the vote. While the presidentia...... [Show More]
It being runoff season in Georgia, the Atlanta Journal-Co nstitution (the largest paper in the state, and the largest in the South outside of Texas) has deemed it importance to restate an endorsement they already made once in Georgia’s Senate race. In fact, their endorsement is an impassioned plea on Martin’s behalf. Martin, the Democrat, has been a fighter for the lit...... [Show More]
The answer to that question doesn’t seem so clear cut. From Roll Call: Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.) says he will remain Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chairman at least until the outstanding 2008 Senate races are resolved, but still is keeping coy about whether he ultimately intends to pass the gavel to Sen. Bob Menendez (N.J.) in January.
Schumer, chased d...... [Show More]
It’s great to see Senator Kennedy up and running again . He’s already hard at work improving healthcare in America .
Congratulations, again, Senator-elect Mark Begich .
While I probably disagree with Jim DeMint on, well, almost everything, I do heartily commend his standing on principle against the GOP caucus .
It’s official: John Cornyn is the new Chair of the ...... [Show More]
So Karl Rove has whipped out “the math” once again to point out that the average number of seats gained by the “out party” in the mid-term year of a president’s first term in office is 23. Eh. First off, in the ten elections which fit this description, the out party has only gained 20 or more seats four times. The median, as you might guess, is a good bit lower - ju...... [Show More]
Here is the current balance of power in Congress:
Senate
56 Democrats
40 Republicans
2 Independents
2 Undecided
House
257 Democrats
175 Republicans
3 Undecided
These numbers are a little bit different than the ones you might be seeing at most election results sites. The reason is that I am allocating the Alaska Senate race, Louisiana’s 2nd congressional district, and Virgini...... [Show More]
Real Clear Politics’ Reid Wilson takes a preliminary look at the 2010 Senate map . One noteworthy point is that Wilson treats 75-years-old as the threshold for potential retirements, a statement on the relative age of the members of the U.S. Senate.
Senate Republicans are asking for help re-designing their image from a man who has demonstrated a chronic willingness to bend laws a...... [Show More]
Last week, I brought this ad on Craigslist to your attention. But there is much, much more happening in regards to 2010:
Two commentators have dropped Don Cazayoux’s name as a candidate for the Senate in 2010, here and here . This may be why the Business Report reported today that Senator Landrieu is among those pushing to have Cazayoux named as the United States Attorney for...... [Show More]
midday open thread Post Source: americannonsense.com Posted: Nov 14 2008 01:16:03
Happy birthday to Josh Marshall, whose Talking Points Memo turns eight years old today .
Fred Wertheimer ia a jackass who tried to shut down political blogs a few years ago because he hates any political speech that costs money, and of course, blogging costs money. Now, after trying to shut down the kind of internet-based politics that allowed Obama to raise hundreds of millions of dollars i...... [Show More]
With the Alaska Senate campaign turning heavily in favor of Democrat Mark Begich, in the extended entry I provide a run-down of the five closest campaigns that have still not been called, who is likely to win each campaign, and what it means for the overall balance of power. All of that, plus election forecasting notes can be found in the extended entry. Here is the best of what’s left:
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