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    October 28, 2009 /
    • Mitt Romney Not Endorsing in New York House Race
      Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom provided a few more details regarding Romney’s thinking: “Mitt Romney is a Republican and he tends to support the Republican candidate in races and when he can't because there are too many differences on the issues, he stays out of the race altogether and that's the course he's following in the New York special election. He doesn't plan to make any endorsement at all.”
      (tags: Mitt_Romney Doug_Hoffman Dede_Scozzafava)
    • Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann October Ratings Down 63% vs. 2008
      Countdown with Keith Olberman’s ratings are in the famine range as well, with October year over year ratings down 53% in the cable news target adults 25-54 demo, and down 53% in average viewership. Although I don’t have a trend chart, October is also Olbermann’s lowest rated month so far in 2009 in both 25-54 and average viewers.
      (tags: Keith_Olbermann)
    • California Election Digest – Key Races
      • CA-Sen: Everyone has been treating Carly Fiorina as already running for Senate, but she's never officially announced anything. It looks like Nov. 6 is her launch date, though; she has a "very important announcement" scheduled at a Pleasanton event.
      *CA-Gov: Meg Whitman's sputtering campaign got a boost when she nailed down the endorsement of popular GOP moderate Richard Riordan, the former Los Angeles mayor — which might keep her from losing votes to ex-Rep. Tom Campbell on her left. Her other opponent, state Treasurer Steve Poizner, also announced his own endorsement, from American Conservative Union head David Keene. Not that any Californian would have any idea who Keene is, but this seems like a more fruitful endorsement vein to mine, as all three candidates are on the party's moderate side — good for the general, but bad for making it out of the primary dominated by California's rabid base.
      (tags: Meg_Whitman carly_fiorina steve_poizner Chuck_DeVore tom_campbell)
    • The Politics of Purges: Alive, Well in California GOP
      Political junkies across the nation are fixated on a once-obscure special election race for a House seat in New York, where Republican presidential hopefuls have interjected themselves into the campaign in a bid to purge a moderate from the GOP.

      As Republicans struggle to remain politically relevant outside the South, the fight reflects a widening battle for the soul of the party between talk radio Tea Bag activists and GOP Beltway establishment types. That feud is mirrored in California, where Republican primary campaigns for governor and Senate shape up as contests to lay claim to the red meat voter bloc and its mantle of conservative populism.

      (tags: California california_gop)
  • Carly Fiorina,  Chuck DeVore,  National Republican Senatorial Committee

    Chuck DeVore Who?

    October 28, 2009 /

    From Washington Post political writer and blogger Chris Cillizza’s twitter feed yesterday

    Exactly.

    And, this is why former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has boasted that national Republicans support her candidacy.

    Carly Fiorina, a likely Republican candidate for Senate in California, made public on Tuesday what her GOP primary opponent Chuck DeVore has long claimed: that the national party is supporting her bid to take out Sen. Barbara Boxer next year.

    “The chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee has encouraged me to enter the race, reaffirming my belief that Chuck DeVore can not beat Barbara Boxer,” Fiorina said Tuesday, according to SanDiegoNewsRoom.com.

    Now the National Republican Senatorial Committee has done NO formal endorsement and today entertained another candidate, Al Ramirez who is running for the California U.S. Senate seat.

    There has been some grumbling that the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s (NRSC) resources haven’t been available to lesser-known candidates, but perhaps they just never asked.

    Businessman Al Ramirez, an underdog candidate in the GOP primary to face Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), is launching his campaign today at NRSC headquarters.

    Ramirez’s event could been seen as a retort to state Sen. Chuck DeVore’s contention that the committee has already chosen sides in the primary. DeVore has unleashed a series of attacks on the NRSC for allegedly choosing Carly Fiorina as its candidate.

    NRSC spokesman Brian Walsh says: “Al Ramirez is a Republican candidate, and we extend our facilities to Republican candidates. Barbara Boxer’s approval ratings are very low, and we’re excited about our prospects in California next year.”

    I mean could you really blame the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) for backing Carly Fiorina? After all NOBODY even knows who Irvine-based California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore is. And, he has raised NO money for a statewide campaign.

    Chuck DeVore is simply NOT a viable candidate against Democrat incumbent U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer and should stop his MOANING about the NRSC which he never even asked to meet.

    Update:

    And Chuck DeVore called Chris Cillizza a what in response? SORE LOSER.

    Well, when DeVore found out about Cillizza’s poison-tipped “who?” hebasically had no other choice than to let slip the dogs of War-tweeting. And so ensued a series of barbaric bleats starting with DeVore pointing out that he was “The candidate who edged you out for a Shorty Award for best political use of Twitter, that’s who!” Yes: I had to look up what a “Shorty Award” is, and this is what I found out….

    Anyway, DeVore then felt compelled to send the same message out (“Chris Cillizza is still sore DeVore for CA beat him out for a Shorty Award for best political use of Twitter in 08.”) three separate times, which certainly bespeaks a level of Twitter ineptitude that one would think unbecoming of a winner of one of these vaunted Shorty Awards.

    Odd duck is only the beginning to describe Chuck DeVore. Geeeeezzzzz.

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  • Day By Day,  GOP,  Newt Gingrich

    Day By Day October 29, 2009 – GinGRINCH

    October 28, 2009 /

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Chris, I just don’t understand the GOP Civil Wars being fought by the national Republican Party and conservatives, including Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty. The entire flap appears to resemble a PURGE with its associated litmus tests, imposed by right-wing interest groups.

    In the fifty United States, there are regional differences in culture, language inflections and political ideology. Isn’t this evident by our government structure, devised so wisely by the Founding Fathers? Isn’t this what, we as Republicans want – local government, directly responsive to a local electorate.

    The point of politics is to win elections and govern.

    If the Republican Party reverts to a set of litmus tests imposed by the outside, they will accomplish neither.

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